![]() ![]() ![]() Teasing out the solution, experimenting with different layouts as my brain wrapped itself around thinking in four dimensions was incredibly satisfying. One of my favourite puzzles involves using redirection cubes to manipulate a single laser through two different timelines and four different spatial portals. Over the course of 25 chambers, the puzzles slowly evolve in complexity, introducing the puzzling elements from Portal 2, lasers, faith-plates, light-bridges. Including the time Portal, you’re dealing over twice the number of puzzling elements in any given situation. Portals follow the same rules, meaning you can have two spatial portals in the present, and two differently placed spatial portals in the future. If at this point your brain is starting to feel a bit stretched, that’s exactly the sensation Portal Reloaded strives to evoke. However, you must ensure you move the present cube into place first, otherwise when you move it, the future cube will disappear because you altered its timeline in the present. The solution is to go into the future, grab the future version of the cube, and bring it into the present to place it on the button. This means you can double up on cubes in the present, so long as you don’t move the present cube while the future cube occupies the same timeline.Ī simple Portal Reloaded puzzle might involve two buttons in the present that need to be pressed to open a door, but only one cube. ![]() But an object from the future can be brought back with you into the present. An object from the present cannot be taken into the future, it’ll just fizzle out of existence the moment you step through the portal. This opens the fourth gate.This ties into the second important rule. After passing through the third gate, remove the time portal so the cube keeps floating and presses against the big button on the ceiling. It’s done in this order because changing the portals in the past will change where they are in the future, but not the other way around. Finish by creating a new time portal on the upper right side of the room, so the light bridge from the future enters the present and prevents the cube from rising any higher. Shoot the ‘receiving end’ portal on the surface in the upper left corner of the wall, and then return to the present. The player needs to get the cube to stop rising so it stays in place and redirects the laser into a reticle, so go to the future and fire a new portal at the light bridge there. This will cause it to gradually float to the ceiling where the laser is. Start by shooting one portal at the end surface of the excursion funnel, then another underneath the cube that was just used to redirect the laser. This section can be difficult, so feel free to create a save file before attempting this part of the puzzle. Create it, then get ready for some fast-paced portal placing. In between the second and third gate, there’s a surface only for time portals that are opened by pressing a button. Now that the first gate is open, head there and create a new portal so the laser goes through the present cube once again, thus opening the second gate. It’s important that it’s done out of order like this, because the moment the present cube is rearranged, the future one will vanish. Create a new portal in the area underneath the laser gates and use the future cube to redirect the laser into the reticle with the number one dice block. This will disable the second laser gate, but what about the first? Another laser cube is needed, so head to the future and grab the future version of the same cube and bring it back to the present. Then, use the cube to redirect the laser into the reticle next to the symbol with the two dice. Fire a new portal into the portal surface near the ceiling where the laser is firing and then another one on the surface right of the stairs. This special cube can redirect thermal discouragement beams or the red lasers. To begin, press the button on the left side of the room to drop a cube into the excursion funnel and then fire one portal where the funnel ends and another on the ground so the player can grab the cube. ![]()
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