Portal -- Advanced Chamber 18 Solution

[WillT23]

thanks

[sniperdown23]

fuck this chamber

[ZombieKillhouse]

thanks i needed to beat this one for my last one and got the achievement for it!

[kikikiki7]

I managed this room with turrels without beating turrels

[AceS4289]

I managed to get every other test chamber but this one without looking up videos so I feel good. I usually look up videos even without trying them.

[cryptosguns]

Dude can you please answer this question.Iv just completed all advanced maps but none of the achievments have shown it says their,"Cup cake-2/2,Fruit cake-4/4,Crazy vanilla cake6/6. but they are still locked why???????????????/ someone please help and answer.

[unholyraviel1]

cool. im stuck on the last adv one. sucks cause my laptop isnt fast enough to do that last part with the platform goin away lol

[HiveMindFury]

Thanks for the vid, really helped me on the second room =3 couldn't figure that one out XD I was alright on the other bits though =3

[robertmaniac]

i hate this goddam chamber, couldn´t figure out what to do untill i watch the video, now im even more angry because i needed help !!

[DIGIARA]

I hate this song xD

[mptshu]

4:52 OH FUCK! oh well.

[Tuska68]

Thanks!

[DTMidian]

The point in the room with the 4 turrets when you have to launch yourself across to get the cube I did what seemed to me a much easier way than the complicated portal switching I saw here. From the button area I simply waited for the tilted wall to allow me to shoot a portal, then I dropped to the floor and shot my secondary portal which launched me all the way back to the floor where I reshot my secondary portal and that launched me to the cube.

[N0tsaved]

Thanks, dude. And you're awesome at this game :3

[siggie12]

That bit at 3:28 was nuts. Had to watch it three times just to figure out what the hell had happened, haha. Killer skill.

[chirb8]

<3 u

[vincefyre]

great job. I've tried and tried and just can't do it quickly enough

[FireSwordProductions]

this wasn't so hard took me 10 minutes to figure it out

[BlueEXEVideos]

Thank you.

[Bulzurco96]

i used the camera on the wall to take out the second one he took out by flinging it, and i flung myself onto the 3rd turret to kill it then jumped onto the lift and got the botton and cube.

[MeteoricDragon]

That's cool, I detached the camera from the wall, and used it as a projectile to knock over one of the turrets.

[ES7upyours]

this took me hours to figure out

[xixRASBERRYxix]

Hey man thanks, This vid helped a lot!

[skylastarry]

The only credits I could be bothered to read. Entertaining :D

[Bookeydude]

The platform you are on at 2:54 got a blind spot to the button area wall, no need to use the elevator at all, if this is your simple solution, i though you might of missed it, i havent seen it used on any vids anyway xD, Just though to mention.

[silentshadow867]

I could not get past this level after the initial first fling over... Watching this is satisfactory enough for me, I don't even want to attempt anymore.

[SVKP122]

i used the surveillance camera to knock a turret out

what you do from 0:30 to 0:35 is unnecessary because you can easy open a portal there without having to go back

great video

[pinstripe121]

Coudle flings arent my friends, only the companion cube is!

[FenetikSpeler]

You can use the camera on the second turret you took out so that you dont get shot at at all.

[normal1988]

I used the energy ball that spawned in that room...

[subwinged]

@normal1988 This is _Advanced_ Chamber 18, not the normal Chamber 18 -- you'll notice most of the ceiling is black (you can't place a portal on it), and there's no "energy ball" spawner; that's what makes it more challenging (along with the fact that you can't screw up in the last part of the level, because the podiums fall once you've come out of them once).

[normal1988]

ohhhhh thanks man.. didn't notice that! teheheh.. I was like.. why is her using her as a hurdle.. LOL

[TuTLook]

You dont need to take down all turrets, there is a way of doing the room by taking out only 1 (i think it is possible to do without taking out any turret through)

It is lots faster if you can do properly

[subwinged]

Oh I know -- this is a safe and straightforward, no-pressure way to completely clear the level. Look at my speedruns (one is linked in the description of this video, a slightly faster/cleaner run is linked in that vid's description) to see a method to do it without taking out any of the turrets. There's even faster methods than mine that take advantage of some glitches/jamming, but I don't see those as in the spirit of the game.

