Portal: Forbidden Testing Tracks, is it any good? 

people describe this mod as if they felt physicial pain while playing it, but really this was just a mod from a passionate portal fan with great ideas in mind making up a mod with the limited experience he had in portal modding. Really I think this guy could make great mods in the future!

Portal: Forbidden Quality Control

Initially, I thought this was Timmy's first mod. But as it kept going, started to realize more and more it's just Timmy playing with his portal toys basically. The core concepts are decent and refreshing, the assets from Portal 1 _could_ have been integrated more seamlessly... but all the miniboss challenges and the constant swapping of mechanics, only to never see them again... Maybe a bit more polish, ironing out of the story beats, and perhaps some critiques on art design--- wait, twin sister?

I believe at 18:54, Glados is trying to say "Prepared coconut pecan frosting."

For sure the mod maker needed help actually constructing this, but the ideas here are absolutely phenomenal! A 2nd test subject going through WHILST Chell is escaping? The one chamber with the Mel gun that you had to run through. THE ZERO-POINT GUN AND THE FIZZLER FUN?! THE CHAMBER REBOOTINF AFTER WHEATLY TAKES CONTROL?!?! HELLO?!?! Edit: Aperature having faulty products? Absolutely! SECRET TESTING MOON BASE? Why didn’t I think that?!?!?!

If only he had done play testing it wouldn’t have been so bad. As valve has thought us, play testing is the most important thing in every game

Last time, in the PMaM Discord Server. Q15 will make the subtitles work on this mod (and yes, Q15 joined the server.) and Q15 said that there are different endings, idk if it's confirmed or not.

So much cool stuff in here I'd personally be proud to have achieved as an amateur game dev, duct taped together into a playable story with some QA issues... Much as I'm glad I don't have to play it now, I kinda feel you're getting more than what you pay for with this free mod. This feels like a workable proof of a strong concept. The ideas are great and proven for the most part - little more of this, little less of that, a few runs in the de-jankifier and I'd say you've got an honestly great game. Here's the breakdown of how I'd spend money fixing it: - Subtitles. - No borked AI voices - get good impressionists like Harry101UK - or simply retool the story with original characters, keeping all the cool changes of setting and general shape of the game - Unify visual style, obviously - De-glitch the new guns - De-glitch a lot of stuff - More tests for the new guns - Generally iterate out gameplay issues (many of which you raised) through multiple rounds of playtesting - cut unfun/basically impossible puzzles etc; more stuff fo the cool new guns - Release - A period of maintenance to get it into a lasting working state - Move on with a bag of tasty street cred It'd be nice to have a way to make money off a mod like this, this kind of stuff takes a lot of work... Honestly though, if I was the dev, I'd retool everything original into a whole new game with completely original assets - i.e. something I could sell. Maybe license the Source Engine (if that's a thing you can do), but what I'm saying is there's enough here to do a full Fifty-Shades and turn the fanfic into its own IP. I feel it's easily worth that. Music was solid; core ideas were great; implementation proved the ideas can work... I'm glad the mod exists. Dev's one to watch out for. (No I'm not the dev lol)

ngl this mod needs to be remade. it alrrady has a base for what it wants to be. but it just needs to be remaked.

i love watching his channel for the Portal 2 videos i think he should keep posting awesome fun videos

-What ideas should we include? -Yes

Wheatley is a former director because he, for a time, replaced Glados, in Portal 2. I guess that add him to the list of former directors, which is totally logic. That being said, the mod in itself *sounds* quite good. The gameplay is clunky, the mechanics aren't polished at all, the level design is absent, but the atmosphere, the ideas, and the script, are totally spot on. Having other tools like the Gravity Gun, Liquid Gun and the Fizzler Gun really is refreshing. Some places, like the Aperture Science Office Maze, are totally spot on about what Aperture is probably looking like in the parts that were rebuild over and over and over with no thought about employees' wellcare. Just need more refining. The Time Slowing gun made me think that, in the part where you're playing the map with the faith plates and the time slows down, it was you-from-the-future that activated the gun for some reason and impacted you-from-the-past. You didn't showed it to I guess it's not that at all, but that would have been fun ahah. All in all, the mod just need good designers, good level designers, probably someone good with sounds, and a real dev. Everything else is to keep, pretty much.

i think the hate is justifiable but not excusable. People act like they are entitled to a good mod, without realising that they don't have to play it if they don't want to, and that this mod existing doesn't mean another one won't. It would be perfectly reasonable if it was a paid mod, but all this is going to do is discourage the developer from publishing anything in the future, no matter how good it is

There are some really, really interesting ideas in here that I would love to see the light of day. The bomb cubes, zero point gun for testing, time dilation, aim-able fizzling… Especially going through the story at the same time as portal 2 and stories effecting each other.

