Quick Answer
Have your partner shoot you to make you heavy on the plate. The heavy effect makes the pressure plate count you as two people, so your separated partner can activate it with you from a distance. In We Were Here Tomorrow, this pressure plate comes just before the Magnetic Stabilizer, and you open a vent so your partner can see you.
The Magnetic Stabilizer, Magnetic Stabilizer two-person pressure plate, and Exotic Matter Laboratory weighted plate are names you may use for this same obstacle. This puzzle is part of the Exotic Matter Laboratory walkthrough: you need to reach the pressure plate room and open the vent to your separated partner before they can shoot you.
How do you activate the Magnetic Stabilizer two-person pressure plate?
Stand on the pressure plate and have your partner shoot you through the open vent to apply the heavy effect.
Enter the pressure plate room
Locate the two-person pressure plate in the room before the Magnetic Stabilizer. Your partner is still separated from you here.
You enter the room containing the two-person pressure plate.
Shown at 137:16 in ZedaphPlays’s video.Open the vent to your partner
Open the vent and find your partner on the other side. They cannot simply come down to join you, but the opening lets you see each other and gives them a way to shoot you.
Your separated partner is visible through the opened vent.
Shown at 138:16 in ZedaphPlays’s video.Get heavy on the plate
Stand on the plate and ask your partner to shoot you. Once you become heavy, the plate treats your weight as two people. Your partner can stay on their side of the vent.
You are on the pressure plate with the heavy effect applied.
Shown at 138:59 in ZedaphPlays’s video.Aim at the player standing on the plate, not at a cube. Being heavy supplies the weight the plate needs.
Why is it called the Magnetic Stabilizer or the Exotic Matter Laboratory weighted plate?
These names describe the same pressure plate by its nearby destination, its requirement, or its solution.
- Magnetic Stabilizer: the place you reach immediately after solving the plate.
- Magnetic Stabilizer two-person pressure plate: the plate before that destination appears to require both players together.
- Exotic Matter Laboratory weighted plate: the chapter location and the heavy effect that lets one player supply the required weight.
Where do you go after the Magnetic Stabilizer pressure plate?
After activating the plate, continue to the Magnetic Stabilizer.
You reach the Magnetic Stabilizer after the pressure plate puzzle.
Shown at 139:11 in ZedaphPlays’s video.For the next puzzle in this chapter, continue with the Laboratory Laser Relay.