**Official Portal 2 thread**

kylew said:
What about all the shared elements between the older games? I would expect Alien Swarm to use a fair amount, the same way HL2, Portal, Episodes 1 and 2 do. I thought Portal 2 was using a completely new revision of the Source Engine?
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Surely it's just textures and what not that's shared between the games?

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"source engine.gcf" which I assume is the source engine is 138MB

Half-Life 1 engine is 11.5MB :D.
 
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Looking forward to this :)

Looking for anyone who has bought/going to buy the 2x Portal 2 Pack - See my thread in the Wanted section ;) :)
 
Speaking of Trolling, Valve are doing a great job of it! First, someone emails a guy from Valve about all the infected users that are about:

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For those that don't know, so far 10 players who had been deeply involved with the ARG, including the guy who went to Toki Tori/RUSH's devs address to find some glyphs. Anyway, they've all been heavily involved with the ARG, and have since been infected/taken over in some way.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/JakeRG/
http://steamcommunity.com/id/moomanibe/
http://steamcommunity.com/id/kasumi/

Are three. They all have the same profile info:
'I am okay. I am still a person. Who is okay. I am busy doing safe things that are supervised by a responsible safety associate.'
And the Portal 2 logo at the side for owning all the potato games has changed to an alternate logo, featuring just the two portals, persumably so we know they're actually infected, as opposed to simply being someone pretending for attention. In addition, this all happened at once, the ones in IRC all quit at the same time:

[13:56] <MOOMANiBE> There's a hole in the sky... through which I can fly.
[13:56] * MOOMANiBE (~[email protected]) Quit (Quit: I am okay. I am still a person. Who is okay.)

[13:56] <Dougley> There's a hole in the sky... through which I can fly.
[13:56] * Dougley (~[email protected]) Quit

[13:56] <Leveraged> There's a hole in the sky... through which I can fly.
[13:56] * Leveraged (~[email protected]) Quit (Quit: Leaving.)

[13:56] <Jake_R> There's a hole in the sky... through which I can fly.
[13:57] * Jake_R (~[email protected]) Quit (Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.86.1 [Firefox 3.6.16/20110319135224])

[13:57] <Ariel_Faith_Plate> There's a hole in the sky... through which I can fly.
[13:57] * Ariel_Faith_Plate (~[email protected])

[13:58] <Ninjai> There's a hole in the sky... through which I can fly.
[13:58] * Ninjai ([email protected]) Quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
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One of the infected seem to have broken temporarily from the control, as shown from these edited IRC logs to cut out all the background noise:
http://pastebin.com/uvnXh8Xi
http://pastebin.com/82HkJDC0

Clearly saying that we have to try and get them to rebel and stop following GLaDOS' orders. But anyway, the guy from Valve tells everyone to stop worrying about that and focus on the countdown clock. People are confused, but its someone from Valve, so must be true, as he's given a couple of pointers before.

And then, an hour after the first email was recieved:
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I'm still thinking that rebooting GLaDOS is a bad thing :3
 
As a side note, I'd urge everyone not to even visit the Steam forums tomorrow, they will be bursting with spoilers.

thecremeegg said:
I cant believe people have bought into this whole pathetic charade.....Valve really have got people wrapped round their little fingers!
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What do you mean? People are just enjoying the ARG. It's all part of the anticipation.
 
thecremeegg said:
I cant believe people have bought into this whole pathetic charade.....Valve really have got people wrapped round their little fingers!
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Yes, how dare they expand the story line from the confines of a video game into a mixed reality game. utterly shocking.
 
Well it *is* a bit silly. People twittering about being "infected" and being killed...

It's basically a live-action roleplay event, and, erm, it's a bit beardy weirdy for some of us :p

I mean, I think the whole looking for clues thing is great. But people pretending to be abducted, infected, etc... is a bit crap :p
 
FoxEye said:
I mean, I think the whole looking for clues thing is great. But people pretending to be abducted, infected, etc... is a bit crap :p
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But everyone knows it's a game. It's just fun. Come on, some of us - a lot of us - love Portal. I wholeheartedly believe this game will be 'epic' in the true sense of the word. And I mean, epic brilliance. This is all very exciting.
 
Maybe a bit... but just do it as much as you want/care and be happy.

A fair bit of it is beyond me but I really wanted my potato and some of the clues were pretty cool.
 
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