Blockland and Portal 2.

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So, for those of you that may not know, the game "Portal 2" will become out in about a month. And also, for those of you who may, for some reason, not know, Portal is one game that the Blockland community has adopted and fawned over so much so that there's practically an add on for every single feature the game has.

-Portal Gun/Gravity Gun
-Weighted Cubes
-Anti-Portal Bricks
-Prints
-Music (Both from the background, and GLaDOS quotes.)
-Turret Sounds
-Aperture Science 15000 Megawatt Super Colliding Super Button

And, of course, a helluva lot of Blockland remakes of Portal chambers and areas.

So while I don't mean to use the Blockland Forums to discuss Portal, I can't help but be curious as to how the release of Portal 2 will affect Blockland. When it's released, will Blockland users once again go through a frenzy of trying to make an add on for every new feature? Now, of course, some features are probably absolutely impossible to port to Blockland (Or are they?) but still, I don't see it as something that would just pass Blockland by without a certain amount of effort towards making some of the features available in Blockland.

So, what do you think will happen when Portal 2 is released? Any features you want to see in Blockland in particular? Are you a fan of Portal, or more specifically, Portal in Blockland?

EDIT : NVM, it's coming out later than a month. Sorry about that.

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[steve5451]

I think this belongs in Games. c:

[ase]

Should perhaps rename title "Blockland and Portal 2" that way it looks related to blockland and you dont get people saying that it should belong in games.

I think this belongs in Games. c:

edit:Too late, already happened

[L]

Should perhaps rename title "Blockland and Portal 2" that way it looks related to blockland and you dont get people saying that it should belong in games.

Good idea.

Though, I'm not sure it'll really help in the long run.

[steve5451]

Where did you come from, L?! :O
Never seen you before. :o

[L]

Where did you come from, L?! :O
Never seen you before. :o

I came from a vagina, personally. How about you?

Let's try to stay on topic. You can PM me about that if you want.

[Texan101]

Hey L, long time no see. You know me as Penthoplayer, but I go by this name now.

On topic:
There will definitely be replications of all Portal 2 objects that weren't in Portal 1. And for those that were just reskinned - expect the reskins to come out as their own add-ons.

[L]

Hey L, long time no see. You know me as Penthoplayer, but I go by this name now.

On topic:
There will definitely be replications of all Portal 2 objects that weren't in Portal 1. And for those that were just reskinned - expect the reskins to come out as their own add-ons.

I think that "ALL" would be pretty difficult, though. Particularly with things like the Gel that causes the player to bounce/speed up. Now, you could potentially do that with events, but the point of the gels is that you can use portals to fling the gel in a certain direction, and I don't even know how to start with something like a physics add on that takes the form of liquid, and can affect the player.

Certain things I can see for sure, yeah. Like the Thermal Discouragement Beam, or the Weighted Storage Ball (Whatever that's going to be.) and other things would be very easily made with events. (The Aerial Faith Plates would be a cinch with some careful Velocity events, I think.) But all of them? I'm totally supportive of anyone who wants to give it a shot, but that'd be a big challenge.

[Texan101]

I know these people. They will find a way to get it to work. They have gotten mirrors, mechs, and anything else they have imagined to work, so some how they will find an opening that will allow such near-impossible feats to be done.
The only thing I am surprised about on these people is there is no portal yet that can be seen through, even though we have now proved it to be possible because of the mirror mod.

[L]

I know these people. They will find a way to get it to work. They have gotten mirrors, mechs, and anything else they have imagined to work, so some how they will find an opening that will allow such near-impossible feats to be done.
The only thing I am surprised about on these people is there is no portal yet that can be seen through, even though we have now proved it to be possible because of the mirror mod.

When did we get mirrors working? I remember once seeing a map that involved a working mirror, but that was it. A portal that you can see through seems a bit harder, since it'd be changing locations all the time.

Maybe it doesn't exist because it'd be too labor intensive on the server?

[Jay the Cartoonist]

I also went through this portal frenzy.  (and all the other frenzies that sparked Valve-Based games, except TF2, I never attempted that)

I am also kinda sick of all of the Valve-to-BL remakes, I know I'm a hypocrite for hating them but really, there is no remake that even remotely compares to the quality of the game, most of them suck.

-Almost every TDM I go to has TF2 classes, and all of them suck at replicating them.

-No L4B or Zapt user has created anything remotely as quality as L4D. All a bunch of random, hard to follow, city lay outs with some zombie spawns.

-The only Portal remake that interested me was Space Guys, and this is because instead of recreating portal, his had a feel as if Aperture Science had based them self in blockland and were using aspects from the tutorial.  (such as the water with electricity, instead of acid.) Space Guy also claimed he had never played Portal, so this was good because he had nothing to reference but his own creativity and other crap people have made.

-I have also never seen a decent Half-Life 2 remake, I myself am not even a fan of the several pieces of crap I've pushed out with an HL2 label, or semi-HL2 label.  I don't think I'll ever be able to stop trying to make that crap until I finally make a decent BL-styled remake of my old Airboats server.


I am hella excited for Portal 2, but not for the reused Blockland test chambers with a few weeds and vines added here and there.

[Jay the Cartoonist]

Double Post Trololo

I'm almost positive from hearing from Space Guy that a portal you can see through would be impossible.  It would be so amazing to make ANY mod that you can do this, I would love a print brick that could show you a view of a build or something for security cameras, I would crap my pants.
But I don't think I've heard from anyone that it is possible


Mirrors never worked, they made one map with a really hacky mirror and I think it got removed, so Badspot must have thought it wasn't very good for the game.
Don't get the "anything is possible, YOU CAN DO IT ALL!! <3" attitude just yet because this really is only torque. It can only handle so much.

[L]

I see your point, Jay the Cartoonist. Blockland is no where near as high a quality a game as the kind of things Valve makes, so an attempted remake can only go so far.

Personally, Jirue's build of GLaDOS' chamber positively astounded me. It was the most amazing build I had ever seen at the time. So in that respect, I can really appreciate the Blockland remakes because of their idea that they're a sort of "mini-model" of the real game. I play the remakes for their simplified sense of the game, and also for the pleasure of seeing how people have creatively used Blockland's features to make something like Portal. That's one thing that I really look forward to more than anything with the Portal 2 Blockland remakes, is the use of Physics with the rotting Enrichment Center. With the way the Enrichment Center is rotting and falling apart, I think that could create a really interesting effect with the way it falls apart as you walk through it and interact with it, especially in Blockland.

But absolutely, I don't play the remakes for them to be fun. I don't expect them to be as functional as the real game, either.

I've never played Half Life 1 or 2, so I can't say much about that. Do we have features from Half Life in Blockland? I haven't noticed any, yet.

[Headcrab Zombie]

Where are you getting a month from? Steam store says 3 months and 3 weeks

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Where are you getting a month from? Steam store says 3 months and 3 weeks

Weird. I swear that the last time I checked Portal 2, maybe a week or two ago, it said it was coming out on February 4th. Now it just says it's coming "2011".

Well, I'm sure there's a good reason for it to come out later. No use rushing it. Thanks for the info. >_>;