Project Capture Mod Rebuilds Portal 2 Around A Quantum Camera
A scrapped Valve concept is being rebuilt by a mod team roughly two decades after Portal 2 shipped, and the pitch depends on the camera replacing the portal gun rather than complementing it.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
CropFactor Team has released a teaser video for Project Capture, a Portal 2 mod built on F-Stop, a scrapped early concept for the game. Players use the ASQRA Quantum Camera to capture objects and relocate them into physical space instead of carrying a portal gun. Portals remain in the environment as fixed elements, and the final stage unlocks the ability to move them between designated frames. Release is scheduled for 2028.
CropFactor Team says the camera is the primary tool, not an addition to the portal gun. The ASQRA Quantum Camera captures objects in the world and relocates them into physical space, which the team frames as the route to multi-layered puzzle solutions.
Portals remain, but as fixed environmental elements that players sometimes use and sometimes work around. The final stage unlocks moving portals between designated frames, which the team presents as the concept's endpoint.
The mod targets the Source engine without code modification or DLL hooks, and the announced release window is 2028.
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