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Minisaurus

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Do "flip" option has any other purpose than making stuff confusing?

the graphical particle directional flip is not enough to make this feature comprehensible.

It seems that the Flip option is a vestige that only made sense for the previous version of portal mechanics for EEU, now those seems to be completely redundant.

You can pretty much do the exact same stuff without the need of flipping portals. This feature is very hard to understand, counterintuitive.
In-game (for game-players perspective) this feature makes things really hard to understand.

I would rather have other advanced settings for portals that actually added more depth to the uses of portals than just flipping their direction.

Sensei1

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Re: Do "flip" option has any other purpose than making stuff confusing?

I think it's there to make this sort of movement possible:

Allows you to control to which direction the portal shoots you

Minisaurus

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Re: Do "flip" option has any other purpose than making stuff confusing?

You are right, I tried it without inverting portals, and the result was that portals go in the inverse direction.

I guess this setting might go in the right direction of advanced customization for action tools.
I am still not convinced of the way it is documented and presented in-game, its effect should be more graphically noticeable, and for the builder easier to understand.

mutantdevle

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Re: Do "flip" option has any other purpose than making stuff confusing?

I think it's there to make this sort of movement possible:

https://i.imgur.com/C1bDJDS.gif

Allows you to control to which direction the portal shoots you

Is this not possible by rotating the portals?

Edit: nvm trying different rotations just makes it worse lmao

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