Portal 2 but I Can't Look at White Walls

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
  • I made a Portal 2 mod that kills me nearly instantly when I look at portalable surfaces, and tried to beat the game like this. Here's how it went.
    Thanks to / dustyhob0 for the amazing music, and thanks to the SAR team for providing a base for this mod. And, of course, thank you for watching.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 215

  • @PortalRunner
    @PortalRunner  2 роки тому +1033

    The moon is not a portalable surface. Valve simply slapped a JPEG on the ceiling and put down a trigger that says "if you click here, the game ends". I'm not joking.

    • @Jacob9335wastaken
      @Jacob9335wastaken 2 роки тому +40

      Really? Wow.

    • @spro394
      @spro394 2 роки тому +151

      professional game design at its height

    • @christiandidonna8808
      @christiandidonna8808 2 роки тому +113

      @@spro394 yeah it’s good optimization

    • @Blutankalpha
      @Blutankalpha 2 роки тому +53

      ye it saves storage(back in the days of cd-roms you had to use 5 discs to install portal so you wanted to save space)

    • @ИльяВитцев
      @ИльяВитцев 2 роки тому +21

      @@Blutankalpha pretty sure a trigger vs a portalable surface makes little to no difference on game size
      that is, unless you consider ~10 bytes a considerable amount of space

  • @Elara_____
    @Elara_____ 2 роки тому +34

    The Krzyhau reference killed me.

  • @archerthereal
    @archerthereal 2 роки тому

    pog

  • @thealyxvancehalflife
    @thealyxvancehalflife 2 роки тому +496

    Cave Johnson here, turns out grass is a good portal conductor.

    • @name7692
      @name7692 2 роки тому +68

      so we didnt have to buy that many moon rocks?

    • @EMLtheViewer
      @EMLtheViewer 2 роки тому +57

      Hey Cave Johnson, have you ever investigated the portal conductivity of lemons?

    • @thealyxvancehalflife
      @thealyxvancehalflife 2 роки тому +51

      @@EMLtheViewer WHAT, WE NEED TO TRY THAT NOW!

    • @Strike2-9245
      @Strike2-9245 2 роки тому

      so uh, you died to grass poisoning?

    • @jworsley8358
      @jworsley8358 2 роки тому +17

      If you didn’t say this comment in cave Jonhsens voice you violated the law

  • @wta1518
    @wta1518 2 роки тому +317

    The reason why grass can support portals (I think) is that the default is that a surface can support them, but some textures have it specifically disabled. My evidence for this is that the Half-Life 2 textures all support portals.

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому +92

      correct.
      Edit: well, to some extent. Displacement textures are portalable by default, which is what grass and other debris is typically made of.

    • @Nikyou1
      @Nikyou1 2 роки тому +31

      I watched Portal dev's commentary on Portal 1 speedrun and they said that it was the case for Portal 1 (and I guess Half Life 2 as they were developed in parallel) as a result, speedrunners could use portals out of bounds. But in Portal 2 by default, a surface is not portable, so I think it is some oversight.

  • @suola_
    @suola_ 2 роки тому +122

    11:11 you have to look straight down when going through the floor portal to fix it. Msushi just lost a good pace to not looking straight down

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому +47

      welp, it's not like that would've been possible here anyway lol

    • @suola_
      @suola_ 2 роки тому +6

      @@PortalRunner mhm

  • @MissFazzington
    @MissFazzington 2 роки тому +134

    Now get ready for 'Can i beat portal without moving my mouse or doing a single click during the entire game?!'

    • @wta1518
      @wta1518 2 роки тому +16

      Portal 2 but I can't play Portal 2.

    • @AnimationJ
      @AnimationJ 2 роки тому +5

      @@wta1518 play portal 1

    • @MissFazzington
      @MissFazzington 2 роки тому +1

      @@sedme0 lmao

    • @wta1518
      @wta1518 2 роки тому +4

      @@sedme0 or by binding them all to a piano

    • @FireStone712
      @FireStone712 2 роки тому +2

      easy just play on steam deck

  • @ewan1165
    @ewan1165 2 роки тому +114

    That guy at 2:30 is so good at the game

    • @BottomOfTheDumpsterFire
      @BottomOfTheDumpsterFire 2 роки тому +6

      I heard he's pretty cool, can anyone confirm or deny?

