Portal player achieves fastest-ever test subject death thanks to a speed-boosting cup
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.
The trick with the new record is bringing the cup into things. Pr0tal says it only took them «a couple hours of grinding» so perhaps this record can yet be beaten itself, but the whole thing rests on what may be a bit of a glitch whereby the cup is granting Chell extra speed. Thus Pr0tal spawns, immediately runs forwards and hops on the cup in the direction of the radio, hits the radio, and dies faster than any test subject on record.
«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 repository speedrun.com such that Portal has a new bunch of easily
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