The fact that the softlocks get increasingly interesting, and that the first chamber was redesigned to allow a simple form of softlock, make me think that maybe at first they saw softlocks as something inherently bad, but then realized, that you can make a meta-game out of this.

When dealing with Portal 1 you need to understand that this game is quite old and A LOT of things was gently remade or added years after release, mostly as 'semi easter eggs' for players who play again (and I don't mean just the radios)

"Hey I exist! Link to me!" Best pick up line

“I sure to love this video about deflecting” The nefarious rip tire

13:46 i thought this was called a peek-a-portal?

I love how this guy's voice sounds like he would be the narrator in true crime documentaries but it's just softlocks in portal

40:15 Isn't the game crashing a hardlock, not a softlock? The "soft" in softlock, means the game is still playable(you can move the camera or character) but cannot progress further. The game crashing would mean the game is unresponsive and therefore not playable.

ts video interesting 🔥

Is the function at 16:13 made for the rotating fixed portals in Chamber 01 or is it just a weird quirk?

There are more softlocks

no jamie oneill is the backbone of overwatch

It's so funny that people are still doing these earbud ads. Recently got an iphone and the airpods support is so unbelievably good compared to other buds that it's literally pointless to get anything else.

What are the cats names? (I love cats)

I want to believe the softlocks that were found were glados just giving up on you

Hmmm pretty sure that chamber 9 trick is a glitch, even if it doesnt fit the speedruns guidelines for a glicth

Once you're soft locked, do you have to restart the game to continue forward? I don't recall there ever being save points or any options to restart a level. (Has been years since I played portal though).

5:46 what would even be the point of the game without the "Portal"s

I wonder if any are still unknown. I also wonder if there are still any hidden secrets that still have to be found. I'm pretty sure they've all been found, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are more though.

This is unbelievably thorough! Thank you for this video :)

Me about to get portal and try it out and see this vid is 45 mins long:

24:22 what a blursed solution lol

38:03 You can also use other physical objects to reach the vent. The first time I solved this part, I did it by stacking two chairs on top of each others (one of them upside down) and creating a ladder.

marblr making an overwatch channel then slowly going into tf2 in order to transition his audience into playing a better game

This looks SO fun

T-posing Chell flying through the air is kinda hilarious 29:03

Some of these aren't softlocks since you can stand on the button and shoot a portal through the door when you stand on the button.

Im pretty sure chamber 05 is not a softlock. Have you tried to open the door again with the remaining camera and yourself? If it works, you can place a portal on the other side, which makes this one solvable again.

i got muted for sending too many cringey lines in chat lol

I miss portal😢

Fun fact If you don't do anything in test chamber 13 the whole time, the door will open 😊 21:40

This is coming from someone who has loved all of your videos. How do you work so hard on something that is so.. trivia? Trivial? Like this isn't life changing - its just random game facts. And yet you're one of the best creators of these fact videos. Why do it? (No disrespect again I love your stuff I'm just curious as a fellow creative)

I hope this video ends up helping modders create purist patches

she cube on my fizzler until i softlock

Absolutely loved this video! Learned a lot of stuff

the dialogue in chamber 0 isn't unique to chamber 0. it will play the first time you attempt to pass a cube through any matter field

in chamber 9 you can put portal under the door, so the botton half stays in the chamber, and top half stays at the exit area. its easier.

Columbo has a high re-watch value, because of the way it is written. Most detective stories it's a "Who dunnit". Columbo is a "How they did it" sort of show. With who dunnit's as soon as you re-watch the show, you remember who dunnit. But with Columbo, it's more about how did Columbo figure it out. And that's not as easy to remember. So if you space out the shows a few yrs apart. It's like watching it for the first time.

19:14 did you just jump off of the moving portal particle??? WHAT????

There's a much easier way to solve chamber 09 without the cube. If you place a portal on the floor such that half of the portal is on each side of the door, you can then fall through the portal and then jump back into the other half of it to get to the other side of the door. Unless that's considered a glitch?

I made some Portal maps back in the day and yea, I had to try to imagine every possible scenario that could make you stuck and manually detect it.

urm what the flip 😆

3:27, anyone knows how he did this to the camera?

I love how some of these softlocks are understandable mistakes and others are someone doing everything they can to softlock themselves.

Useless info no one asked for: The words "Softlock" and "Portal" are both said an equal amount of times, 142 each

The orange box says otherwise

In chamber 0 there is another softlock that can be achieved by getting the cube stuck on top of the camera in the room. This can be done by jumping on the sign next to the door and picking up the cube to place it on the camera. Great video nonetheless!

Honestly one of the most well made videos i’ve seen all year. GJ!!

Tbh I would count the platform moving down in chamber 19 as soft lock prevention, but maybe I’m just missing something

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Doesn't having the door be jammed by a prop still kind of count as a glitch, though? I'm unsure if janky physics engines count but I'm pretty sure the prop infinitely builds up momentum while being stuck inside of a door. Hell, I'm not even sure if the door is supposed to just outright disappear when being jammed by the radio in test chamber 0.