Portal Glitches Volume 2: Chell's Suicide

[AllynEntertainment]

Hmmm.... weird. The Portal guys even said (during the commentary mode) that portals aren't dangerous. Either you stay where you are or you get pushed to the other side. (I know this is a glitch, just worth noting)

[Foxhack]

@AllynEntertainment Portal has a commentary mode?

(Serious question, I haven't played the game in years.)

[AllynEntertainment]

@Foxhack Yeah, for Portal 1 and 2. In the menu there is New game, Load Game, and Commentary Mode (along with options and the other menu items.)

[LB725C]

@AllynEntertainment Pushing out...into a wall? Sounds like crush damage and not portal damage.

[mjstudley]

RFOL

[WheatleysAwsome]

I've done that before

[Bisqwit]

Actually I think the game replaced Chell where it calculated her to physically be, which is the nearest space beneath the portal (because she was submerged in the portal, and because it was smart enough to find space rather than settle for the solid mass as Chell's location), so it can thereafter safely recalculate how she is now overlapping with the portal after the portal is replaced. Unfortunately, the space was too narrow for her standing position, so the game assumed she was squished dead.

[Iceroozer]

evil person

[zombiepeepz]

it's cause you die when u get shot with the portal gun

[Yourconscience325]

Correction. Now, when Valve were making the game, they were faced with the problem or cutting yourself in half by standing in a portal and shooting another. The answer was to push Chell out of the portal. What happened here was you were pushed out but then you were crushed due to the confined space. That is why you died.

[SoLSn1p3r]

@Yourconscience325 Science is fun, isn't it?

[Yourconscience325]

@SoLSn1p3r Yes it is. I am quite interested in science and how things work. That's why I went to Dev commentary. Quite interesting infact :P

[gudenaurock]

I almost died in the starting room with the radio. :-)

[zachman329]

i like it when people dont show an intro

[NerfTwins1337]

I done this is in an actual testchamber. I wasd doing the portal next to the other Uppy down thing, Then i shot a portal elsewhere and died. I was like 'OMGWTFBBQ'

[RCT3rox]

100% less - dead - chell.

FAIL

[Ninjakittyguy]

(slow clap processor)

[PatoneLol]

42. The device should not be used for suicidal purposes.

[gamerdude260]

I swear i heard coughing when she died

[Foxhack]

@robloxdude0103 DAMMIT NO SPOILERS I'M DELETING THIS COMMENT.

I DON'T HAVE PORTAL 2.

[minhmook]

Why was there a core?

[amythemistcat]

I never even thought to try that.

[Tuskin38]

When I tried doing this, i didn't die but I did get stuck in the geometry and had to reload.

[mariojacksonmoonwalk]

I'm the 100th person to rate this! What do I win?

[kindereggbob]

@mariojacksonmoonwalk nothing.....how exiting:D

[WhatsThisBLIDontEven]

@mariojacksonmoonwalk *slow clap* Unbelievable. You [mariojacksonmoonwalk's name here] must be the pride of [mariojacksonmoonwalk's hometown here].

[xweert711]

Hey you do realise that the portals close when you die right?

[shakenmikeg14]

so cutting chell in half is suicide? HOW CONFUSING

[Foxhack]

@shakenmikeg14 I AM CHELL.

AND SO ARE YOU.

[12Insomniac]

@Foxhack Hey! I replied to your comment! Whaddya think?

[XPLODAZ101]

@Foxhack AND I AM GLADOS :3

[willku9000]

@XPLODAZ101 yeah RIGHT, and I'm Wheatley :3

[XPLODAZ101]

@willku9000 AND I AM CAKE :3

[mrsubject1]

you sound like the guys from everybody love ray

[DevineCaesar]

(cont from Part 1 Vid) In the Game Chell is meant to be in 2 places at once but as I explained in the last vid comments, in reality she is not. In your last video you severed the portal that she was standing in and her midpoint decided which she should be expelled through. In this video you sever the other portal and by default she is expelled through the portal she is standing in, and that causes a collision between her head and the floor and as I said she dies upon collision with her head

[stia4]

I didn't know her name was chell

[ubercoolist]

if u use yellow u die

[DarkTenka]

They way I understand it .. the 2 portal's glitched and the games "failsafe" just made them dissapear .. leaving you INSIDE the wall. Many game failsafe's for being inside a wall will just kill you to save from failed collision detection or things like that.

[livepower34325]

Listen to Glados, damnet!

"Do not look directly into the Device."

[dazzarox515]

can you show us in third person mode? or anyone else. that would be cool.

[Foxhack]

@dazzarox515 Hm... I would if I could. My current video card can barely run this game. Apologies. :(

[darklanky]

@dazzarox515 i got a video of me doin some trippy shit with portal using 3rd person :)

[MissingCamcorder]

what exactly does happen in the game when you die? I mean, does it say "try again" or anything, and what does the screen look like when you die?

