@Genosis I nay have used a server cvar in a very minor way... I literally used it to fly back up to the ledge to the left of the exit door after I foolishly fell off...

@Peekofwar: As you wish :) The current video is good enough for me ^^

Okay, just finished recording me figuring the ester egg out from scratch. Turns out it wasn't as simple as I thought, and I certainly wasn't expecting the end result...

I'm going to run my little ester egg hunt video through post editing because I feel that I need to make some parts time lapsed because it's taken longer / I couldn't achieve a certain goal. And I just remembered I actually split the video in half because I had other things I needed to do.

So you can look forwards to a walk through on the ester egg as well.

@Peekofwar: I added it ^^ Did you try to access the bonus room by the way?

The video has finished uploading at: https://youtu.be/yxNkpMxgNz8

@Genosis If you so desire you may add it as a walk through.

Do you mind if I add this video as a walkthrough on this page? (After watching it of course ^^)

It thinks that "now" is part of it for some reason...

@Peekofwar: The link you posted is broken but I found the screenshot on your profile, and I think that was the actual solution yeah :)

I figured out the chamber... Going to make a video on the chamber now.https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/Peekofwar/screenshot/273967538693051446

Well it's mad-portal-scientist logic, but still kind of logic X)

I do not find this map based on logic, but rather on sagacity.
Although hard, and I still have to go to the extra room!

Hehe, that map is not rated "hard" for nothing ;) Anyway a walkthrough video would help, if someone can record one I would add it to the main page ^^ So for the second room, what you need to do is to use your portals to give an angle to the laser cube ;) .

I was able to line it up just as you said, it did work, but then I got stuck in the next room. I was able to get the cube "on its back" by having it tumble off the button and then I edged it to be under the catcher, but I couldn't figure out how to get a laser to it sitting there since the panels opposite it don't support portals and there is nothing on the roof to use. I'd hoped that getting past the first part would be the problem, but I guess this test is too advanced for me. I'm sorry for wasting your time up to this point, but thank you for trying to help me.

It's a bit hard to describe it with words ^^" What you need to do is to place the laser cube vertically so that the laser hit the angled panel on top of the laser generator, then you place a portan on that panel and the other on the floor so that the laser from the floor enter the angled panel too. Then you move the portal on the floor until you get the correct angle to hit the laser catcher. Hope this makes sense...

I don't know how to solve this puzzle, but I want to learn how to do it so that I can improve for other tests. Can you please just tell me what the solution is so that I can go through it and learn from it? I'm sure that your hints will make sense after the fact, but I would just like the solution, please.

I don't think that will help, but combining the 2 hints I gave you, you should be able to find the solution ;)

I sent it through the opposing angled panel and it came back down to the cube, is that what you mean?

Okay one more hint: Did you try to redirect the laser in the same portal more than once?

Can you please just tell me how to do it?

Well if you already know how to do that with the cube, half of the puzzle is solved ^^ Now you only need to place your portals in the main room so that the laser will hit the catcher (yes it's possible :p)

I still don't see it, sorry, I can't see how you can hit that laser catcher hidden in there. I know how to get the cube on its side so you can get a beam through one of the angled panels along the wall in the main room, but I can't figure how to beam it through to hit it. The laser catcher is hidden in a corner in the roof and there aren't any portals near it, so how do you do it?

Well then you found all the puzzles alements you need ^^ There is a way to activate this laser catcher using only one laser cube and portals ;) If you need a hint: angled pannels

@Geneosis: The room I am having trouble getting into is the one with the water dripping infront of it, the one that you access via the stairway that is activated by a laser catcher in that dark room with the diagonal panels to the left of the first room. I have both cubes but I can't see any way of hitting that laser catcher especially as one cube has to be used to keep the doorway open and there don't seem to be any portals in that area.

@phyneas: Oh I thought you were talking about the second laser catcher, but in fact you were talking about the third one ^^ So you need to find and activate the second laser catcher to be able to reach the next room ;)

@Geneosis: Can you provide me with a hint about how to get into this room, I don't see how to get there.

@phyneas: Well that's where the "real" puzzle starts ^^ You need to find a way to activate this laser catcher using portals and one laser cube ;)

Can you give me a hint, I can't see where to go after collecting the first two cubes, specifically how you get up to the second room with the laser catcher on the ceiling.

you could.
but quicker to move exit & needed reflector dropper.
as if much testing needed.
you will always start at the correct chamber.

Well I can also test it with noclip in the game directly :p Will do that if I feel like updating this map once again...

nor me.
1 time I recall, I removed the cube & the panel went down.
then I put it back on the button. it came back up.
then I went back & fired a portal at where the laser went to, in the previous chamber.
then came back & lifted the cube off the button & the panel stayed up ?
probably a coincidence ?
as this area is optional. not a major problem.
you could go into this map in the editor.
do a "save as" & experiment with the copy.
if you mess it up, just delete, the copy.
with the copy move the reflector dropper & entrance to the turret chamber.
so you don't have to replay all previous parts.
& experiment, untill you solve the problem.

