Finale 4

Finale 4

• File name sp_a4_finale4
• Appearance The Part Where He Kills You
• Native to Challenge Mode Yes
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General Route

Early Moon Shot

What we refer to as Early Moonshot is a very specific portal shot at the end of Finale 4 where we shoot the moon's hitbox before getting stuck in the stalemate explosion animation. There is a very small window of time in which the Moon's hitbox can actually be shot and, to make it harder, the hitbox itself isn't super big. Hitting the moon shot saves about 15 seconds making it a very worthwhile shot to go for. This is especially considering the fact that if you miss you aren't technically losing time, there is no penalty to missing it, you just have to wait through the stalemate explosion animation. Luckily for you, we have a setup for it!

1. After finishing the Wheatley fight and placing the 3rd and final core on him, you want to move over to the spot circled in this picture. Standing here will set you up to have the perfect angle for your floor portal.
2. This is a close up on the area you want to stand. As you can see there is an intersection here between the floor tiles. You want to stand right on the intersection.
3. Once standing in position. You will need to wait a few seconds. Once the Announcer mentions that there is a fire in the stalemate room, debris will fall from the ceiling. This debris is always the same. You want to aim at the piece of debris circled in this picture. It is kind of like a little triangle. You want to shoot at it, and keep shooting at it, don't stop until the water washes away all the Conversion Gel from the floor. If you did it correctly, your portal should stay on the floor even after the gel is gone.
4. After getting your floor portal to stay on the ground you want to move over to it, and position yourself so that you are crouching near the top of the portal facing towards the stalemate room. Doing this will put you at the right height to shoot into the stalemate room.
5. After a short time, the angled wall panel will move revealing the stalemate room. Because we are crouched and positioned at the top of our portal, we are able to just barely see part of the portalable ceiling panel in the stalemate room allowing us to shoot into the room while standing on your portal and fall directly in. One thing to note here is that that you want to shoot somewhat closer to the top of the visible white surface otherwise the portal will fail to place. Once you shoot a portal into the stalemate room you want keep holding your portal button down so that it continuously shoots and also start holding down your +forward key (most commonly the W key)
6. This part can be rather tricky depending on your ability. after shooting a portal into the stalemate room you want un-crouch and start looking near the middle of the screen that is above the stalemate room opening. the issue is, as soon as your portal lands you are going to start falling. so you have to do all this before you fall completely into the stalemate room. while also continuing to hold shoot and +forward. because of demo lag this screenshot makes it look more extreme then it is. realistically you actually have a good amount of time aim before you fall to far. by aiming at the screen what you are doing is lining up your aimer exactly with this moon hit box when you come out of the portal
7. Once you have aimed at the screen all you have to do is continue to hold shoot and +forward. your first 2 portals will spark but your 3rd portal will go off exactly when your player is able to shoot the moons hit box milliseconds before getting locked into the stalemate explosion animation. you will know that the shot worked because the sounds will get distorted and slowed, followed by the ping that usually only happens when seeing the sparkle go off on the moons surface. this might take a few tries to get use to but once you are familiar with it, this set up is 100% consistent and you will never miss moon shot again.

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Trivia

"The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days." - Fact Sphere