We don't mean to suggest that the developers came up with a game that was lacking some of the inventiveness or challenge of the original game, but there's no denying that Portal 2's puzzles weren't as skill-testing or hardcore as those of Portal. If you fancy yourself a video game designer in training, then now is the chance to download the tools free of charge, and get to work on building some levels and test chambers of your own.Įven with certain gels being removed from the game, the deadly lasers, faith plates, and oh-so-adorable killer sentry robots mean there's a chance that some PC gamers out there are capable of thinking up even more inventive mind-benders than Valve did.
Valve has come to the rescue, announcing that they have now begun the beta for Portal 2's Authoring Tools for the PC. The occasional crash on startup has been fixed, as well as the credits sometimes becoming corrupted and ruining GLaDOS's rendition of " Want You Gone" by Jonathan Coulton.By now most of you have likely played through the main storyline and at least part of Portal 2's co-op campaign, and may be left wanting even more. There's also a ton of bug fixes, especially if you're a Linux player. Related: Watch A Hamster Solve A Portal-Themed Maze Getting all those cores in on the action should drastically improve Portal 2's overall performance, especially on modern hardware.īesides the added Vulkan support, Portal 2's latest update also includes a bunch of quality-of-life improvements, such as being able to invite players to play co-op using just their controllers and also an added 360-degree spin command for quick turnarounds. Portal 2 was released during a time when games still typically used a single core to play, but these days most processors have between four and eight cores working in tandem. Vulkan has sort of replaced OpenGL as a game renderer thanks to its lower overhead and improved ability to distribute workload among multiple CPU cores. Valve implemented a Vulkan render backend on Portal 2 that will go a long way to improving the game's performance on basically any system that was made after 2016. However, yesterday's surprise update provides Portal 2 with a bit of a tune-up under the hood. It's still a great game even a decade later, but as with all games, technology has long moved on from Portal 2's initial release. Portal 2 continues the grand Valve tradition of being completely unable to count to three.
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