    • @wolfboy248
      @wolfboy248 2 роки тому +3

      can confirm awesome dude

    • @gingerphoenix10
      @gingerphoenix10 2 роки тому +7

      He has a good gaming chair

    • @VarunGupta3009
      @VarunGupta3009 2 роки тому +16

      TAS is a great player. I hear he has some of the fastest speedruns.

    • @williamtuna5807
      @williamtuna5807 2 роки тому +3

      @@VarunGupta3009 I know! and he speedruns pretty much every game!

  • @Burger40
    @Burger40 2 роки тому +8

    bro, just get the invincibility glitch in wakeup, ez win lmaoooooo

  • @LuigiMan2401
    @LuigiMan2401 Рік тому +3

    Just close your eyes, now you can’t see it

  • @Azzy2935
    @Azzy2935 2 роки тому +14

    you know, i learned a few speedrun tricks from this guy. great video! :)

  • @An18
    @An18 2 роки тому +12

    I didnt know this was possible but then you did it Great job!
    And Good ideas!
    Edit: And such a underated person should get more subs :C

  • @gumballegal
    @gumballegal 2 роки тому +11

    Man you do such high quality content for such a small channel. Rly hope you can grow up!

  • @zzzurb
    @zzzurb 2 роки тому +36

    man you come up with the most insane speedrun ideas

  • @Fupicat
    @Fupicat 2 роки тому +8

    Interesting! That honestly feels like it could be a mechanic for a whole game. In fact, it's almost the same concept for the game Perspective!

  • @thisbox
    @thisbox 2 роки тому +9

    I understand why you might want to use CFG, just it would be nice to at least try going through the chambers without it for some challenges, at least where it otherwise wouldn't be required.
    The difficulty for a lot of these challenges often falls during the last two chapters, and in general, a lot of the challenges just do the same Any% strategy for the last while in the vast majority of runs.
    It's not really interesting as a viewer to just watch you fly to the solution that anyone who has seen one of these challenge runs (or even just a Portal 2 speedrun in general) for a extended period of time already has seen.

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому +2

      I totally understand this, at least since the feedback from the "Portal 2 but it's Celeste" video.
      But I'm not sure if this comment is supposed critiquing this video? At 12:53, I did mention that, while I'm aware and agree with everything you've said in this comment, I also assure you that this mod is not in any way impacted by CFG. Celeste mode? Floor is Lava? Sure, I can easily see why CFG ruins those challenges.
      But as I mention at 14:02, even without CFG, Chapter 8 simply isn't very unique or difficult. You might notice that towards the end of the video, all I really talk about is the impact CFG had on the last 2 chapters. The reason for this is because, while writing the script, I realized that nothing worth mentioning actually happens here. The basic concept and main obstacles in this challenge were already discussed in previous chapters. If anything, CFG breathes some actual life into the script. You could probably tell that I completely skipped over
      most of Chapter 8/9 not because "the difficulty often falls" but because it's just more of the same stuff.
      Here's something that might not be intuitive from a viewer's point of view: while a "difficult" challenge sounds cool, it's not actually fun to watch if there's nothing unique to talk about. What if Chapter 8 was, in fact, significantly more difficult without CFG? Would you rather have me talk about the 100th attempt at shooting a portal, or how the damage mechanics uniquely affected the fly glitch?
      I'm truly sorry if any part of this comes off as rude or condescending. I'm simply very passionate about defending this point, as I believe I have thoroughly thought through the decisions I've made in both the playthrough and the script writing process. But, to summarize my point, I do not believe that avoiding CFG would have been more interesting in this video.

