Portal's Portal Gun, Meet the Team Fortress 2 Gang

[John Funk]

Portal's Portal Gun, Meet the Team Fortress 2 Gang

If you're waiting for Team Fortress 2 [http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=77276] with portal guns instead? Engineer teleporters are for wimps.


Since the release of first-person puzzle game Portal with the Orange Box in 2007, Aperture Science's hand-held portal gun has quickly become one of the most iconic weapons in gaming. Now, thanks to a dedicated modder, the device has a new home: The popular team-based FPS, Team Fortress 2.

Like its Portal counterpart, the TF2 portal gun opens orange and blue portals that can be opened wherever you please, and stepping into one will immediately shoot you out the other. Like in Portal, you keep your velocity when teleporting - but unlike in Portal, you can close your portals at will. This is necessary, you see, because anyone from any team can enter your portals, and what team wants to give their enemy a free pass to the back of your base?

Frankly, this looks like one hell of an amazing, chaotic time. Who knows? Maybe Valve will add an actual portal gun to the Engineer Update.

(Via Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5537435/hey-your-mod-got-portal-in-my-team-fortress-])

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[Jared]

If the Portal Gun is the Engineer update...oh my god, it would be so broken! But, so epic!

 

[mew4ever23]

Portals in real TF2? How broken would that be???

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Christ, I can think of a number of ways of wrecking the game using that...

Scout gets to spawn on 2Fort and drops a portal, Engie jumps through and has a sentry up spawncamping.
Spy gets hit under DR, Portals back.
Engie portals in front of a sentry allowing it to fire out of the Portal.
Demo plants 8 stickies, Portals them onto "leetle kart"
Heavy crosses map in seconds.
Makes teleports almost redundant as well.

Hmmmm.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Wow, that's both fantastic and scary. Too easy to abuse, but looks like it would be so much fun doing it.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Ooh! I wish I'd bought the PC version. That looks fun!

It's never too late y'know.

 

[Earthbound]

I want to be on that server right now. If only they'd post the IP on the video or the site. *waits

 

[arcticphoenix95]

Portals in real TF2? How broken would that be???

Severely

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Tell us the Ip!!! NOW!!!

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

*Heavy flying through the air using the portals

HEAVY IS JETPACK!

 

[Voodoomancer]

*dies from awesome overdose*

Putting Portal and TF2 together has to be the best idea since... I dunno, Portal and TF2?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

HEAVY IS JETPACK!

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

"Tell me if you get stuck."
"That's what she said!"

The only negative thing I've got to say about this is that it's annoying how you currently can't see through the portals the way you could in Portal. Other than that... awesome!

 

[tombman888]

speaking of portals, if you dont own portal, go and get it on steam for FREE!!! yes that's right, its FREE until march 24th SO HURRY UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Strategia]

"Tell me if you get stuck." "That's what she said." "Giggity". lol

Looks incredibly awesome, if only you could look through the portals..... but then again this way you can't see whether or not there's a pair of Heavies setting up for an attack on the other side or not, so this might actually be better, from a tactical balance perspective.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

I want to right something witty, but I'm lost for words. So, instead you get this:
That. Looks. Awesome!

 

[Danpascooch]

Not that I think it would be easy to make that mod, but frankly I'm surprised it took this long, it was a natural fit and Valve games are known for getting modded out the ass