CP Outlaw (Stage 1) a19

Mache Multistage CP (Stage 1) - Stage 1: 2cp A/D in a retrofitted Old West town.

This yet-to-be named map will be the first stage in a series of three 2cp A/D stages set in an environment reminiscent of Upward, Whiterock, and especially Coaltown. The map as a whole will revolve around risky but ultimately familiar layout decisions/gimmicks, and will attempt to encourage camaraderie through important gathering areas, purposeful chokes, and somewhat generous health and ammo placement in certain areas.

Stage 1 is set in a Coaltown-esque Old West town that has not been totally abandoned, rather retrofitted for the people of TF2's time period, though the Gravel Wars have certainly put any plans to live/work/tour there on an indefinite hiatus. As an additional gimmick, when Point A is capped, a train will start traveling laterally across the map at a fixed interval. This train grants BLU a limited-time shortcut to B from their spawn, which they can also hop on top of at B to reach the capture zone quicker. The train will probably make reappearances in the later stages, but no guarantees.

Screenshots:
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Assets Used:
TF2 Emporium Vehicles Pack (steam engine models)
Frontline Pack (bar tables and chairs)

Special Thanks:
Tumby: Helped out when the original vmf became corrupted and we had to decompile, and for figuring oout roughly how to make the train wheels animation and train speed match.
Pont: Provided several useful vmfs for reference as well as convincing me to switch to H++, and helping out with the vmf problem.

Changelog:
A:
-Closed skybridge sightline window with glass
-Replaced perpendicular stairs in same building with a dropdown to reduce camping from RED
-Added cover to main death alley
-Increased cap time from 10sec to 12sec
-Capping starts the train timer after a 2 second delay instead of instantly
B:
-Fixed floating point hologram
-Added stairs to railing ledge in point building
-Redid routing to short highground roof across from RED spawn; now requires entry into the one-way door room (the one-way has been moved to the entrance door instead of the exit)
-Made slow vertical shutters in saloon a bit slower and moved the one closer to the point to the former one-way door location
-Raised up a rock to reduce confusion
General:
-Adjusted some packs
-Adjusted train timer to be slightly shorter
-Added point names
-(Hopefully) fixed train death triggers
-Brightened window textures that aren't on spawnrooms
-More I can't remember idk lol

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Changelog:
-Made setup timer 5 seconds longer
-Redid skybridge on blue building to be lower and more open
-Added window room at A to make spamming main defense spots easier
-Redid connector from Red Shed building to roof of Red Bread building to be a room instead of a corridor (this room connects to new aforementioned window room as well)
-Fixed train death collisions (hopefully for real this time)
-Fixed fucked one-way door and added another slow door nearby
-uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Changelog:
-Increased RED spawn time for both points
-Decreased A cap time to 9sec from 12sec
-Increased setup time from 65sec to 70sec to (maybe????) encourage forward-holding
-Added stairs back to weird short dropdown in blue building at A
-Removed disgusting crates near sentry spot on A
-Added gap above chickenwire parallel to main alleyway to make spamming RED sentry nest easier
-Added window to Red Shed building to make surprise RED attacks from it less effective
-Shifted windows in apartment building at A to make it more difficult to spam for RED and give BLU a better angle on the main sentry spot
-Yeeted balcony prop near Red Bread to remove weird unbased cover for RED (remnants of it are now buried in the gravel below)
-Adjusted garage building connecting A and B areas to make corner teleports somewhat less effective and hopefully make BLU spies more effective at taking them out, and to make it easier for BLU to use in general
-Fixed missing clip brush over Red Shed
-Added lights to skybridge on BLU to make snipers on it more visible
-Increased B cap time from 6sec to 9sec
-idk what else lol

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Changelog:
The Train:
-Redid how the train works; instead of being summoned on a fixed timer once A is capped, the train is only summoned when the BLU team is trying to capture B, and has a cooldown, all of which indicated by colored lights:
--Red: The train is unable to be summoned at all; when A is capped, the light will turn Green, and won't turn Red again for the rest of the round
--Green: The train is able to be summoned; once someone on BLU touches B in this state, the train will arrive, and upon passing through the first gate, the light will turn Yellow
--Yellow: The train is on cooldown for 60 seconds, unable to be summoned in this state; once a minute has passed, the light will revert back to Green and the train will be available to be summoned again

