Portal 2: Community Edition
Coming soon (Release)
/bin/win64- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- Win 10 v2004 or later
- 8 GB RAM
- 20 GB disk space
- DirectX 11 capable
with 2GB VRAM
Portal 2: Community Edition is a standalone mod developed using licensed code from Valve, that aims to make useful tweaks and additions to the game for mappers and modders. It's designed to be used as a base for custom maps and other Portal 2 mods, though it will also include its own campaign to show off some of the new features.
The mod requires Portal 2 purchased in order to play, installation of Portal 2 is not required, as the game is completely standalone and uses separate Source engine branch (Strata Source) from Portal 2.
AltNames: This mod is also known as P2:CE.
The project has entered the open beta state on April 17th 2026, as the game should be possible to navigate by players without any prior modding knowledge.
Portal 2: Community Edition is based on 
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's engine branch. Therefore, much of the documentation on this wiki pertaining to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive may also apply to Portal 2: Community Edition.Features
- Runs on
Strata Source, a heavily modified version of the the latest version of CS:GO engine branch with 
Portal 2's entities ported, having all of CS:GO's engine features plus more
- Panorama UI
- Cascaded Shadow Maps
- Lightmapped Ambient Occlusion
- New rendering and lighting technique, similar to Deferred lighting & shading, allowing multiple dynamic lights to be rendered with little performance hit
- Native DirectX 11 support; DirectX 9 support has been completely dropped
TeamSpen's Hammer Addons integrated by default
Left 4 Dead 2/
Black Mesa-style workshop, which allows for asset modification as well as custom maps- Re-enabled engine tools
- Increased env_projectedtexture limit, now up to 8 dynamic lights can be active simultaneously
- Physically Based Rendering shader
- Parallax corrected cubemaps
- Enhancements to vanilla test element entities, such as the ability to color lasers
- Paint Gun, Adhesion Gel, and Schrödinger's Cube re-implemented
- Ladders, both
Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive style, are re-enabled - Re-Implemented Half-Life 2 weapons and entities
- Volumetric lighting & fog
- Backwards compatibility with almost all Source Engine games, including support for
Source 2013 maps and models - Toggleable b-hop and duckjump
- Ability to mount and play other Source games, including
Portal and Half-Life 2 - Upgraded and expanded
Hammer to fix crashes and instabilities - New Schrödinger's Cube design
Planned Features
- Most
Mapbase features will be implemented - Toggleable legacy movement (/)
- Improved gel and portal color customization
- Expanded VScript API, along with a new scripting system utilizing AngelScript
- Toggleable Portalgun projectile behavior
- A new puzzlemaker, similar to the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker but with more available testing elements.
Media
Screenshots and videos of P2CE can be found on its Steam store page.
Team
Portal 2: Community Edition is developed by the P2CE Team. An up-to-date member list can be found here.
Gallery
See also
- Portal
- Portal 2
- Mapbase, a similar project for Half-Life 2 (developed from Valve's public Source 2013 Singleplayer repository, and therefore is open-source; compatible with more older DX9 hardware)
- TeamSpen's Hammer Addons, a set of Hammer improvements added to P2CE by default
- Portal 2 Level Design
- List Of Portal 2: Community Edition Entities
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