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Revision as of 23:54, 7 October 2015
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| Basic Information | |
| Developer(s): | Unknown |
| Map Info | |
| Environment: | Maritime city/brewery |
| Setting: | Dusk |
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| Map Overview | |
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| “ | Science has shown they react violently being forcefed beer, good thing we're at a beer factory.
— Invasion Update
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Watergate is a community-made Player Destruction map set in a seaside town during an alien invasion. Watergate won 2nd place in the 2014 TF2Maps.net Major Mapping Contest #11, "Mercs vs. Aliens" and was officially included in the game for the Invasion Update.
The objective for the map is that both teams must kill players to collect beer bottles to deliver to the UFO. A team wins upon successful delivery of 200 bottles.
Contents
Gameplay
The goal of each team is to collect beer pickups dropped by dead players, and deposit them into a UFO at the center of the map to get it drunk and score points. When killed, a player drops 1 beer plus all of the beers they were carrying (shown over their head and on their HUD), which can then be picked up by players on either team. The non-Spy player on each team with the most beers also becomes the "Team Leader", making them dispense health and ammo to themselves and nearby teammates at the rate of a level 1 Dispenser, but also giving them an outline visible through walls that can be seen by both teams. Collected beers will be dropped on the ground if a player tries to carry them into a resupply area, and can also be dropped manually by pressing the drop-item button (Default key: L).
To score, players must deposit their collected beers into a UFO at the center of the map, which arrives every 52 seconds and flies slowly across the area creating a tractor beam, before getting to the edge of the map and leaving after 34 seconds. While in the UFO beam, players can move around as if they were swimming in water, and their collected beers are gradually deposited into the UFO and added to their team's score. Players can also contest beer deposits by jumping into the beam and blocking the enemy team from scoring.
As more beers are deposited into the UFO, it will get drunk, visibly wobbling more and more the higher a team's score is. Once one team scores enough points to win (the number scales based on the amount of players at the start of the round), the UFO flies away and drunkenly crashes into the mothership in the distance, destroying it and winning the game for that team.
Announcer lines
Note: Many of these lines are prefixed with "temp" with an unknown male, monotonous announcer, possibly indicating that they may be changed in the future.
| Setup |
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Introduction UFO arrives |
| Enemy delivering bottles |
| Teammates delivering bottles |
| Enemy almost winning |
| Teammates almost winning |
| Match outcomes |
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Win Loss |
Locations
Mid.
The watergate.
The control point.
The UFO, and a care package.
BLU spawn.
RED spawn.
Development
The current iteration of the Player Destruction game mode was heavily altered from earlier versions of the map.
Instead of dropping beers that had to be delivered to the UFO, dead players dropped team-specific cash pickups (reskinned from Robot Destruction cores) that instantly added to a team's score when picked up. As players killed more enemies, however, their bounty (shown on their HUD) would increase, causing them to drop more cash on death and making them a more valuable target for the enemy team.
As players didn't have to deliver their pickups to score, the UFO instead dropped a large "care package" of cash for both teams in the center of the map. The UFO's tractor beam was used to pull players towards a neutral control point at the highest point of the map, which slowly generated extra cash pickups for the team that owned it. Once one team scored $150, a barrel would launch from the control point building and land on the mothership in the skybox, destroying it.
This version of the game mode was eventually scrapped in favor of the current version, as players with high bounties would simply hide in spawn to avoid being killed, and without the UFO deposit or team leader mechanics, the game lacked a focused objective for players to fight over.
Changelog
- Clouds around mothership
- Remade assorted map models
- Raised sand in sewer and added small healthpack
- Optimised collision mesh of the boat to be less arbitrary
- Put teleporter-nobuilds on previously trappable surfaces
- New mothership model with associated particle effects!
- Optimised areaportal locations (portal rendering)
- Optimised occluder locations (prop rendering)
- Added LODs & fades to props (poly rendering)
- Made the UFO timer more obvious of its purpose
- Fixed crash relating to low model quality
- Fixed players getting stuck at the top of the UFO beam
- A barricade has been added to the dropdown inbetween the crane and window buildings.
- The UFO has been given a neutral outline when it appears in the area which helps with goal recognition.
- We've spruced up the spawn with some juice.. and beer taps, and better chalkboard textures.
- Bright light added to attract attention to the tower route.
- A small fence has been added onto the raised spawn battlements to block a potentially powerful sightline to the spawn room door.
- The middle bridge has been widened a bit.
- The crane building upper floor has been given more light so you can see the silhouettes of Snipers easier.
- Patch added under healthpack.
- Patch added under healthpack, critical changes these.
- We've changed the UFO beam water trigger from the halloween Jarate condition to a plugin-based "you're now in water" mechanic, which allows Pyro flames and sounds to be played in the beam uninterrupted while still allowing good player movement.
- We've spruced up the bottom sewer to mid connectors with better detail.
- More detail to the insides of the crane buildings also.
- Cool new map image and text for the chalkboard and the loading screen!
- We've given some more light contrast around important locations on Red side to make it easier to notice these places and to make the area less boring to look at.
