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Portal 2 Hints
How can I get the laser redirected into the second relay?
1 of 9: To do this, you'll need to portal-fling yourself and a redirection cube onto the high-up ledge that the first relay is on.
2 of 9: See the hints for how the portal-flinging mechanism works. Note that the example given at the bottom tells exactly how to get to the ledge you're going to.
3 of 9: The catch is that you can't carry a cube with you while portal-flinging yourself to that ledge, since you can't fire off portals while carrying any sort of object.
4 of 9: You could try taking a cube with you, then quickly dropping it and firing off the new blue portal after you're thrown back out of the orange portal, but that'll usually end up with you and/or the cube not making it onto the ledge.
5 of 9: A better solution is to send a cube on ahead, then follow it later.
6 of 9: Set up the orange and blue portals to start a portal fling, then drop a cube into the orange portal.
7 of 9: Immediately turn to the right and fire a blue portal onto the high-up wall section that's directly across from the first relay's ledge. If you're not too slow or too quick in doing that, you should soon see the cube fly out of the blue portal.
8 of 9: Once you get a cube onto the ledge, portal-fling yourself over there.
9 of 9: Pick up the cube and move it into the laser beam, turn it so that it hits the second relay over on the starting platform, then drop it.
