Comments on: Portal Multiplayer, Maybe

By: Portal Deathmatch

Portal Deathmatch — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:22:28 +0000

and you need the full portal
not first slice

By: Portal Deathmatch

Portal Deathmatch — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:21:05 +0000

they said it would/wont be possible so here its is folks!

By: 23232

23232 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:45:07 +0000

@AKAmezcalsoakedboy
LOL WUT?

By: Andrew Doull

Andrew Doull — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:28:39 +0000

I've put up a suggestion for Co-op Portal on my blog if that's any help, which should be feasible using the current Half-Life Death Match engine.

By: AKAmezcalsoakedboy

AKAmezcalsoakedboy — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:03:09 +0000

Although, I may be pissed, I get the dreaded feeling of deja vu that some of you sad fucks are potential columbine style outsiders; get a life and chill to Radiohead.

By: MayTricks

MayTricks — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:52:56 +0000

Portal is an amazing game, conceptually, and I think we just need to wait until valve releases future versions, including multiplayer. It’s obvious this game isn’t going to go unnoticed and it’s just a matter of time before valve gets to it. We could spend time modding it for MP, but personally i’d rather just wait for a MP sequel to be officially released, then focus development on mapping and whatnot [leave the coding to those who seem to have already done so well with it - valve staff themselves].

By: Tricky

Tricky — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:47:00 +0000

Possibilities: I think there’s a way around that.

I’m not sure if you need sv_cheats 1 for this, but here:

In console:
change_portalgun_linkage_id # (0, 1, 2, 3)

Have one person use Linkage ID 1 and one use Linkage ID 2. Maybe that’ll work.

Add in Impulse 101, and Portal = win! :D

By: Possiblities

Possiblities — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:34:49 +0000

I have gotten multiple people (2) in a portal LAN game, however it’s usually buggy and tends to crash a lot, here’s how I’ve done it so far:

Start portal and open developer window
Type in
dissconnect
sv_lan 0
maxplayers 5
map (whatever map you want here)

once in game, you need to let your friends know your game’s ip address in order to connect (again, this works for lan only) todo this type in the console: status
and then the console will give a list of stuff about your server/game. just send the IP address number to your friends and then have your friends type in console:

connect (ip address here)

don’t forget to turn on sv_cheats, and I also noticed the game tends to crash if both of you bring out your portal, which sucks. But atleast you can shoot at each other.

By: NoobJuice

NoobJuice — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:53:53 +0000

http://www.portalmp.co.nr

By: Winterborn

Winterborn — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:58:35 +0000

That Radiohead tag is my new favourite RPS tag. Though for the sake of all our ears I hope it never needs to be used again.

By: CrashT

CrashT — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:29:20 +0000

Well somebody’s got the Portal gun working in Half Life 2 Single-Player, http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/17/half-life-2-portal/

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:59:58 +0000

theres a fixed terminal velicity in portal thats pretty managable thats how you can do the 30,000 foot fall

& BTW they only use the stencil buffer to copy the portal image ontop of it’s self this simulating more render targets technique would only work with at least one render target in place already & only be effective with more than 1 more than 8 portals on screen at the same time is impossible in the current incarnation of portal for a reason it’s graphically intensive, if they do get multiplayer working it’ll be 4 player max (mybe 9 player cause they’re not actually clear whether it’s 9 render targets per portal for everything) and only on the best grpahics cards the physics issues can pretty much be forgotten about assuming you design the map correctly and allow for the odd falling out of the world.