[TuTLook]

Just watched the way you did, it was pretty impressive. Actually, the way i made up was by jumping from the left wall, aiming to the middle lower level. It becomes a lot easier to do with the turrets shooting at you.

Maybe I will make a video showing how i did it

[NerdBryant64]

@TuTLook most defenetly you can without taking out any turret. you need the computer in the wall and wege in in the door. ther will not be enogh space so you will have to shoot a portal though

[diegocn123]

An alternative way of taking out turrets:

1. Place a portal behind security camera, make a portal behind 2nd turret in video, air drop the security camera and take it out.

2,3. Take out the 3rd turret in video, then you can jump from there to the platform of the 1st turret in video.

4. Take out last one with air drop of 3rd portal.

I am not saying this is a better solution, but just want to share an interesting solution. And I really liked how the video used the edge for flipping.

[codz577]

thaks it raly helped me

[arynoso]

Nice credits! Nice video, thank you!

[Squig8]

nice video. This chamber really gave me a headachae but i did manage to solve it with lots of saves and blood splattered all over the room.

Not as nice solved as this one tho, i just made portals and jumped to the platforms.

You dont have to double swing to get to the box btw. Timing the moving platform will allow you to jump down to the opposite platform. The momentum is enough.

[subwinged]

That's the wonderful part about Portal -- everyone's solution is slightly different. This one was just one that I came up to demonstrate a fairly straightforward solution -- if you want to see a harder, but much faster, route, check out my speedruns of this chamber -- they ignore the turrets entirely, and have a very tricky way of getting to the box.

[dontcallmyhousenomo]

just beat all the advanced. great effing game!

[Cremesis89]

ok ;)

[Cremesis89]

I got the box and used it without taking out any turret :) place a portal on the lower floor in the turrets'room, then run back before the wall closes. put another portal on the floor that is below the button and jump in. Now run quickly behind the box and wait a few seconds. Take the box and jump with it in the portal. Now the hard part is done. Use portals to bring the box onto the button :)

[subwinged]

Yeah, heh... Check out my speedrun, linked in the description, that's how I ended up doing it. I did the run pretty much as early as anyone did here on YouTube (I think I had the fastest time for all of 3 days, oh well), but it was before people were glitching. The run isn't perfect, and I'm not coming back to it, but it's a demonstration of what a clean run can look like, and a fun watch. This one was more for the purpose of instruction.

[yohda9]

in the turret room, I used the camera to hit the turret on the right closest to you, save the trouble of being shot at. And on the far right platform, you can angle yourself to put a portal on the lower room wall. Just 2 things that I found made this easier ~_^

[911General911]

what is the deffrent from advanced chambers and normal chambers??

[subwinged]

The most major change to Advanced 18 is the ceiling -- it's blackened (no portals), forcing you to experiment with alternative methods of getting across gaps (the first double fling to a mid-air shot, for instance, was unnecessary in the normal chamber, since you could just portal to the ceiling above the platform). The turret room also usually has a ball generator to knock the turrets down with. Generally, the advanced chambers are just harder and require different methods for solving them.

[911General911]

ok, thx :)

[ieodksnw787]

the last room is pretty tough on a console, especially b/c it's so unforgiving. in the regular mode, I spent a few up and downs just getting myself oriented.

[wolf0606]

Thanks for this!!!

[bcoblentz]

Nice. The nearest turret and the box were holding me back. I didn't even think of using that one panel.

[PiccoloV]

Wow, this is absolutely good. Thank you so much, that helped me ^^ The most difficult part is right at the beginnung when you have to make that shot out of mid air with high speed.

[subwinged]

I actually thought that I had missed something the first time I did it -- thought that the shot I made was an "alternative" solution. Guess I just got lucky :P.

[hiddenThecakeisalie]

Thank you soo much! I've always been able to get to the cube (but I didnt know how to take out the turrets) but every time I made it to the cube, I would get shot

[PouchFilms]

Man oh man... I had just beat this level. I only destroyed one turret (the close right one when you first enter the door...)

This level took forever - I am glad I did it on my own though. You have some great techniques for this.

[LightcycleChampion]

THANK YOU!

It all seemed so obvious after this, lol.