The rest of the map:
-Made one of the windows in the saloon see-through
-Near the saloon window that wasn't made see-through, adjusted tables/stools to make hiding between them much less viable
-Made the space between the two train gates inside the gameplay space entirely indoors
-Replaced one-way door with another slow door (two-way once open) and adjusted staircase in connected room to be less chunky
-Shifted train gate at the very end of the track deeper into the building and added a small stairwell/boiler room connecting this new playable space to the building immediately next to B; this will hopefully give BLU players riding the train a better final destination when trying to assault the point
-Increased B cap time from 9sec to 12sec
-Removed stray medium ammo pack between RED spawn and B (both to compensate for some previous changes and to prepare for building Stage 2)
-Fixed clipping on shoddy wooden fences near BLU spawn
-Some other minor geometry and lighting tweaks
-Did some very very minor OOB detailing

If I can at the very least get B to play satisfactorily, I might begin work on Stage 2 soon(ish)! Stay tuned!

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Changelog:
-Remade RED's spawn and spawn area such that its Spawn -> Lobby -> Outside rather than just Spawn -> Outside; this should hopefully make spawncamping both less of an issue, less viable, and not as necessary to cap B as it was before
-Additionally, added some space near RED's spawn and B cap zone to give RED an alternate exit and to prepare for the development of Stage 2 (also readded the previously removed medium ammo from the nearby area)
-Train summon cooldown reduced from 60sec to 30sec
-Made flashing train lights last longer for clarity
-B cap time reduced from 9sec to 7sec
-Made B cap zone wider and the platform its on slightly even wider
-Redid cover on B cap zone and on BLU highground roof to make cap zone sentry spot less nasty and more easily taken out
-Added much more direct staircase up to the cap zone; this combined with prior changes may open some bad sightlines for RED so we'll see how it pans out; slightly lowered the max height of the hill to B to make new sightlines less awkward
-Readded a gate to the outermost doorframe into the boiler room behind B that's closed when the train isn't going through
-Made vertical slow shutters much slower
-Readded BLU roof one-way gate
-Added cover fence near full packs behind B hill
-Removed gap in top of chickenwire wall at A
-Minor detailing stuff

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Changelog:
-Pushed RED spawn back a bit to give concrete more room for both teams
-Decreased train cooldown again from 30sec to 20sec
-B cap time decreased from 7sec to 6sec
-Redid B roof place thing whatever again; is now a second floor (indoors) instead of a roof; features doorway parallel to tracks and a window facing the point with a shelf for cover
-Moved the one-way door yet again
-Reduced full health near B hill from to medium
-A lot of texturework/detailing out of boredom, mainly at A
-Cummy's Burgers left the game [disconnect by user]
-I don't remember what else I did lmao

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Changelog:
-Added new staircase into full health/ammo corridor at A to give defenders more forward-hold potential
-Replaced cliff with health and ammo on hill leading to B with a shack with health and ammo inside it (the health has also been upgraded back to full cause why the hell not)
-Redid interior geometry of B building (next to cap zone) to be less jank and give attackers better avenues of attack, including a new all class-accessible balcony replacing the jump-accessible roof near the cap zone; this can be used both by attackers to get highground over B and defenders (snipers in particular)
-Once again moved one-way door to the doorway overlooking the train tracks instead of the lower door, also sealed the open window and removed the shelf from the room to give BLU a better foothold in the room
-Replaced staircase up to B for defenders with a gravel pile to make getting on B for both teams less cumbersome as well as (hopefully) reduce Heavy head-peak awkwardness
-Replaced cover wall w/ benches outside RED spawn with a small shack thing on stilts
-Added more Spy Shrubs™
-Increased setup time from 70sec to 75sec
-More detailing
-Brightened several areas
-Clipping fixes
-Other stuff I forgot lmao

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-Fixed some detail shit
-Fixed some skybox shit
-Fixed fucked displacement on B
-Clipping

no idea why i made it a9 and not a8a but whatever

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-Added storm shelter route thing to B point house basement and extended the basement as a result
-Locked full health/ammo in shack on B hill behind a door that opens very slowly after A is capped, hopefully to deter defenders from abusing it
-Fixed things that I can't be fucked to remember right now

also meant to update the screenshots this version but i'm having a rough night and once again couldn't be fucked

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Changelog:
-Updated map name from machems (dev name) to Outlaw (cool and based name)
-Slightly lowered RED respawn times on both points
-Train speed increased from 460units to 500units
-Altered blue metal building to have second-floor opening near main alleyway; hopefully this can finally encourage RED to hold forward a bit more
-Increased ammo near aforementioned changed from medium to full
-Added crate near stairs to main sentry spot at A to make a certain sentry spot less awkward for BLU to counter
-Added slow shutter to door connecting saloon to the concrete stuff leading to the one-way to encourage funneling through main rough more (this was originally why almost all of the doors on the saloon were slow doors, so this change aims to re-add this aspect of the saloon while still letting BLU enter it as soon as A is capped)
-Fixed a crack sightline over the train gates that let snipers snipe B from BLU's spawn yard (how the FUCK did I not find this sightline earlier??); this also fixes demos and such lobbing projectiles over the gates
-Map is now fully-textured (but definitely not fully-detailed, and many textures are certainly not final)
-Started actually prepping for Stage 2.
-No swimming

Nearly at a point where I can confidently start working on Stage 2! Please give me your thoughts, especially on B, so that this can happen sooner! <3

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Truth be told I actually arguably did more work on the yet-to-be playable Stage 2 than the actual Stage 1 this changelog is for. Regardless,

Changelog:
-Redid the whole oneway door building thing;
--The two-story building (1st floor boiler room, 2nd floor windows and oneway door) is now just outside area with a little ledge with ammo
--Oneway door is now on the saloon itself where the doorway going into the 1st floor/boiler room used to be
--The train route now goes into a one-way corridor that routes underneath the terrain and into the basement of the side building; this change in particular will hopefully funnel more BLU players into the side B building
-Adjusted saloon geometry to compensate for previous changes (a sightline that wasn't an issue before got opened up by this change)
-Made B cap zone platform slightly longer for similar reasons
-Bumped up RED respawn time on A to their original amount and bumped up their respawn time on B to be slower than their original amount
-Work on Stage 2 has now properly begun
-Miscellaneous small edits and fixes
-Other stuff I can't remember

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-Fixed one-way door trigger in saloon to receive a TouchTest input when the slow door in front of it finishes opening

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Changelog:
-More Stage 2 work (still not playable yet, but soonish??? idk)
-Redid some of the detailing on B, mainly RED spawn getting a texture overhaul (still not entirely satisfied with it as rn its kindof weird how separated it is from the other buildings, might give it a complete visual redesign later)
-Fixed shit shack on stilts on B having a roof that was terrible for BLU to spam
-Lowered RED spawn time on B from 10sec to 9sec
-Other minor fixes

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Changelog:
-More Stage 2 work (almost ready!!!!)
-Added diagonal pipe just outside BLU spawn to allow BLU to get on top of train from another location
-Reduced full health and ammo in shack at B to mediums; made slow door on shack instead always open
-RED has been acting weird ever since they nabbed that base near the train line, what are they hiding?
-Added smallish packs in tracks just near basement at B
-Fixed some clipping stuff and some visible nodraw
-Detailing adjustments
-Other stuff I forgot, as usual

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Changelog:
-Stage 2 is nearly playable!
-Removed ammo from the strong sentry roof at B
-Shifted the one-way door in the saloon such that projectile classes and others can more easily deal with sentries in aforementioned spot
-Completely redid the visuals on RED spawn (Gravelpit my beloved)
-Adjusted geometry of the concrete platform near the train tracks at B to make stickies placed on them less effective at trapping train riders
-Fixed goalstrings to mention the correct number of capture points and the means of calling the train
-More detailing stuff
-Added annoying fire alarm

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Changelog:
-Stage 2 is now live
-Redid saloon one-way area; saloon now has a second floor with a dropdown window as well as a dropdown directly into the one-way corridor that used to only be accessible when the train is going through the area
-Honestly idk wtf else I changed/fixed lmao, i can't rememberrrrrrrrrrr

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