Monster Bash

Monster Bash
Basic Information
Variants:	Atom Smash
Developer(s):	Unknown
Map Info
Environment:	Haunted Castle
Setting:	Night
Map Photos
Map Overview

Monster Bash is a community-made Player Destruction Halloween map released during the Scream Fortress 2018 update. It is set in a Gothic castle, centered around a large reanimator machine.

The objective for this map is to gather buckets of gibs to bring to the reanimator in the middle of the castle. A team wins upon successful delivery of a set number of gibs.

Features

The delivery point is surrounded by a shield for a set period of time. After a set amount of time, the shield disappears, and it is possible to step onto the point and Gibs may be delivered. Once the delivery period is over, players are forced off the point and the forcefield goes back up.

The Pit is in the center of the map, under the delivery point in The Lab. Rather than killing players, it leads to a secret area. In this area, players perpetually take damage and must jump through a hallway of Pendulum blades to escape. If they can manage to escape, they are placed at the top of the pit and are granted with temporary crits and a spell.

Like several other Halloween maps, this map features Magic spells for the players to pick up, in the form of filled flasks.

Locations

RED Side

• Chapel, RED Spawn.
• Causeway, low exit from RED Spawn, an open walk in the rain.
• Yard, high left exit from RED Spawn.
• Right exit: Spiral stairs down to the Chemicals.

Battlements

• Grand Foyer. Portrait of Dr. Cadaverous Hale.
• The Lab. (What's on the slab?) Beneath that is the Pit and the Pendulums.
• Ballroom, behind The Lab.
  • Stairs up to high Overlooks to The Lab.
  • Doorway to the Balcony.
  • A drop down and two spiral stairways down to the flooded Dungeon and the lower Lab.

BLU Side

• Conservatory, BLU Spawn.
• Gallery, low exit from BLU Spawn, paintings of the later Hales.
• Library, high right exit from BLU Spawn.
• Left exit: Spiral stairs down to the open Patio.

Strategy

Main article: Community Monster Bash strategy

Update history

October 19, 2018 Patch (Scream Fortress 2018)

• Added Monster Bash to the game.

October 25, 2018 Patch

• Fixed a gap in the spiral stairs that players could slip through when using the tiny spell.
• Fixed a kill trigger not always killing players in the dungeon.
• Fixed players taking fall damage when passing through the pit to the dungeon.

Trivia

• The Castle appears to have been owned by generations of Hales. However, there are signs of distressed ownership:
  • The Castle has been recently sold, along with the Coal Mine, Gravel Pit, and Granary (Realtors: Reliable Excavation Demolition).
  • The painting of Gravel Pit has been taken down from the Gallery.
  • Saxton Hale's portrait is crooked.
  • The Mann Brother's portrait is not hung up (deceased 1971).

• The opening notes to Toccata and Fugue (a cliché to illustrate horror and villainy) play at the beginning of a match.
• The large carnivorous plant in the BLU spawn, named "Elizabeth II", references the movie Little Shop of Horrors, wherein the male lead named the plant "Audrey II" after his girl friend.
  • This suggests that one of the older Hales had a romantic interest in Elizabeth; incidentally, a woman with a cinematic Mallen Streak.
  • However, it should be noted that Victor Frankenstein's fiancé was also named Elizabeth.
• The front gate, which is normally inaccessible, has a large mob gathering outside of it. This mob is made up of cutouts of the Spy.
• There is a book in the Library with Scout's cap and the Tipped Lid resting on top of it. This is a reference to Nathan Vetterlein, the Scout's voice actor, complimenting the Library while playing on Monster Bash during Tip of the Hats.
• Originally called Monster Mash on the Steam Workshop, the map was renamed to Monster Bash upon release to avoid copyright issues.

Gallery

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  The center point while its shield is down.

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  The bottom of the pit.

• Dr. Cadaverus Hale.jpg

  Portrait of Cadaverus Hale.

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  Elizabeth II

• Elizabeth II Nameplate.jpg

  A closeup on Elizabeth II's nameplate.

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  The "mob" outside of the gates.

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  The Scout hat and Tipped Lid hidden in the Library.