Portal 2 News

This Portal 2 mod is basically Portal 3

Time marches ever onward, and soon we will all be dust. Portal 2 turned ten this week, and one modder celebrated by releasing Portal Reloaded, a fan-sequel to the puzzle game that brings in elements of Titanfall 2.

In Portal Reloaded, you've another 25 Aperture Science maps to navigate and solve, except this time, the solutions are stretched across time, as well as space. Your portal gun now has a third, green option, that opens a door 20 years into the future, and you'll need both timelines to find your way out, not too far removed from the timeline jumping in Respawn Entertainment's FPS game sequel.

The mod was created by one person, Jannis, and on the official site, he writes that this is aimed at "portal veterans" who want to push the mechanics of the series. "The mechanics of Portal Reloaded can seem complicated at first, but the mod tries its best to explain them in a slow and engaging way with some relatively simple puzzles," he writes. "However, the mod also wants to push its concepts to their limits and explore many new and interesting ways of puzzle solving." In the launch trailer below, you can see some real M. C. Escher-like mind-bending design at work, capturing the scale of Valve's own levels across the two base games.

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The Portal Reloaded mod adds a time travel portal and 25 new puzzles

Portal 2 has just turned ten years old, and what better way to celebrate than by adding some extra head scratchers to Valve's tricky puzzle box? Portal Reloaded is a Portal 2 mod that adds 25 new puzzles and a brand new type of portal. This new, green portal lets expert portalers travel 20 years in the future and solve Aperture Science rooms across both space and time.

Portal 2 - Update

An update has been released for Portal 2 game and authoring tools:

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug with broken voice overs in languages that have voice localizations (Russian, French, Spanish and German)
- Fixed the audio settings being unusable in languages other than English
- Compiled cubemaps on a3_crazy_box
- Fixed a bug with broken text on the PeTI map selection
- Potentially fixed motion pack DLC failing to launch

Portal 2 gets more DXVK Vulkan improvements with another update

Valve's fantastic first-person puzzle game Portal 2 recently had a huge upgrade that pulled in DXVK giving it Vulkan support, with another update out now to further improve it.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/03/portal-2-gets-more-dxvk-vulkan-improvements-with-another-update

Portal 2 - Update

An update has been released for Portal 2.

Improvements:
  - Improved Vulkan implementation
    - Overall performance improvements
    - Massively improved performance with Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) on AMD
  - Made the intro video skippable by any button on a Steam Controller
  - Added controller glpyhs to the main menu when using a controller
Bug Fixes:
  - Fixed the Super 8 teaser not playing on Linux
  - Fixed certain Unicode characters being displayed as garbage on Linux
  - Fixed text corruption in the challenge mode UI on Linux
  - Fixed a crash that could occur wrt. networking on Linux
  - Fixed the text color in advanced video settings not respecting the dark panel UI variant
  - Fixed Model/Texture detail defaulting to Low in Vulkan mode
  - Fixed the challenge mode timer being cut off
  - Fixed a crash after trying to play a demo without having the respective map
  - Fixed a crash when trying to load invalid VPKs