Galleria

Galleria
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Basic Information
Map type:	Player Destruction
File name:	pd_galleria
Released:	December 7, 2023 Patch (Smissmas 2023)
Variants:	Nucleus (King of the Hill), Player Destruction, Nucleus VSH and Nucleus (Arena)
Developer(s):	Patrick "Zeus" Hennessy James Jameson Gabriel "MCL15" Macken Alex "FGD5" Stewart Paul "Brokk" Clausen Chandler "OctoBlitz" Dunaway Stuffy360 Kirill "BadassCook" Ruzanov Brandon "Bonk Nickeltoon" Koller Robert "Spleep" Chisholm
Map Info
Environment:	Shopping Center
Setting:	Sunset
Hazards:	Slippery ice Ice Resurfacer Falling debris Rocket pit (Pitfall)
Map Photos
Map Overview
Map Stamp
Supporters Leaderboard

“

C'mon down to the Teufort Galleria and check out our great Smissmas Festivities! A wonderland of shopping pleasure is open every day from 9am to 9pm! — Galleria publicity blurb

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Galleria is a community-created Player Destruction map added in the Smissmas 2023 update. It is set in the Teufort Galleria, a shopping center located in the town of Teufort with music playing in the background. The center of the building is a circular court with a slippery ice-skating rink around a very large Christmas tree. But careful inspection reveals that the tree is in fact a missile disguised with hastily welded-on corrugated metal branches and a fuel line wrapped around it like a garland.

The objective of the map sees players collecting "presents" (cans of fuel) and delivering them to the "tree" under the pretext of a "Secret Santa" gift exchange. Whenever the delivery zone is closed, an ice resurfacer circles around the rink, killing any player it hits with either its front or the side extensions of the ice conditioner on the rear. When either team wins the round, the rocket launches through the circular center of the glass-domed roof, stripping off lethal sheet metal "branches" to fall on any players below. The Rocket Pit contains the launch exhaust, but walking into it results in a Pitfall death.

This map also features its own announcer: Sheila, the bored voice coming over the intercom.

Galleria was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Locations

• The Ice Rink: The ice skating rink that dominates the center of the map. It contains the map's delivery zone (the "tree"), which unlocks periodically. When locked, the ice resurfacer circles the tree, instantly killing anyone it collides with (though it is possible to stand on top of it unharmed). The ice is slippery, making movement difficult as players keep their momentum.

• The Perimeter: The series of ledges and shops which directly surround the Ice Rink. The Perimeter is further divided into "RED-Side Perimeter" and "BLU-Side Perimeter", based on which spawn room is on that side of the map.

• The Food Court: The ground level of the Perimeter, also divided into a RED side and a BLU side by the Skate Rental.

• Elevator Lobbies are high-traffic junctions between the Skate Rental, Food Courts and the Outer Concourse with the Spawn Gates. Each as an often-overlooked dropdown. Both elevators are stopped at the inaccessible fourth floor, visible from the Control Room.

• Control Room: The Control Room is one of the buildings on the perimeter located at a halfway point between each team's side. It has no connection to the point from the second floor, but has an opening to the rink on the first floor. It is a spytech-themed room with slanted glass windows overlooking the rink and a large neutral-colored launch control panel in the center. The control panel has a number of attached monitors displaying various launch-related technical readouts, jokes, and references. The entrances to the Control Room are metal security doors which open on round start and slowly close on round end.

• Cinema: Directly across from the Control Room is the Cinema. It is entered from each team's side by an escalator and in its center are two sets of staircases which lead down to the Perimeter, where the escalators to the Food Court are. On each side there are entrances to balconies which overlook most of the area.

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  RED spawn area.

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  BLU spawn area.

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  Map center.

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  Cinema outside.

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  Cinema inside view.

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  Cinema theaters (RED side).

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  Cinema snack bar (BLU side).

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  Control Room interior.

Strategy

Main article: Community Galleria strategy

Update history

December 7, 2023 Patch (Smissmas 2023)

• Added Galleria to the game.

December 8, 2023 Patch

• Updated pd_galleria to fix broken cube maps

Trivia

Texture for displays on the launch control panel.

