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The Elephant

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May 9, 2012 @ 6:01am

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This was my first map using the PTI. It was fairly straight-forward but ultimately a little easy. So, this is an updated version where I've added a whole new area which ramps the difficulty up quite a bit (I hope - please let me know what you think of it).

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Quolnok May 20, 2012 @ 7:47pm

Hmm, I thought that was just there to kill you. I wound up carrying the companion cube around trying to find a use and couldn't see a way of using the catapult because the lazer disabling the lazer grid used portals and I didn't see anything that disabled the fizzler, which meant if I tried to use the faith plate/catapult I'd loose the portals and die. I got the redirection cube to the upper part of the lazer room, then bounced up after it. Lined up the lazer through my portals and both cubes, then backtracked around to the use the elephant's trunk to get back to where you find the companion cube and from there replaced my portals and jumped in the excursion funnel

Pezikon May 19, 2012 @ 5:25pm

A solution: http://youtu.be/eFiukGjNlMs

The Bastard of Bolton [author] May 19, 2012 @ 4:45am

oh no, another work-around? Hmm. I thought i had it this time. quolnok, how did you NOT use the catapult and faith plate and still complete it? i thought it wasn't possible.

Quolnok May 19, 2012 @ 4:32am

Took me a little longer than it probably should have. Was I suposed to use the companion cube and the catapult behind the lazers and fizzler for anything?

The Bastard of Bolton [author] May 18, 2012 @ 4:47am

Ok, the update is done. I've changed a few things around which should hopefully mean that there's no longer a work around. To clarify Brad, your method of directing the laser through the retractable doors was correct. The only part i didn't want was allowing players to skip steps by getting the reflector cube out to the water room.

The Bastard of Bolton [author] May 17, 2012 @ 9:57am

Thanks Brad. You're right that's a work around that skips a few steps out. I'll fix it tonight. Also the orange tractor beam isn't needed to complete. It's there because it's possible, if you accidentally destory a cube/ball then you could be trapped in the laser generator room. The tractor beam provides a way out in the event this happened. I might try and tweak it so it's not needed, not sure yet.

Brad May 17, 2012 @ 8:33am

and.... With a bit of fine tuning, I could direct the laser through one cube in the laser generator room, in through the portable wall on the ground floor that room, out through the grating covered wall on the upper ledge in that room, through the reatracted doorway into the water chamber and then through the second cube so that the laser passed through the fizzler and into the laser reciever. I also didnt use the reverse orange grav lift at any point..... hopefully that helps :) If there is anything I was unclear on, let me know.

Brad May 17, 2012 @ 8:32am

No probs. I assume I have most updated map. I wrote the comment straight after I played it. I've probably made it much harder for myself by solving it this way! Once I had opened the retractable glass panel to the water chamber, I could then move freely between the water chamber and the laser generator room. From the laser generator room I could see a portalable panel at the top corner of the water chamber (approximately where you first initially enter the water chamber- From this ledge you can also jump/fall to the ledge where the pressure button connected to the blue grav lift is...i'm not sure if this is deliberate). Anyway, I also had both reflector cubes with me. In the laser generator room, I placed cube one to direct the laser at the portable wall on the ground level in that room and took the other reflector cube into water chamber and set it up.

The Bastard of Bolton [author] May 17, 2012 @ 2:26am

Brad, can you tell me how you skipped the blue gel? I did find a way to do this and I've since fixed it so maybe you had the older version of my map. In case that isn't the case I'd like to know how you did it. Thanks.

Brad May 17, 2012 @ 12:10am

Thanks for this map. Good bit of fun! Though I think I may have cheated (I didnt need to use the blue gel dispensers for anything). I'll send you more details on my work around if you think it's something you want to fix (unless it was the solution!). I'm hoping to upload my first map soon too! (just got to get a mate to test it first to look for loopholes). Thanks again

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