Special Wheatley Line - Portal 2

[@evanpie711]

an generic actor(wats seeming playing the voice lines I think) seems to have a vscript(valves scripting system based on squrile) and it calls the function sp_a1_wakeup_Do_Not_Look_Down() that just plays a line, but there is another function sp_a1_wakeup_Do_Not_Look_Down_Over() that sets variable sp_a1_wakeup_Looked_Down to true, and enables a trigger(detects player that walks through it) this is the trigger that plays the kinda unused voice line, it also checks before playing it if sp_a1_wakeup_Looked_Down is true, so that would mean the trigger starting disabled was added in later for some reason? Because that code checks if it's true anyways so it would not matter, so seeing there is specific scripting for this it is most likely not a leftover and just as secret

[@LimeMaxx]

That's really interesting, ty for the info! What an odd voice line to hide in a place that nobody would ever think to backtrack...

[@flachzangenprinz_hd6149]

i dont understand it but thanks for the explanation

[@kreylanedit]

​@@LimeMaxx are you turkish?

[@Liljinks]

I get it, but it went through a scramblerfirst

[@Ceruleanbrain23]

Here I will put it in a simple manner the trigger box was left in the game during development

[@imaginemiles1133]

I remember getting portal 2 for my birthday, and playing it the day after. GLaDOS made a joke about how Chell’s birthday ‘was yesterday’ and I was absolutely flabbergasted.

[@AstridHorton]

Omg

[@chotea]

Omg, what a coincidence..

[@Chloedasher]

THE SAME THING WITH ME

[@August_St4r]

thats absolutely lovely i love that

[@Mazak905]

omg that woud be so cool!😂

[@that-one_guy]

They might have dragged it there one day and just forgot about it, like when you leave something in the back of your fridge for too long.

[@Hematite_Knight]

Omg fr I have a cup of yogurt that has been in my fridge for like 2 years

[@vintage-radio]

​@@Hematite_Knight eat it

[@imaginationanimations8737]

​@@vintage-radioI think they died

[@skinskinner]

@@vintage-radio yeah they're dead

[@vintage-radio]

@@skinskinner rip

[@elijahlukejames]

He just says it in that room because it’s when his brain realised it. He is slow.

[@ritter3723]

Tbf he was designed to be a moron

[@wall-knight2830]

“You’re my rail now” -Wheatley

[@Dalek-br6nu]

Sounds oddly sweet

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

"You're moirail now" - Karkat

[@elizathegamer413]

Homestuck reference, now this is epic ​@@thewhitefalcon8539 I mean until the betrayal you could consider wheatley a moirail given your relationship but afterwards its obviously ashen

[@balala7567]

@@thewhitefalcon8539 i cannot escape, can i?

[@tedioabsoluto5780]

@@balala7567 Nope.

[@Lunarcreeper]

i think this is intentional, as backtracking for no reason would likely make wheatley realize that chell could easily drop him

[@ChikunVA]

But the part at the end with the "don't get too close to the edge" makes no sense where the line is played

[@Lunarcreeper]

@@ChikunVA true, maybe he meant when u go back, or maybe it was a scrapped line so the decided to make an intentional easter egg with it

[@thatwardrobeguy]

If they wanted the voice line gone they could've just deleted the trigger so this is for sure intentional

[@GoofySlugpup]

Who knows check hammer

[@jamesbryan287]

This.

[@e.q.s1137]

Personally I'd call that "bugged," not "cut"

[@hurricanejaney]

the fact it’s animated proves it’s intentional, i think. it’s just a little Easter egg you can find by backtracking. a good amount of Wheatley’s lines can be heard by just standing around long enough lol, like the monologue where he pretends to be a “neurotoxin inspector” from the United Arab Emirates

[@Rocco049]

I almost spat out my drink he does WHAT?

[@hurricanejaney]

@@Rocco049 the dialogue in this game is like 4x longer than you’d initially expect 😂 just look up “Wheatley Hacks the Neurotoxin”

[@Baller-e2k]

I saw that because I was clueless about how to implode the neurotoxin generator 😂

[@August_St4r]

wait what?? help???

