cp_spillway

Spillway

current version: alpha 11a

download: http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2869

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=7535

A linear five-CP push map set in the cascading valley between two hydroelectric dams. Both dams are owned by the parent company Alpha Electric, but through an odd series of transactions RED and BLU have come to each run one of the dams. In an attempt to sabotage their rivals, both teams are now attempting to access the valves controlling the spillways of one another's dams. These spillways provide vital egress for overflowing water should the dams burst and flood the teams' bases.

The first point is set in the floodgate control room which secretly houses an array of arms aimed at the opposing team. The second point is set in the cavern where the spillway passes through, controlling the vital override controls for either team's emergency pressure valve. The middle point is located in the basin where the water finally settles and the surrounding buildings control either team's dam.



Keep in mind this is still in alpha. I'm posting this here because I care about balance and am willing to make large, sweeping changes at this point in development. All visuals are incomplete, and nothing is displaced. Everything is subject to change, which is why I want you to playtest this now.

tf2maps topic, for further balance discussion: http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=7535

thanks!
FoXy

This map looks like a ton of fun, we'll def do a test soon. I added you on steam

Quote:
Hydro sweet!

Hydro never got any love.

Hydro was fun I always thought. Spammy as a mug and ... then those massive open cap points that were like impossible.....and it had a million other problems, but it was fun!! 

Hydro needs to be redone with all areas open at once.
It could be made into an awesome two-way gravelpit-esqe map.
And it could make for being a map that's actually good with a full server.

Proposed changelist for a7:

- Fix angles of the wide cave route between 2nd & 1st to make the sightlines more favorable to offense in either direction. This area will be changed into a building with a smaller tunnel and potentially a new stairway to the first floor, plus the building will have tall smokestacks or something to make it a visual landmark.
- Add flood-gates on the entryways to either side of the hole room to limit the spammability of that area from outside, thus making a safer place to chill out
- Move the main spawn rooms into the warehouse building they now open onto, reducing walk time to point and removing useless space
- Alter the angle at which the tunnel from the caves at middle to the CP approach the point to make it more beneficial to attackers trying to flank the CP (make the angle sharper)
- Add small health pack at the bottom of the stairway room
- Change medium health pack at the wide cave route from 1st to 2nd into a small
- Stretch the large rock arch at middle (that separates yard from middle) back towards 2nd so that it blocks sight lines from middle to the upper levels of 2nd
- BUG FIXES: clipping on hills at middle (displacements will be remade), respawn cabinets at main spawns clipping through walls, clipping on concrete ledge at middle, further lower hoodoo to allow easier scout jumping (again >_>, floating signs, etc etc

a7 released!

DL: http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2413

Screens: http://img6.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=cpspillwaya70009.jpg

TF2Maps: http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?p=77948#post77948

Alpha 7 - 9/7
* Closed off path from the yard to the lower/hole area
* Created a one-way door into the stairway room
* Turned the wide cave path into a tunnel/building
* Added a new staircase from the hole area to the new tunnel building
* Raised height of cliffs around last
* Added a laz0r on the final CP spawn buildings
* Height of hoodoos at middle lowered
* Additional rock added to middle
* New sign at middle
* Extended rock arch into the yard to block sightlines
* Added new rock arch high above the yard
* Many new details added
* Retextured all rock walls to align with the new higher cliffs around last
* Moved some health around, making the medium health in the tunnel a small and adding a small into the stairway room
* Added a small ammo to corner of the 2nd floor by the 2nd CP

Known Issues:
* Texture for one sign on the BLU side hole area is missing
* Clipping on the hills at middle is atrocious, will be fixed in a7a coming soon
* Power cord for the laser totally goes through the roof of the spawns

a8 is here!

http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2568

- Simplified staircase from hole area to the tunnel by having it empty directly onto the 2nd CP
- Changed the 2nd forward respawns @ the middle CP to create more cover in that corner of the space, prevent spam over the rocks; added billboards to middle
- Initial (main) Spawns moved forward & up into the glass window room of the warehouse, all of the useless space to the left removed
- Cave ceiling added to 2nd, with many new details like skylights & increased lighting on the lower route to make it more attractive
- Detail greatly improved, including a lot of new greenery, new overlays, and more decorative ground water
- Changes to health & ammo: sm->med ammo in yard, med->sm in hole, med->small at last, moved health/ammo by last spawns, sm->med at long tunnel
- Bug & clipping fixes