Lol so remembering that there was something about an update to this puzzle that fixed "a crash that an easter egg caused" I couldn't help but wonder if the first CC crashing the game was actually unintentional, so I went back and found it again, wondering if it was actually either reachable or just fizzled like every other meme CC does. I actually thought it was ingenious to deliberately crash the game upon an attempt to pick it up and felt it a good 2023/4 refreshing of the meme. Though I'm sad that's no longer the case nor was it ever intended to be (nor is the second CC accessible now) what replaced it is still pretty cool.

It's actually hilarious that I ended up uploading the method to acquire the second CC in a version of the map that has long since been inaccessible, like since Jan 5 at least (the last time this map was updated) 😂

Uhh yeah there is indeed no way, my idea was that the player gets back by just dying from the death fizzler, but that's not an actual good solution, and i was afraid of an actual solution creating an unwanted skip for the puzzle so i just didn't add one :/

So, once you've explored the brick room there's no way back to the original puzzle? I can get back to the red fizzler room but no way out from there.

great puzzle but the jazz music is too distracting

Blindrun with 3 secrets found and second companion cube that doesn't crash the game retrieved!
Nice little map. Loved the secrets. Though there’s more than one way to get trapped, and the portal surface at the last area could have been highlighted a little more clearly. I also found the method of getting on the piston in time (or at least the one that I used) a little unnecessarily fast to execute.
Love the aesthetics though and that skybox 😳

I went back after the initial run and “discovered” the 4th secret (though I did peek at the spoiler and knew where it was right away - the contrast made it difficult for my eyes to spot initially :P). I also brought the companion cube to the exit this time (forgot about it in the initial run LOL) and I actually stood on it and brought it with me to the area below the railing which I assume is the beginning of the chamber? Obviously this didn’t seem intended but it’d be cool for the door to open back up if someone insane enough like me actually brings the companion cube past the door.

Heck, did you even know you could grab the second companion cube? The fact that it exists and that there’s a tube to land on beside it (not possible to grab without falling below, so it’s either the tube or death) and that you can get up on the next platform by standing on the cube and can grab the cube once you’re up there really makes me think it was intentional. :P

Difficulty: 4.25/10
Enjoyed: 7.75/10

I loved the Stanley Parable reference, the companion cube room, and the gm_construct area with the story of undertale song in it>

Great map! I really liked the visuals and the atmosphere was great. And the puzzle was very fun too! A new favorite

Finally a map worth playing from the past 3 months.

idk wtf i played cool as hell tho

Love the Jazz song! I was stumped by the first move to get the second cube for a lot longer than i care to admit. Thanks for filling the void left tonight by Revolution's delay. Favorited!

Nice headcrab.

Excellent work, one of the best chambers I've played in quite some time.

to elaborate, the companion cube had some outputs on it, and one of them was fizzling itself , and source didn't like that for some reason so it kept crashing, i replaced the outputs from the companion cube with a trigger_once and that fixed the issue (no idea why for me it never crashed at all but for others it did)

i managed to fix the crash!!

and also added some playerclips and a noportal volume to stop softlocks and hardlocks

and i also managed to remove potatOS from the portal gun cuz she wasn't supossed to be there in the first place

Thank you for explaining Tinned! Everything is clear now. Hopefully you'll find what's crashing. Good ol' Source, I know how it is...

Yeah i know where it happens, but idk exactly at what point, or what's causing it

The crash appears to happen in the first secret room mentioned by Hint 1 .

i have no idea what's causing the crash, for us it didn't crash at all so i can't fix it, idk what room you're referring to if it's the observation room, you can see 2 old maps with papers going more in depth about it, if it's the stanley parable easter egg, it's just that, a reference to the stanley parable, it has no purpose , the paw symbol is the logo of a youtuber that plays portal 2 workshop maps , also glad you enjoyed it

Very nice puzzle, banger map in general. Would be good to fix the crash with companion cube easter egg . Also I might just be dumb, and may have missed something, but I didn't understand the purpose of the the secret room with metal doors, that's at the very top of the map . I'm also curious about the paw symbol in the gmod-like room, something furry related , or something else? Whatever it is I don't judge!

As you can see by length of my comment the map has sparked a lot of curiosity, and it's been fun to explore and solve. Great work!

Really great puzzle. Thanks so much for all the hard work. I loved it!

Finally, a decent puzzle out of the thousands in the community chambers without having to search in the community server. A job well done.

Very good puzzle one of the best I played this year
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Imo is more reconstruct than overgroun. Overgroun it's more broken than reconstruct. Reconstruct is like overground, but with less damage on the walls

Nice hammer work, though a couple of odd design choices. Fun map!

if it didn't crash, a 2nd companion cube would say some things like that you're not supposed to be there, and afterwards it fizzles too, and the player says to themselves that they killed him somehow , also making it so you can shot the moon would be very, very hard to create

this chamber was absolutely phenomenal. my favorite thing about it was the easter eggs spread throughout it. my favorite easter egg was the one with the metal doors. however, on the first easter egg (the one with the trail of blood), it crashes the game as you said it would. but what actually happens if the game doesn't crash? also, there were a few places you could get softlocked, like the beginning area, and the cube room behind the two laser wall things. the visuals were also really nice (i wish i could've shot a portal on the moon!!!)

woah that's awesome, thanks guys

Hey! You guys made it to #1! Congrats! 🎇🎉🎈

Thank you all for your kind words <3

if the easter egg closes your game for some reason, just... you know, skip the easter egg

would be happy to finish the level, but my computer simply don't like your level and closes the game

when i get the heart cube, it desolves and closes my game, is the 3rt time this happens

Excellent map work and challenging puzzle (mostly finding what to do). Thanks for creating

I'm not gonna spoil the easter egg, but I admit, I was so happily surprised when I stumbled across it. I half expected to hear a familiar voice upon finding it. Marvelous work.

Beautiful environment and a fun puzzle too. I got hard-stuck in the floor debris corner on the top level, near the exit door. Thumbs up, enjoyed the backstory bts areas, and thanks for the fun

I agree with jgaultney. I have always loved that announcer and I was happy to hear the smooth jazz song in its entirety!

That was seriously good!

Like GrottoLova said, "what a great Christmas present."

So good, it's a new Fave!

And Happy Holidays to you!

Well what a great Christmas present. Liked Favorited and I'll add a Follow. Thanks for creating these.

Nice one :-)

Damn thats a good chamber!

Excellent test chamber. A ton a clever fun. Thank you for your efforts and keep up the good work.