[@hurricanejaney]

@@August_St4r “‘Ello, guv!”

[@ryan___ryan2711]

It's obviously because he's had time to think about it.

[@nameless......................]

that implies he can think

[@orig1naln4me]

@@nameless...................... underrated reply

[@KurtisHere_91]

I would die for Wheatley

[@TheaGamin]

For or to

[@ItsAsparageese]

This is the comment where he kills you 😂

[@supersunman6056]

that’s what he wanted

[@unknownfox3796]

Wheatley : "oh, you will"

[@augustomoreira7441]

he *would* kill you

[@Cubekid10.]

I swear i remember this line being on the catwalk

[@RetjeeeTv]

I think it's just simply a misplaced trigger

[@HavingFunTimes]

love those subtitles, very faithful to the game

[@princessthyemis]

That's such a fantastic line!!! Ahh just think of all the good fanfic that could have been written with it... "you're my rail now" awww! Any Blue Sky fans here?! After all these years I still love it!!❤❤

[@LimeMaxx]

i think you'll like this voice line then: www.tumblr.com/wheatley-fanblog/704641665459240960/the-wheatley-core-have-some-words-of

[@bland9876]

This feels more like an Easter egg rather than a cut dialogue.

[@CallofFreaky]

All his lines are special to me

[@kingacrisius]

I had this line play in my only playthrough of Portal 2. This was several years ago but I just turned around and walked back for a while and this played. I don't remember why I turned around, but I remember this line.

[@Adrian-s4g4s]

same.

[@CRSTNONLINE]

First time in years I’ve seen a fact video about portal that had something I didn’t already know about the series I love that

[@pangaming124]

The right line in the wrong place, can make all the difference in the world

[@Theodore_noisey]

When there is a cutscene or dialogue, there will be a invisible box that triggers it, the devs meant to make 2 boxes but if 2 boxes are very near each other they merge together, including voicelines, so if you go In and out and in the box it plays the sound or voicelines

[@princessthyemis]

Whoa!!! That's so interesting!!!

[@Secretly_Tank_Dempsey907]

As wheatley, I can confirm

[@Protoplosion]

maybe they thought the line was to long so for it to trigger by coming to the start again, it could give him some extra time to say it before coming to the lift. idk

[@beatbreaker9340]

I got the voice line in my first play through by accident I had no idea it wasn’t just another voice line

[@SpeedyGamerTV]

Maybe it's like one of Wheatley's extra dialogue if you wait long enough

[@Kateykat]

That might be intentionally left in aka not cut as it might be him reacting to the player not wanting to walk along the catwalk and deciding to go back but at the same time the voice line seems not nearly as refined as every other voice line so idk

[@KurtisHere_91]

When you enter GLaDOS's chamber and go down the stairs to the bit where you have to jump and wait for a while he'll start saying things that most people don't get to hear because they jump right away

[@lk8114]

Thank you for showing me this it made my whole day

[@Terrible_tomato]

I got this voiceline accidentally on my first playthrough and found it pretty interesting! Wish they found a better way to implement it.

[@vinnib8779]

Maybe it's because when you go back to the other room for him to take a little break he says this

[@PhynixAnimations]

it might be a bug when this voice-line was SUPPOSED to be played, but since we back tracked, its probably supposed to play there and then when walking it'll play but y'know. It bugged out and then that line plays at the wrong time.

[@tcode3564]

At my first playthrough I triggered that line and was really confused by it because I have watched countless let's plays of the game and never heard that line until then.

[@Cubekid10.]

I saw someone say that they went back here after he got caught or whatever i think using cheats and they thought it was wheatleys ghost

[@NicktheNarrator]

I was literally replaying portal 2 today and did this but I had no idea that it was a “cut” voice line!😯

[@ooofboiz]

In not a coder, but I believe a dialogue script had an extra number or misspelling, and it was placed there because there was going to be a catwalk there, I do

[@DrawinskyMoon]

This is one thing I love about valve games is how they reward you for exploring. I would purposely stick around in an area to hear new voice lines pop in.

