CP lclplant a6

[vanSulli]

lclplant - First stage of Chemplant

It's the first stage of cp_chemplant. Lighting is a bit dim; signage might be lacking. I want to see how much I can get out of natural light and players just reading the environment.

 

[Penguin]

get on the control point or we're gonna make Rei cap it again

 

[vanSulli]

• Rotated last relative to the rest of the map
• Closed off two of the doors to last from the outer ring
• Revised connections between spawn, last, and A
• Added some lighting and signage
• Reduced spawn wave times for both teams.

Perhaps most importantly, red spawn no longer opens the next stage's setup gates by accident. The void oppresses.

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[vanSulli]

In response to the testing:

1. Red spawn is closer to B
2. Blue spawn is closer to A
3. A and B are slightly further apart.
4. Misc improvements like clipping, sightlines, round/cap times.

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[vanSulli]

• Built a bridge across the road on A for blue to cross
• Scaled the outer ring around B out a bit
• Added some cover at B for red to build behind
• Shrank B's cap zone by about 25%
• Added some cover between A and B
• Made connectors from a little A->B longer
• Water no longer pushes you

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[vanSulli]

• Added/brightened lights everywhere and added windows to exterior walls
• Added a place for blue to congregate close to B and a new route to it
• Changed Blue spawn's side door to a regular setup door
• Clipped off things all around and tightened up geometry
• Metal is more prominent at B

I didn't change the upper route at A besides brightening it; still haven't seen any instance of it being abused.

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[vanSulli]

• Finally remade Blue's spawn exit; red no longer has a sightline through the whole spawn from the side room. The side door is now much larger and splits off through a hallway. Hopefully this will make spam in general a little bit easier to manage.
• A's ceiling route has some experimental sight-blocking pipes on the attacking side to make RED engies stop using it.
  
• Gave Blue a route up to B's height, but added cover for red nearby.
• Opened up B to sunlight

Additionally, pickups got redistributed a little bit, and the height of some rooms near Blue spawn was adjusted.

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[vanSulli]

• The stage now connects to stage 2/chemplant correctly and without seams (but chem is still visgrouped out)
• Simplified B and added a high ground route for attackers and defenders to consider. It might be too powerful.
• Simplification entails: fewer entrances/exits to B's ring, better lighting from sky light (it's open air now), fewer weird dev materials in odd places, and cleaned up brushwork.
• A completely new connector is now present in the tunnels between A and B. The map should be more balanced as a result, but it's not very architecturally interesting and it may need spawn times to be adjusted to match it.

I've also added a new route to A's upper ground to attackers on the far left. It may not play well; I was just experimenting.

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