    • @thisbox
      @thisbox 2 роки тому +4

      @@PortalRunner Not referring to this run in particular, but in general, just a common trend that occurred through some challenges can get repetitious at times. I could wait for another time to mention this, but I just wanted to get this thought out sooner or later. It would be neat in other challenges where CFG is a bigger change in route to see more grounded routes, rather than some challenge's gimmick being heavily ignored because of one strategy seen in other runs before.

  • @towelie9073
    @towelie9073 2 роки тому +3

    could you like tp do a video on hidden/speedrun mechanics in Portal?

  • @Bigwings2043
    @Bigwings2043 2 роки тому +3

    I don’t know if you have a big enough fan base to do this, but it your viewers could make custom levels for you to play that would be really cool

  • @yorn4286
    @yorn4286 2 роки тому +4

    You almost have 10k subscriber’s. I hope more people will discover this beautiful channel. Loving the content, keep up the good work!

  • @ashisharky
    @ashisharky 10 місяців тому +1

    4:01 in fact the threshold is so big that the game basically considers a portal being in view at all enough to funnel in a lot of cases.

  • @wolfer8639
    @wolfer8639 2 роки тому +3

    Super entertaining and fun video!! Well done^^
    Do you have any intentions to make tutorials on speedrunning tech? Your commentary and pacing is great and I feel like you'd do an amazing job with teaching tricks!! ofc this might be something you don't want to do, which in that case, do you have any recommendations on how or where to learn? tyyy

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks!
      "Can't Even" has a playlist of speedrun tutorials on his channel. Some stuff is outdated, but it's good as a starting ground.
      That said, I don't really have any plans to do a tutorial myself. But who knows? If there's demand, I might.

  • @8is
    @8is 2 роки тому +4

    Great content :D

  • @stacksmasherninja7266
    @stacksmasherninja7266 2 роки тому +3

    What a great idea ! Can you share the mod ? Would love to try this myself as well. Also thanks for the captions !

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому

      The mod would have to be rebuilt to work on the newer versions of Portal 2, sorry. Recent updates broke it. I might do that eventually.

    • @stacksmasherninja7266
      @stacksmasherninja7266 2 роки тому

      @@PortalRunner that's a bummer.

    • @bipinnambiar
      @bipinnambiar 11 місяців тому

      Portal 2 updates?

  • @Jacob9335wastaken
    @Jacob9335wastaken 2 роки тому +4

    This was very interesting!

  • @korjezilla
    @korjezilla 2 роки тому +3

    Best content, biggest fan!!

  • @SkyeTheFennec
    @SkyeTheFennec 2 роки тому +1

    2:30 ahh yes, someone who plays fps games alright. only experience i have with flicking is through surfing and a really obscure roblox rhythm game called sound space. thats about it for me lmao

  • @Iron_Soil
    @Iron_Soil 8 місяців тому +1

    Portal 2 but ur racist
    Now do the opposite

  • @TimeIsImportant
    @TimeIsImportant Рік тому +1

    Portal 2 Twitter edition

  • @aurelpozer8325
    @aurelpozer8325 2 роки тому +1

    Just close your eyes.

  • @lol_cerdef
    @lol_cerdef 2 роки тому +2

    What isn’t the moon a portable surface

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому +1

      nope! there's a trigger there that just checks if you fire a portal. it doesn't actually try to place one

    • @lol_cerdef
      @lol_cerdef 2 роки тому

      @@PortalRunner ohhh

  • @Idiotcalledren
    @Idiotcalledren 2 роки тому +1

    the racist version of portal

  • @zerotwo6903
    @zerotwo6903 2 роки тому +1

    you should make a mod where it’s possible to beat portal 2 in 0 portals

  • @thecaketubby5764
    @thecaketubby5764 2 роки тому +1

    0:50 isn't that the first part of Portal Era?

  • @JeremyFinch42
    @JeremyFinch42 Рік тому

    Too bad they never got that reflection gel project off the ground. Killed every scientist that knew how to make it when they tried reflecting a laser off of the floor corners.

  • @dragongamerandart
    @dragongamerandart Рік тому

    Simple solution:
    Make a program that doesn’t allow you to look at portalable surfaces

  • @raine6813
    @raine6813 Рік тому

    how is this guy even alive in real life if he can die over 600 times in a video game?