[@Just_an_animator4890]

It could've been that under the GLADOS room,it's either that it used to be bigger either the trigger was just set to the wrong setting or it's just an Easter egg

[@psychoherobrine3406]

All I could think of is misread coding that they forgot to get rid of due to changes the devs made within the process of the map. Like maps and locations can change, making the code a bit more funky. Or it's a voiceline delay when it got triggered on the catwalk.

[@Shoxic666]

It's gotta be deliberate; he gets scared so the player steps back and triggers additional lines. There's tons of dialogue when you don't move on after a conversation.

[@theunknownace7640]

My best guess is that the trigger for the line was set there when that area is loaded and when you walk over it it’ll activate

[@ChikunVA]

So, I've always played Portal 2 in German and as I was going through the German GLaDOS Voicelines in the wiki, I noticed that there are two voicelines where GLaDOS calls Chell by her name (both before turning into PotatOS). I think I recall actually hearing one of these in the game, but I have never been able to find it again. And then, at some point, I saw a video where someone claimed that GLaDOS never calls Chell by her name. So were these voicelines indeed cut? And if so, why were they translated then?

[@LimeMaxx]

I've never personally played the German version of the game, but I do know that these voice lines were cut from the English version. They were recorded, and still remain in the games files which likely means they were cut very close to the games final release. That would explain why the german voice line was recorded as well. Since the voice lines can still be accessed, I'm guessing you heard the line while playing a custom test on the workshop. Test designers love to use unused voice lines.

[@ChikunVA]

@@LimeMaxx Ah, that makes sense! I don't remember ever playing much on the workshop, but my memory is pretty bad, so it might be the reason! Thanks for clarifying :) I think it's really cool that even these cut lines were translated (even though it was probably a mistake). What is interesting btw, is, that the lines of the turret quoting Cave Johnson were probably added quite late into development, as these were actually not translated, despite being in the game since launch.

[@Nightmare10311]

I could be wrong but I'm 90% sure it's because since it was supposed to be the priority voice line but later got replaced, they forgot to remove the scraped voice line. So when going into that room first, I plays the line current line we always hear but going back a second time re runs the script for any remaining voice lines under that trigger. I could've explained it better but explaining things are not my strong foot

[@simpleguy86]

the cut voice line that really gives me chills is the "i don't want this" Caroline says

[@96calvin]

i found these randomly while re-exploring the game

[@MrGermandeutsch]

Well that's interesting! Coincidentally, this short appears on my feed right after I've seen a video of a workshop map utilize this exact voiceline, which I've never heard of before until yesterday. I also want to mention that there's a difference between cut-content and unused-content. But I don't know if there's a category for leftover-content or something like that. Portal 2 has a lot of leftover-content which was never fully removed, and are still present as of today.

[@sushi656]

i never realised how terrifying wheatlys eye was

[@aydenlokey3641]

I think I remember getting this line on my first playthrough and immediately trying to find the nearest pit

[@TheGreatHalberd]

If you call a line that can be triggered in-game "cut", then you don't know what cut means.

[@JayBcIhaveNoCreativity]

I hope I’m not the only evil person who dropped him onto the catwalk floor in the middle of his “don’t look down” line

[@Neptunenerg]

“They said that if I detached from my rail, I would die.” I guess that wasn’t a lie.

[@QuackerMusic]

I was messing around with gmod portal 2 support and both the used and unused lines play right after each other and it actually kinda works

[@WhodatIzz]

It's foreshadowing to him throwing the player into bottomless pit later... As happens a lot on portal... The longer you delay the next area the more they talk, often with inside jokes or circular references.