[elcosomarcos]

this was good, anyways i did already make this map, kinda the same way you did, except for the turret room.

i just put a portal when the inclined panel JUST opens and then fall into the panel in the right, then i reach the cube and fall back into the room below wich contains the button to reopen, i portal and i go.

it did really take me a lot of time to do it XD

[BalticMate]

Good Video. Cheers!

[Randdalf]

I worked this out all on my own, I got all the turrets as well although I used a different method.

[WhynotMiha]

oh dang!! sorry for previous comment.. XD didnt see there arent any :S

[subwinged]

Yeah, no problem... that's what makes this the "Advanced" chamber :P

If you want an alternative to the painfully slow process I've shown here, you should check out my speedrun vids of the same level. They let you bypass having to kill the turrets pretty much entirely.

[WhynotMiha]

good video, but i think there is a better way to destroy turrets. just use the energy balls to kill the turrets

[Maota12]

This is the advanced map and therefore there are no energy balls.

[guttershark05]

thanks so much!...this vid helped a lot!

[Hamster1512]

on the last room, if you land on the platform and lose your momentum, just shoot the opposite portal (than the one on the platform) back at a wall on the starting area. then just jump down the pit like normal and your back to your level!

[kentisgreat]

that was a great help

i dont mind if it is any longer than others but it worked really well for me

timing and things needed a a few tries

but thanks

good comments too very nice

[OneManAndHisToaster]

Very good walkthrough, Nice credits at the end 2 :-)

[EnjoiFSflips]

Dude thanx so much for this i have been stuck on that for 2 days now them damn turrets keep giving me problems, this was a great walkthrough

[cravensrule]

there is a way that doesnt require that much portal perscion at the end. Wait on the last platform before the slanted one and launch a portal at it. go through first portal and u will freefall, aim for the original jumping area

[wayfarin]

wow. this was so much more graceful compared to my advanced 18 attempt. i only managed to kill one of the turrets with the wall camera, so from then until the end, it was pretty much hell. just in case you care, its possible to manage this with 3 turrets alive.

i was pretty frustrated but im glad i didn't come here first. its great to see how people approach things differently.

[hickszzz]

Good job. To make the level even harder, Don't use the extended brick to see the walls where the door is. Try to send a portal at the edge of a wall instead by balancing on it. It's very hard not to fall into the water. Also, don't use the extended wall that sticks out by the first turrets. Just use the walls. To take out the first turret I actually fling myself facing the turret from the other side of the wall to knock it off. The turret saw me coming right at it but couldn't react in time.

[shadowrelic]

Thanks for the vid, i managed all other advanced maps but this one was giving me trouble on the freakin turrets.

"Hello? Anyone there?" Of course im there i just dont feel like getting shot!

[Matcow]

Is this easier then standard??? there is no energy ball here...

[mctspartan009]

no, this is the harder version, located in the Advanced chamber part of the bonus maps

[timbreo]

Just wanted to say thanks, and well said in the end!

[320025680]

maybe black mesa , that was a joke ja ja (love this song)

[mptyyegdlc]

yeah, i like it as well !!

[mgh985]

bravo on the 3rd part

[Shiroshibal]

I was really happy when I heard this song i dunno why, i just was happy xD thx for the vid anyway.

i hope they're goin to do a second part. with bit other story, and you MUST get the cake at the end :D or sumthin like this. or some new robots androids or some shit. or your an robot and have to escape. or your last human on the world and have to escape of robots.

[kgoodies008]

i thought that it would be awesome if you like, had to go BACK to the Apature science enrichment center to for some reason... maybe to free a friend u left behind? ( just a thought) but this game would be long,and i mean long like the first half life 2. =D

[Endoskahn]

lol, I didn't try swinging on the turrets to destroy them XD I just ran thru it. The thought never actually came to mind

[UchihaItachi05]

Thank you subwinged, you have just helped me gain my Vanilla Crazy Cake Achievement. =]

[TheMork]

me too! XD

[codyrulesu]

looking down into the portals at the end as you fall into them helped the shit out of me... as gay as that sounds

[Portalmaster1199]

OK...Do you like looking really fancy?

On the third room (the one with the platforms that lower) you don't have to perform flawlessly to clear it! All you have to do is place the blue AND orange portals on the same platform. It's possible, I've tried it.

