Portal 2 Megathread Mark VIII - Fuck Compwhizii Edition

[Conro101]

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Welcome to the Eigth Portal 2 megathread, FP's and possibly the internet's largest collection of Portal 2 info and sweaty nerds.

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————— [b][u]Vital info[/b][/u]
- Portal 2 currently has a release date for American retail and Steam on the 19th, and European retail on the 22nd.
- Portal 2 is a full game compared to the original, there is apparently 4 times the content.
- Has separate Single-player and co-op multiplayer campaigns. The co-op takes place after the singleplayer, and involves 2 more portals, for more people scratching their heads simultaneously.
- Valve has said that the game will not try to strengthen bonds with HL2, however one of the achievements references the Borealis, which may in turn reference the Half life story.
- Portal 2 appears to be on a heavily upgraded source engine, one that certainly looks a lot nicer than the previous one.
- Many new testing objects have been added, such as Faith Plates, launching you high into the air, and Gels, which let you move faster and bounce around.
- You can preorder Portal 2 now from GameStop, Amazon and over Steam.
————— [b][u]Stuff we all know so shut up about it[/b][/u]
[img]http://www.esperino.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Portal-2-Cube-Editon.jpg[/img]
Yes, there's a rubix cube version. Minecraft also says "woo facepunch!" We don't need to hear this again.
————— [b][u]Latest news[/b][/u]
So GLaDOS decided to be a bitch and hid potatoes in games. Now if you play those games, The Potato Sack, you get us slightly closer to Portal 2, which will be released early. [url=http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home]GLaDOS@Home[/url] tracks our current progress.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX9Sc88qreg&feature=channel_video_title[/media]
No black-hole device is complete without stylish boots to go with them. Landing on your feet has never been easier, considering you now have 50 pounds of metal attached to them.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfvJQiZ8eS4[/media]
IGN showed us the start of the Co-Op story, highlighting the amazing return of the orange text monitors.

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=6i-nMWgBUp0[/media]

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[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=AZMSAzZ76EU[/media]

Further cementing the fact that I am better than all of you, Aperture has proven that robots are more trustworthy than humans. At least for a while.

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=XjadEnDlsR4[/media]

Gamestop made a shitty video for their shitty skin. Take the smart route and go Amazon.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qcED35LL8I&feature=channel_video_title[/media]

Aperture's automated marketing tech thought that it'd be a good idea to start bring attention to the fact that you can buy really expensive things from them. It's releasing one each week, four in all. The first one tells you how much you need a panel. Science isn't cheap.

[img]http://www.future-press.com/bilder/cover_en/111.jpg[/img]
Shown here is the Official Strategy Guide for Portal 2, collectors edition. Desgined with the fact that most of us found out how to beat the game on Youtube, it gives you levels of walkthroughs, from "This'll work, right?" to "Did I take a wrong turn somewhere?" to "WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT DO I EVEN DO JESUS"
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=JR5WlskghhI[/media]

At PAX we see the first 10 minutes of the game, along with some early 1900s chambers and Cave Johnson. Wii60 also forgot to get us all shirts.

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1063807-Portal-2-Achievements[/url]

Achievements have been revealed (spoiler alert! Snape kills Dumbledore!)

Intel's Razor controller is supported fully by the source engine, which is pretty cool. Though there hasn't been word from Valve on whether they'll integrate the PS3 motion controller, it may make an appearance in an update.
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=6j8M_JZJXSU[/media]

September issue of PC Gamer with more Portal 2 info: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5

New! (Old!) Footage from the GamesCom! (Now with the official version from Valve's YT)

[hd]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mz0PvYiHjwE[/hd]

Valve has released HD versions of the videos showcased at E3:
• Propulsion Gel: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcf99_DZZew[/url]
• Repulsion Gel: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7V0HBwHfEw[/url]
• Pneumatic Diversity Vent: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOH6BprN9FI[/url]
• Thermal Discouragement Beam: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFRbGppLaUI[/url]
• Aerial Faith Plate: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE3B9uGnVlA[/url]
• Excursion Funnel: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oVpE40V9rE[/url]

————— [b][u]News archives[/b][/u]

Portal 2 is coming to the PS3, along with the Steam Community!

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[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=cSp20Y8pg1w[/media]

The Portal 2 press conference was canceled, only to be replaced by an announcement of an announcement of a big surprise, which was the announcement of Portal 2 on PS3. [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=946973[/url]
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=BDj1fYlwR00[/media]

The A.R.G. [del]may be (isn’t!)[/del] IS still going! [url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/99105-Portal-ARG-Still-Ongoing[/url]

Well, it sounds pretty obvious: E3 was only a few months away, and the last finding, at the GDC conference, said "SUSPEND UNTIL E.E.E."...

