Portal 2

Portal 2

Dilapidation: Part 4
173 Comments
xylemwood Feb 20 @ 6:00am 
Wow that took some working out :) :)
|SLAVE| [cf] thenewkid30 Jan 1 @ 8:49pm 
You weren't lying about this being a Very Hard difficulty. Man, am I so glad that I overcame it!!!!!
zigzagtenniscoe Jun 15, 2024 @ 9:38am 
Semi-blindrun (it’s been a damn while since I’ve played this, it came up on quickplay once but that was several years ago)
By far the hardest one yet. Can’t believe I didn’t try the ending move sooner.
First one was more or less easy but clever. Honestly I can’t say I liked the second puzzle that much though, the funnels that change polarity serve absolutely no purpose, the method I used to get to the back room feels very unintended (so that might have been my fault) and the technique to get the cube out is cheesy. Third one was better but I never used the light bridge, feels like a red herring to me unless I solved in an unintended manner. The last move is an interesting trick, but a small part of me says it’s a little cheese as it relies on a quirk of the game engine more than anything. That is to say, it wouldn’t make much physical sense in the real world.

Difficulty: 6.75/10
Enjoyed: 7/10
Boss Feb 11, 2024 @ 5:15pm 
That final bit was fantastic- one of the best chambers I've ever played.
sefh Oct 14, 2023 @ 1:52pm 
That was a brutal level.
Klaatu Sep 5, 2023 @ 6:19pm 
Played this 10 years after you made it. Great map!
KUKURUKU May 31, 2023 @ 3:36am 
my brain was broken like that room at finalle, but damn i made it. it takes me so much time. Good puzzle. It takes from you to think widely
Lumi Nation Apr 21, 2023 @ 1:47pm 
This was so hard but so good
Spad Apr 1, 2023 @ 11:27pm 
Great map! That ending is a real head scratcher, loved it!!
dboxall123 Mar 2, 2023 @ 6:31pm 
That was great, but what was the purpose of the light bridge in the third room? I spent ages with the cube in that center bit, trying to work out what I meant to be doing, and then in the end I didn’t even use it lol. Was it just there to throw people off?
Muzozavr Nov 26, 2022 @ 4:52am 
The more I look around YT playthroughs (including Selyp's one you linked), the more I realize my solution for the finale IS the intended way, and there probably can't be any other. A great finish.
Muzozavr Nov 26, 2022 @ 4:00am 
Just when I thought I was done... I wasn't done, LMAO. Not sure if my solution to the third puzzle and finale was the intended one -- I never used the light bridge in the third puzzle, and the way I did the finish was uncharacteristically wacky... but very pleasantly wacky. Hats off if THIS was intended!

I do maintain my disagreement with the "prop a cube off a button via a light bridge" trick, but here it was fairly obvious that it's the only way forward, so since I knew it was a thing you can do, it didn't bother me too much.

The other issue is that you can softlock yourself if you try to reuse the light bridge from puzzle 2 in puzzle 3 and then remove it , if you've also left the laser grate on, I don't think you can get out in any way after this.

Those two are my only criticisms, and they're minor ones, best map in the series so far, here's hoping 5 and 6 don't let me down. Excellent work!
SpielSatzFail May 21, 2022 @ 2:01pm 
Replayed this one after six years, still awesome. Couldn't remember ANYTHING, but my thumbs up didn't lie ^^ great outside the box ending. Maybe a little misleading with the other beam. I pulled my hair out because I wanted to know if a cube swap in and out of the third room was possible. I even was close to stumbling into a softlock situation when I reused the light bridge from room #2 in room #3... but that's a minor criticism.
sEn Apr 12, 2022 @ 2:23pm 
HOLY S*it!!!
THiS was so awesome and clever!
That ending melted my brain... the best user puzzle i played so far.
And i played alot!
Dark Rozen Dec 29, 2021 @ 6:00pm 
Fun map
volodi-mir Dec 4, 2021 @ 6:14pm 
cool map, really tough ;) I did it finally without help!
Happy to solve it :steamthumbsup:
Tilt Apr 4, 2021 @ 8:15pm 
That last part took me over 1 hour. When I finally figure it out I wasn't sure I had the intended solution.. then I saw the playthrough and it was the intended solution, crazy as it seems. Never seen a map that forced the player to go through all that in the end (no spoilers). Really well thought out.
dtnk Dec 21, 2020 @ 11:53am 
Okay, so usually I only like (as in, thumbs up) tests that I don't have any complaints about, but besides my usual nitpicks, this test just melted my brain with its solution. Per usual, this test was very well decorated. And the tense parts (ie. the glitchy elevator crash) were tense.

