Now I am not sure if this would even be possible. But it would be cool to see a "Cubes Only" Category. where users are only aloud to use the command "ent_create_portal_weight_box".
This command spawns a weighted box where the user is looking. The first 9 chambers seem possible but not fully tested.
the challenge comes when the user realizes that these spawned cubes do not seem to effect pressure plates and would require people to keep track of the 'real' weighted boxes.
This is just an idea a few friends of mine and I had when playing with the commands after a sadly failed, glitch less PB run.
Buttons are sensitive to the name of the entity, not the entity itself. Cubes, or any prop, needs to be named 'box' for it to work correctly. One could argue that you could spawn a turret or a radio and name it box and it would have the same effect 🤔
By 'Cubes only' you mean that you can't shoot portals? Can you pass through them? 08 is ridiculous if you don't do ABH over goo. Some chambers, like the end of 16 and 19 requires you to go OoB to do that (16 grid and 19 clipbrush) and going OoB without portals is mostly just propclipping or turret clipping. Propclipping with the portalgun is super cancerous. Turret clipping is less cancerous, but it's still clipping downwards. So I don't think this category idea would be cool.
An update has been released for SST that adds the command sst_portal_resetisg. This command removes Item Save Glitch and is to be used in place of restarting the game. This is a temporary solution while a more robust and legitimate one is developed.
The reasoning for allowing this is to make the ne