This chamber stands the test of time. It's still great in 2025

I don't know which version I like better; PeTI or Hammer version.

@Peverse Rsychology™
Uses advanced flinging maneuvers. Try shooting the portal you came out of as you are falling. See if that gets you anywhere. Nothing too hard to execute but is hard to think of.

i cant for the life of me figure this out. ill have 2 save and come back. i cant figure out how 2 get the funnel to the exit area with the cube. i think i figured it out, but i dont have the reflexes 2 do it.

Puzzle feels really daunting at the start because of the sheer size. I forgot i can portal in the floor and it took me a coupleof minutes to work out how to get to the button. once i figured the floor thing out, i figured out the puzzle.

the last puzzle is excellent and rarely used in maps. really quality work, 4.5/5

Really nice great map nice tricks

A hard and genius puzzle. Put the funnel in final chamber is the key. Thumbs up!
I recorded my gameplay (valve DEM file format): Download [dl.dropbox.com]

Turrets highly explosive. Handle with care

I never encountered the invisible fizzler, nor did I find the exploit explained in the comment below mine (and if I did I didn't try it because it's too hard and not worth worrying about).

Really the only problem you have here is the entrance elevator (as others have mentioned). I suspect you didn't use the arrival_departure_transition_ents.vmf and instead just stuck an info_player_start right where the elevator stops. I got lucky and managed to exit the entrance to solve the test.

Nice Wheatley-themed test!

I think I skipped a part of the puzzle. I never pressed the timed button that extends the funnel. I flung and shot a portal over the fizzler, than brought the cube to the other side.

@antalH:

Your humble servant and follower Bensenhaver has created, with the permanent support of Mothalius, his first test chamber, "Underdog". It would be an honor for me if you were so kind as to test it. In case you were inclined to do so, a link like this

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=100557420

would become really handy (In case you'd rather clip your toenails, maybe you should know that Cave Prime is paying 60 dollars for testing the chamber).

ANY kind of feedback will be welcome. Thank you very much in advance for your time and attention.

Yours truthfully;

Bensenhaver.

At first this seemed to be a frustrating level, but this wasn't so hard after all. It was satisfying to figure this level out. I did not encounter an invisible fizzler.

Why does the funnel fizzle stuff, I'm very confused

I did it! Damn, that was a hell of arcade.

Good, but a few bugs. For one, the elevator bugged out on me, too. In addition, the invisible fizzler is plain stupid. Figure out a way to put a real fizzler in there so people don't keep trying it again and again. Also, the map end dialog triggers when you enter the elevator room, which is odd.

Good map but I had to 'noclip' out of the lift at the start as it didn't move.

I didn't use throwing, I used the funnel to get up there with the strip of portable walls across. If you really just don't want people to get the cube in that funnel, put a fizzler up there, it makes things clear. You might as well put triggers to let 90 degree angled panels down with turrets behind them that you can't avoid every time a player tries to do something that seems like its possible but not the intended solution.

The cube fizzles, because cube throwing isn't allowed. It will break the puzzle.

Flippie, just restart, I had the same problem, but when I restarted it worked. Btw, speaking of trolling, why the hell does the box get destroyed when I put it in the funnel at the start? Is that supposed to happen? There's no fizzler there. Letting the funnel come through a portal, and putting it in that, does not destroy the cube, though : |

what is this for trolling!!!? Stuck in elevator and you cant do anything. I thought, hmm that picture looks cool, lets play, but you are just locked in elevator in which you cant do anything.

One of the best maps I've ever played. Nice puzzle and nice design. 5/5