#Portal 2 aperture tag mod#

Something I never expected but found interesting was that the fields you walk through which activate/deactivate your gun are used as puzzle elements as well. There are walls that rotate, which youвЂ™ll usually find in speed puzzles. There are a few new elements that you wonвЂ™t find in Portal 2 besides the Paint Gun. With Aperture Tag you could be using the proper solution, but just arenвЂ™t doing it well enough. This is great because it forces you to think outside the box as opposed to Portal 2 where if you saw a solution was just too hard you knew you were probably doing it wrong. Many of the games puzzles solutions are non-linear or have multiple solutions.

#Portal 2 aperture tag mod#

By the time you get to the end of the mod many of your hints are gone. Even with puzzles that rely on hitting certain angles, youвЂ™ll notice that a certain part of a wall may be a different color вЂ“ at least in the beginning. The fun part is figuring out how exactly to get over there. In many of the puzzles, the ultimate solution isnвЂ™t that difficult to figure out I need to get X cube to Y location, and activate Z switch. While Propulsion gel canвЂ™t make an object move, youвЂ™ll find that youвЂ™ll be using Repulsion gel to help move cubes at a distance, deal with turrets that may be in your way, or getting objects out of a tight spot. YouвЂ™ll find yourself setting up Repulsion gel on surfaces at an angle so you can bounce around an obstacle to get to a safe platform while using the Propulsion gel to make sure you get enough momentum to make the bounce in the first place. Aperture Tag brings these back to a degree due to momentum being a huge factor in many of the puzzles. Something I felt that was taken away from Portal 2 were speed and accuracy puzzles in favor of players using controllers. As the game progresses, accuracy becomes more important, as overshooting may end up killing you. Many puzzles deal with figuring out a way to gain enough momentum to propel or bounce yourself to certain locations of the test chamber. YouвЂ™ll need to press buttons in certain orders, get various objects to various switches to open doors, etc. That soon changes when various elements are added. All this is done through game play, so there are no boring tutorials to deal with.Д¬hambers start off simple enough: Start at entrance, get to exit. Players are eased back into the game вЂ“ your first steps back into the facility teach you about dodging turrets, rerouting lasers with cubes, tractor beams and a few other concepts so you wonвЂ™t stumble through your first few puzzles. It was interesting approaching these chambers with a different tool (The Paint Gun), and solving it differently. Speaking of test chambers, while many of them are brand new, you will come across some chambers from Portal 2. You start off with the Repulsion Gel, but it doesnвЂ™t take long before you are using both Repulsion and Propulsion gels in unison to solve the test chambers. Your new tool is the Paint Gun, which allows you to spray the gels on almost any surface. As a refresher, the blue gel is Repulsion Gel, which will allow you to bounce when jumping on it, while the orange gel is Propulsion Gel, which will propel you in whatever direction you are moving. Instead of thinking with portals, this time youвЂ™ll be thinking with gels вЂ“ more specifically the blue and orange gels that were used in Portal 2. Besides understanding the reason why you are back in the Aperture lab, there are no big tie-ins to the co-op or even the primary campaign.

If you have not played through the Portal 2 co-op, there is no need to worry. When I heard about Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing initiative those feelings started to fade away.ДЄperture Tag takes place after the events of the Portal 2 co-op (or at least I think it doesВ ). Still, the fact that there was no single player DLC had me a bit bummed out. Even though no additional single player DLC was released, the multiplayer did a good job of extending the core Portal experience. Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative puts you back in chambers with new tools and ways to solve them.Д«ack in 2011 when Portal 2 was released, it was one of those games that I was sad to see end.