Portal 2's CONFUSING Crosshair

The Portal 2 crosshair is somewhat disappointing when compared to the Portal 1 version. Guess what? That's what this video is about.

[Oli.V]

This is a weird change, especially when portal 2 has plenty of points on the later half of the game where you need to shoot a portal at significant distance on walls that are usually dirty so it’s not always immediately clear they’re portal-able surfaces.

[zertheultimate]

I'll be honest, I never really noticed. I've never had an issue with the crosshair or it malfunctioning. And I've played quite a bit of 1 and 2

[opliz]

To look at the last portal you fired just look at the portal gun color 😭

[mostlydaniel]

My theory is that they changed it because of the moon shot, if they had the same style crosshair as portal 1, it would be immediately obvious that you're supposed to shoot on the moon. But by changing it this way it lets players figure it out themselves.
That's just my theory tho, I could be wrong

[timmzzzz]

The gun tells you which portal you shot last.

[DarksideStreams]

I never even noticed the crosshair had a use besides aiming

[potatolad]

I saw the first frame of the video as it was loading and immediately thought this was gonna be one of /those/ videos.

[Vcna_]

the one thing i've learnt is that the playtesters were babies who are now responsible for the huge red arrows you see and random locked cameras (the moon scene for example)

[Im_Basty]

It's because it was too easy in Portal 1, in portal 2 you had to actually pay attention and look around for a surface instead of letting the crosshair tell you where to place the portals

[infebris]

honestly i have never used the crosshair in portal for any kind of information gathering, just remember which portal you placed last.

[CollectorDuck]

Looks more like a bug than a feature. The fact that it changes at the end of the level, suggests that there is a reset trigger, but it doesn't work as intended in other situations.

[dundercontrol]

As someone who has played both portals countless times, i never noticed nor felt like it made a difference. Its not like you can have 40 portals out so remembering between two isnt that bad

[whyjordie]

How did I never notice the difference in crosshairs and Portal 2 is my favorite game of all time

[ohheyemmi]

Ive played both of these games a million times, and I have NEVER noticed that the crosshair shows you the last portal fired....

[arrakaarkana]

Might have to do with the portal gel and how it allows for dynamic allocation of portalable surfaces.

[roselavanda]

On the gun itself, there is a light that changes depending on what your last portal was! So if you shot the orage one last, the light will be orange, and blue for the blue one

[Level_Foxtrot]

I never really noticed this when I was playing Portal 2, but I wasn't really paying attention to it

[protion_]

Honestly i didnt even noticed the change, I've never paid too much attention to the crosshair

[szupertntakos]

I think it was too easy to find the exact angle where you can shoot a portal out of bounds in portal 1.

[Yuliviee]

The last portal fired will be the colour of the light on the gun