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Portal Multiplayer.
AbsoluteZero \| 10:26 AM on 02.09.2008	13 comments

So Kim Swift the project leader for the origonal Portal has mentioned to MTV about a Multi-player mode for Portal(2) I'm wondering if this will be an expansion via Blueshift/TFC. Even so I don't understand the way in which you could have a working multi-player experience with Portal. Unless you include weapons, which I for one think would be lame. I liked the fact that all you had was your portal gun and your wits to survive in the android hell. And the idea of creating a portal and then trying to chase an enemy with another portal gun frankly warps my little brain. I mean I was bothered enough by chasing myself through the same room forever. But to perhaps have an enemy cover your exit portal with another enter portal...what the hell? Would you eternally enter the portal but not exit until a new exit portal was made somewhere else? ew. I need more coffee now.

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10 comments | showing # 1 to 10

TMX-RockMan

I think the only way that could work is if you tried to get the other person to fall into a pit of fire or something or it could be like steal the bacon (in this case cake) and you had the only weapon you could have is melee and the portal gun?

WDot

Well, imagine portalling your enemies into turret traps or acid pits. It could simply be a mess of portals trying to lead you to your doom. That said, th ere would need to be some optimization, because two portals alone can slow down a computer slightly, imagine 50.

notdryad

They should just stay away from multiplayer all together. There are PLENTY of options for people who want multiplayer on either PC, 360, or PS3. Just make another Portal game with a single player that is at least as good as the first, if not better.

PacoDG

As long as the single player doesn't suck, I open whatever ideas they have for multiplayer with open arms. If they stick with straight up deathmatches, that might actually still work, as long as some turrets and companion cubes are spread out nicely among very nice levels, im set. But I am sure they have something else already cooked up for multiplayer using the portal gun that is going to surprise everyone.

I am just hopeful is all.

Eschatos

HL2 deathmatch with portals would be pretty awesome.

ShadokatRegn

Or a race. Race to the finish, loser burns and dies and gets no cakes.

Hopefully as PacoDG said, they don't rape the single player in response to the multiplayer...that would make me sad.

CaffeinePowered

You cant do it with more than 6 - 8 people, they've tried doing it in Gary's Mod, just way to much lag, a lot of calculations and processor power goes into physics predictions going through portals.

This isn't a problem if only one or two people is allowed a portal gun, but the more people that have it, it creates some insane lag, especially if you have portals lined up in some sequence with exits from one player's gun leading to entrances of another's portals.

notdryad

@ShadokatRegn

A race could be pretty fun but I think the best way to do would be randomized maps. It would keep people on their toes and keep the game fresh.

angusm

maybe it'll just be co op.
co op could work cool.

Wedge

Co-op portal would be epic, and really open up the puzzle possibilities a lot more. That HAS to be what they do.

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