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What scifi weapon would you want?
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Portal Gun, no question.
Wish I Had a Portal Gun
Nah, huge limitation that it only works on walls painted with moon dust. Even without that detail, the surface needs to be flat and judging by the main characters height, roughly 1m x 2m. Those details really limit its functionality outside the enrichment center.
Then explain the ending of Portal 2. What flat surface exists on the moon?
Scale is important. Yes, the moon is round, but local flatness could be within the tool's tolerance. Even a surface plate (used by machinists a reference for flatness) has local peaks and valleys if you zoom in on the surface.
Judging by the moon landing pictures, most surfaces on the moon are roughly flat especially in the dusty areas.
The games are also a bit inconsistent about what happens when the surface moves. Sometimes the portal fizzles out, and on rare occasions it doesn’t.
If we really want to get into the specifics technically everything is moving. Could maybe that as long as the object is stationary relative to nearby large mass but then that would start to strain the moon shot since that is a separate large moving mass being linked to another moving mass
idk about flat but it's 100% covered in moon dust.
I never actually played. I assume it creates portals.
Yes. It could technically be a weapon if you placed a portal up high, and another on the ground under someone.
and tele-fragging: stepping into the same space as your target, theoretically exploding them
I don't think this one would work, since they don't occupy any space in the flat plane the portals appear on. You're just making doors.
The best way to use the Portal Device in Hedgewars (especially if you can shoot one end above water), given it doesn't end your turn.
Yes, but every time I get the chance I either miss too many times or something's blocking the way.
Yep, links two portals to each other. Place one over a dangerous area and one below someone, they fall. Boom, a weapon. However, it's also a very useful tool for transportation purposes.
I may be misremembering it but, I think you are forgetting the most limiting part of the portal gun:
spoiler
It only works on surfaces painted with moon dust.Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.
You need the boots, though, otherwise it's very easy to accidentally go splat.
One on the wall next to me + one on the wall next to my refrigerator = not having to get up for snacks.
Oh, there's so many other uses for it if you put your mind to it...
lol someone can finally play go fuck yourself
Is that a weapon? The game doesn't let you use it on people.
In Portal 2 there's a multiplayer mode. It can definitely be used as a weapon when you quickly swap out the portal exit so that your companion falls to their demise.
There are some fun community levels where you can race against a friend and there are all sorts of traps you can trigger/set if you plan it right.
The HL2 multiplayer set to gravity gun only was so fun. We called it "pie fight" since it was 3 Stoogles style chaos. The only thing missing was that you couldn't use a person's previous body to kill them. I so wanted to yell "stop hitting yourself" as I bashed someone with their own corpse.
Wow. I didn't know it was multiplayer. I bought an old Xbox 360 a while back and it came with a bunch of games. I played portal 2 on that. Does it have multiplayer on that platform?
I liked it so much I bought Portal 1. I think it's better to play them in order. 2 was better than 1.
Oh yeah 100%, you can play portal 2 local co-op or online co-op. I've never personally done online co-op on the 360, but it probably works fine.
Portal 1 is single player only and you're totally right about playing them in order, that's the way to do it.
Well regrettably my wife didn't really get the hang of portal and we're the only two who live here. Maybe when I have a friend over. I'm kind of old and the only friend I have that really plays games lives in the UK. We pay together online. If you're interested we've played:
Borderlands Borderlands 2 Borderlands 3 Tiny Tina's Wonderland Borderlands the pre-sequel Grim Dawn Aliens elite team Warhammer 40000 space Marines?
And we're currently playing Aliens Elite Team 2.
I may have forgotten some.
Yeah, I didn't realize it for a while as well. The multiplayer has its own whole storyline of what happened before GLaDOS took control.
in the game there are not ppl alive anymore, but you use it to "dispose" a lot of angry turrets and eventually get the endboss to hurt themselves.
It's called a gun, so I vote yes.
You can instantly turn anything into a weapon and you can instantly drop the floor out from anyone and drop them from the highest point you can reach.
Yes. It's a weapon and a tool like an axe is a weapon and a tool
Yeah, I guess so. I only played single player and now I know.