- We've fixed a bug that allowed players to contest beer deposits while being below the tower platform. We've also re-added the gentle-fall trigger_push from the UFO beam arriving at the tower.
- The speed of the UFO flying past the map has been reduced from 100 hu/s to 70 hu/s, making it last about 11 extra seconds in the map. This makes it easier to hop into the beam if you notice its entry late, or to catch up to it as it scrolls past the map.
- Steps have been added to these middle side platforms.
- Getting onto the boat has become easier: it's been lowered into the sand, the animation has become static (it used to sway), and there are boxes with ladders (all clipped nicely) leading onto the platform.
- There's a new bottle pickup model and collision mesh (old collision mesh was butts so it sometimes didn't work when it should have).
- And we've added some more details to spawn!
- added new dropdown route from tower to sewer area near spawn - can be used as rollout
- added dx80 versions of the ufo & nuke particles
- added sign in front of front door to direct flow better just in case
- added ability to contest beer deposits by jumping into beam while an enemy attempts to score
- improved clipping all around the boat and ledges next to it
- improved clipping on prop pillars around the map
- improved clipping on windows and ledges around spawn area
- improved clipping & displacements in mid sewer section
- improved readability of the arrow signs near crane building
- improved maneuverability up the garbage bag route near crane building
- changed around some prop fade distances
- opened up the mid sewer section and lit the bottom for smoother gameplay
- made the saucer incoming and outgoing sounds quieter
- made watergate brush metal darker
- made default beer deposit speed 1 beer every 1.2 seconds, decreasing by 0.033 per player
- made tractor beam lift trigger the swim-in-air condition trigger to improve maneuverability
- fixed the Mann Beer sign edges showing up
b7a (may 14th, 2015):
- changed some detail to improve flow
- made LODs for a few existing models
- fixed a lot of perch spots on the pillars with clips
- added skybox animations for the ufo entering/leaving the map
- added finale animation and sounds
- added animations for differing amounts of ufo-drunkness
b6p (march 27th, 2015):
- changed the gamemode
- added a new route from the bottom exit of spawn that leads to bottom of tower sewer
- changed some of the connectors to be more open and dynamic
- cleaned up detail
- improved fps all over the map
b5 (november 17th, 2014):
- added more detail
- optimised map more
- fixed some broken things with the cores from the ufo
- fixed the ufo going through the building at mid
- fixed some clips around the map
- added just a lot more clipping around the map
- added some more signs
- added some more background noise
- added scorch marks from lasers / some particles / broken stuff
- added paint cans near the graffiti
b4 (november 12th, 2014) (Internal):
- optimising stuff
b3 (november 10th, 2014):
- actually fixed the broken things
- publicly released map for testing
b2 (november 10th, 2014) (Internal):
- fixing broken things
b1 (november 10th, 2014) (Internal):
- full artpass
a5b (october 16th, 2014) (Internal):
- made a new route from the sewers' start, up onto the bridge with the box climb up to medium healthpack walkway
- made it so if you hold the tower then when the ufo comes it will drop 3 less cores for your team
- made it so players can escape along the sides of the ufo beam
- made it so you can get up the pipe jump without a crouch jump
- made it so you can't capture the point while standing on the Sniper ledge
- made the healthpack in apartment a medium, and added a small health to the top of tower
- added a small health and ammo to the room in between spawn and tower
- added more signage showing where the point is
- fixed some clipping issues at mid that would slow players down if they walked backwards up the ramps
- fixed up the box / barrel climb so its easier to climb up without hitting your head
a5a (october 10th, 2014):
- brang spawns even closer to mid, and made the second exit instead route down to the sewer section
- added a point icon showing it has something to do with cores
- added some point arrow signs around the map / resupply signs too
- made it so Snipers aren't affected by the ufo beam
- refined some ufo stuff still
a4b (october 9th, 2014):
- moved spawns 256 units even closer to mid
- redesigned the junction area and just linked the bottom sewer up to the window buildings
- added a second way out of spawn and gave a one way window too
- some ufo changes with lift speeds and arrival times
a3 (october 7th, 2014) (Internal):
- moved spawns in 256 units closer to mid
- blocked off the apartment line of sight so it was safer to move into the building
- experimented with point / gamemode ideas
a2 (october 5th, 2014):
- cut out the bottom section of the tower wall, opens up the point area for combat + Sniper sightlines from bridge
- increased occurrence of UFO
- increased UFO speed / lift speed
- tried adding neutral outline to point but that seems to have not worked
- added an overhang from the windows, adds route from tower > windows / windows > lower tower
- added blockbullet all around the boat so cores don't go through it
- made the point's core drops in groups of 3 / 15 seconds, instead of 1 / 5 seconds
Update history
October 6, 2015 Patch #1 (Invasion Update)
- Added Watergate to the game.
Trivia
- The name is a reference to the infamous Watergate scandal.
- The map was inspired by the 2012 video game Dishonored, in particular the Draper's Ward portion from the Brigmore Witches downloadable content.[1]
- Various Whale Bone Charms and the Lacking Moral Fiber Mask can be found hidden in alcoves and crates along with a Les Misérables easter egg.
References
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