Mercenary Park

Mercenary Park
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Basic Information
Developer(s):	Unknown
Map Info
Environment:	Jungle
Setting:	Daylight, overcast
Hazards:	Crocodiles, Pitfalls
Map Photos
Map Overview

“

Welcome...to Mercenary Park! — Saxton Hale announcing the park

”

Mercenary Park is an Attack/Defend Control Point map released during the Jungle Inferno Update. It is a biological research facility and weapons factory that was repurposed as "Yeti Park", but was changed hastily to just a fighting park after Saxton Hale killed the last Yeti in existence.

Locations

Visitor Center

• Monorail station: First BLU spawn.
• Main Ticketing: Interactive space, cafe, and parrot.
• Playground: The play equipment in this open space is kept to a minimum to encourage youthful guests to fight over it.
• Snack bar.

Mann Co. building

• Supply warehouse for the park.
  • Helipad: Advanced BLU Spawn, which opens when the Receiving Bay is captured.
  • Steroid room: Steroid storage is on the other end of the warehouse from the BLU spawn.

Transfer crane

• Capture point A -- Receiving Bay -- transfer gantry crane and operator station (upper level).
  • Capture of this point closes access to the Playground and opens access to the Test Pit (C).
• Transport cages: Yti-Hale Shipping. Two-level flanking of the
• Shipping Dock: crocodile-infested water.

Processing

• Capture point B -- Lab -- (hidden beneath the point are three inaccessible stories of fluid tanks).
• Monorail station: First RED spawn.

Research and Captivity

• YTI Institute for Research and Development
• Elevator: This elevator was used to transfer specimens between the ten cages, the Lab, and the Test Pit.
  • The elevator cage is at the upper level; the grated floor is the lower level.
  • Access to Research and Captivity is though the lower and upper level elevator doors.
  • These doors are blocked to both sides until the Receiving Bay (A) is captured.
• Capture point C -- Test Pit -- Capture wins the round for BLU.
• Monorail station: Final RED spawn.

Strategy

Main article: Community Mercenary Park strategy

Control Point timing

Control Point	Multiplier	Seconds
Control Point A	×1	30 .000
	×2	20 .000
	×3	16 .364
	×4	14 .400
Control Point B	×1	40 .000
	×2	26 .667
	×3	21 .818
	×4	19 .200
Control Point C	×1	16 .000
	×2	10 .667
	×3	8 .727
	×4	7 .680

Update history

October 20, 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)

• Added Mercenary Park to the game.

Bugs

• It is possible for Pyros to shoot flames through BLU team's first spawn's right door.
• RED's spawn rooms are improperly clipped.
• Sentry Guns can be placed on the Mercenary Park sign.
• Sentry Guns can be placed on BLU team's third spawn.
• Using Teleporters, it is possible to exit the map.

Trivia

• The name Mercenary Park is a reference to the 1993 film ‘Jurassic Park’
  • Similarly, both plots for the parks revolve around containing dangerous animals for the public which eventually escape.
• This is the first TF2 Map to feature animated crocodiles as a death hazard.
• There exists two unused rooms in Mercenary Park:
  • To the left of the first Control Point and behind the fence, there is a mostly empty, slightly lit-up room with two floors and a dropdown between the two.
  • Directly underneath the second Control Point is an unlit area that has walls lined with cages and cylindrical containers.

Gallery

• Mercenary Park Unused Room 1.jpg

  The building that holds the unused room by Control Point A.

• Mercenary Park Unused Room 2.jpg

  The inside of the building.

• Mercenary Park Unused Room 3.jpg

  The unlit and unused room underneath Control Point B.