How do portal plates work in Project P.I.T.T.?
The in-game description is bidirectional, and both sources independently report a single pair.
Quick answer
Portal plates come as a linked pair. The in-game text, read on camera, is "portal plate entanglement — both plates connect, bidirectional traversal of physical space". A recording scanning the upgrade list says of portals "you can have one", and a Phase 4 build guide independently says you get two plates, one in and one out.
Steps
- Buy the portal plates from the upgrade terminal.
- Place the first plate where products arrive — the recording puts one at the output of its anomaly production.
- Place the second where you want them to come out. The build guide specifies the glossy side face down.
- Feed the line in. Anything that touches either plate comes out the other, in both directions.
- Move a plate by picking it up, and watch where it is pointing while you do.
Requirements / limits
- One pair. The recording reads its own restriction off the upgrade list — of portals, "you can have one" — and later calls what it holds a portal pair. The build guide says two plates, one in and one out. Neither source describes running two pairs.
- Bidirectional by the game's own description. This is not a one-way conveyor, and anything that reaches the far plate can come back.
- A level-two portal entry exists in the upgrade list. What it changes is not described anywhere.
- The plates move objects the player did not intend to move. The recording repeatedly finds its own items have gone through, and sums the pair up as "great and all, but holy are they annoying".
- A plate can be swallowed by its own portal. The recording watches its plates disappear into the pair and has to recover one.
Common mistakes
- Treating the pair as a one-way input and output.
- Leaving a plate face-up beneath a working line and forgetting that everything touching it is now travelling.
- Designing a build around two pairs. Both sources report a single pair.
Still unverified
- What does the level-two portal upgrade change?Not verifiedOne recording reads "portal two" in its list of purchases without describing any difference.
- Can a second pair be obtained later in a run?Not verifiedNeither source describes owning more than one pair, and neither states that a second is impossible.