[Foxhack]

@MissingCamcorder The screen flashes red, and you can't move anymore. All you can do is look around until you press a key, then the game loads your last save, quicksave, or the last autosave (whichever happened first).

So basically, what happens in the video. That's it. No game overs or anything.

[Yelkwood9]

@Foxhack

just like half-life

[DarkusRelling]

Valve made it so that you wouldn't get killed by teleporting you out of the portal, but since you put another portal somewhere else, you got crushed by the concrete.

[SickBritKid]

Shouldn't Chell's feet have been sticking out of the other portal?

[m034lif3]

you sound like raymond from everybody loves raymond :D

[TheSPARTANJ13]

I thought the development team said that they wouldn't kill anyone who was in aportal when one side changed locations.

[LoadedWingshot]

portals have a force, a force to push out, and this glitch somehow multiplies that force, causing damage, causing death

[Alphabasicnumeric]

She did the job GLaDOS wanted to do anyway

[Asdd445]

Actually,Chell got squished.usually the game pushes you or even teleports you(scares me!),but it thought " I'll push chell. " but there was no room,chell.dead=True

[FlammaMan]

Well at least the glitch makes some sort of sense, like you said, the Portal could of cut her in half and looking at it now, it would make sense.

[dracosummoner]

Someday we'll look back on this And laugh And laugh And laugh ... or at least I will ... ^_^

[iceyflames7]

Well actually the portals tried pushing you out, but then squished you against the wall or floor.

[Bfahome]

@iceyflames7 Yeah, really.  She didn't get cut in half, just forced into the floor rather hard.

[Foxhack]

@DJRozwell Well, why did you waste how many hours of your life life making this comment?

[DJRozwell]

@Foxhack Umad bro?

[Foxhack]

@DJRozwell No, just a wee bit crazy.

[LPZeroEnna]

Doesn't the portal close a split second when its reforming?

[Scipiz0a]

do you know how to spawn the curioisity core on any map you want?? :)

[Foxhack]

@Scipiz0a Uh... no. Sorry.

[TheWillster14]

@Scipiz0a yes!yes!yes!

[azaz00]

the better way to divide by zero :D

[XR11995]

GLaDOS: This interdimentional gates have proven to be completely safe"

and she lied again...

[Patacorow]

"I cut Chell in half!!"

You must've been proud.

[AZNFlipy12]

i think this isnt a glitch cause this is the party submission position and i got the achievement for it

[12e444]

Tia time the platform for some reson took in a difrent property an killed u or the portal stressed out and severs ur bodey [I duck at explaning srry]

[esfelectra]

you dint die

you made the universe explode

lol ^_^

[BunnyBou66]

so cool.

I mean when you die u still have the portal gun.

but you dont have it.

wow.

thanks!

[Brickey8]

When a game is literally ''about'' teleporters which you can relocate at a whim and are treated as being as thorough as these are, it's saying something that it takes this much work to find a way to telefrag yourself.

[ArfJason]

@Brickey8 It really goes to show how much care they put into the engine. It's pretty damn impressive.

[outhacku]

Well, ya know, you could do that, or, you could type in Kill in the console box. XD

[HamachiRules]

Guys listen the cake is not a lie!!! It is chocolatey, delicious, and made of companion cube babies...what?

[mrsnubeh]

NUUUUUUU D:

[HamachiRules]

YESSSSSSSSSSS :D

[mrsnubeh]

NUUUUUU D:

[TeamMemberStudios]

Close, it's made of needle injectors and rhubarb.

[HamachiRules]

And companion cube babies

[ultra1super1pancakes]

i always thought her name was pronounced shell...... hmmm

[ubercheesypenguin]

me too :S

[invaderzimrox28]

Uh oh. Somebody cut Chel-- i mean.. the cake.

[JamesJimRaynor]

Don't the portals automatically go off if you die?

[orkagan]

i can cut cheese now!

[shadowg3]

cheese is lie

[RoscoMalosco]

Maddox...?

[Eagle0600]

I think that was a collision glitch. I don't think the game cuts Chell in half.

[GEEKNACH0]

Same thing happened to me at that same spot. The game developers wanted to make portals safe, so that they couldn't kill you. So, when a portal closes while you are into it, you get tossed out. What happens here is that there's no room for you to move, so, you get crushed.

[Scatertom1]

@GEEKNACH0 smartass :D

no offense of course :P

[MyScorpion42]

@GEEKNACH0 But you can't get crushed by static walls, can you?

[FreakinOcelot]

something like it happend to me with a test camera, i put 2 portal next to each other, let if fall, and shoot the portals randomly all over the floor, the cam kept stuck in the floor without a portal, and it slowly came up from the floor!

