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Portal 2 Hints

GLaDOS' Chamber

  • 1 of 7: Go up the nearby stairs, then move along until you come to a drop-off on the edge of a truly vast chamber.
  • 2 of 7: After falling into the small room, go over to the door with the sign on it and try to open it with the "Use Item" key.
  • 3 of 7: It turns out to be a trap, so just stand and wait for GLaDOS to transport you to her chamber, where she'll try (and fail) to kill you with turrets and neurotoxin.
  • 4 of 7: After Wheatley falls into the chamber and a socket device rises up near GLaDOS, pick Wheatley up and go plug him into the socket.
  • 5 of 7: Wait until an adjacent chamber with a button pedestal in the middle of it opens up, then go press the button.
  • 6 of 7: After you press the button, go back into the main chamber, then wait until a small escape lift rises near the center of the chamber.
  • 7 of 7: Enter the lift, then wait as Wheatley goes crazy and eventually dumps you into Chapter 6: The Fall.