  • @hl_scientist1964
    @hl_scientist1964 2 роки тому

    I have no idea what to do with this red button, can you explain speed man?

  • @Yesletsgo144
    @Yesletsgo144 Рік тому

    8:30 Me : can’t beat Glados 1 and didint know most of these tricks

  • @matveytsarichansky8953
    @matveytsarichansky8953 2 роки тому +1

    now do portal 2 but you shoot from your back.

  • @melon2540
    @melon2540 Рік тому

    To help a bit you could make your mouse sensitivity higher

  • @triggzr7406
    @triggzr7406 2 роки тому

    Bro if u got betsrighter you could beat the game normally😳

  • @Trash7Can
    @Trash7Can 2 роки тому +1

    8:56 The most important moment in the video

  • @Zer0Ax876
    @Zer0Ax876 Рік тому

    Dude how did you unequip the portal gun in the intro

  • @Axel_Mallory
    @Axel_Mallory 2 роки тому +1

    Portal 2 but I can't jump

  • @0x5DA
    @0x5DA 2 роки тому

    "i didnt want to subject my live audience to 10 more minutes of the same cube hop"
    - the guy who spent 8 hours (?) on a 3 gels
    :P

  • @le_epicnoobey4447
    @le_epicnoobey4447 2 роки тому

    "portal 2 but i cant go throught portals"

  • @Muho_is_me
    @Muho_is_me 4 місяці тому

    0:49 wait there is grass in portal?

  • @NobodyThatsIt
    @NobodyThatsIt 2 роки тому

    7:48 somehow softlocked there by jumping away from the trigger. Idk how I did it.

  • @lukegoslow1257
    @lukegoslow1257 2 роки тому

    Ngl when you said your angle was slowly drifting I was like “dude just go through the floor por- oh”

  • @desmondkuehn
    @desmondkuehn 2 роки тому

    Grass is portalable for a very unintentional reason. Any surface without a %noportal flag is portalable, and textures from other valve games without said flag are all portalable, because they don't have %noportal markings.

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому

      That would be true for Portal 1, but not for Portal 2, where surfaces are non-portalable by default. Grass is portalable because it's a displacement. Displacement textures are exceptions to the rule and are typically portalable unless specified otherwise.

    • @desmondkuehn
      @desmondkuehn 2 роки тому

      @@PortalRunner surfaces are portalable by default in P2. The P2CE team once considered making everything portalable by default but scrapped the idea because of base P2.

  • @IgnatYT612
    @IgnatYT612 Місяць тому

    1:41 small portals :3

  • @adamscarsandstuff4969
    @adamscarsandstuff4969 2 місяці тому

    Portal but racism

  • @connor9376
    @connor9376 Рік тому

    your not bad at the game...

  • @cj_crew
    @cj_crew 9 місяців тому

    Just close your eyes bruh

  • @mcdonalds_coke
    @mcdonalds_coke 2 роки тому +1

    ayo?

  • @SockenFuB
    @SockenFuB 2 роки тому +1

    Ok

  • @samuels1123
    @samuels1123 2 роки тому

    Man is forced to die to pancake skip as punishment for his pancake related sins

  • @vmohammad
    @vmohammad 2 роки тому

    but the moon is a portable surface and its kind of not a cutscene

  • @Screenwriter318
    @Screenwriter318 2 роки тому

    Plot twist: in portal 2 you were actually the Black Guy

  • @jasyak2
    @jasyak2 2 роки тому

    The moon is a portalable surface.

