The best thing you'll see today: Portal gun in Half-Life 2

by Christopher Grant { Oct 18th 2007 at 9:20AM }

We'll be honest. We've got it bad. Portal, we're addicted to it. What started off as a fling with the perceived one-night floozy of the Orange Box lineup has turned into a serious long-term relationship. We find ourselves going through the other Orange Box offerings – and real life, we'll be honest – thinking, "Gee, I wish I had the Portal gun here."

Thanks to hard work and years of studying (stay in school, kids) the alchemists at Primotech have transformed blood and sweat into an incredible hack that lets you create portals all over the lovely, quasi-European walls of Half-Life 2's City 17. Some notes: you'll obviously need the PC version, you'll need to follow some dozen steps full of words like "hosing," and you'll want to keep a fresh pair of pants nearby. But before you get to all that, peep the video which is safely contained after the break.

Tags: Half-Life-2, Mod, Portal, Valve

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

a.j. @ Oct 18th 2007 9:24AM

i too have fallen under the Portal spell. the whole Orange Box is superb but that little game gave me one of the best experiences gaming i've had in a long time. here's hoping for some DLC levels down the road. !!!!!!

Royale @ Oct 18th 2007 10:31AM

DLC? heh. PC FTW!

Foggy Bottoms @ Oct 18th 2007 12:31PM

360 devs make DLC for their computer versions too...

oblivion being the only example i can think of at the moment :-/

Odoyle @ Oct 18th 2007 9:25AM

God that makes me happy in my pants. Of course I have to see it right when i get to work.

Mike @ Oct 18th 2007 9:30AM

THIS IS INSANE!!!

copa @ Oct 18th 2007 9:47AM

That was delicious. But I was really wanting to see him open a portal on the floor under the Combine.

And if he was really cruel, make the Combine fall 30,000 feet.

FOXHOUND @ Oct 18th 2007 9:30AM

I love PORTAL like a fat kid loves cake... but man, I am *never* going to play that game as tipsy as I was yesterday. I gave such an offering to the porcelain god...

...no wonder they offer cake and not a cold beer at the end. :\ -cue TF2 fail music-

AlexP @ Oct 18th 2007 9:48AM

Drunk gaming, the drug of lonely fools.

FOXHOUND @ Oct 18th 2007 9:59AM

I wasn't lonely, I had booze. :p

Sean @ Oct 18th 2007 10:24AM

"I wasn't lonely, I had booze."

Amen!

kinshadow @ Oct 18th 2007 12:23PM

The cake is a lie

Shadow Hog @ Oct 18th 2007 9:43AM

I tried this very procedure with gm_construct a few days back. It was pretty weird. Trying it in HL2 itself just takes the cake, though.

Do the cars/boats work? In gm_construct the cars were missing and the boats were bouncing up and down (seriously).

stu @ Oct 18th 2007 9:45AM

In the immortal words of Dr. Frankenfurter... ROCKERS!

Synner @ Oct 18th 2007 9:52AM

I don't know, seems to make HL2 not a lot of fun now. I think the draw of portal to me was in solving puzzles, not using it to chesse my way behind opponents.

smartguy1600 @ Oct 18th 2007 10:24AM

Agreed, but if you consider the idea of using the portal gun in new, specifically designed areas that combine the puzzle solving aspects of Portal with the gunplay of Half Life, then I think you have a winner. That's what I'm hoping Episode 3 will largely be.

Saria the Cat @ Oct 18th 2007 1:55PM

Yeah, makes Half-Life way too easy. Kind of defeats the purpose of being paranoid all the time in FPS, always keeping your back to walls.

Now, imagine how much fun/terrifying/crazy it would be if THEY had portal guns as well. Now we've got something.

Wulf @ Oct 18th 2007 10:01AM

@copa, from the site:

"Sadly, NPC’s and enemies cannot pass through portals. However, almost all ammunition, from bullets shot to grenades tossed to objects flung with the gravity gun, can and will make their way through smoothly. "

Ethan @ Oct 18th 2007 11:56AM

Very inventive, and excellent comic timing (accidental obviously) when he walks, just like "ok then."

WiNG @ Oct 18th 2007 10:00AM

lol awesome!

PC > 360

Also I assume you still take fall damage in HL2, so don't do anything like try to make an infinite loop, or you're in for a world of hurt when you land.

WiNG @ Oct 18th 2007 10:02AM

ahahaha the TRASH CAN scene was the best.

Robobagins @ Oct 18th 2007 10:29AM

I straight up clapped when I saw that. Clapped. That's how it's done!

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Oct 18th 2007 10:10AM

Man Portal is an amazing game. Though I do think its inclusion in Half-Life 2 would make the game much easier.

depl0y @ Oct 18th 2007 1:11PM

Tried it out, but it isn't flawless yet, the portal gun seems buggy in normal Half Life 2 levels and it would be cool if Valve would release a patch where you can just spawn the portal gun in normal HL2 (so you can play a complete game without having to load maps everytime).

Zarim @ Oct 18th 2007 10:56AM

One thing I never understood about HL2 is that a lot of the road signs appear to be in Russian yet everyone speaks English with an American accent.

WiNG @ Oct 18th 2007 11:15AM

Combine supression field.

Psaakyrn @ Oct 18th 2007 11:30AM

Actually, it's more likely because people were translocated there.

Rymix @ Oct 18th 2007 11:06AM

That's the best thing I have ever seen.

blooh (CDF - Nipple Ring) @ Oct 18th 2007 11:13AM

you can't open a port below an enemy and have them fall to their doom? aw man

and that player was using godmode, that's the way to not die from portal falls

Shadow Hog @ Oct 18th 2007 11:50AM

He was running it through Portal itself, IIRC. This means that, despite being in Half-Life 2 levels where everyone will call you Gordon Freeman, you will probably see Chell through the portals, foot braces and all, and also means that, like Portal, falling from really tall heights is not fatal (unless they put an "instant kill" block where you're falling, which is entirely possible).

What you need to do is spawn Weighted Companion Cubes and then use the Gravity Gun to kill the Combine with it. Now THAT is a faithful companion.

blooh (CDF - Nipple Ring) @ Oct 18th 2007 11:58AM

yeah, i read the article. i wonder if you could load the portal gun among other portal resources in hl2, the way they loaded hl2 resources in portal

also, hl2 is awesome. i remember one time i fucked around with the gravity settings enough so that when things got hit they lost their attachment to gravity and floated like in space