[Foxhack]

Yeah, becaues using cheats doesn't cause any bugs!

[Zanmatt2g]

It's not a glitch... Half of her body was in a portal so when you turned it off a half of her body was severed

[Ziiiv]

That would make sense if it weren't for the fact that doing that in most other cases just pushes you out of the recently closed portal.

[Zanmatt2g]

I don't know why I got thumbs down for that! If both halves of her body were teleported to differant places then she would of been cut in half! That's what severed means, Youtube!

[theyoungster2]

but where to push you? you're split in half by a portal, and the game probably can't decide which way to push you out. the game ALSO can't make you duck out of the portal.

[iparty999]

the portal cut her in half when it changed locations, it would make no since if her legs werent cut off or placed in somewhere random in the universe

[roytheshort]

Sliced Chell in half.

I wonder what would happen if you done that to a turret?

[adamnguyen98]

she got cut in haft because there was only 1 portal for 1 second and only haft of the body would survive because its outside of the portal its like if u enter a portal but it doesnt have a destination you would be trapped and die

[DaBakerOfCake]

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "shell" like a short way to say Michelle instead of CHell

[Foxhack]

Yeah well, I have an excuse. English ain't my first language, seenor. ;p

[Slayerlamby]

you polish?

[Foxhack]

Mexican.

[leafbarrett]

@Foxhack Really? Could have fooled me. o.o

[isaaccade]

your portals are gone cause your dead T.T

[GazDaRaz]

u got 4 portals u get 2 on the botem and 2 on top ?????

[invertin]

The crouching + portal part was designed really badly anyway. Seriously, put two portals in the ceiling and stick your head through one- Look! It's your face OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR EYES

[765tgbvc]

EHY EHY cheels doesnt die by splitting in 2, but she get pushed toward the ceiling and smashed , portals infact dont cut objects when closed, but push them out

[RapSpecter40]

Now you're thinking with portal's!

[pikachu11214]

and they say only the machine was unsafe

[silentninya]

yeah because you cut her in half when you open the other portal

[Perprivateer]

when u shoot the other portal you rip her

[infinitycontrol]

how do u know her name is chell

[ISoloedChuckNorris]

It says it in the Developer Comments

[brutaka359]

So that means GLaDOS promised chell a cake made out of another test subject!!! :O

[Zappedj9]

whoa! glados said portals were harmless in the begining! But of corse, she lied. AGAIN.

[pyruscollectorx]

@Zappedj9 no, she just inhanced the truth

[thingymuwatsit]

@Zappedj9

"Do not look directly at the operating end of th device, do not submerge the device (even parially) in water, and never, ever *static*

[zwinkygirl789]

@Zappedj9 Buuuttt therrrreeee reeeeaallllllyyyyy wwwwaassssss a caaaaakkkkeeeee....

[MusicAndHorses4ever]

@zwinkygirl789 But you didn't get to eat iiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttttt­!!! D:

[GamerzHideaway]

@Zappedj9 Sounds like my ex girlfriend. Seriously, she was a chronic liar.

[Ghostkid825]

I can understand the part about being cut in half. But the game automatically closes both portals whenever Chell dies.

[DragonSparks]

another way to do this without dieing is cool. the room after this that is beyond the chain fence, start a portal there, next go back to the 1 foot thick concrete and finish the portal on the bottom the concrete and stand up thru it where you are now standing is the next room, now shoot the close the portal you stood up thru closing off your legs, you wont die but the concrete slab will disappear and youll be stuck

[azureVinh]

my gosh, the portal cut her in half!

[alrgic2normality]

for the first one, when you shoot the portal, youre looking into the end of the gun. at the very beginning it specifically says not to haha

obviously this is not the case, but its a good explanation.

[wateva990]

ZOMG u got chopped in half :O

love Portal glitched, there so much funner than any other games glitches

Portal 2 soon!!

[Tsubxa]

Now you are stuck in the floor

=D

hahaha

[recker24]

in reality, this is the way it should be all the time. The way the game was developed is the glitch. That portal Should slice you in half.

[Xtermin8ter]

lets cook her now :D

[larryelpepinomalo]

That's not a glitch. That's called "physics". If you pay attention properly, the portal closes for a split second when you shoot another one, causing you to become sliced in half if you're standing in the middle of one.

As for your first video, that looks like a problem with your computer, because I've done that exact thing loads of times, and it's never glitched like that.

The end.

[Foxhack]

Uh huh. It's a glitch. I've done this in other points in the game (while solving puzzles, even) and it NEVER kills me. So why does it do it here?

And the first glitch still happens to this day. I doubt it's "my computer" because other people have mentioned it happen to them as well.

