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Portal 2 Hints

How can I set up a way to get back across the drop-off?

  • 1 of 8: You can't reach any of the gel tube area's portal-friendly wall sections, nor could you reach an extended excursion funnel that was coming out of one of those wall sections.
  • 2 of 8: Unless there was some repulsion gel on the floor that you could jump off of, that is.
  • 3 of 8: Most of the floor is metal mesh, but the section that's next to the drop-off is solid. You need to get some repulsion gel on it.
  • 4 of 8: To do that, use the excursion funnel to carry the gel away from the tube, like you did with the repulsion gel in the previous chamber.
  • 5 of 8: Put an orange portal on the wall where the excursion funnel is hitting it, then put a blue portal in the gel tube area's back wall, right under the tube.
  • 6 of 8: Press the pedestal's button to get some gel into the extended funnel, then wait until it's directly over the floor section you're trying to gel-paint.
  • 7 of 8: Quickly move the blue portal onto a different wall section to get the gel to drop, then move it back to where it was to get the extended funnel to go back across the chamber.
  • 8 of 8: You could then get onto the repulsion gel that's on the floor and jump to enter the funnel, which would carry you back across the drop-off.