Thank you for making it!
Echo Dec 2, 2020 @ 9:20am 
Amazing. The solution to that third cube was just elegant.
Apollo Geef Nov 14, 2020 @ 9:34pm 
I racked my brain and realized I was looking at the solution all along
mabelpines Oct 9, 2020 @ 7:14am 
clever
LoneWolf2056  [author] Aug 25, 2020 @ 2:51pm 
@Sloi Thanks! Glad you enjoyed.
Sloi Aug 25, 2020 @ 2:43pm 
This may be one of the best parts of 2020.

Great map, medium difficulty (20-25 min solve) but definitely in the same class as mevious/gig/azorae/etc.
FoggyNoon Jan 13, 2020 @ 4:33pm 
Woah that was hard, but also brilliant! Thanks for the experience
Andy T Jan 7, 2020 @ 2:12am 
Ease up a bit, this one is very hard indeed.
Comedy Time Nov 3, 2019 @ 3:15pm 
This has to be one of the best chambers i've ever played! thank you for making my week!
Calwin Oct 5, 2019 @ 8:51am 
Brilliant puzzles! This one was much harder than the prior ones. But I figured it out fairly quickly. Was a bit unsure how to do the final part, but it slowly unfolded. Great satisfaction. This map and map 0 are the best ones. Haven't played any of the later ones though.
ALiC3m Sep 22, 2019 @ 3:01pm 
I loved solving this puzzle, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I put it directly in my favorites
Flo Jul 15, 2019 @ 9:22am 
Probably the best map I've ever played. Took me forever but finally figured out the last step ;) Brilliant design!
Ali Jun 12, 2019 @ 10:07am 
very cool map, brain felt good afterwards.
imlegos Jun 4, 2019 @ 10:45pm 
That final puzzle to get the excursion funnel. Damn good puzzle.
BaRa.95. Jun 2, 2019 @ 5:15am 
Nice test I almost finished it, just didn't get that cube change part at the end without youtube tutorial.
jandlml Dec 17, 2018 @ 8:08pm 
very excellent!! love the ending!
vallibus Nov 3, 2018 @ 11:25am 
Yowza! This was quite the challenge. Accordining to the comments left by others, I didn't solve it the intended way. But like pilots say, any landing you walk away from is a good landing. The intended solution is more elegant than mine, but I'm still quite satisfied I reached the exit.
c4shurik Oct 5, 2018 @ 6:53am 
Clever! Didn't expect so much action =)
IridiumWave Aug 22, 2018 @ 2:20pm 
Oh. My. Gosh. 2 HOURS!!! I finally managed to solve the final step by looking in the second room... Took me 30 minutes to figure that out even with help from the comments. Thanks for making this map.
SethMT May 27, 2018 @ 8:03am 
That is an evil (yet very clever) trick... Kudos.
disappa May 22, 2018 @ 9:48pm 
Very cool map! Here's my solution
https://youtu.be/YcH91uItZjQ
KharleRoi Apr 8, 2018 @ 10:45pm 
Affter a week I finally figured it out. LoneWolf2056 is an evil genius.
KharleRoi Apr 6, 2018 @ 9:03pm 
Still cant figure it out, and I'm at the last step.
KharleRoi Apr 2, 2018 @ 7:26pm 
This is an evil chamber. I have trapped myself in the last area twice now.
hfmanson Jan 23, 2018 @ 3:35am 
What a fantastic puzzle!
JammyBread17714 Oct 30, 2017 @ 1:00am 
This was one of those levels I felt proud after solving! Great puzzle!
BehindPortal Sep 10, 2017 @ 6:56am 
wow awesome. very clever puzzle. :steamhappy:
lemon-cupcake Jul 16, 2017 @ 8:22pm 
that was so good!!! i have been swoocing right through some so-so test chambers, but this one was such a good challenge. ^u^
Nader Jun 25, 2017 @ 3:04pm 
I like it, however took me a some time to decide the last step.
lfairban Apr 7, 2017 @ 11:08am 
Excellent!
GrtWhtBuf Mar 2, 2017 @ 11:23am 
Funtastic!
torax+***** Feb 16, 2017 @ 6:02am 
Now that was just plain cruel. Love it! :)
Petutski Jan 17, 2017 @ 4:57am 
Excellent tricky hard map! Thank you @Selyp!