[Rige02]

Okay so is it just me but near the end of the game where you go through a ventaltion shaft, did anyone eles stack up chairs not noticing the box chute(sp?) thingy?

[madskaterfc]

yeah, i totally spent ages getting a chair for that haha. and it was just sheer luck i had my orange portal set up in the rocket launder room, shot a blue, and then it blue the tube and i was like..oooooh! haha

[megalulzpenguin]

Heh, I just used a single well placed chair...

[irlrp]

nice, you found the slowest way to do this puzzle ! :x

[subwinged]

Actually, this was the fastest run out of all of them at the time it was posted. I even have a slightly faster version, but there are different, faster routes for sure.

[irlrp]

i understand that u made a guide to show how to end it, it was just a free sarcasm.

cya

[subwinged]

Wow, I feel like an idiot... There's been a guy spamming my other two videos (the speedruns) with similar comments (except more profanely), so when I got an e-mail about a comment, I kinda went to police it.

Anyways, thanks for watching and commenting!

[irlrp]

So, ur way to end turret room is harder than the ninja way, just opening a portal on the moving "door" and jump through the portal on the lower floor, skipping it completly.

But it was added 1month ago, so we can notice that all the possibilities were not discovered.

Cya

[crazymouse76]

nice thanks. i had done the other 5 advanced tests but got completely stumped on the first room of this one.

[fatassmike12]

hehe youll be destroying a portal like gun in episode 3 :)

[Lobos222]

Great game, now lest see how they implement it in HL Ep3. My only concern is how will they make Gordon freeman look like in "portal effects"? Just that you can see youre self as him and not "you" takes away one of the effects Valve has used in the whole HL story. Aka in the same manner you, Gordon, dosent say anything etc

[Thugmunk]

Who said Portals are going to show up in Half-Life 2: episode 3?

*SPOILER FOLLOWING* The *SPOILER* Aperture Science Facility was destroyed at the end of Portal Anyway. Who knows what survived, other than The kids over at Valve. :P *SPOILER*

*End SPOILER*

[Lobos222]

Why else would they tie Aperture Science into the HL 2 story (Ap is a rival to Black Mesa)?

And

SPOILER:

At the end of Episode 2 Alex and Gordon finds a ship that belongs to Aperture Science. I at least find it likely that a portal like gun will appear in HL3.

[SoulSpectre]

yes and in the song GLaDOS sings that she is still alive while you are dying, so probably our character might be the playable character in Ep.3 so they won't have to reveal Gordons face.

[Lobos222]

Good point.

I do see some problems doh by adding another important female char, but maybe they just let you play portal stuff as Alex. Cool thing if they only say "feck it" and show Gordans face etc. He was on the cover of HL2 box anyway.... Time will tell. :)

[mightymarcin]

they now what gordon looks like the reason we we dont see it while playing t is because they want the player in the world instead of a detaching camera :D

[JudgeDeadd]

*Sigh* Her name is ALYX. Not Alex.

[bustaphatty]

ALEX????????!!111

[Nicpezer]

Thanks this helped out. In the flinging room you can screw up but you just have to remember what color portal you had on the last fling platform you screwed up on. EX. Orange on said platform, then fire a blue back at the entrance and when fall down the pit on the left shoot another blue.

[StuPadazzo]

The FULL Orange Box version of Portal does not have three rows of white tiles above the verticle "ledge" that allow you step out on to it in the second room. You possibly don't have the same version as the general public. Although there is more than one solution, yours is not even possible with our version. I have the FULL Orange Box version. Curious... because I'm stuck big time without even a angled double fling panel to get to the other side of the room.

[subwinged]

I think you're mistaken... You're probably playing the normal room, while I'm playing Advanced (it's a bonus version that gets unlocked after beating Chamber 18 in the Main mode).

I sent you some tips on how to beat this room on normal, because it's quite different.

You may also want to take a close look at my Advanced speedruns, I think the idea I use in them works on the main mode. Good luck!

[clixx13]

There is no other version.

He's playing the ADVANCED room.

[WeeHaScootchy]

can you fucking read? hes just did the advanced version of level 18... thats means its DIFFERENT asshole

[gpemolano]

FANTASTIC THANKS!!!!