Hub

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The Computer Intelligence Training and Enrichment Center Human Test Subject Research Center or CinTech (pronounced Sin-Tech) or the Hub is a section of Aperture Science that is featured exclusively during the Cooperative Testing Initiative.

Most beginners (or players who made a reset recently) continue to the 01 Doors, Course 1: Team Building from here. The next Test Chamber can be almost anything when at least one player has unlocked it...

The Credits map isn't accessible from here.

Courses

Main article: Portal 2 courses during Cooperative Testing Initiative

Portal 2 courses during Cooperative Testing Initiative

Notes

• The Hub has Aerial Faith Plates, Hard Light Bridges, and Panels that allow for easy traversal of the chamber.
• Players cannot access the Calibration Course from any door in the Hub. It must be re-accessed using the pause menu or developer console.
• After you complete the final course, Mobility Gels, the Announcer then speaks to the players in the Hub. This will happen even if one of the players has not completed co-op mode. As such, one player will miss out on GLaDOS' story-related lines and the unique "new area unlocked" animations that this map plays when neither player has completed a part.
• The Steam version of Portal 2 automatically unlocks all courses while playing in local split-screen, so this will also prevent the unique sequences from being used.
• Console versions of Portal 2 track co-op progress in split-screen correctly.

Trivia

• It features a large screen that displays the total steps players have taken since starting co-op, as well as total portals fired and other statistics.
• There are 2 different map files for the hub. mp_coop_lobby_2 is the original version of the hub present in the game at release, while mp_coop_lobby_3 added the Art Therapy DLC course.
  • mp_coop_lobby_2 is only used when playing with a partner who doesn't have the Peer Review DLC installed. Since the PC and Switch versions of Portal 2 bundle Peer Review with the base game rather than being a separate download, this is only possible in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game. On PC, the map can also be loaded through the developer console, and still functions as expected.
  • There is no mp_coop_lobby; unused resource lists indicate that this was an early version of the hub which was replaced later in the game's development.
• As the host (Atlas/player 1), to reset your progress so that your testing partner can experience the story in the Hub from the beginning, use the console to enter in mp_mark_all_maps_incomplete. You won't lose your achievements or your accumulated stats (portals placed, footsteps taken, etc.), but after resetting the level with changelevel mp_coop_lobby_2 (or 3), all of the test chambers will be closed off and you'll hear GLaDOS's lines again. If your friend was further along with some of the sections done, you can use mp_mark_course_complete and then 0, 1, 2, or 3, depending on what their last completed section was, to make your completion progress roughly equal. Finally, use changelevel again to load the map with the changes applied.
• There are small speakers with the label 409 in the chamber changer for every course (including art therapy), which can play 3 Turret voice lines at random. ("Noooooo!", "Hooray!" and "Goodbye!")
• The acronym making "CinTech" is a little bit unusual, but if the right letters are bolded, you get "Computer intelligence Training and enrichment center human Test Subject Research Center".

Gallery

Courses 1, 4 and 5 Courses 1, 4 and 5   Disassembly chamber with closed panel. Disassembly chamber with closed panel.

Trivia

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Announcer's voice lines

• "Welcome to the Computer Intelligence Training and Enrichment Center Human Test Subject Research Center. You have unlocked all available courses." | Download | Play (only played upon first-time-unlocking of the Art Therapy course)
• "Warning! All testing courses are currently available." | Download | Play
• "Congratulations on successfully returning to the central hub room. From here you can select all previously completed courses." | Download | Play
• "For your testing convenience, all tests are available and all safety precautions within testing chambers have been deactivated." | Download | Play
• "Welcome back to the central hub. All test courses are available. You may redundantly solve the courses at your leisure." | Download | Play
• "Thank you for completing the testing courses. If you enjoyed your experience, you may now re-enter the testing course of your choice." | Download | Play
• "By completing all test courses, you have achieved Level C security clearance. You may now access all testing courses and three of Aperture Science's 176 restrooms." | Download | Play