I want a mod for this, that polishes and makes it better like makes the paint gun model better and just generally make it a better mod

Portal's EP3 Closure mod

I like the idea of a core that makes waffels.

19:38 this is genius.

My thoughts on it were that in sections, it worked most of the time, but as a whole, it's incoherent, confusing and it just doesn't give you the immersion that you should get when playing it. I did give it a not recommended on Steam for now, but if the mod gets updated to fix most of the big issues with it, I might change my review.

"ah here, crispy HD picture" Ме who's watching in 720p for some reason:

I litteraly had a weird ass dream that was about a weird portal mod and watching this video just reminded me of it.

This is quite literally the Morbius of Portal Mods

10:23 - This has got to be my favorite part in this video. Simply love it!

honestly the opening sequence where you get sucked into a tube kinda reminds me of the early portal 2 demos

this mod has some good ideas and an interesting history, happening at the same time as the og portal 2, but it needs more polishing, like some things you said, it uses portal 1 & 2 and half life 2 assets, some weapons having too little screentime like the time gun or the fizzler gun, some test chambers need more play testing, make more intuitive the fire chase and other things that you mentioned on the video. In a nutshell, 8/10 on the idea, 5/10 on the execution

you just earned a sub holy jesus this is good content

Now I kinda want a real Portal x Splatoon mod.. game.. whatever. The paint gun looked a lot of fun.

13:02 this idea was used in Portal Stories VR with the small device and pulling cubes toward you.

the gel gun was actually a planned gun for portal 2, so it's cool to see it in-game

Feels like they copied some test chambers from BEEMod and just made the mod without even testing it once. Even my own not published portal maps have been going through 5 rounds of testing already XD

ayo Portal 3 looking bussin

Tbh i like it because it has its own ideas and takes place at portal 2

20:40 If you jump into the fire you will get final credits.

the quality of this video is good. keep it up!

Ngeruma as the cores voiceactor was a big bonus for me

bro was complaining about how the paint gun is just copied from aperture tag but then didn't care about how the gravity gun is from halflife 💀💀💀

Nice!

I think the developer did a good job on parts of the mod, but I think they tried to add too much content with too little playtesting.

16:17 yeah that level made me constantly feel like i was going to turn around and there would just be a face, staring at me

saw this on steam as well the other day, i assumed it was just a new modder trying things out and unfortunately people just didn’t enjoy it.

10:24 this caught me so off guard lmao

3:08 whats the name of the destruktion sound effect? Couldnt find it anywhere in the sound files...

13:00 that gravity thing comes from Portal VR mod

11:54 yeah i just used the skip button lol, at least the dev knew that it was a pretty large jump in skill required, and they added a skip button which just did the whole thing for you

if i made a mod and people called it “the hunt down the freeman of portal mods” i would quite forever

So, this is "Hunt Down The Freeman" of Portal 2 mods, huh?

11:35 "*muffled* if you can, try and get back here to me"

I like the idea of being set in when chell was out and following her footsteps and kind of things being a mess because of chell but it does need more planning and detail if he had experience and a team to work on this better I think it would be cooler

Great video!

If someone remake this with love and care I can see it being a good mod.

4:04 This probably has something to do with the defective turrets having weird collision physics- it’s why you can skip the entire turret redemption section by making a turret elevator essentially

11:36 he says ”if you can try and get back here to me”

the hunt down the freeman of portal games

The black portal looks so gothish! I would like to see Chell in the Goth Loly suit!

7:39 during this timestamp, for brief time in this video, an unused music (Self Destruction) was playing

4:10, you know why it's going out of water. it's gameplay feature. it's for turret button thing

Erm Wheatley is the intelligence dampening core not morality core

14:02 this is honestly a really funny joke

Having played through the entirety of this myself, there is another way out of the disk area, but I only found it by circling the whole place twice- and it's just a linked portal back to the entrance area again. Also literally none of the music loops cleanly.

