
As of the next update, Valve is enabling fans to publish user created test chambers directly to Steam, where they can be downloaded in mere seconds to your game.īut I’m rubbish at using Hammer, I hear you cry. By the looks of the beta, Portal 2 is going to find itself in a very similar position very soon. Since its release for Skyrim, the Steam Workshop has positively exploded with thousands of user-created mods and tweaks for an already incredible game. Play the most popular maps in the world, or just what your friend created last night.” “Now that we’re adding the Steam Workshop to Portal 2, you’ll be able to browse a virtually endless stream of community-crafted puzzles, then install and play them with just one click from any web browser. Now although the octopus people of the multiverse will no doubt be rather irritated by this turn of events, what does it mean for Portal fans? Valve do a slightly better job of explaining below, although with considerably less octopus. On May 8th, Valve is due to release the Perpetual Testing Initiative update for Portal 2, at which point the internet will probably explode.


Abandoning the streamlined approach of the original Portal might have provided Valve with the ability to tell a remarkable tale, but some fans, myself included, believed the difficulty of the puzzles had been reduced to increase pacing. Although an incredible story, I couldn’t help but feel that the puzzles in Portal 2 lacked a certain finesse.
