**Official Portal 2 thread**

[Lysander]

AVAILABLE UNLOCKED ON STEAM NOW

PLS CONTINUE TO AVOID POSTING SPOILERS OF ANY KIND

Physical media release date 21st April 2011

Overclockers physical media purchase

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OcUK Portal 2 owners - communicate for co-op:

VIEW THE SPREADSHEET.

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Box Art:

I know this was mentioned in the other thread but I thought it was such a big deal that it was worth starting a new topic for.

Initial announcement is here, I shall update this topic with more news periodically.

Valve announcement:

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.

Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com

Article at Game Informer

Cover with screenshot:

More screenshots:

Final version test chamber shot:

What we [think we] know so far - MASSIVE SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT:

Info taken from April's Game Informer as scanned in the Portal Puzzle Wiki.

*Chell will return as the main character for single player
*For co-op there will be two new player characters, in the form of bipedal robots over ten campaigns. Use of four portals will be necessary to complete some of the chambers
*Physics has been upgraded so that the enviroments can affect you through portals in the form of suction and tractor beams.
*The introduction of the concept of applicable 'paint' - orange and blue. Orange can propel you forwards at high speed, while blue has the ability to bounce objects off it.
*Expanded arsenal

Detailed article on plot - again, spoilers abound.

Gameplay videos:

 

[Lysander]

What's the deal with the underlined letters in the post?

drattmannh0nee

They gave a new login ident to the BBS. It's a long story. Here is a summary:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62575

The 0 in "drattmannh0nee" could be the only digit for a reason. If you remove it, the other letters rearranged spell out "damn near tenth", alluding to a bigger announcement on the 11th March at the GDC.

 

[Lysander]

Oh look, another game that isn't Episode 3.

I love Portal and all but Valve are really starting to **** me off.

Another person moaning about Ep 3. You people are never happy, are you.

 

[Lysander]

got quite excited by this that i went through and completed it last night awesome game!

whos up for some cake?

I noticed there were some achievement I didn't have, so I may have to replay to get them.

Also, updated the OP with new info.

 

[Lysander]

Box art:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106671-Valve-Unveils-Portal-2-Box-Art

 

[Lysander]

Large preview:

 

[Lysander]

Updated the OP with gameplay videos. The physics in this game looks ridiculous.

 

[Lysander]

Haha my gf just sent me that, was going to post it here. Great video.

 

[Lysander]

Think I will wait until its released now & hear what others have to say about it rather than chance buying another dated dud (like L4D1+2).

I was a bit concerned about the graphics after seeing the opening gameplay. I saw the room the character was in and it looks just like L4D graphics . It was only when some light started streaming in that it looked cool, but maybe that was because they were using that movie making tool.

And what's wrong with L4D? In terms of gameplay or graphics? Both are still great. It really saddens me that there are people this concerned with graphics.

The fact it only requires shader model 2.0 is a bit of a giveaway. Nevertheless, it's the puzzles I'm getting it for.

Portal has never been about cutting edge graphics, Portal is about atmosphere. And the graphics are good, I love them.

 

[Lysander]

Even if the pages are in the right order it's hard making sense of it.

 

[Lysander]

Got this on pre-order now at overclockers

Excellent. Can you change the thread title to **Official Portal 2 thread** please? I think that's more relevant now.

 

[Lysander]

Done.

Thank you, Monsieur Magic.

Like others, I haven't caved yet.

HOWEVER, if someone wants to get a two-pack and for me to PayPal them my half, I likely would.

10GB?? Really?!

 

[Lysander]

green jeans

That's enough for me not to watch it.

 

[Lysander]

OP updated.

 

[Lysander]

What is that theory even based on

Circle-jerking in the Steam forums.

 

[Lysander]

Fixed

If you don't want to participate, you don't have to. You still get it released early, no-one misses out.

Meanwhile there are a lot of people having fun playing the ARG and anticipating what is highly likely to be the game of the year. The fact that we don't know exactly when it will be released, only that it will be sometime in the next 48 hours, just adds to the excitement for me.

 

[Lysander]

You can give Cogs to me so I can help finish that part of the ARG!

Steam: bloodandfootsteps

[or you can do it]

 

[Lysander]

>.< I dunno what to do now. Was just going to wait for the PS3 version of Portal 2 as it comes with a PC copy too but I'm really tempted to get the PC pre-order now!

Wait half an hour and see if the 375,466 potatoes makes any difference.

 

[Lysander]

Oh dear.

 

[Lysander]

haha oh dear

The 375,466 milestone (rumoured) is coming up soon

About 1000 left to go. Should be there in about ten mins.

It's a good theory though, if you look at the stats of how popular Valve games are. If you have the same amount of people waiting to play Portal 2 who are also playing the ARG, and everyone only gets half the amount of potatoes each, that puts the Portal 2 demographic alongside TF2 in playing popularity. So it does tally.