Thread: Portal 2 / Episode 3 - Valve is fucking with us

This is awesome, I haven't seen it before. Thanks Marvo.

I think Valve said they won't be giving us anything about Ep3 and portal in 2010, which made people quite pissed. But seeing these things makes me wonder if perhaps it's just that they are doing "their thing" again, which would be pretty awesome. On the other hand they may just be doing this to compensate the fans after getting caught in their standard practice of "Valve time" with all the delays. Anyway, all other game developer companies are so distant and "commercial", but Valve just has this wierd way of doing things and connecting to their fanbase. Makes me all excited about HL again.

Oh and did you see the chicken robot from Portal 1 in those pictures? very cool.

The Game Developer's Conference (GDC) starts in a few days. Valve will most likely make an announcement on there.

L4D 3

I. Can't. Wait.

I'm glad they decided to do something interesting with the upcoming release...

The GDC is on March 11th.

You can check out the Steam Forums for a link to an IRC server where everything is being talked about.

Right now, we just have to leave all the puzzle solving to the guys with the BBC equipment. Also, do not call the number if you find it. You'll only be getting in the way.

Here is the link to the Steam Portal forums.

Check it constantly because people are finding things every 30 seconds. I've found a couple things myself.

Originally Posted by Bonsay

This is awesome, I haven't seen it before. Thanks Marvo.

I think Valve said they won't be giving us anything about Ep3 and portal in 2010, which made people quite pissed. But seeing these things makes me wonder if perhaps it's just that they are doing "their thing" again, which would be pretty awesome. On the other hand they may just be doing this to compensate the fans after getting caught in their standard practice of "Valve time" with all the delays. Anyway, all other game developer companies are so distant and "commercial", but Valve just has this wierd way of doing things and connecting to their fanbase. Makes me all excited about HL again.

Oh and did you see the chicken robot from Portal 1 in those pictures? very cool.

Valve hasn't said anything at all about Ep3.

We can only hope they say something during the GDC or E3, which E3 is in June.

However, I would believe they will most likely talk about The Passing, which is the Left 4 Dead 2 DLC that is supposed to have both the L4D Survivors meet up with the L4D2 Survivors.

I followed the Steam forums for a few hours and concluded that nothing new is gonna show up. Most of the time people are just hunting ghosts. Some went as far as calling complete strangers who happened to own websites that seemed related to Portal, and ask them obscure questions.

Right now I'm just sitting back and checking the SA thread+Steam forums every couple of hours.

Apparently another update has been released to Portal, supposedly adding 11 new files, 2 of which have been found so far.

Originally Posted by Marvo

Apparently another update has been released to Portal, supposedly adding 11 new files, 2 of which have been found so far.

One of the updates is in the map escape_02. After you kill GLaDOS, listen to what happens.

This is something that you have to hear for yourself.

Just load up the game, type in map escape_02, then sv_cheats 1, noclip to the hallway just before fighting GLaDOS, turn off noclip and sv_cheats 1, kill GLaDOS, then wait.

You will seriously go "WTF"