Thaw A6

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Maid submitted a new resource:

Thaw - An alpine outpost where the snow is just starting to melt.

My map for the 2022 Summer Jam! (early entry, submitted 1 hour before my personal deadline)

This is an A/D CTF map, where the Blu team must carry their intelligence to Red's control points in order to capture them; control points may only be contested while the flag carrier stands on them.

Custom content used:

Diva Dan's Tall Thin Pine Trees
Yrrzy's "No Flag" Barriers
Door textures from EArkham's Snowycoast Assets

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Maid updated Thaw with a new update entry:

Version A2

- swapped the intels to CTF mode instead of AD mode. this means that they show up as red in outline and colour instead, and i'd prefer them blue, but the announcer voicelines don't work in AD mode (without me having to bloat the map filesize).
- made the access to the lowground route from the large connector building at A a short dropdown, to make it harder for red flankers to easily bomb blu engie bases on the highground and to generally make that lowground route worse for red. Note this is...

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Maid updated Thaw with a new update entry:

Version A3

- attached a blu dispenser to the flag, to reward blu players for staying close to the flag carrier and encourage more team coordination around the flag. the dispenser is only active while the flag is carried.
- i'm mainly making changes to A and B right now, and may completely tear out and redo C next version.
- made the left lowground route on A significantly thinner and more precarious to increase and better communicate the disadvantages of that route.
- added a bridge between the high...

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Maid updated Thaw with a new update entry:

Version A4

- completely tore out C and rebuilt it as a new and different point with new routes, reusing parts of the existing lobby area and connectors. the idea behind the new point is that the point area has a choke on either side, which both lead to advantageous positions over the point, so red must split their attention between those chokes, but doing so will give them simultaneous control over the lowground and point area. however, if blu pushes either choke that advantage should allow the rest of...

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Maid updated Thaw with a new update entry:

Version A4b

- fixed the visualisers on red's last spawn being disabled due to duplicated entity names.

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Maid updated Thaw with a new update entry:

Version A5

- raised the small shed at B up onto stilts. this allows it to block sightlines across the upper level of B, and opens up the lowground to allow for more comfortable combat in that area. also added another rock on blu's highground behind it to allow for more cover to help them combat red snipers.
- made most of the platform directly behind B an interior, to allow red a more covered approach to the building to the side of the point.
- restructured and consolidated the lowground route on C to...

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[Maid]

Maid updated Thaw with a new update entry:

Version A6

i had covid and nothing else to do so heres my dramatic return to this map!

- completely tore out red's spawns for B and replaced them with a more angled setup using the same exits. this should make the exits more equally used rather than the lower exit being the primary exit.
- removed part of the cover behind B and moved the highground platform down to make it more accessible to blu attackers trying to hold the area for the extended cap time. also generally changed up the visuals to...

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