Bro it's amazing

Literally the perfect way to describe this: *And then everyone died. The end*

makes me wanna do push-ups

So this mod takes place meanwhile the events of portal 2, wow

Honestly it does look fun and it takes place during portal 2 instead of between portal 1 and 2

6:39 very credible scream kkk

It's actually funny how much quality stuff i didn't even notice hihi

7:20 I think he said "Uhh- that can't be!"

Wheatley was former aperture director because Chell replaced glados with Wheatley during core transfer of portal 2

Saic is truly a British core

14:24 yeah that backrooms area took me a while lol

In the next update please play it !(the next update have subtitle) but i don't know how was finish and publish

7:51 thats my computer screen resolution

I think for a 1 person work, this is quite good, even though it looks like it was all mash together and tape in with ducktape, it's still quite a good mod

28:43 she says ”our hero”

Wait... The incinerator isn't the end of the mod? I fell off the lift there, got credits and thought I'd finished it. Maybe I should go back and try it again?

4:22 aperture science tardisTM

As i think my mostly satirical overplayed review might have been sounding a bit too harsh i have to say that the mod allthough eh has some good stuff but lostly bad. 1. The music is good 2. The ideas are also there but the execution is just bad or in cases of something like the fizzle gun plain obsolete. Portal was always for me about having little and making alot out of it. 3. New items are creative but poor or in most cases not explained at all. 4. Layout of areas was bad, it was very easy for me to trap myself or break a map. 5. Story was nonexistent and very random. 6. The goddamn leak epilepsy chamber just WHY. (this is the only thing i cannot sugarcoat it is just plain bad as there is no epilepsy warning at the start of the game.) 7. The puzzles themselves were very bad not well thought out and had seemingly no playtesters or quality control. In the end this mod tried to be everything at once with very little experience ending up in a very poor executed sludge of ideas and a facedrop with alot of poor reception. As much as i'd like to i cannot give this mod anything above a 1/10 as there is so much better stuff in even the portal 2 workshop. This mod should have started as hammer concepts in the workshop not a mod on the steam page as in the workshop case it wouldn't nearly have had as bad of a reception as on the steam store page which is connected to a certain level of experience and quality. I hope this modder can learn from the faillings of thia mod and maybe get some playtesters next time. I would gladly assist him with his next work and maybe sent some puzzle ideas his way. Tell me your opinion on the mod if you'd like i am referring to anyone that may want to answer my comment. I would be happy to hear your ratings and opinions :)

so i may or may not have skipped everything after chapter 2 if you wanna know how, click read more so, at the ending to chapter 2, where you have to get across the bridge, if instead of going across the bridge, you either use perfected movement to get through the door before it closes, or use a noclip glitch to get behind it, the credits just start rolling and the game ends, i didnt realise i had skipped so much of the game lol

18:56 you know why it's made of metal? i think it's because there is no real p1 cake model that is sliced

first of all very very good video second how long did it take to play through and how long did it take to edit the whole video because the subtitle wow

i saw somebody done one of humanly not possibly solvable sequence

18:53 she says ”pecan frosting”

One of the steam reviews said this mod is the hunt down the freeman of portal but personally I disagree since atleast this mod is free is your money isn’t wasted 💀

8:00 this one I KEEP DEING ON

the fact that you have to do all of that to put a cube on a fking button 😂

wait, i saw in another gameplay there was a gman ending. is there a different ending depending on your choices?

16:47 he says ”what even is going on”

The test chamber from portal is just a G-mod imported map?

21:05 Stolen from his lab at a later date thanks to Glados's drone fleet? (IDK??)

i rember the black hole thing from one of my old dreams i think ecept slightly difrent

17:03 you can actually go to real surface and have credits

18:27 the slowfields from portal 2 core hub?

If this mod had just been put on moddb, it probably wouldn't have been hated as much (if that makes sense)

18:00 thats literally just a chamber ripped from co-op

definitely the most mod of all time

i playd it and it was very fun

fizzler gun?!?! 15:40

pure kino

Where the g-man part? I never undetstand who he said

I think this mod has some great ideas, but has a problem with scope and polish. If they wanted to involve the concept that you're another test subject present during the events of the 2nd game, they should have focussed the plot entirely on that idea. Rather than having so many unique gun types, they should have stuck to one, more polished gun. Sadly, this modder seems to struggle with making tests which go beyond "look at this new mechanic, use it in an obvious (if you actually notice it) but trivial way". Its like if you took puzzles like chamber 2, 6, 10, etc. and made a whole game out of tests like that.