[release]A Valve executive said that the Portal ARG was created by the game's designers as a way to extend the story and there are some nuggets that still haven't been discovered.

Speaking at a star-studded panel on connectivity in games at this year's GDC, Jason Holtman, director of business development and legal affairs at Valve, revealed that there was no marketing team behind the Portal 2 ARG. It was made by the design team on the game and was an effective way to extend the game world.

"I had nothing to do with it, which I think was really important," Holtman said. "The genesis for the idea came from the people who were working on the game. They were thinking about the people who consumed Portal. They thought about it as part of the game. They thought about it as this experience where you're going out and talking about the game's world." There was not a marketing team working on it and separate team on the game. The designers really thought of it as an extension of the Portal universe.

Holtman said that was ultimately why it was so successful. "We had 2 million forum views on that thread over the course of 8 hours trying to solve that puzzle," he said.

He also mentioned an interesting nugget about the change to the end of Portal that went live last week. "We actually didn't decide to make that change to the original Portal until a few days before it went live," he said. Holtman pointed out that was a benefit to the open PC platform. Valve wouldn't have been able to push that change out so quickly to an Xbox or PS3 game.

Unfortunately, Holtman was not able to tell any hints or secrets when I asked him during the Q&A session. But he did think that there is more out there to discover.

"Some of it's been resolved. You never know," he said.[/release]

————— [b][u]Portal ARG[/b][/u]

This is pretty old now, so for those who have either been living in a cave for the last calendar year or simply haven't been introduced to Portal or Valve, here is a rundown of what happened. OH SHI- IT'S BACK UP

March 1st 2010

A mysterious update is released for portal, named 'Transmission Received.' This creates a huge buzz among the community as the struggle to make out what has happened. Eventually though, it was found that radios had been scattered throughout portal that all, when brought to a specific area, played out either Morse code or SSTV, a way of transmitting pictures through sound. Here is what was found.

Morse Code:
INTERIOR TRANSMISSION ACTIVE EXTERNAL DATA LINE ACTIVE MESSAGE DIGEST ACTIVE
9E107D9D372BB6826BD81D3542A419D6
SYSTEM DATA DUMP ACTIVE USER BACKUP ACTIVE PASSWORD BACKUP ACTIVE
BEEP BEEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEP BEEEEP BEEP BEEP (L O L in literal morse code)

SSTV images:

The SSTV images showed a set of numbers that turned out to be a BBS login code (BBS stands for Bulletin Board system, or a way of sharing data between computers over the internet). The BBS contained memos from Aperture’s former CEO, Cave Johnson, and ASCII pictures of strange objects and symbols, of which can be found below.

[url]http://portalwiki.net/index.php/BBS_Resources_List[/url]

At this point there was a lot of wild speculation as to what it could all mean, and what it was pointing at, until the next update came up a couple of days later.

March 3rd 2010

Portal was updated for a second time, this time changing the ending from simply fading out to this:

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=YXAq34TrVXM[/media]

Also added was a load of new info to the BBS, including a progress bar that was slowly rising.

March 5th 2010

The progress bar fills, and then GameInformer and Valve announce Portal 2. GameInformer also announce that they will be releasing new pieces of information every few days until April 1st, which are found below.
• April Cover revealed, Portal 2 announced
• From Narbacular Drop to Portal
• Opening The Portal: Exploring The Game's Development
• Writer's Block: Portal 2 Writers Roundtable
• Portal’s Minstrels: An Interview With The Men Behind The Music
• Thinking With Portals: Making A Portal 2 Test Chamber
• Meet the Portal 2 team
• Redesigning Portal: Valve’s Artist Speaks
• Aperture Science: A History
• Special Edition Podcast: Portal 2
• Valve Studio Tour
• Let there be cake
• Art gallery

Also found in the GameInformer issue covering Portal 2 and the articles were lots of the pictures that were in the BBS code, shown below.

[img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/c/ca/GI_58_bots.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/f/fc/Turretroom_hd.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/7/7f/6177.ASmain.jpg-610x0.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/b/b3/GI_53_core2.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/1/1d/GI_56_aerial_faith_plate.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/7/74/ChellGI.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/b/bd/GI_55_chamber2.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/d/d0/GI_52_wreckage.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/a/a4/GI_56_thermal_discouragement_beam.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/3/37/GI_57_pneumatic_diversity_vent.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/7/7f/GI_59_chamber.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/1/1e/GI_55_chamber1.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/3/3e/GI_54_chamber.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://portalwiki.net/images/6/68/09468599.954-07097587.922.jpg[/img_thumb]

————— [b][u]Images[/b][/u]

Assorted crap we've gathered over the year.

