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Contents

  • Essentials
    • Gameplay
      • Overview
      • Characters
      • Apparatuses
      • Portal Science
    • Portal Chamber Strategy
      • Chamber 13
      • Chamber 14
      • Chamber 15
      • Chamber 16
      • Chamber 17
      • Chamber 18
    • Extras
      • Portal Art
      • The Cake is No Lie
  • Walkthrough
    • Test Chambers
      • Chambers 00-01
      • Chambers 02-03
      • Chambers 04-05
      • Chambers 06-07
      • Chamber 08
      • Chamber 09
      • Chamber 10
      • Chamber 11
      • Chamber 12
      • Chamber 13
      • Chamber 14
      • Chamber 15
      • Chamber 16
      • Chamber 17
      • Chamber 18
    • The Escape
      • Part One
      • Part Two
      • Part Three
    • Advanced
      • Advanced Chamber 13
      • Advanced Chamber 14
      • Advanced Chamber 15
      • Advanced Chamber 16
      • Advanced Chamber 17
      • Advanced Chamber 18

Portal Guide › Walkthrough › Test Chambers

Chamber 08

Map Legend
1. Test Chamber 08 Start Point
2.Test Chamber 08 End Point

You see a Ball Launcher to your left aimed at the far wall of the room when you enter Test Chamber 08. Your job is to coax the energy ball it emits toward the Catcher that’s fixed midway along the long wall to your right. First, fire a blue portal toward the point on the far wall where the energy ball makes contact—note the charred spot. After it comes out of the orange portal to your left, place a blue portal on the left wall directly in front of the Catcher. The ball rebounds off the spot where the original blue portal was, flies into the orange, then out of the new blue portal into the Catcher. You have just activated the horizontal lift along the right wall.

Caution

See all that goo on the ground? Try your best to avoid it—the goo is highly toxic and it kills you on contact. You’re relatively safe in Test Chamber 08 (as long as you’re careful getting on the lift), but you won’t have that luxury elsewhere.

Now fire a blue portal anywhere that is accessible. Walk through it and onto the elevated platform in front of the orange portal. From here, deploy a blue portal at the lift’s start point. When it arrives, back out through the orange portal and ride the lift to the exit.

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