Hacksaw

Hacksaw
Basic Information
Variants:	Bonesaw
Developer(s):	Unknown
Map Info
Environment:	Snowy
Setting:	Day
Hazards:	Pitfalls, Saw Blade Carts
Map Overview

Hacksaw is a community-created custom Payload Race map set in a snowy field, the goal of both teams is to hack each other's computer terminals using their Payload carts. A Halloween version was added in the Scream Fortress 2022 update.

Locations

• Cliff Side: A death pit with a medium health kit, this cliff side is near were both BLU and RED's Payload carts start.
• Spawn: Both RED and BLU, the spawns seem to take place in a storage unit area.
• Finish Point: This is where the computer terminals are. The team has to stay next to cart until the "Hacking" process has reached 100%.

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  RED spawn.

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  BLU spawn.

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  Cliff side.

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  Final point.

Changelog

Changelog:

Nov 29, 2021

• Renamed map from "Hacker" to "Hacksaw".
• Rethemed the map to be winter.
• Redid the middle area to no longer have the long plank bridges.
• Reconsidered sightlines across mid.
• Remade the rocket launch site.
• Removed health kits.
• Made it generally more closed off for each team.
• Changed the final checkpoint.
• The launch site ramp and console is now a rollback zone.
• Added a 10 second capture time for the "hacking" sequence, where the payload slowly cuts into the computer console with sounds and particles.
• You must stand at the payload the entire time, similar to Hightower, in order to not lose progress.
• Redid lighting.

Dec 4, 2021

• Redid fog to be less vibrant.
• Fog max density decreased.
• Improved indoor and outdoor fog transitions.
• Removed snow particles for now.
• Added a cliff health kit retreat near the payload starting area, and massively simplified the clutter.
• Removed weird crates that looked like a prop jump.
• Lightened spawns.
• Adjusted saw so that you can't die from the sides.
• Lowered the general height of each team's battlements.
• Closed off one of the two windows at mid, moved it over, widened it for access, and cleaned up some related sightlines.
• Fixed snipers cheesing sightlines by standing on balcony fences.
• Added breathing room to each team's outer balcony.
• Added pickup patches.
• Fixed unwalkable displacement triangles.
• Added a pipe route up to each team's sniper battlement, away from the spawn route.
• Added push entities to the cliffs so you can't stand on them.
• Improved clipping above some roofs in mid so that rocket jumping is easier.

Jan 6, 2022

• Improved the fog again.
• Redid the fence room to remove the fence and turn it into a nest room, and adjusted the doorways to prevent an extreme sightline from spawn.
• Remade the balconies to wrap around and provide better coverage.
• Extended the cart path by having it briefly travel through each team's building.
• Changed rocket cliff area to be wider and made the healthkit a full one.
• Made cliff hut healthkits small.
• Added little wood platforms outside of various windows to make peeking and blast jumping up to them easier.
• Entirely remade the finale.
• Changed some short fences to tall fences to better signify clipped off OOB areas.
• Made the resupply lockers a bit less hidden.
• Changed skybox texture as an experiment.
• Removed OOV sequoia trees because they were too distracting.
• Returned snow particles.
• Lowered respawn wave time to 3 (6 max) seconds from 4 (8 max).
• Shortened sequoias.
• Closed a spawn exit to fix a sightline.
• Added a sniping window to each team's battlements that faces the finale.
• Lengthened setup time.
• Added some cool stuff that you'll have to see in game.
• Fixed some misaligned window textures.
• Fixed missing particle manifest file.

