Just finished Testchamber 19 (So I'm several years late to the party, so what?).

Holy shit, I only had under a minute to go to pluck the red module out of the air, get it over to the incinerator, open it up and throw the bastard in. I had literally 1 second on the clock when GLaDoS asploded. Talk about close call.

It might not have been that close. You have a few more minutes than they make it seem. If you don't get it done by the time the clock ends she says she doesn't have enough neurotoxin to kill you and has to synthesize more, putting a few more on the clock. Then you die.

I suggest trying the Flash Mappack mod now, but not the Portal Prelude. The former is more testchamber goodness. The latter is frustratingly hard.

Fuck you, GLaDoS!

Also, will have to look into that. I heartily enjoyed the testchambers. Well, the ones that weren't crazyhard groanfests of "Oh man, I have to do more of THIS?"

Especially the second half of testchamber 19. Fuck that part SO HARD.

Not last I checked... which was earlier this week, when I downloaded and played it. Maybe it did that at some earlier point in the game's history, but in the most recent version it doesn't.

Weird. I clearly remember some line about making more. I'm inclined to now sit in the boss room until the timer ends. Off to prove I'm not crazy!

Edit: Seems I'm crazy. Just flat out died when the timer ended. At SOME point she says "Huh! There isn't enough neurotoxin to kill you, so I guess you win. Ha! I'm making more. That's going to take a few minutes though. Meanwhile, oh, look, it's your old pal, the Rocket Turret." but it seems to be unrelated to the timer. *shrug*

In light of this new evidence, hurray! My last second foiling of the bad-thingie's plan is still a valid moment of "Whew! That was a close one!"

Also, anyone else laugh at the song she sings during the credits?

I'm trying to do the Transmission acheivment, but for the life of me I can't do jack squat with the one in Chamber 06. I can never grab the radio in midair without getting it perfectly stuck in its little cubby hole, and no matter how I place my portal I can never seem to grab the radio THROUGH the portal.

Could someone provide a screenshot or something of where and in what direction exactly the portal must be for me to get this?

That's the one with the hole in the wall above an Emancipation Grid, right? I just put a portal on the ceiling, fell through and grabbed it as I was falling. Took quite a few tries but it worked eventually.

Which as I said isn't working. A combination of low FPS and poor timing makes that perfectly impossible for me. Hence my request for a stationary solution which from what I've heard is possible; however the source in question failed to specify how.

I just realized we were talking about different chambers. The one you're talking about... yeah I couldn't get that one either. Since I was just dicking around, though, I turned on cheats and noclipped up to it. The achievement system didn't seem to care.

Here's a video. Go to around 2:15 for the chamber you're talking about. They get it without falling through.

Oh yes. In case you don't know, it was written for them by Jonathan Coulton, who has since become a major part of my music collection for his unique style of, what Yahtzee put it as: "upbeat folk music about robots." :dance: