Helltower

Helltower
Basic Information
Variants:	Hightower and Snowtower
Developer(s):	Unknown
Map Info
Environment:	Desert
Setting:	Nighttime, cloudy
Hazards:	Pitfall, Skeletons, Lava
Map Photos
Map Overview

Helltower is a Payload Race map added in the Scream Fortress 2013 Update. It is the Halloween-themed version of Hightower.

The objective is to push a cart of gravel containing the skeleton of one of the Mann brothers (Blutarch for RED, Redmond for BLU) to the lift at the high towers before the other team. Once either brother is pushed to the checkpoint, all players will be sent to a demonic cave only known as Hell.

In Hell, the teams are pitted against each other, and all players must attempt to enter the Skull Island. Any players killed in Hell become ghosts and must pursue the living players, however the ghosts have no way to deal any damage. Pressing primary-fire as a ghost will cause the player to yell "BOO", which can be used to startle living players but serves little other purpose. Players that survive and reach the book receive an empty spellbook called, unfilled fancy spellbook, if they do not already possess one in their backpack, which can be filled with pages found from the Haunted Halloween Gift. Only those that are alive and have reached Skull Island can receive the unfilled fancy spellbook.

Occasionally, Green Skeletons will spawn as well as Halloween gifts for random players on the server.

Mann Brothers

The Mann Brothers or Redmond and Blutarch Mann are the Halloween-themed payload carts unique to Helltower. After being slain by their long-lost brother, Gray Mann, the ghosts of the Mann Brothers endeavor to have their respective mercenaries send the other brother to Hell so that one may claim their father's inheritance as described in Grave Matters. Thus each team must push the corpse of the other team's boss to Hell while the ghosts of their respective employers bicker, report progress, and give instruction in place of the Administrator.

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  Red teams cart, with Blutarch Mann inside

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  Close up of Blutarch Mann

Hell

While the initial push to the end works like a regular Payload race on Hightower, once a team has pushed their corpse to the end, the screen will flash white as all players are transported to what is assumed to be hell.

On first arrival, all players will arrive on seperate sides of a small area surrounded by lava (along with a short dance-off.) The team that has successfully pushed their cart to the end will gain a noticeable health buff as both teams are to fight over winning a prize upon Skull Island; an Unfilled Fancy Spellbook.

At this point, the game turns into a short Arena match, with no respawns. Instead, killed players will turn into ghosts.

Strategy

See Community Helltower strategy

Gallery

Map locations

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Overview of the map.(Large file)

The Hightowers

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Central Tower

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The Ramp: Unlike Hightower, the carts do not fall back down these ramps by gravity.

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Cliff-House: Its back wall is now opened up and can be fallen off of.

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Balconies

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Tower Corridors: Some changes have been made here, including small puddle rooms on each side that players can drop down into, and small inaccessible tunnels, which can be used to teleport to the opposite tunnel when you are affected by the shrinking spell.

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The Bridge: Appears and disappears.

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Hell: When one of the caskets reaches its goal, both teams are sent to Hell.

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Halloween Spell effects

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  Super spellbook on the Clocktower

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  Regular spellbook

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  A group of skeletons

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  Close up of the Skeleton King

Trivia

• Both the Mann brothers have a knife sticking out of their back, a reference to the comic when Gray Mann backstabbed them at the end of the Blood Brothers comic.

Update history

October 29, 2013 Patch (Scream Fortress 2013)

• Added New Halloween Map Helltower

See also

• Hightower
• Magic spells