@mood3rd: Yep, I think there is a glitch making the angled panels stay deployed after removing the cube sometimes, no idea what trigger it anyway ^^" So I notice that this allow an exploit in the last room as you are not supposed to be able to use the laser cube to burn the turrets this way to reach the funnel... But I don't know if I can prevent it as I'm really close to the item limit...

@THE GOLDEN V [RO] (GLaDOS fan): Thanks for playing ^^

The map is SO COOL!
!

just re-tested updated version.
such a simple solution, to stop exploit :)
now need weighted cube.
but don't need companion, as stated, in the description.
still don't know why angled panels sometimes stay up,
& sometimes don't ?
still have strange faithplate, where need to repeat use a few times.
& when it does work, reflector gets stolen in mid air ?
it does not create exploits or stop solution :)

not a map. it's an adventure :)
companionship, is so important :)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561955260
turret chamber. could not see why sometimes when I took the cube off the 3 panel buttons. they would go back down. & other times, they would stay up ?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561955687
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561958875
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561958981
faithplate after turrets behaviour was strange.
I went up a little & back down.
then after a few tries, it launched me far & fast.
& the reflector was snatched from me.
to fast to see how ?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561959086
I got what I deserved.
I should have never strayed from my faithfull companion:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561959159
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561959229

when I said:
so far I had (at different stages) the companion & 2 reflectors.
I did not mean all in the same chamber.
only companion & 1 reflector in the same chamber.
the other reflector in a different chamber.
now I think about it. I might be mistaken about the companion cube.
the one I had, might be a weighted cube ?
it is the one found near 1st chamber,
under & slightly behind laser catcher, that activates stairs,
thankyou for the tip.

@mood3rd: You are supposed to use a companion cube hidden somewhere in the map to open the last light bridge and access the bonus room ;) Also you are not supposed to have 2 laser cubes in the same room at any point (and I assume the hard rating I gave to this map was correct if you already find it hard this way ^^). And thanks again for testing this map ;)

here are some spoiler screenshots I took, that might help ?
it is before last update, so might be sorted ?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561833571
how I got the stairs
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561832617
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561832770
how I deactivated 2nd light bridge
(glitch made laser invisible ?
but still activated laser catcher)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561833173
could not get cube to funel so:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561833315
feel free to delete this if you don't want it seen.

I'm just on a break, from further exploration.
I have got to the funel.
could go to open exit, if I want.
but curious about what is behind light bridge near funel.
can't figure how to bring cube to funel ?
(as it's keeping the light bridge open, in previous chamber)

for me, activating the stairs laser catcher & the next one, was hard.
I downloaded the map, before the update.
so still in the old version.
so far I had (at different stages) the companion & 2 reflectors.

thankyou for the mention in the description.
perhaps dire.fcs can say, if that was his 1st solution ?
going back in...

Oh, and I just noticed that it's probably the way dire.fcs used to exit the first time according to his first comment X) I just didn't understand it that time...

Map updated X) It's sad to find so many exploits, but please tell me how you solved it now, in case you found another unexpected way to complete this chamber ^^ (a demo or a video would help).

@mood3rd: That is completely... Not the intended solution XD I have to do something about that :p

different / good map.
not sure if I did intended solution ?
I deactivated the light bridge, as in 1st screenshot:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561773447
then placed a portal by the button, with the cube on the portable floor,
by the light bridge.
as 2nd screenshot:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561774998
then went to exit, & fired 2nd portal under reflector cube.
the cube portaled onto the button & I exit.

Map updated :)

Hmmm, That's what I feared >_< Well that's still an exploit so I will find a way to prevent it :p Thanks a lot for the feedbacks ;)

Without any other cube; I was hoping that there was a button to call the standard there was any other path in the maze to get another cube; here what I did (in a couple of tries) I pointing the cube to deactivate the bridge, but put it very close to the bridge and quicly push it , and it passed without the bridge blocked. You can erase the comment if you want, even if is not the rigth method.

Also the "difficult" part in this puzzle is to figure out how to solve a situation in a way you probably never used before, when you have the idea, executing it is not too complicated ^^

@dire.fcs: Wait did you get the cube on this side of the light bridge with or without using the companion cube?

Finished again, and now I can't use the first reflector; still not call it hard, tricky move (with laser and cube) and funny with turrets (I destroyed them all using the angled panels); I manage to get the second cube in a awkward way that I never tried before. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=561593974

If you want try this medium/hard map only about turret killing in four different rooms and four different 'techniques': https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=268036801 .

Map updated, please try again ;)