[SMGPlayer]

They even said in the developer commentary that they did not want to kill players when they go into portals.

[PokefanLoojopop]

to SMGPlayer: If its a glitch, the developer comentary doesn't apply becuse they didn't intentionally PROGRAM the glitch into the game!

Personally I think, glitch or not, this is still pretty cool to watch. :)

[SMGPlayer]

I meant to say that this is a glitch because they didn't ever want players to die from portals. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

[Aranica]

Interesting...Valve made it so that the player would get shifted to one side of the portal if the portal was changed. Never knew that you could actually do something like this.

[TheSecondWaterman]

Well, Thats what happens if its on a wall. When its on the ceiling and you have another in the other, Theres nowhere for you to shift you down, Thus compressing you, Or "Cutting Chell in half" and killing you.

And plus, The programmers didnt completely fix that if you know what the shoot a portal while in a portal glich is.

[klakkid]

lulz "i promise my next video will contain less mutilated chell"

i almost choked on my candy laughing XD

[ZakeirSnake]

omigosh I was wondering what happened, cut herself in half! well no wonder! XD

[Mikey6193]

you cant see the portals because they disapate [disserper] because the portal gun isnt in use

[robofrog523]

maybe its because when your head pops up on any portal there making a new one causes you to die because your upside down.

[klakkid]

you.... got sliced in half 0.o

[Foxhack]

Aperture Science should advertise this as a weight-loss system.

LOSE HALF YOUR WEIGHT IN SIX SECONDS!

[klakkid]

haha lulz

"side effects may involve execive blood loss, extreme discomfort or pain, and death."

[klakkid]

and another thing, portals always dissapear when u die. u just closed the portal while u were still in it ;D

[DJacKnifeAlpha]

where does it say that her name is Chell?

[klakkid]

credits

"Chell- voiced by soandso"

the ONLY place also i think its pronounced shell it could be short for michelle.

[klakkid]

i ment

credit to soandso for the use of her face - chell

[ZachNorik]

They always disappear when you die.

[thebeast1022]

her name is pronounced shell

[Deja564]

that was wank

[j3nningz54]

ur dum this is not a glitch

[Foxhack]

... Wait. The platform vanishing, which in turn caused Chell to freeze and not be able to move isn't a glitch?

What, do you want the game to bluescreen on me or something? Jesus.

[j3nningz54]

well u can do this anywhere and its tarp of the game it said if u look at ur gun u die it moves u in portal and them takes u back at same time then u see ur gun and u die

[Foxhack]

...

You're NOT supposed to be able to do that. This is a glitch. A bug. A programming mistake.

[BloodWake606]

next time you attempt to argue that someone is dumb, use proper English

[StudioBLOX]

Chell:I wounder what happens if I stand in the middle of the red portal and shoot somewhere else...

*slice*Chell:X_X

[MortalPenguin0X]

lol xd

[bradkey98765]

maybe you die is because your standing up in a portal.. then make yourself appear at a place with a waist height ceiling which chops you in half

[reed2slc]

not a glitch.

you need some more knowlage of the the source engine ...

[blackandbluestar]

Where's her legs? D:

[USAJAP1]

GlaDOS lied again. The portals AREN'T SAFE.

[AmericanGirlHope]

Wow, thats a lot of lies for a robot. xP

[zingmars]

well - she was punished in the end!

[PwNeDoScAr]

i think it's funny that Chell"threw" the gun before she died

[cattouchdis]

portals always disapear when you die

[magicoone]

it would be sad if you put two portals down like you did then the dispapeared and you were stuck and your legs came out one and the top of you body in the other lol

[janppachan]

Most of the glitches that happen in that area are most likely caused by the fact that you're standing on the ground but your upper body comes down from the ceiling. The game just can't figure it out.

[ryujisan]

u shoot another portal while standing in a portal, thats what made chell die. literally cut in half.. similar to "telefrag".. is it?

[Foxhack]

Looks like it, yeah. Markevens made a comment like that below.

But it shouldn't happen - I've created new portals while being in one in the past, so it's probably a map glitch or something.

[FedericoS90]

yea, she was cut in half x.x

But you actually can create new portals while being into another, I've done that many times to solve some puzzles. Oh well .P

[Matt23488]

turn the commentary on and one of the bubbles tells you that they fixed it so that you cant be killed if that happens, so it must have been a glitch

[MasterToku]

Turns out your next video wasn't so much mutilated Chell as it was mutated Chell...

[markevens]

You do "cut yourself in half" in this one, which is why both portals disappear (as portals always disappear upon death.) I think this is happening because, very quickly, one portal closes before the new one opens and there is a fraction of a second where only one portal is open. This is when you are being cut in half. Normally you get shoved out, but since you cant, you die.

Again, nice find.