  • @ThrowTop
    @ThrowTop 2 роки тому +2

    Gamin

  • @mak993
    @mak993 2 роки тому

    You can't even complete it because there's moon

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому +3

      the game doesn't consider the moon portalable. it just kinda checks if you shot a portal at it and starts the cutscene as soon as you do

  • @PancakeTAS
    @PancakeTAS 2 роки тому

    funny subscribe reminder, funny ending, funny guy, good video

  • @Lucks-man
    @Lucks-man Рік тому

    Use lemons

  • @rubix_44
    @rubix_44 2 роки тому

    The fact that this man doesn’t have more that 10000 subs is criminal

  • @shakewell42
    @shakewell42 2 роки тому

    mmmmoon grass

  • @Nixll_
    @Nixll_ Рік тому

    nice video

  • @triniasta
    @triniasta Рік тому

    racism

  • @maxinemaxie_
    @maxinemaxie_ 2 роки тому

    ...oh god

  • @tobiaskoran6787
    @tobiaskoran6787 2 роки тому

    "A portalable surface is any material normally capable of holding a portal"
    *doesn't die when looking at conversion gel or the Moon*

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому

      Any material, yes. I explain the conversion gel in the video - it doesn't change the material of the wall. It simply, well, adds paint. And about the moon - check the pinned comment.

    • @tobiaskoran6787
      @tobiaskoran6787 2 роки тому +2

      @@PortalRunner oh wow guess I did the standard YT thing where I just write an angry comment and go away

  • @tristandavidbowen7003
    @tristandavidbowen7003 2 місяці тому

    6.9/10

  • @theairacobra
    @theairacobra 2 роки тому

    beat portal using a pringles can

  • @PstrywBerryVids
    @PstrywBerryVids Рік тому

    0:48 Is this Portal Era Part 1?

  • @AzureWoof
    @AzureWoof 2 роки тому

    portal 2 but you're a twitter user

  • @theangryepicbanana
    @theangryepicbanana 2 роки тому

    yo I remember you streaming this

  • @joelknuf
    @joelknuf Рік тому

    What about white gel?

    • @cristhianycarmo
      @cristhianycarmo Рік тому

      I think it has no texture just a color that valve slapped i think

  • @marluna_x
    @marluna_x 2 роки тому

    perfect 9k subs, nice!

  • @logda6836
    @logda6836 2 роки тому

    Why didn’t you do betsrighter, the challenge would be free if you did

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому +1

      the video would be one minute long.

    • @korjezilla
      @korjezilla 2 роки тому +1

      You forgot to read the title before watching this video x)

    • @ansisg
      @ansisg 2 роки тому +1

      😐

  • @Logamon
    @Logamon 2 роки тому

    Hello world

  • @Pop4484
    @Pop4484 2 роки тому

    Another cool video!

  • @Mostawesomepablo
    @Mostawesomepablo 2 роки тому

    impossible

  • @racctoons
    @racctoons Рік тому

    in an alternate reality you did betsrighter and got invincibility

  • @NotTypeSafe
    @NotTypeSafe 2 роки тому

    pog vid

  • @NotASpyReally
    @NotASpyReally 2 роки тому

    8:56 Is this a reference to "Guys there's something wrong with my test chamber" by Krzyhau?

  • @GlitchyOfficial
    @GlitchyOfficial Рік тому

    4:40 you could just do the wakeup skip to get invisibility ..

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  Рік тому +2

      i see you’d prefer the video was 5 minutes long

    • @GlitchyOfficial
      @GlitchyOfficial Рік тому

      @PortalRunner yes, your videos are good, but a little bit too long but its still entertaining tbh to watch somebody do a challenge that would've been thought impossible to do.

  • @h2ugomex
    @h2ugomex 2 роки тому

    wait is this the guy who voices the core in stories:mel? if not their voices are super similar lol

    • @Sovereign_Toadstool
      @Sovereign_Toadstool Рік тому

      If thats the case, that explains why his voice sounds familiar! I just beat Mel two days ago!

  • @ORIONVIIXI
    @ORIONVIIXI 2 роки тому

    that's racist

  • @gingerphoenix10
    @gingerphoenix10 2 роки тому

    Now enable portal_placement_never_fail. You can’t look at anything

    • @PortalRunner
      @PortalRunner  2 роки тому

      "What counts as portalable is any material that is normally capable of holding a portal." - Key word being "normally"

    • @gingerphoenix10
      @gingerphoenix10 2 роки тому

      @@PortalRunner oh yeah, forgot about that