1970s
1970s is a style in the BEE2 created by Carl Kenner and TeamSpen210. It takes place in the 1970s, like in The Reunion in Portal 2. This is when they tested propulsion gel. Gel plates are still used instead of faith plates, and a mechanical version is still available. Most walls are green/blue or may sometimes appear as silver metal. In the 70s era, Aperture has little money to spare - testing equipment is simplified or has a more rough appearance. Test signage uses the modern icon design printed onto semi-transparent decals.
- Music : The Reunion
- Voice : Cave Johnson (70s)
- Skybox : Sphere Interior
- Elevator Video : Not Present
This style has no special stylevars.
Underground orange gel enrichment sphere from 1975, now for testing homeless people in exchange for $60.
This is when they started using more random colours and materials on their walls, and ceilings are different.
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Buttons are no longer recessed into holes in the floor.
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Modern white indicator signs are now used, in the form of semi-transparent stencils.
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Lights are now white, and the fog is grey.
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The glass looks better, and stairs are no longer made of grating.
In the 70s they stopped using ceilings almost completely, but I can't do that, so I switched to the only ceiling texture they seemed to ever use anymore. They also cut down on walls and floors, so things were often just hanging from wires, which I can't do either. They stopped using celebrities and started using homeless bums and paying them $60, (or $120 to cut them open). So I have lots of signs and voice clips about that. They changed their logo and lots of other things to yellow, so I made all the white plastic of modern items yellow instead of brown. They started using modern white lightboard symbols pasted semi-transparently onto walls, so I changed back to the modern white signage. They talk a lot about the glass, so I made it prettier. And some gratings aren't quite so rusted. In the entry room that looks like an office, there is much more modern equipment. Cave looks older in the portraits. And of course there's propulsion gel, and you can see orange pipes in the background of the sphere. And it says 1975 on the outside. Not a lot of differences.
1970s icon in the style chooser window.