Excellent!

I beat it! Getting through (some of) No Elements totally helped, although I admit I had to look at
the walkthrough a few times to make sure I wasn't crazy with some of the solutions (I was doing them right, I just got caught up on some of the jumps since I walked into them when I should have jumped and the like)

As for No Elements, I stopped around Map 17. I genuinely hated 16 and 17, and even after beating 16, kind of just couldn't get the point. Oh well, at least it got me this far!

Awe, I appreciate the thoughtful reply. I do admit it was just starting to frustrate me, given it didn't seem like it would be as hard as it is. I have in fact been playing through the No Elements collection to try and resolve this!

And also, even if it gave me a hard time, this map is still super super dope, and has kind of inspired me a bit. I've messed with Hammer and the like a lot lot, and this map's visual style really intrigues and inspires me. Might even help inspire my own future test chambers once I'm clever enough to design my own!

OldManHan, I don't think that it is a matter of being foolish. As mentioned in the description, this map is for experienced players. You only have 84 hours playing this game. If you play through the No Elements collection that is linked in the description and then come back to this, you will likely have a much easier time. Thanks for giving it a try and commenting!

I can't even figure out the first jump I think I'm fooolishh

Thanks for playing, commenting and posting your blind run video. You were sooo close to the solution! You even said it at 26:50 and then 29:33. Regardless, it was fun to watch the video. Thanks again.

Amazing puzzle, I really wish I had got the opportunity to take the description's advice and played the No Elements collection first cause this absolutely beat me.
My blind playthrough: https://youtu.be/Em3zY6mZPsA

Thanks NicolasDreams! FWIW, I only give whole number difficulty ratings and 3.5 rounds up to 4. :) The ratings are also just a general guideline to help people know what they are in for, and individual experiences will vary. Thanks for playing and commenting!

Finally got around to play this map. Very good puzzle and visuals. I like the use of turrets as permabuttons. Also I find interesting that what was the hardest part to figure out for me (and watching the comments, for other people too) was getting to the exit, even though both sequences are very similar and the one for the exit is simpler .
Also, this is the first 4/10 difficulty map I beat (yippee), although it felt more of a 3.5/10 for me. Maybe I played a bit too many No Elements maps.

Awesome puzzle man. Got as far as knocking over all the turrets, but flinging to the exit proved to be extremely tedious.

Thanks derPacifist!

The lighting in this chamber had me in awe! And the puzzle struck a chord with me, of course :)

Thanks masalt. May you use that lamp to light your path. :)

gg only took a few months good lamp

Thanks DiDo Killer!!

Very cool map. Never seen anything like it before.

Thanks Mr Fab!

Good no elements puzzle ! I forgot to jump at the last step making me waste 20 min

Cool use of momentum and Turrets

Thanks Aneonen!

Great momentum puzzle! Really liked the final move: I knew I needed that small amount of momentum I was using in the process of getting to the turrets, but it took a bit to see how to "move it" out of that process and onto the exit-facing panel

Thanks Oblivious Owl! Turrets are my favorite permanent buttons. :)

I love the map! Nice use of momentum ( and turrets, you don't see those being used very often in good chambers )!

Thanks!

Nice update.

Updated with that lower floor portal surface made unportalable. I can see how that would have been confusing. Thanks Polux!

Thanks for playing Polux! I think I understand what you are saying. I'll look at that. Thanks!

Hey very fun and nicely decorated, I liked it.
However the white floor just under the vertical white wall was quite confusing for me ... we can fall on it and fling again. Maybe you should keep your playthrough version imo.
Thumbs up!

Excellent! Thanks Teo!

You were right :D I've never seen that final move used in a puzzle before, I sometimes do it by accident if I screw up a ceiling floor fling but actually seeing it in a solution was really neat. Wonderful map

Exactly. :) I'm sure you will get it. :)

Ugh, turrets have been taken care of but I just can't get to the door! If only I weren't going so fast! I understand where the map name came from now

Thanks Camerson1313! Fun video. Great to see your solution process on both maps.