[@daultimateblj8000]

I heard this voiceline when playing portal 2 singleplayer maps with my friend in coop (while figuring out why things were not working on this map even when I walked through the triggers a second time)

[@gearmore9923]

Could have sworn I remember hearing this when I played Portal 2 for the first time on Xbox 360

[@EMPeachGaming]

It's probably supposed to trigger as you are walking back over the catwalks and not while you are standing nowhere near them.

[@TheWarTrain]

Or maybe its supposed to play the first time you get in that room, and as you walk into the catwalk room, he tells you not to fall

[@mythikaldragon8802]

It might be a triggered voice line when you walk from the room to the catwalk.

[@McSkellyHo]

My guess is that it’s supposed to play the don’t look down line first and if you walk back to the room before the catwalk, Wheatley will talk more about how he’s afraid of that moment. But that’s just my fairly uneducated guess

[@Weevil-mo7uv]

Apparently, another cut Wheatley voiceline is "Oh, some guy with a briefcase wanted to see you."

[@ng65gaming]

We still love Wheatley no matter how many times it was the Part Where He Tried To Kill Us

[@Derxel]

I always noticed and thought it was a little funny that right at the beginning when wheatley is first introduced, there is a voiceline that plays but immediately gets cut off by his terror from seeing your face for the first time. You can really only notice this if you have captions turned on

[@Derxel]

Here is the series of events: *Chell wakes up* Announcer: "Good morning. You have been in suspension for nine nine... nine nine ni- This courtesy call is to inform you that all test subjects should immediately vacate [FADES OUT] Wheatley: "Hello? Anyone in there?" Wheatley: "Helloooo?" Wheatley: "Are you going to open the door? At any time?" *Chell opens the door* Wheatley: "HA! I knew someone was alive in here." *Wheatley cuts himself off on the first word* Wheatley: "AH! Oh. My. God. You look terribl-- ummm... good. Looking good, actually." *Wheatley heads slowly into the room* Wheatley: "Are you okay? Are you - Don't answer that. I'm absolutely sure you're fine. There's plenty of time for you to recover. Just take it slow." - and continuing as normal

[@caseybaker7935]

It's much longer than any of the other catwalk lines, and even the catwalk itself. Seems like a two-stage trigger, reaching certain coordinates after a previous line has been said. Maybe at one point there was a longer version of the walk that got shortened for being uneventful and the trigger just slipped through the cracks.

[@beback_]

You've embarrassed yourself, Wheatley. Play a record.

[@zachyper]

“I have no idea how hammer works” as a hammer dev, I agree with you

[@Btomaek]

i think the voice like was meant to be triggers first and then the spooked one but they got the order wrong

[@theetwistedone]

Clumsily hacked out voiceline

[@christinesutherland2946]

I backtracked to try and get the "cut" voice line not realizing that I had just got it

[@kainaris]

No way... I thought I knew everything about Portal 2. New voice line

[@EzekEyes]

I bet they payed Stephen Merchant a fortune for how many lines he has in this damn game which I love so much

[@Alex_192.]

There's also part of a voice line that's entirely skipped by another. In the part where he kills you, there's a voice line activated by stepping into the excursion funnel after the real turret ambush. It then skips to a different line before the first one finishes. Another voice line starts if you leave the excursion funnel, though.

[@AngeloftheAether]

I think it might also trigger if you wait on the catwalk long enough? I think it happened to me one time, not totally sure tho.

[@VaryaTheVillain]

...I got that line on my first playthrough because I backtracked to check if I missed anything. never thought this is a rarity.

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

It might be playing the leftover SB16 files from when they added AWE32 compatibility.

[@alexanderberrones2165]

technically it wouldn’t be a cut voice line but instead a secret voice line because you can still hear it in the game but it’s very easy to mess

[@ahbpoo]

I swear that I've heard that exact line on the catwalk...

[@TheaGamin]

I accidentally triggered this line during my first playtrough and was confused why he didn't say it a second time when i replayed it.

[@LocalGoober10]

I think it was intentional, being that he says “I just now realize…”. I think it’s implying he was t thinking about how delicate his current situation is compared to in the room before.

