Listener

KotH Listener a6c

Aulli

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Jul 28, 2012
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Aulli - King of the hill, Take some satellite towers or something.

koth map made spontaneously in (mostly) one day after a stroke of inspiration hit.
 

Aulli

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Jul 28, 2012
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Removed dump trucks near mid (For real this time!)
Disconnected garage from both the side routes.
Changed the angles through the right flank to make it less awkward to move through.
Made windows at mid one-way, looking towards the point.
Added ramps to the upper windows so you don't have to jump through.
Fixed a pretty big clipping bug that I think was in a3 that somehow nobody noticed!

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Aulli

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Jul 28, 2012
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Decreased cap time quite a bit (Was 12, Now 7 seconds)
Tweaked cover around the point to add pockets to duck into on the sides of it.
Slightly tweaked cover in the surrounding area now that it's not needed to block sight.
Did some very minor clipping work.

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Aulli

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Jul 28, 2012
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Changed mid's cover again.
Rerouted walkway to the bridge over mid to be an indoors ramp.
Changed bridge to be just the pipe, and walkways around the tower are flat.
Pipe & tank in the mid lowground changed into a building you can't get on top of.
Path from right lobby to roof adjusted to try and make holding it harder.
Clipping fixes around the map.
Added a fence and skybox brushes to make shooting over walls near mid no longer possible.

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Aulli

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Jul 28, 2012
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Made a lot of areas more open, mostly.

Changed building extensions off mid pillars back into pipes (but in a different shape) and added a partial wall along it with a grate fence top.
Slightly raised pipe over mid & added a tiny sightline blocker below.
Removed the ceiling and walls towards mid around the ramp up to aforementioned pipe, making it open air instead.
Fixed seeing shadows through the wall on that ramp.
Changed right side route onto concrete to only have one real 'doorway' - Greatly increased the size of or removed the rest of them, making that route much less constricted.
Added a little enclosed ramp from lowground up to concrete, to hopefully allow mini rotations that are much less committal than going up the main curved ramp.
Made the last room of left route into outdoors and moved the ramp down earlier into it.
Changed the transparent tarp texture into a more solid one.
Clipped shutters in garage to prevent hiding stickies in them.
Clipped fences at mid to no longer eat rockets and splash.

Made the curved ramp up to mid much prettier. (Don't worry, it's still clipped smooth into a ramp)

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JMaxchill

L5: Dapper Member
Jan 21, 2015
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Had a lot of fun playing this (as prolander medic against good pick classes, too), it's an enjoyable map and one I'm looking forwards to playing again.

I feel like my main thought would be that the map feels too wide and not long enough - a lot of the time we were pushing left to right, rather than forwards. My suggestion for fixing this (though I'm not sure how this would play) would be to push the area on the far left back a little, maybe trimming off the higher ground there and tightening up the low ground, so that if teams were playing around the low ground they then pushed forwards onto and across the point. The option of getting through from that side under the enemy's roof is a good one to have though so I'm not sure exactly how this could be balanced.

The enclosed ramp up to concrete was very nice, I only noticed it a few rounds in but it definitely makes rotating over there safer for medic, which I was doing a lot as we transitioned into more aggressive holds.
 

Aulli

L4: Comfortable Member
Jul 28, 2012
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tbh a remake of this map has been somewhere on my to-do list for a while, but other things have just been occupying my time. I've got some ideas lined up for it, though.