This puzzle is pretty convoluted for a No Elements map. I really like how you have to reuse the same portal surfaces in different ways (and how clean and simplistic the overall design is). It took me a while to get the right momentum for the 2nd jump.

My blind playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA2tk47q_CU

Nice work Libby. I'm not skilled enough to do it one go, but I got there in the end :) Very clever use of momentum indeed.

Blind Run - https://youtu.be/Qlg2mKKkYtU

Thanks phale2001! I'm glad you liked it!

Almost got stuck right at first, then realized DOH. The second part was a bit tricky, but really fun once I got the hang of it. Good puzzle!

Very good puzzle, Libbybapa! The hardest part for me was figuring out how to reach the exit...the rest was relatively smooth sailing.

My blind run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ1PaI6JfME

Excellent no-elements puzzle - checked with your walkthrough and I did all as intended. Surprisingly tough to figure out but I would agree with both a 4/10 and a 5/10. Though couldn't you just replace the turrets by a permabutton, or would you count that as a ''connection''? Oh and as a concluding remark, I also never speed up the game, for what it's worth. I just listen to the music :)

Thanks for playing and commenting Fumbly! I agree with you about that move and although I thought of several other viable ways to accomplish the same thing, I liked all of them even less. :-P I'm glad you could overlook that shortcoming and appreciate the map for its positive qualities. :)

Excellent puzzle, Libby! I really like the way you enforce the player to gain extra momentum to reach the turrets from above and take them out, and then less to get to the exit, both using similar but different techniques of gaining such momentum. Personally, I'm not really a fan of grabbing objects through grating, but that's very minor and I think it's something that is merely a difference in our design philosophies. I often respect certain decisions in maps that I personally wouldn't include in my own. I guess you could say that the move didn't... grate on me too much :P Thumbs up and added to my favourites!

I hope you don't drive like that too. :)

Lol, that's actually basically how I play Portal most of the time. I guess I (and Joric) am just impatient.

Why are trying to 'make it short'? I'm not aware of any video length competition going on. I guess we each have our own personal priorities and of course you are welcome to yours. I'll personally opt for easy, fun, and slightly longer over difficult, irritating and slightly shorter every time. Your videos are actually irritating to watch with all the timescale changes, and for what? Again, I'd rather spend another 30 seconds and not have it speed up and slow down over and over. I can understand changing timescale on long funnel rides or long walks but changing it for every couple steps, no thanks. I would really hate to actually play portal like that.

@Libbybapa, I usually record in one take, but I had to use a couple of saves in order to avoid juggling and make it short. Execution complexity here is certainly not a gimmicky bulls**t (c).

I just posted up an 'official' walkthrough in case anyone is stuck or wants to confirm their solution as intended. Joric, I'm not sure what heavy editing you needed to do. Perhaps it was due to missed quick portal shots which are not actually necessary. The posted version is a single take showing the 'easy' way to do it.

Thanks Leomievs, I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

Thanks Joric for playing and commenting. The turrets at the exit obviously serve a distinct logical purpose. Crouching to grab them through grating is an unusual move and without knowing that is possible the logical sequence of the map would be unclear. Because of those two things, I felt it was necessary to introduce the move in a simple setting. It taks all of 3 seconds for me to eliminate the initial ones and if that is 'too irritating' then that sounds like a personal issue. I might be persuaded to call this a 5/10, there's no way I would call this a 6/10. Thanks again for playing and commenting!

Very nice map! On my first play I solved it by standing on the glass like jgaultney, which I really thought was intended. It took me a while to figure out the proper solution, but I got there in the end. Big thumb up!

My playthrough, 2 minutes: https://youtu.be/r6TPT43toqU had to use heavy editing on this one, couldn't avoid mistakes and those turrets are just too annoying to repeat. Used jandlml hint for the last jump because it took forever for some reason despite having the easiest execution complexity (maybe I was just tired). Looking back it was 4/10 but at the time it was next to impossible, so maybe 6/10 at least.