Welcome to Alpha 5, also known as the "Hopefully B can be now defended and the nipple is now smaller" edition!!!
GENERAL FIXES
- Fixed some small clipping errors.
- Made the ambient lighting a tad brighter.
- Fixed some rooms being little too dim.
MAJOR CHANGES.
- Changed red spawn times, they are now as following.
A: Min: 8 Seconds. Max: 16 Seconds.
B: Min: 7 Seconds. Max: 14 Seconds.
C: Min: 6 Seconds. Max: 12 Seconds.
Things have been pretty blue sided recently and I am not entirely sure if that is because of the map or just bad teams in few recent tests, I keep flipping between the two options constantly. That is why, just in case, I have adjusted the defensive respawn times to scale with the intended point difficulty. This might be a change that gets totally undone in the future, it depends on how things pan out in the future.
- Basement route at B now connects to the same areas the upper cliff route.
- B now has more space around it overall.
- B now has lot more ammo around it overall.
One thing I know for a fact is that all the B rolls were not because of the teams, every team seemed to get wiped on this point pretty fast and that is totally my fault. When I redesigned the point and combined all the different ideas I had in mind together, I had made a massive oversight regarding flow and how red is supposed to defend this point.
When moving the basement route and it's entrance, I had created a situation where blue comes from three different directions instead of two. This in itself wouldn't be so bad, if one of those directions wasn't behind the main defensive area, thus allowing blue to instantly cut any defense by the knees before red had successfully set anything up.
With the basement route now leading you to a relatively same area as the other route on that side of the point and general increase in ammo packs, red should be able to set up a proper defensive behind and on the point before blue totally overwhelms them with no chance of recovery.
Of course, there is always another possibility that I didn't consider, this point just sucks and is beyond saving. (Hopefully not.)