Nope, there isn’t”

But there is. First jump: put portal on the backwall, then doublefling. Second jump: put orange portal on ceiling, jump into blue portal. As you fall out of the orange portal, shoot another orange portal at your feet, then hold forward.
As long as you don’t fuck them up, they always work. Also, the reason you were missing the jumps is friction against the ceiling/wall on first/second jumps, switch up your portal placement to avoid that. Or crouch.

Same with level 1, you CAN disable the turrets, but it’s easier to just rush your way to the elevator. :D

Basically, this game DOES have alternative, tricky solutions, and if you take your time to think, their amount is staggering, certainly no less than the original Portal.

Overall I liked the puzzly parts, but the experience was kind of ruined by the difficulty itself. The solution was almost always clear if you gave it a little thought, but executing it usually required a perfect timing, performance and sometimes just plain luck. The lack on alternative, tricky solutions was kind of annoying. Like Y3k-Bug said above, 15 seconds of thinking, 15 minutes trying to do it just right.

The mod has potential, but I just found it too frustrating to be enjoyable.

“Make a better mod”
“You’re a noob”
“YOU MADE EXAGGERATION THUS YOU LIES THUS ALL POST WRONG”
“This isn’t mean to be Portal” <- “Portal Prelude“? Right.
“Go play an FPS” <- Wait, isn’t that the main criticism of this mod, that it plays like a reflex-heavy FPS rather than a puzzle game?

Go ahead.

The problem is exactly what Y3k-Bug said– it’s really hard to execute plans properly.

But since this mod was supposed to be about things prior to Portal, I figured there had to be some interesting story or outcome, like the Flash Pack.

No.

I wasn’t really feeling the dialogue. The game was, spoilers, “hey, we’re blatantly trying to kill you, miss test subject!” to “hi, hang out with us in our lab. we’re coo’.” No, I would not be cool with a bunch of sadistic scientists who tried to kill me several times. Why are my chair tosses not hurting you? When Erik(Hey! I’m sadistic!) meets Peter(Hey! I hate my job and this is terrible!) he drops the f-bomb every sentence. Okay, mature. I did, however, laugh when Mike’s friend gave you the directions. It was absurd.

The two cutscenes in the game lasted too long…. Yes, pan left and right through the room before showing me the item! That’s a better idea than just zooming into the gun. They later even flashbacked to it. Okay, I guess… The second cutscene pointed out that the GlaDOS-shaped construct in front of me was GlaDOS, and make me look at a guy waving his arms so we wouldn’t see how they didn’t know how to animate attaching cores.

The after-credits ending felt like badly written fanfiction. I saw him during the tests but jeez…

bah, so its not a puzzle but a timing/prescision test? thats a shitty design

There a is great game in there somewhere with a few more months of design and a ton more play testing. But in its current incarnation? No.