Quote Originally Posted by AnonymousBard View Post
Ah,

Thats the part thats been smoking me. I get the whole Umbral/Astral thing but I've been scratching my head on the portals. I couldnt seem to figure out if the colors represented the umbral/astral attackes. Like Blue = White / Red = Pruple. So i thought i had to predict like two steps ahead. Like if im Astral, i gotta stand in front of Umbral, but then that means ill change to umbral so i also gotta be lined up with a blue/astral portal. But you're saying that i just need to be in front of the right color but also make sure the portals behind and beside me are different colors? Like if im astral, i stand in front of umbral, but i also got to make sure that im standing to where either its a blue behind and red to my side, or red behind and blue to my side? As long as theyre not the same?
That's right. You're thinking the right way in that you need to be hit by a different-coloured beam each time, but the portal colour has no direct relevance to the beam colour. The portals just predictably transport the beams so they emerge out of a side portal of the same colour.

Basically, you want the second beam (emerging from the side) to be a different colour to the first one that went into the portal behind you.

I explained it more step-by-step in this post.

(I think having played Portal helps you quickly get your head around how the portals work. It's the same logic and the game is based around working with more complex portal arrangements than this.)