How to get the special skin from the Potato Sack pack for Portal 2

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In the description for purchasing the Potato Sack pack of games, it was stated (bold mine):

Plus, if you buy this pack (or have all 13 of these games in your account) you get a potato hat in Team Fortress 2! (Potato hat available after April 5th) and a special skin in Portal 2 co-op.

I purchased the pack, but when I go to the Robot Enrichment screen, there aren't any new skins for Atlas or P-Body. I also searched the ingame store to no avail.

Where, when or how can I get my special skin from preordering?

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This was a bit of a misunderstanding. The 'skin' you receive from the potato sack is the flag for the game you played the most. For example, I got a BIT.TRIP.BEAT flag. This is weird, seeing as Portal 2 supports actual skins, but this is what Valve said.

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How to extract the full audio or get subtitles of GLaDOS’s sentences in Portal 2

Use GCFScape and open up the Portal 2 content file, found at \steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\pak01_dir.vpk (for some reason it's unlike TF2 and HL2 which use .gcf's)

There will be a directory structure visible in the program, browse to \root\sound\vo\ and go nuts with probably close to 1000 audio files in a couple folders:

\root
  \sound
    \vo
      \announcer
      \cavejohnson
      \core01  
      \core02  
      \core03
      \glados
      \turret_defective
      \wheatley

Cores 1, 2, and 3 are the...

"space", "fact" and "adventure" spheres, respectively. The final JoCo song is \root\sound\music\portal2_want_you_gone.wav,

...and some other talking stuff (turrets mostly) are in the \root\sound\npc\ folder.

Outside of the .vpk with the audio files, the subtitle file can be found at \steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\resource\subtitles_english.txt (or _czech, _danish...) You can actually use this to quickly find an audio file by searching for a word or sentence fragment, e.g. "nine":

"announcer.openingcourtesy01"   "<clr:250,231,181>Announcer: Good morning. You have been in suspension for nine nine nine... nine nine ni- This courtesy call is to inform you that all test subjects should immediately vacate [FADES OUT]"

The related audio file would be in the .vpk, \vo\announcer\openingcourtsey01.wav

How to give Wheatley a custom skin in Portal 2

VPK stands for Valve Pak, these are files that are uncompressed archives used to package content (never code). They are the successors to GCFs, and when passed to the addoninstaller tool are also used to distribute add-ons like custom campaigns.

VPKs can be created with the command line tool vpk, found at <game>\bin\. This has been introduced in the Left 4 Dead branch and Alien Swarm branch games and has been adopted into the Portal branch.

You can get your custom skins working by creating a custom folder that adapts the VPK structure and then you can drag that custom folder on the vpk tool so it creates a .vpk file for you. Then, you drag that .vpk file onto the addoninstaller.

Have fun! :)

PS: You can use GCFScape to view the .vpk files.

Extra remarks:

Since the SDK is not released yet, there's no official vpk.exe available for Portal 2. I wouldn't change that sentence for now, even though you could also use the vpk.exe from the other SDKs.

— Barracuda 21:09, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

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