Beautiful and calm, the water was cool (looked hard to develop), the bridge was fun, and you did a great job re-imagining Demon Arisen puzzles.

May not have completed each step as intended, but thoroughly enjoyed this map.

sheer hard-work in development. laser is very easy / cube is fun / bridge is good one.

A map with a very interesting and distinctive design. Puzzles were challenging enough. Light bridges room put me on my kneels, and I couldn't figure out how to solve this.

Overall, that's very decent.

i love this puzzle.

I enjoyed it, except for the strafing bug. I also might have solved the laser room slightly incorrectly, all I did was swap the order of the... laser cones? What are they called?

Exceeding 300 horizontal u/s disables strafing which is why faith plates disable strafing. I'm not sure why it disables strafing here since I am only going 175 units. Also in the faith plate room you can escape if you walk to the wall and hug it, eventually you will be able to walk around out of bounds. It does not seem useful though, especially without the strafing. I was able to regain strafing control once or twice but lost it again. Unfortunately, it might be hard to debug the strafing issue since it is not consistent.

Ah, I didn't realize it was only a bug. Thanks for the reply though. That's odd that it happens unpredictably with faith plates, since there's several maps (in the campaign and community-made) that have them where you can still strafe properly. Very strange.

Once again though, thank you for your hard work on this map. Absolutely loved the visuals.

Thanks for playing! Sorry about the “anti-strafe” thing - that is 100% unintended and I still don’t know what caused it. It’s definitely something to do with the faith plates because I have another map where this happens, but based on what I know about faith plates there’s no reason it should be happening. Oh well. As for the faith plate puzzle cheese, you’re absolutely right and others have picked up on it as well, that was the result of me making changes to the original layout without consulting demon, who designed the puzzles and probably would have caught that. I’ve learned my lesson on that front with more recent maps, thankfully

Blindrun
Wow… it’s a completely fresh design style I’ve never quite seen before. Really nice aesthetic work. I always love it when people use Hammer truly creatively and make stuff like this.

Puzzles were easy, well the light bridge one was a little challenging. I do believe the faith plate one can be cheesed by placing the cube on the end platform - this way there’s no need for the angled panel to the left or the big faith plate that launches you straight up .

I will say I don’t like whatever anti-bhop thing is implemented in here, that takes away all turning while strafing. Only started in the second chamber, but it persisted beyond it, and I get it - you don’t want people to cheat, but that puzzle was exploitable anyway, and for me the default walking speed is too slow. I would just recommend making the puzzles larger.

Other than that though, really cool. Love to see something this different in terms of aesthetics, and the light bridge puzzle was particularly interesting. Wish I could have seen a grander view of the place where the testing chambers were, but what was visible with my limited POV was quite pleasing.

Difficulty (Light Bridge): 4/10
Difficulty (Faith Plate): 1.25/10
Difficulty (Lasers): 2.5/10

Difficulty (Average): 2.58
Design: 9/10
Enjoyed: 8.25/10

Beautiful map.

Fantastic map and some great puzzles.

As others have mentioned, the light bridge is by far the most difficult one. Hint to those that struggle you do need to get back to the starting point to gain elevation .

Keep up the great mapmaking.

Cool art deco styled map, puzzles are great too.

It's a tricky one, isn't it? It's definitely the hardest of the three, but keep trying! You'll figure it out I'm sure.

I don't get it, how are you supposed to do the lightbridge puzzle? :(

Stunning.

Fabulous!!!

Beautiful scenery. The puzzles were surprisingly difficult! As someone else said already, it's hard to tell what's glass and what isn't in the laser puzzle.

Big rapture from bioshock vibes with his one, liked it a lot

Little strange, but fun :)

Absolutely beautiful. And interesting puzzles.

Still an absolutely amazing map.

This was impressive! Loved the lightbridge part. Didn't have to catch the cube :P

How awesome. Felt like I was in a Myst game (Riven mostly). Had to look at a solution to the faith plate...I was so certain that once one got the cube bouncing on the vertical faith plate, that the solution involved a cube fling combined with getting back to the fizzler button in time along with some portal management, that I completely did not see the mid-air catch. . Light bridge puzzle was my favorite...along with just the beauty of the area. Really liked seeing the other test areas from wherever one was.

after ages of being unable to finish any of the puzzle and a months-long break due to portal bein 32-bit, i seem to have somehow become smarter

Beautiful maps. Well done.

Very nice map indeed guys. Loved the art style of this one. Not sure what the actual theme of the competition was, but I hope you placed well with this stunning effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd0H9IyOdX4&t=2770s

After a mediocre start (just my two cents, I don't like exploration) the puzzles, in combination with the visuals, were very enjoyable! Thanks for creating & thumbs up :-)

Definitely found a skip in the light bridge puzzle, but I love the design, as well as a more interesting variant of the timed catch.

Very fun map! Visuals are stunning and puzzles are all clever. My only nitpick was that for the laser puzzle, it was a bit hard to tell what was glass and what wasn't, so I ended up shooting at a portal surface for a solid minute without realising it was blocked off. Anyways, great map.

A visually shocking map. And i mean it in a good way. The map really takes your breath. Really reminded me of Rapture from Bioshock.

The puzzles, as always from Demon, are estonishing, not too challenging yet not simple.

My only two critiques are the misalligned indicator lights (the little circles with the little pointing part should be pointing in the direction of the energy flow) and the fact that the return to the main hub was made with a black screen. A cool hallway with more museum stuff could have been made, but I realize you were short on time.

Great map! A blast to play through!

ASTONISHING. Awesome attention to detail, great custom assets, unforgettable puzzles... The overall style was so good, strong Bioshock vibes, and I loved the insights. This map is SEVERELY underrated, I mean, how do my crappy BEE2 maps have more ratings than this absolute masterpiece? Awesome job on making a bloody piece of art!

Spectacular! Bloody well done.

Lovely map, really good aesthetics I do not know tho how I feel about the puzzles tho because even tho I liked the simplicity, I think I might have solved the first two in a unintended way.. at least it was how I felt it.

I love this map : good puzzles in fantastic design !
Guys, you are great artists; thank you !
& Fav

Wow.

Who else shot Angstrom in the taint on the way out?

Incredibly beautiful map, chambers and Hammer work! The waterfall walls were fantastic!
Great puzzles! I really enjoyed this!

What a treat! Look and feel are superb! Puzzles are fun: not too easy and not too hard. Great job and thanks for creating!

2 of the 3 solutions were so obvious that I didn't see them!

Beautiful work and chambers. Puzzles were fun. Thanks for creating.

Looks absolutely superb and, what I assume is, the intended solution to the puzzles is good – thumbs up. However, as others have said, there are unintended solutions to all 3 puzzles ?

Absolute great work with the scenery and the attention to details
The puzzles are enjoyable but not very difficult. I liked the faithplate puzzle in its intended version (it is easy to solve it unintended).

blind playthrough https://youtu.be/N9LoDJ4fvhY?t=2034 Ditto Leo's comment. Team faith plate!

Super cool map. The hammer work is astonishing indeed. The puzzles were alright; the one with the faith plate had a nice idea but it took some tries to get the timing right, and messing up was kinda unforgiving. I especially enjoyed the light bridge puzzle; that was quite sneaky :] Big thumbs up :D

amazing

Fantastic Hammer work and enjoyable puzzles, as well!