Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as '[a] must-read for serious mi
A player has achieved the fastest-ever death in Portal thanks to some questionable physics and a cup."I surprisingly got this pretty quickly," says Pr0tal,"I am now the king of dying in Portal!" The previous record for the Death% speedrun had stood at 1.3 seconds but Pr0tal smashed this, managing to kill themselves in the opening room in 0.885 seconds.
Pr0tal's run is above and I'll put the previous world record at the end: both are short and sweet, and both use similar methods. Portal opens with Chell in an Aperture testing room containing a few objects, including a cup and a radio, and in the previous fastest time the player tossed the radio into the air and positioned themselves under it for a quick death. Of which I feel GlaDos would approve.
"When I actually jump onto the cup for some reason it gives me a bunch of speed," says Pr0tal,"launching me into the radio which kills me. So think of it like the radio being a brick wall and the cup is a high speed vehicle and I'm the passenger." Curiously enough, this run is likely to lead to a whole bunch of new Portal records, because when it happened the news travelled around fans but some couldn't find the Death% category rankings. This has now been addressed by the repositorysuch that Portal has a new bunch of easily viewable categories —some of which don't have records. We can also see on the).
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