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————— [b][u]Previous thread iterations[/b][/u]

Portal Update Megathread Mark VII (Potatoes!): [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1078236-Portal-2-Megathread-Mark-VII-Cave-Johnson-We-re-Done-Here[/url]
Portal Update Megathread Mark VI (The one I made!): [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1067239-Portal-2-Megathread-Mark-VI-Anticipation-Speculation-Preparation-Station[/url]
Portal Update Megathread Mark VI-2 (The other one!): [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1066859-Portal-2-Megatherad-Mk.VI...the-last-one-you-ll-need[/url].
Portal Update Megathread Mark V (What happened to Mark III?!): [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=904084[/url]
Portal Update Megathread Mark IV (Even more fucking radios!): [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/903557-Portal-Radio-Update-Megathread-Mark-III[/url]
Portal Update Megathread Mark II (Decoding the radios!): [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=903178[/url]
Portal Update Megathread Mark I (Listening to radios!): [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=902578[/url]
Portal Update Megathread Original (OHSHI AN UPDATE!): [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=902479[/url]

————— [b][u]Links[/b][/u]

Transmission Received achievement walkthrough (Honestly it’s been a year why don’t you have it yet?): [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqG-SmXriU[/url]

Project Wiki: [url]http://portalwiki.net/[/url]

Portal 2 Website: [url]http://www.thinkwithportals.com/[/url]

Countdown to release: [url]http://steamapps.g6.cz/portal/[/url]

Thanks to Max of S2D for the previous threads and also some of the content in this thread. Thanks to Smasher for this nice OP that I completely stole.
————— [B][U]Conro's List of Pre-Orderers![/U][/B]

The guys and gals who join me in being some of the first to play this game. (If you aren't here PM me.)

Name (steam id)

Conro101(conro101)
Tuskin
Cows Rule
poopiecrap(thelandofmagic)
benji2015(benji2015)
HALPMEIMDYING(GarretFuller)
Political Gamer(ThePoliticalGamer)
The Calzone [would like to inform the peasants he's better than them]
Boomer678(Extreamtuber67) [tried to be all rebel with links but I'm a dick]
Swiket(robothive)
Xonax(Captainjack21)
Jessecar96(jessecar96)
ali3n92(Scorpius289)
GnomeMan(73291) [didn't understand the difference between a Steam name and id]
Ezhik(silverth)
Tovip(tovip)
TheTailor25(DaveSVK)
Jojje(jojje975)
huyu(huyu)
MasterG(GMaster)
Lexinator(Brotharot)
Gilboron(Gilboron)
Xehanort(DarkDustNL)
Hatsen(Hatsen)
Lordgeorge16(Lordgeorge16)
Raptor_S(raptorgamer)
TheWhiteFox1(oforoatmeal)
Dr.HAXXXX(chris54494)
koeniginator(koeniginator)
Dj-J3(skippeh)
fish puncher
Midnight(lilBro')
LarparNar(LooperNor)[U][B][/B][/U][B][URL="http://www.facepunch.com/members/131942-Omolong"][/URL][/B]
Omolong(omolong)
JgcxCub(JgcxCub)
KingKombat(kingkombat)
RudeMcRude(RudeMcRude)
Cheesedragon(Cheesedragon) [worked DAMN HARD doing YARD-WORK]
gunguy765(gunguy765)
Wowza!(Wowza)
Thunder Skunk(SilverSkox)
Sled Dog(Planefan)
Voideye(Waffles201)
GWMCOCD(Gwmcocd)
zeebiedeebie(zeebiedeebie)
leonthefox(Foxisawesome)
A B.A. Survivor(USAisDominate)
inertmudkip(a_generic_username)
0lenny0(netwerk6)
Smooth Criminal(Smooth-SBG)
Dongotti(DongBong)
Mio Akiyama(bpc908)
Takuat(takuat)
General Omega(GeneralOmega)
Dummkopfs!(nexexcalibur)
MAspiderface(maspiderface)
scotland1(scotland4ever)
iqiq123(iqiq123)
TankTan38(TankTan38)
Smasher 006(Smasher006)
t h e(injinx)
iNova(likeduh)
Taloc111(T30181)
oO0Virus0Oo(Btm251)
oO0Virus0Oo's friend(donkeyflaps)
thrawn2787(spacepopeiii)
Exosel(technoea34)
Hxrmn(Hxrmn)
Epic fortune(General_sev)
mobrockers alt(mobrockers)
Black-Ice(370001)

If you post a spoiler you are disqualified from receiving the "Conro Thinks I'm A Cool Guy" award.

[johnlmonkey]

A tad early there

[Haste!]

Why?

[BenJammin']

Will somebody be my portal 2 co-op buddy? I live in west coast murrica (utah), and I really want to be atlus for my first co-op playthrough.

[johnlmonkey]

Also I've preordered so add me to that fancy list of yours please

[Haste!]

[QUOTE=BenJammin';29231763]Will somebody be my portal 2 co-op buddy? I live in west coast murrica (utah), and I really want to be atlus for my first co-op playthrough.[/QUOTE]

Sure. I'll add you :buddy:

[editline]16th April 2011[/editline]

what the fuck is your steam?

[SampleFriend]

What should I do to pass time for Portal 2 release?

[Average User]

Nice Banner mate. Also I pre-ordered P2 a long time ago. I'm 108payne on steam.

[dai]

I'll ask for a co-op bud once I finish single, so I can find someone who is ready to start co-op and no one has to wait for the other.

[Zuimzado]

[QUOTE=daijitsu;29231840]I'll ask for a co-op bud once I finish single, so I can find someone who is ready to start co-op and no one has to wait for the other.[/QUOTE]

Hm. Interesting. I want to do the same thing.

[Conro101]

[QUOTE=The Party Spy;29231839]Nice Banner mate. Also I pre-ordered P2 a long time ago. I'm 108payne on steam.[/QUOTE]
the banner maker doesn't want to handle the truth in the title

[Fat White Lump]

I preordered today. (leather_belt)

[kaine123]

Could someone post a link to some sort of compilation of all the recent Portal 2 concept art and cases?

I preordered. (Kanine01)

[Solece]

Conro forget to mention [url=http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/]glados@home[/url] in the OP, we need to let everyone know about it.

[Conro101]

[QUOTE=Solece;29231891]Conro forget to mention [url=http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/]glados@home[/url] in the OP, we need to let everyone know about it.[/QUOTE]
ugh I'm going to bed. It'll be there tommorrow

[Miya]

There's now Portal 2 Merc in the valve store, including the Portal 1940's logo shirt that i got at pax east for free :buddy:

[url]http://store.valvesoftware.com/[/url]

[Cuon Alpinus]

I was disappointed that the old thread wasn't finished with a "Cave Johnson, we're done here" comment.

[Leeto]

[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;29231921]I was disappointed that the old thread wasn't finished with "Cave Johnson, we're done here."[/QUOTE]
That would of been awesome.

[Wootman]

Who wants to be my Portal 2 buddy? I live in New York and my Steam is under my avatar.

[GetBent]

[QUOTE=Wootman;29231974]Who wants to be my Portal 2 buddy? I live in New York and my Steam is under my avatar.[/QUOTE]

I live in Maryland. Are you planning on doing SP first?

[Jessecar96]

[QUOTE=Wootman;29231974]I live in New York[/QUOTE]

Me too :buddy:

[veDemaG]

Posting in a new sexy thread

[Maurice]

This time without aliased text.
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/banner16.png[/img_thumb]
Fucking gimp can't even gradient a text without fucking it up.

[AkujiTheSniper]

Feels like the AAAA bar is loading...

NOTHING AT ALL
NOTHING AT ALL
NOTHING AT ALL

[Wootman]

[QUOTE=GetBent;29232015]I live in Maryland. Are you planning on doing SP first?[/QUOTE]

Yes

[GetBent]

[QUOTE=Wootman;29232071]Yes[/QUOTE]

Well then, that works out great. I plan on doing SP first then Co-Op.

[Alaskan Wolf]

My brother will have to be my partner for Co-op. Alaska sucks.

[Death Giver]

Things to pass the time:

1. Fap
2. Watch a movie
3. Get high :2bong:
4. Read the official Portal 2 [url=http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/]Comic[/url]
5. Listen to the soundtrack
6. Watch the trailers
7. Find a Co-op buddy
8. try to reduce the time by playing a potato sack indie game.
9. Play the first portal
10. Sleep
11. Discuss Portal 2 with your peers on FP

that's all I got so far.

[Monkeytracks]

I got the Portal 2 files from my friend because my internet is slow and nearing my cap, but it is still downloading the game. Yet the folder it is in is getting smaller. Any help?

My map folder is smaller than the one on my External Hard drive. Still no idea why its getting msaller

[alexk]

AAAA is at 94.97, common guys!