[@Turtlous]

I got this voiceline on my first playthrough because Wheatley seemed nervous so I backed up to calm him down. I guess that isn't normal 😅

[@zaedenheimer9243]

It way be that that room was originally part of a path that led out of the catwalk but then the path got removed and the dialog didn't

[@DreamReaprYT]

I also did a speedrun from the start to when Wheatley was transferred to GLaDOS' body. It was pretty quick because I was already good at the beginning and I love to skip as many parts as I can in games, giving me a very fast record for the start until Wheatley was transferred to GLaDOS' body. It was a while ago so I don't remember the time, unfortunately.

[@that_one_libra419.9]

One of the more interesting cut voice lines was of Cave Johnson trying to convince Caroline to get her brain downloaded, but it sounded too much like a boss trying to... giggity an employee and it even made Ellen McLain cry when she was voicing it.

[@UltraegoVegetaW]

lol I played this game earlier I did think about how many people didn't hear this voice line

[@Srubymkv]

I could decompile the map, thus go into its editing state and see the triggers.

[@wghd6782]

A cut voice line ain’t really a cut voice line when it can still be going in the game

[@jojogape]

It's weird because I'm pretty sure that room where he says the line is really similar to another one earlier in the game where he also warns you about not falling off the edge, I think

[@GoobTheMonke]

Here’s another in the Wheatley boss fight if you wait with the green one it will say for us to try to get Wheatley to say something and at the end he says it

[@jpkjnn6733]

It's also just a really long line to trigger for a quick scene.

[@lttgames4456]

Well it works because as he said it was hum rambling out I'd fear

[@nostalgiachase]

I figured this out on my own a week ago, and I was very confused at first.

[@shidqy0003]

Maybe the bridges used to take more space then, that'll explain why the voice trigger is still left

[@probably_creek]

oh i found that by accident on my first playthrough, i thought it was a normal voiceline

[@brandiharris2818]

I am still insanely mad at wheatley’s little temper tantrum at the end of chapter 5.

[@i_like_undertale_and_deltarune]

i dont know why it is there but i think it is because it schould play if you walk over the catwalk and is there becaus of it is so long and because of a bug it is not playen the first time and the looking down joke was made because there was no time to fix the bug but when we walk back it triggers the voice line

[@gagekelley5047]

It's a glitch in the matrix. It's gotta be!

[@LexiLunarpaw]

It was supposed to be played after Chell Jumps from the broken Stairs into the catwalk room entrance but the Trigger was accidentally loaded after you cross the Catwalk causing the line to be played when you return. You were meant to jump down And Wheatley would say his still held line and comes to the realization that your his rail now and hes worried Chell would jump into a Bottomless pit like she did for the stairs and warns her not to get to close to the edge...

[@wren2689]

Prob because when they put the trigger at the catwalk they were too lazy to remove it so they just made it so that there was a position trigger and it moved it to a different position

[@jimdixon3712]

I would die for Wheatley.

[@AmateurSourceNerd]

i heard this line while screwing around in that area after i broke and froze the cutscene by going back under by noclipping back there

[@Brute-the-Brutality]

I’m freakin’ out here because a long time ago I accidentally found that! I don’t know why I went back to the other room though. Probably my ADHD and the thousands of hours I have playing Portal 2.

[@BOBOISBIG]

Hammer is an insanely easy editor to just plop down a trigger and forget about it and just pray and hope it’s for something useful, because if you delete it and it was something important good luck actually figuring out what that just was or where you placed it, and no you can’t “just check it” because you run into that issue 250 times a day, in short hammer is an incredible engine if you hate yourself but also love great games. Also by this point in the game valve engineers most likely had a lot of trigger walls and other sound effects that just sort of were in the right place or maybe a few squares off, or you assumed it would trigger a bit later. Learning hammer makes you realise why half life 3 doesn’t exist

[@someonenamedsomeone9497]

I got this on my first play through and I just felt bad for the dude