Financial a10

Changes

• Made Intel room larger
  • Added new back entrance to Intel room
• Changed layout of area outside of Intel room
  • Open doorway straight to intel from lefthand side closed off, and the area has been merged with the computer room - the computer room door has been also widened
  • New 'U' route connecting to back Intel entrance
• Vent drop-down spawn exit replaced by new spawn door on side.
• The wall of crates at mid has been removed and replaced by a more sensible fence.
• Changed clipping on some railings from block bullets to player clips to allow projectiles though.
• Fixed some doors closing on players (I still have no idea why the 'delay after reset' was different on them for some reason)
• Other minor fixes to clipping, etc

Changes:

• Added scaffolding at front of each team's base
• Moved Upper Spawn exit back and to the right.
• Added One-Way gates to both Underground platforms to force player to go up to mid outside and prevent teams skipping most of the map to cap.
• Removed Sentry NoBuild in middle of Underground area
• Changed texture on monument doors to subway at mid to make them more clearly recognisable as doors.
• Added Ramp to left-hand route elevator
• Removed long corridor to dead end in vents
• Removed elevator shaft drop-down from base
• Minor tweak connecting left-hand route corridor and computer room
• Boundary Crates at mid slightly moved
• Telephone Boxes removed from mid
• Minor cubemap changes

Time for another well overdue update

Changes:

• Redesigned basement area
  • Replaced narrow ramp side path on left side (from outside mid entrance) of each team's base with a larger room with a clearer connection to the intel room
  • Computer room layout slightly tweaked with angled wall and one-way window
  • Underground vent base entrance room Upper Vent entrance removed and minor layout change
  • Maintenance corridor divided, removing direct route to intel room
• back brick paved ramp route now ends merging into the new side room with a drop-down
• Intel room made slightly larger, and partly lower than rest of the the basement.
• Removed ramp left of mid entrance from ground floor to upper floor
• Spawn Rooms:
  • Upper & lower spawns fully merged into one larger room with ramps to both levels
  • Removed exit directly to Underground.
  • Right-hand side vent exit moved slightly and is now a direct drop-down
• Mid Monument now has doors for players to drop down into the Underground area below
• Underground:
  • Added crates to the middle area, alongside a Sentry No-Build to reduce camping and sentry nests
  • Removed Spawn door exits
• Miscellaneous visual and aesthetic changes & tweaks (primarily in the basement and spawn room areas)

Spoiler: Screenshots:

It's been a while since the last update (thanks to a mix of uni work, life, and just not having much motivation for mapping and just needing some time to think).

Changes:

• Replaced left elevator shaft drop-down - replaced with vent shared with the "Computer Room" next to the intel room and concrete "janitor corridor"
  • removed now redundant upper walkway connecting the retired elevator dropdown and intel room vent
• Made upper spawn's Anti-Spawncamp doors two-way
  • also added a couple extra crates making it harder to jump to the other upper spawn entrance
• Replaced left double-staircase with single ramp up to the upper floor
• Slight layout changes to bank foyers
• Vent exit into intel room has been slightly moved a bit to the right of the intel capture zone (instead of directly infront of the intelligence)
• Medium Ammo Pack added next to former vent shaft gate
• One-way window added to room connecting the subway and computer room
• Computer Room door now two-way, with windows visible on both sides
• Area between computer room door and intel room has new layout:
  • crates have been moved
  • concrete pillar added to center of this area
  • widened with angled walls on wall opposite intel window
• entrance to vent added to stairway connecting to lower spawn
• Some lighting tweaks

Spoiler: Screenshots:

• Increased the initial round timer from 5 minutes to 10 minutes (should hopefully result in less stalemates)
• Added new one-way door infront of the upper spawn exits to hopefully reduce spawncamping
• Added new exit from lower spawnroom to directly to the Subway area
• Less harsher lighting overall, especially the HDR lighting in the vents
• Reworked vents to make them less maze-like. All basement vents now connect to a central room
• Made the middle area larger
• Tweaked some of the clipping
• Reworked ramp layout from the intelligence/computer room corridor to the front of each teams' base

Spoiler: Screenshots:

I only just realized now when writing this that I skipped releasing version a4 (and I don't remember publicly testing it), though that was probably for the better. I've been working on and off this rework for the last while.

• Pedestrianized the Middle area, alongside adding a new middle structure (that's more effective at blocking the previously horrific sniper sightlines)
• Reworked 'Foyer' areas in the both teams bases, with a new, more direct path to the intel room
• Made the stairs from the bottom spawn exit to intel room larger, and removed the adjacent area with a drop-down door to the vents
• Added new storage room area connected to the before the previously mentioned stairs and one-way vent exit corridor.
• Removed the elevated one-way vent exit to the subway area, and adjusted the clipping around the trains
• Added drop-down connection between the upper and lower vents
• Connected/merged upper & lower spawnrooms, and added an additional spawn exit
• Most areas have been brightened up a bit (most noticeable in the intel room and outdoor subway entrances
• Added @pont 's CTF Timer Logic v2

Spoiler: Screenshots:

The "I finally fixed the stupid mistakes I made!" update.

Fixed the whole 'Red Team being trapped in their spawn' problem.

I had forgotten to change the drop downs in the settings for the lower Red Respawn Room, Func_RespawnroomVisualizer's and the filters for the doors.

I also realized that I had used the wrong CompilePal preset last time that didn't pack the map, and it should now finally include the cubemaps now.

EDIT 04/08/2022: Version a3a also has issues with missing textures and I think I also messed up the logic a bit.

Recompiled, trying out CompilePal instead of Hammer & VIDE to see if that finally fixes the packing issue.
Should hopefully include Cubemaps as well.

Thanks to @That1Yoshi for pointing out the issue!