• The control panels in the control room make a number of game, holiday, and historic references:
  • The Naughty/Nice indicator references a tradition that the target, Santa Claus, monitors who is naughty and who is nice.
  • The mission flight path refers to the commonly illustrated, late 1960s Apollo mission flight path, but here modified to target Santa's facilities at the North Pole.
  • Above the flight path is Engineer's favorite equation, used to calculate Phong lighting in-game.
  • The Bleeps, Sweeps, Creeps indicator refers to dialog from the movie Spaceballs.
  • 0.166 G is the gravity of the Moon relative to that of Earth, 1.0 G.
  • MCL-15 is the signature of the artist.
• The soda choices refer to particular principles in nuclear physics, in order, fluorescence, Cherenkov radiation, plasma, Rads, and heavy water.
• The Dapper Cadaver store's purple and gold fleur de lis decor, sign, and poster reference the Spy's preference for exclusive French suits and to the name of a magazine that the Spy is reading in Expiration Date.
• The main voice inspirations for the announcer were Dr. Girlfriend from The Venture Bros and Roz, the administrator from Monsters, Inc..
• FGD Luxury Automobiles refers to FGD5 who created various assets for the map including the cars in the showroom and the ice resurfacer.
  • "Prince" car poster: The car is modeled on the late-1950s Chevy Bel Air. The woman's attire and the model name "Prince" were selected to form a visual pun reference to the 1990s TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  • "Washington" car poster: The car is modeled on the early-1970s Lincoln Continentals. Playing on cars and cities named for U.S. Presidents, the poster uses the name "Washington".
  • "Country Cruisier" car poster: The car is modeled on the 1968 Mercury Colony Park station wagon. 1960's Colony Parks were lined up within the Country Cruisier series of Mercury station wagons.

• The movie posters in the Cinema refer to popular movies or other media from the 1960s-1980s.
  • Saws refers to Jaws, 1975.
  • Evil RED 2: RED by Dawn refers to Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, 1987.
  • Mad Milk: The Ultimate Milkman of the Future refers to Mad Max: The Magnum Force of the Future, 1979.
  • Dr. Yes refers to Dr. No, 1962.
  • Sentry Busters ("They're here to bust some Sentry Guns") refers to Ghostbusters ("They're here to save the world."), 1984, but to no specific real poster.
  • Weekend at Heavy's refers to Weekend at Bernie's, 1989.
  • Trains, Trains and Trainsmobiles refers to Trains, Planes and Automobiles, 1987.
  • How Ol' Nick Stole Smissmas 2's poster does not reference any specific movie, but the title is a reference to How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.
    • The title and art broadly refers to the incidents of A Smissmas Story, where Nicholas Crowder (Ol' Nick) attempted to steal children from a mall in Teufort.
  • Minor League refers to Major League, 1989.
  • Faulty Siphon and the Golden Pan refers to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975.
• Carmack Computers is a reference to Doom co-creator John Carmack.
  • The Telmax poster in the back of the store states, in fine print, "Small tumors are known to form within any yeast products sent through the device. Use with caution.", referring to the Bread ARG, including Expiration Date.
• The "Big Bob's Ballbearings Bananas Roller Skates & Floor Wax, Inc" (with floor models outside their door, including the "fresh floor wax" trope) refers to a comic of the same title of The Far Side by G. Larson.

Gallery

Movie Posters

 The following gallery captions include links to their real-life equivalent

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  Saws.
  (example poster)

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  Evil RED 2.
  (example poster)

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  Mad Milk.
  (example poster)

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  Dr. YES.
  (example poster)

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  Sentry Busters.

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  Weekend at Heavy's.
  (example poster)

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  Trains, Trains and Trainsmobiles.
  (example poster)

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  How Ol' Nick Stole Smissmas 2.
  

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  Minor League.
  (example poster)

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  Faulty Siphon and the Golden Pan.
  (example poster)

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  Advertisement for the movie Saxton Hale's Jungle Inferno.

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  Jungle Inferno popcorn and Yeti gib stuffy promotion.

Business signs and posters

The Food Court and Ice Rink (ground floor)

Restaurants for businesses previously only known through signs.

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  RED Food Court

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  RED Food Court

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  BLU Food Court

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  BLU Food Court

Outer concourse (ground floor)

Commemorative business.

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  Poster inside Carmack Computers.

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  Office across from Carmack Computers.

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Other

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  The gas canister pickup.

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  The Ice resurfacer that circles the central ice rink.

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  Closeup texture for the monitor readouts on the launch control panel.

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  Plaque for Eric Smith.

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  Steam Workshop thumbnail for Galleria.