Hello everyone ! I was waiting in chamber 16 when I discovered we can shoot a portal under the door. I made a video : https://s26.postimg.org/5zsyi2t6x/bloggif_59bd280d92c00.gif (Sorry for bad quality)

Is it allowed ? The rules say : "Not allowed : Portal under door (in chamber 9)" Is it the same problem ? Cause, I don't shoot a portal just under the door but on a part of the ground that are visible from the begining.

Thanks for your answer

Off topic but this might replace me doing the Portal bump in inbounds. I'm so stupid, I never get it first try.

That's a tough one, might end up being ruled as a seamshot (brb trying ingame) here's the coords where I just got it, if anyone wants to try it it seems to aim at a seam where the wall and ground meet and it bumps the portal through the doorframe (as far as I can tell at least)

awesome find tho

The question is if this is a glitch at all, which there has already been plenty of good and well researched discussion.

It's either a seamshot glitch or a portal bump glitch. I don't think someone reasonable would think it's glitchless.

you are literally shooting on the ground through a gap. The portal is only bumping through the doorframe a bit, so it can fully exist in the closest spot possible to where it got shot. Note that the center point is not where you aim, similar to if you shot right in the corner of a wall. The question that still stands is: Are we going to allow exploiting that gap, that the mapmakers either created by messing up or forgot to seal off.

I would say it is a glitch, as you can do it without walking through doors, or going out of bounds, it is still breaking what the developers intended. I am very certain that the developers wouldn't make a near pixel perfect clip purposely, it wouldn't make sense to have a full scene there of glados talking then. It may be allowed in though, depends if the moderators decide to join in on this.

icy pls

I'd argue for it to not be a glitch solely for the purpose of skipping more dialog.

its a glitch. blame lazy game devs.