How Speedrunners Beat Portal Without the Portal Gun

Yeah, I love " ", definitely one of my favorite games.

Music used (in order):
Super Mario Galaxy OST - Sky Station Galaxy
Baba Is You OST - Wall is Stop
VA-11 HALL-A OST - Welcome to VA-11 HALL-A
Skullgirls OST - Pick of the Litter
Ducktales (NES) - The Moon Theme

Thanks to baister09 and Dinoz for helping with the video creation process.

This video is not an actual speedrun world record, nor a speedrun tutorial. This video is a showcase of a speedrun strategy that goes in-depth to the various tricks, glitches and bugs that make the strategy possible.

[JTBJacksdeadasschannel]

Imagine being GLaDOS and watching Chell defy the laws of everything without even touching the prized portal gun.

[RipleySawzen]

"Portals are magical witchcraft of the devil. I'm not going to go through one."
_phase shifts through wall_

[lunaraurora]

I love the fact that the physics can be so serious at times that blocking the door with an object actually works

[kingkosher]

Players now: "This cake is STILL a lie"
15 years later: "There is in fact a cake and I got it"

[WebDevWithABlackBelt]

GLaDOS needs a new line at the start.
"Please, refrain from getting too smart as you complete the tests. Please remain inside the testing chamber at all times during the tests."

[bpnbeckeroo]

Some kid probably found a completely game-changing glitch, but never told anybody and just restarted their game.

[TheBimGreaper]

This is the video game equivalent of drawing a line around the maze

[Tabsau]

I like to think that it's just normal for glados to watch test subjects like chell scale up a wall using a can of beans and just clipping thru walls while A-posing

[FirstLastname]

“Now you’re thinking with uhh… with uhh… thinking with uhh”

-GLaDOS, probably?

[fnzzygoesfast]

Little correction. It was known that 14 Portals was the limit 5 minutes after we revealed the 15 portal "Least Portals" run. Me and Jukspa have tried to clip through the fan in e01 but couldn't get it after an hour of slamming our face against objects, so we didn't try further since the run was almost complete at that point. I did a live reveal on my Twitch channel and mentioned our failure, and then XeiZ went ingame and found a way to do it 5 minutes after the run was over.

No one cared enough to re-do it, so that info has been somewhat lost to time apparently.

[aidynchristiansen]

That explains a lot, turns out I accidentally did item save glitch during my first play through, which explains why it was hard to do a puzzle that required you to stand on the companion cube

[identocidal]

imagine you reach GLaDOS without using any portals and she's just screaming in fear.

[jumpinghunter]

Bending time and space with the little 4-dimensional radio really sounds like something aperture would do, actually...

[monsterno.definablenever.]

Okay but like

This is EXACTLY the type of science Aperture would do.

[box]

15 years later from now:

“How Speedrunners Beat Portal without moving with their eyes closed”

[WoddCar]

Instead of the Run being called portalless, it should be called airboatless instead

[TheAdvertisement]

I remember seeing Smallant's videos and Lowest Percent's video on beating Mario Odyssey without captures and it was so cool how they got around it. But seeing Portal itself beaten without an equally integral feature, seeing the logic puzzles and how broken the game can get, is simply amazing.

[Bokatrice]

"The Item Save Glitch" actually can happen in Garry's Mod (portal-less, of course). We had this issue come up frequently in Ultimate Chimera Hunt servers since player ragdolls get launched into physics props relatively frequently.

[parallellia]

"Dark side of the Source is a pathway to many abilities, young Player. Some considered to be, unnatural."

[arcmage]

I randomly got item save glitch in a casual playthrough a while back, cracked me up. Twf you load into chamber 16 and watch as the companion cube plummets through the floor