Jan 10, 2022

• Added one-way doors around the spawns similar to hightower (dont bother trying to exploit as engi with teleporters i thought of that already)
• Made the payload dispenser a level 2, but also made it slower
• Elevator is significantly slower
• Elevator boost pad launch target is now tied directly to the cart platform, so you will always be launched high enough to reach it
• Blocked the ability for people on the boost pad to shoot across the map
• Clipped some little things here and there
• Removed the color correction for now
• The sawblades attached to the carts are now smaller, more receeded, and louder
• Removed grass that somebody thought was a spy

Jan 17, 2022

• Updated mid, cliff, and finale.
• Extended each team's building out to have a new hut.
• The cliff now has a small ammo kit on each team's slope.
• Changed the cart to go down to the cliff and loop back up to your team's side with a rollback, and then finally cross back over near the enemy team's battlements at the very end.
• There is no more elevator, its now just a normal PLR finale for the time being.
  • The cart will need to be held at the saw for an extended period of time like a capture point.
• Added a doorway with a wooden platform accessible from the finale that allows you to shoot down toward the cliff.
• The jump pad has been removed (sorry) and replaced with a full ammo cubby.
• Moved the rocket from the cliff to the finale.
• Removed big rock at mid, making for a much more straightforward access to the finale from mid.
• Overlooking windows were moved out and adjusted to be clearer and more obvious while nerfing some of their reach- they also now serve as a partial sentry nest overlooking the new finale.
• Fixed the wrong sawblade getting bloody when killing a player.
• Fixed some erroneous clipping.
• Closed some decorative windows and grates to help optimization.
• splattered some more bits of team coloring around.
• Added tons of fades to props -especially out of bounds ones- so that they don't draw if you're on the other side of the map.
• Fixed large window textures in spawn.

Jan 18, 2022

• Fixed blue payload triggering a red victory.
• Fixed some visible prop fades.

Jan 19, 2022

• Fences no longer push you into the death pit.
• Cliff faces around the map will push you more consistently.
• The saws no longer insta kill, but instead deal rapid high damage.
  • This gives players a moment to correct their mistake, and not be as badly punished for being too close to the cart when it's taking a turn, while still having the funny highlight of being caught off guard.
  • The cart now gibs you, which will zoom out your screen and show you that the cart killed you better.
• Tweaked fog and lighting.
• Changed upper battlements ammo to medium.

Jan 21, 2022

• Added fallback material for the rocket model for players on FPS configs.
• Fixed gutters that players could stand on.
• Fixed collisions on railings next to the rocket.
• Adjusted some fog transitions.
• Lightened up some sniper windows.

Feb 4, 2022

• Detailed the map (final custom assets to come in RC).
• Optimized the map.
• Added Soundscapes.
• Added a welcome cam.
• Adjusted resupply locations for ease of access and readability.
• Receeded a cliff to prevent a stuckspot.
• Adjusted little bits of the layout here and there, mainly around stairs to provide for more breathing room.
• Made final push slightly slower and re-implemented visual and audio effects.
• Fixed various clipping around the map.
• Returned the cart to a level 1 dispenser instead of level 2.

Feb 5, 2022

• Hotfix to b1 to fix missing sky (you should delete your existing b1 version if you have downloaded it).

Feb 10, 2022

• Raised respawn times (from wave time 3 to wave time 6) so that defenders aren't as overwhelmed.
• Lessened the time it takes to cap (slower than Alpha 6a, faster than B1).
• Fixed some stuck spots behind trees.
• Fixed perch spots.
• Repositioned glowing signs to be larger and more readable.

Feb 15, 2022

• Fixed perch spots above wooden doorways and metal roofs.
• Finale siren can be heard from a much greater distance.
• Fixed missing fog and soundscape transition in barn windows.
• Gate triggers are larger to prevent you from bumping into them.
• Removed red buildings from the 3dsky for being too distracting.
• Moved wooden planks that were covering gameplay signs.
• Moved the CP holograms to make it more obvious that the computer is the objective.
• More detail adjustments.

Feb 19, 2022

• Added smooth clipping against lots of retaining walls.
• Fixed perchable OOB rocks and loudspeakers.
• Fixed some instances of soundscapes loading incorrectly when outdoors.
• Fixed RED cliff rollback zone being slightly longer than BLU's.
• Cleaned up some OOB details.
• Added some more wires for detail.

