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Half of the level 86 map is different in my game. How do I get past it? D:

12:47 My brain was already so fried that I didn't even realize that I could easily get the green key ' - '

I like Portal

Hee ho

Sometimes you gotta appreciate weird art lmao

Hm, definitely a bit of a strange one, though maybe not as crazy as some of the other entries. Interesting how so many P1 assets are used despite some of the engine mechanics (like portal shots being instantaneous) are clearly from P2. If not for that one platform at 17:50 I might have thought this one was tame!

Finally beat Abyss myself. #3 and #23 bested me, but I got the rest. Agree that Isle of the blessed was my favorite

Thank you for playing this so I don't have to... 0:51 I didn't know Stanley was an alcoholic 6:00 I don't understand why you are doing this... can't you just place a cube under the laser and then leave the room? 13:03 really, player character? _Now_ is the first time since the beginning when you felt something was worth remarking on? Everything else was just an ordinary Tuesday to you? 21:45 there's something uniquely annoying about a human doing obnoxious impressions of animal noises... 29:50 oh so it's also got some old memes thrown in 45:53 how are people expected to figure that out?

Thanks for playing my map! Funnily, I've seen a number of people go for the tight trick shot to get the funnel. There's actually a much more elegant solution that doesn't involve ninja moves.

Thanks for your persistence, 12 was making me crazy, apparently I've been missing a whole feature of that bomb steamball. Now to practice being fast and accurate, too

Yeah, this is more of what I wish the whole DLC was like. I appreciate the laser-centric Orpheus part, but from what I hear Abyss is laser-heavy too, which is a shame because there are so many tools besides lasers. At least I get some of that with Isle of the blessed

How bizarre - I thought that surely the whole recruitment thing would have been some in-mod narrative novelty, but I looked it up and this really was made by a company for such a purpose. Very interesting to look at from that perspective.

Idk how you figured out Heart of Anubis…it makes sense to me now after seeing it but I was not getting it in my play-through. I got the golden puzzles though! step-by-step was cool

Somehow I managed to get switchboard through trial and error. But got stumped on other puzzles. Really enjoying the more chill feel of Isle of the Blessed now!

Just beat Orpheus over the weekend…definitely some tricky laser stuff. I hope the other parts make more use of the new tools like the driller and activator, etc. but this first part was pretty cool

thanks for playing

Congrats again!

Weird how TH-cam notifications keep the original title even if the video title changed after the fact

There's no inconsistency, the vanilla game works that way too. If you mean the vanilla mechanic seems inconsistent, I think it makes sense that you only have to follow the rules of something that's actually there, since you can't make a 0x0 shape with the line drawing.

3:16 I'm surprised you forgot how to do this one - even with the randomizer, the technique is still the same

Congrats asears, I'm glad you enjoyed the game! I also stopped at some point after doing most of the stuff I found interesting, I didn't find joy in hunting every last little thing like Nock was able to find joy in. It was cool to see everything in Nock's hunt though, just a shame those streams were never archived. At least your videos are archived here, they've been great to watch, thank you :) A lot of people complain about that hour long environmental line btw, and I understand why, it certainly wastes a lot of time for certain speedrun categories. In an isolated play6through though I think it's fine.

Although tedious to set up, the environmental line with the boat is a favorite of mine.

9:15 I remember not knowing what to do with that one vault pattern and then later realizing, wait! I think I've seen that shape before!

5:27 this was a massive mindblow for me, right here in the starting area a camouflaged pillar puzzle!

3:50 I remember being quite surprised when I learned that the way you open the door affects which pot is lifted, I never paid much mind to the pots before

Oh if you haven't already, you should watch the talk from the guy who did that hour long one about the secret of psalm 36, where he talks about his time playing The Witness and trying to find his own recording in it for himself.

Content ID Marathon

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Congratulations! Hope these videos haven't gotten copyright claims though, mine did and I don't know how to deal with it 'cause the song is public domain but individual performances of it are not necessarily public domain and I have no idea what the rights situation is for this performance.

Somehow I did the challenge twice without ever understanding how to get through the maze nor how to find the puzzles in it. Every time I made it that far I just wandered aimlessly. It's only slightly relieving to know there's a way to know where to go, but that's offset by the fact it requires memorization or snapping a picture with your phone :p

Have you ever seen me with a sandwich?

Certainly lots of intrigue here, though I can see why some of these puzzles didn't make the cut for mainline puzzles. The invisible elements ones are just an annoying memorization gimmick, for example. (Though we did get invisible symmetry as a recurring mechanic outside... bleh)

22:39 I had to look this up, it was the one thing I didn't figure out myself during my initial playthrough. Nice find.

2:00 while technically possible from this angle, I've seen people do it with much more ease from above in the treehouses, not sure whether this is intended or not.

Forcing us to re-solve these four giant floor puzzles with more specific requirements is a brilliant move, especially given some of the obstacles you have to overcome even when you know the solution. For example, the paint spill, or having to walk in specific gaps to get around the rubble blockage. Stuff like this is why I easily dismiss criticisms that this game could have just been a 2D mobile game.

I had to keep coming back to the green bridge multiple times in my playthrough, it was quite challenging. It leads to some peaceful places though. 11:18 heh, funny to solve this finally after all this time.

I couldn't solve this one. I knew how to do it but it was just way too difficult/tedious for me. Bravo.

Apparently a lot of people didn't reload their save after the fakeout ending and instead just proceeded into the other ending in the empty save slot. I can't imagine being so careless with save data that way lol... seems you and I are similar in that regard.

The idea of panels with wrapping borders is cool. The idea of making them actual 3D cylinders is fun in theory and annoying in practice. Also it ignores the possibility of letting both directions wrap around instead of just one direction, I'm still disappointed that wasn't explored.

The dual-line puzzle is my favorite puzzle in the whole game, and I'm so sad they never expanded upon this concept at all. The idea of having to juggle multiple lines in the same puzzle grid is ripe with potential.

I like how initially you think you can just overlay all the panels to form one puzzle, but then you realize some elements are overlapping / occupy the same cell. I wonder why that concept wasn't expanded upon further.

Realizing you could walk through part of the central column took me a while. Nice work.

Nice work. The mountaintop puzzle is intriguing due to its use of 3D perspectives despite being a "2D" puzzle, it makes you wonder how it must have been designed. IIRC it wasn't perfect originally though, at initial release people were finding unintended ways to solve it where you didn't have to draw the line from one side to the opposite side, so they changed it to make the unintended exits disappear while drawing. I don't remember what I did in my playthrough or if I played before or after that patch.

Cool to see you doing this after Nock, but ack I really need to go and finish watching your original playthrough lol... I'm such a procrastinator

I liked the witness line puzzles, but I never got the hype about the environmental puzzles. There just there. Turning on water fountains isn’t really that interesting of a reason to find them all to me. And someday I will need to try the challenge. But maybe I should replay this soon

Cool mod idea

Amazing video😊

Wish this wasn’t abandoned, and portal repercussions with it….. I saw this during the pandemic and watched the whole series…. Returning to see the song….

I also think the accumulator was my favorite new addition. So satisfying to charge and discharge (good puzzle potential too)

Also, I can’t remember, did you ever play my TUBER series of portal 2 maps?