Portal: Prelude Forum

Do you have your companion cube? I personally cheated the level before (well not cheated, there was a pretty lame bug that let you pass that level without doing anything).
So if you got there without a companion cube, you did it wrong. Well atleast, that's the conclusion I came to.

If not, it's actually a hard room, so keep on trying, listen around you.

Last edited by Ph0X (09-10-2008 05:43:53)

lets just say, you can go back to the previous level to get a cube.

my hint is, you don't have to run too far back up the stairs to get back to the previous level.

happy portalin'

I haven't completely given up yet. I think I can pull it off after I get some sleep. But after completing 18 and getting the cube. I go to 19 and I am having the hardest time. After spending an hour flying around making no progress I think it's time to take a break.

"Momentum, a fonction of mass and velocity.
In lemons turn: speedy thing goes in, speedy thing goes out"

snakebyte wrote:

I am stuck in the big room.

I have the companion cube and I activated the button... I tried to jump, but it's impossible to go to upper level.

What must i do?

ME TOO!.... But i don't got cube-.-

Okay, so I beat the game last night... It was around 9 o'clock when I got to stage 18/19. and I beat the game at 12:30 ... I had alot of trouble on the slanted piece... But I got it. So I figured out that if you hold up while going through the portal, your projectory will be way higher than it is without holding up. So I just held up until I started to hit the ceiling then I shot my portal from the slant to the moving slant and let go of up(w) and I got right up.

Bluestreak2 wrote:

So, I finally beat 19, the stairs hint was a HUGE help...

No problem, trying to help as subtly as possible.

Happy portalin'

Alphasoldier wrote:

I CAN'T get to work is correctly jumping out and in to the next portal to get to those higher platforms, I've been working on that for hours now, and even IF I get up there, how will I get the cube there? I'm so totally lost.

Here is a little hint:
When there is a place to get to, there is always a portal to be made, whether it be where you land or around the corner. Search all walls and floors.

As for the jumping strategy:
The X's hold the key as your height will be equal or greater than the ledge across from you, so after gaining height why not go straight up instead of across? To get up to the double arrowed ledge, after gaining height it is easy as the first, the moving ramp is just too finicky.

Happy portalin'

Last edited by Andrewc0 (10-10-2008 01:55:01)

So, once you've got the cube in place and you've activated the plasma ball thing...and can press the buttons to move the walls around...

what next?

I can't get the plasma ball to go in to the room with all the plasma catchers...it always dissipates before it gets there.

Any ideas on how to actually get the plasma ball up there fast enough so it goes in to that room?

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Last edited by Hamst3r (10-10-2008 04:52:11)

I got it to work, finally.

There's a small bit of portal-able wall up there and I had a portal on it, but apparently not over far enough, so the plasma ball was just bouncing off and dissipating.  I moved the portal over a bit and it all worked out.  Plasma ball goes through the portal, pops out of the portal in the room with the plasma ball catchers and all is good.

I finished the mod a few hours ago, it was pretty good, if not a little rough around the edges and quite atrocious in the dialogue department.

The spot you are standing on now, the solid part, right besides the door has I believe an portal-able wall a bit higher, shoot there and shoot right next to you, that way you can jump out out the portal while shooting the first platform, from there it's easy to figure out, oh and don't forget your cube <3

OK, after I got to the first platform, the rest was easy.  OK, not easy, but possible with a gratuitous amount of quicksaves/quickloads.  Thanks for the help.