Feb 22, 2022

• Added some clipping steps around various ramps to make traversal easier.
• Added screen text that displays hacking progress for both teams (it will have some improved effects in RC).
• Made payload nodes at the first crossover smoother.
• Fixed some instances of hacking warning noise looping when hacking wasn't in progress.
• Fixed incorrect texture scaling on balconies.
• Fixed doorways with no clipping.
• Lowered intensity and changed color of indoors fog.
• Added some arrows to sniper window interiors.

Mar 1, 2022

• Redid the 2d skybox.
• Tweaked environment lighting.
• Increased outdoor fog start distance.
• Disabled collisions on crows.
• Optimized occluders.
• Removed door in finale that overlooked the cliff.
• Fixed a rock far from the cliff that could be stood on.

Mar 20, 2022

• Gameplay changes.
  • Removed the func_push fences around the map, making all of the wooden fences consistent.
• Removed clipping around the now un-fenced cliffs, so that you can jump across more of the pit.
• Removed walkable pipes in each team's battlements that made it too easy to flank players nesting in the upper floor.
• The upper floor's fence has been replaced with a single open window to provide more cover.
• Fixed some bits of unwalkable displacements.
• Optimization.
• Added lots of area portal windows around the map to make some spots unload when they should.
• Largely reduced overall amount of props.
• Replaced all retaining wall props with brushes.
• Extended retaining walls near the payload starting area to add a bit more cover and occlude more models.
• Art
  • Touched up various detailing around the map, breaking up some larger walls and adjusting all of the vistas.
• Prettied up some of the sniping windows to look more visually consistent with other windows across the map.
• Added custom detail sprites to replace grass props.
• Fixed various props that were duped and overlapping.

Jul 27, 2022

• Reworked the rocket launch area.
• Lowered height of launch platform wooden walls.
  • Added additional wooden walls for cover.
  • Removed middle entrance to launch platform, you will now have to walk around.
  • Reduced cover around the capture zones.
  • Moved the rocket into the silo and replaced it with an air vent, like a less-clunky version of the old exhaust vents.
  • Moved silo full ammo pack to the cliff.
  • Brightened and opened second window of each team's barn.
• Extended doorways for cliffside houses.
• Added more SFX to the computer terminals.
• Trimmed the corners of some occluders that were culling stuff too soon.
• Adjusted area portal window distances.
• Added chicken wire to wooden fences to make them bulletproof.
• Removed middle sniper balconies.
• More detailing tweaks.
• Fixed detail sprites poking thru brushes.
• Fixed gaps in payload track models.
• Fixed more perch spots.
• Fixed being able to stand on some large trees.
• Smoothed clipping around more beams and objects.
• Removed collision on OOB props.
• Optimized more lightmaps.

Jul 30, 2022

• Added houses around the launch platform to add more sensible cover and block erroneous sightlines.
• Fixed up some clipping around the silo.
• Fixed red side not having a piece of cover near the cliff huts, and added another small piece to both sides.
• Optimized more lightmaps and visibility.

Aug 3, 2022

• The finale now takes 33% longer to hack.
• Hacking percentage now increments every 5% instead of every 10%.
• Reworked the barn windows.
  • Fixed clip brush that was blocking a red team window.
  • Added small platform outside of each barn window.
  • Turned a window into a door.
• Cleaned up some lamps to have no collision and block less sight.
• Lowered fences behind computer terminals and cleaned up their collision.
• Restored battlements pipe to return some flankability to each team's upper base.
• Slightly increased the strength of the silo wind tunnel.

Oct 27, 2022

• Added finale FX including various sounds, particles, and animations.
• Ported all gameplay, optimization, and aesthetic changes from Bonesaw.

Dec 2, 2022

• Fixed floating tree props outside RED spawn.
• Fixed a few problematic brushes.
• Fixed leftover Bonesaw textures on BLU barn.

Dec 3, 2022

• Fixed missing staircase in BLU base.

Gallery

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  The RED payload being pushed on the map, also seen on Bonesaw.

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  The BLU payload being pushed on the map, also seen on Bonesaw.

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  Steam Workshop thumbnail for Hacksaw.