Took a bit to see the ending, quite clever! I like how putting the cube at the piston area is super useful, I didn't expect it. Quite nice!

Really cool gel puzzle, you don't see those often.

Found an unintended solution: https://youtu.be/WDpWQQ3KdRw

Very good!

Gorgeous visuals. Beautiful, clean layout. An incredible, mind-bending solution to top it off. The first time I played this I must have been stuck for an hour or two but I think I got it in under half an hour this time (been a few years). I recognized it after a minute or two and was like "oh no... wonder how long I'll be stuck here" XD

Especially love the end of the map where you're wondering okay... they don't want me to respawn... okay... they don't want me to deactivate the start/end fizzler by placing the cube near the angled panel region... how the heck am I supposed to get the cube on the button?!!?! I knew how to get the cube OFF the button at the end, probably from my previous playthrough.

Very clever usage of the angled panel at the end, and forcing the player to coat the pit near the start of the map . Feels like a hard Demon Arisen puzzle.

Would say this medium-hard difficulty this time around, although for most I'd imagine this would be closer to a hard/very-hard puzzle. My only gripe is you have to do a lot of steps over again if you mess up the pit bounce , though this isn't a huge deal for people who know how to quick-save and the maneuver isn't difficult anyway.

Difficulty: 7.75/10
Design: 9.5/10
Favorited.

Great map!

Very good map!

Ace!

My playthrough: https://youtu.be/m7MKpJqFGz0

Great map, the getting cube onto button at the end had be thinking for a while. But once I got that, the rest was smooth. Thanks for creating!

Very nice and clever, thanks for creating. Can pretty much see the end move right away, getting past the fizzlers is another story.

Superb puzzle!

One of my favorites by you, works as a nice break before I attempt some of your harder puzzles

Very nice portal management puzzle. Good use of blue gel. Thumbs up.

My playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct4sMJKDWVg

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Excellent map. Thanks.

Great job! A mix of laser redirection and repultion gel.

Thank you! It's great to hear from someone as experienced as you obviously are. Keep it up!

@Neightro Thank you! It depends on the map, in this one I knew what the final move was going to be from the start and added steps to reach that move after a bit of trial and error. Also my maps always have a video walkthrough in case you get really stuck, but nice job solving it.

Final reaction: wow! That is genuinely clever! I like how the laser isn't a big focus of the map; it's just there to make you be careful about your portal placement.

How did you come up with this puzzle, out of curiosity? Do you start with a layout or do you have some idea for how to make a player work with their portals?

I just realized that you can use the rest of the wall up there to paint gel. Now I feel stupid. But hey, that's what Portal is good at, right? :D

I can't seem to solve it without airstrafing to get to the ledge with the redirection cube. I assume this is supposed to be a pure logic map and I'm doing it wrong? The map feels excellent, though.

Very good portalling.

Very nice map indeed K7, especially considering it's your first gel map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMXN4ZVwGtM

Very nice

@jandlml You too!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

@Demon A-Reindeer Wow thank you so much, I'm pretty proud of this puzzle too. I will definitely use gel more often in future maps. I was not sure actually if the player could be trapped, so I added the stairs just in case. Thank you for the favourite! Personally my favourite puzzle is illuminate :)

Utterly superb. My new favourite puzzle of yours. Great fun to solve, excellent use of all the elements, and just a brilliant chamber overall. Well done, K7! Thumbs up and favourite for sure. Use more gel! The only thing I didn't use was the stairs, but I assume they were there in case you get trapped?

@Almisuifre Thank you, that is a great compliment, while the puzzle is the most important part, I spend a lot of time on the design of my maps. Glad you liked the antlines, I think they look cool too!

@jandlml Thank you, hopefully it was still fun to solve with the hints, happy new year to you too!

@Atom Thank you Atom :)

I spent a nice time solving it, thank you ! Not surprised Fumbly gave design feedbacks ;) Fav'
You both know how to lay out solid designs. Oh, and nice work with the button's antlines.

excellent map. think im a little rusty took some time to play talos principle hard game. needed a couple hints with this map. nice!! happy new year everyone!!

Fantastic puzzle! That was really well made puzzle, great job! Favorited! :D

@Aur3Dash Wow, I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed it so much! Thank you. I don't have much experience with gel puzzles so I'm glad it turned out well.

Fantastic puzzle! This one took me quite a while to solve. I understood what I needed to do for the final move, but setting it up is what got me stuck for a very long time. I actually had to look on the comments to get it. That's a very well designed and really clever puzzle overall. One of the best gel puzzle I've played so far. Thumbs up and favorite :)

@BehindPortal Thanks for playing and the video!

watch ur solution . i played intended. my play video - https://youtu.be/ZaEZRh-xdkc

great puzzle. clever gel and portal management. took me time to figure out portal managemnt. obviously favorite

Thanks everyone! Have a good new year!

Great puzzle and clever use of just a single laser cube. I progressed well, including knowing what I had to do to get to the exit, but got stuck just before that for ages, until I took the cube to the piston platform area and noticed that I hadn't used the wall panels back across the pit, then the penny finally dropped! Big thumbs up and a Merry Whatever You Like :)

@CoolDudeClem Or you could just, you know, check out the video walkthrough above with the solution -_-

If this chamber was made to annoy the player on just about every level imaginable, them well don, great job. IT IS BROKEN, there is no way to do this with one cube! You want preoof? Well, on the last bit where you place a cube on the buttom to make the piston go down, you need to have a reflector cube with you in the lazer room so you can aim the lazer at the carther to turn off the fizzler so you can bounce up over the glass without loosing any protals. BUT ... since that cube is ALLREADY being used on the button that makes the bounce gel drop and lowers the piston, I can't do jack sh*t.

very good

Solved it. Great bounce gel puzzle! Aside from finding the final move, I didn't struggle trying to solve this at all. Thumbs up dude and Merry Christmas! :D