Harvest

Harvest
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Basic Information
Variants:	Harvest Event
Developer(s):	Unknown
Map Photos
Map Overview

“

LOOK OUT DRACULA IS BEHIND YOU! [sound of a creaking door] Ha ha ha! If you scare that easily, this map will kill you. — Haunted Hallowe'en Special

”

Harvest is a King of the Hill map. It was released with the Haunted Halloween Special Update as an official community-developed map due to its outstanding quality. A separate Halloween-themed version of the map, Harvest Event, was also released with the update for players to celebrate the annual holiday. It includes many gameplay elements that are unique to the map.

Goal

Your goal is to capture the control point and seize it for a duration of 3 minutes while stopping the other team from doing the same.

Locations

• The Center Shed - At the center of the map, a bombed-out shed houses the Control point. This building is open at both ends, and most of the roof is missing.
• The Farmhouses - Located directly in front of each team's spawn area, these large houses have two stories with windows and a roof overlooking the center shed.
• Side Sheds - Open at one end, these sheds contain a Medium Health Pickup inside.

Common strategies

• The center shed provides more cover for attackers than defenders. Capturing the point is easiest with support from team members outside the shed.
• Soldiers and Demomen can jump onto the roof of the shed with rockets or stickies and attack from above. It's also possible to lob grenades or syringes in through the roof.
• The peaked roof of the farmhouse can provide cover for Snipers if they stand on the back of the roof and fire over it at the enemy, but this prevents them from firing at the area between the farmhouse and the center shed.
• Snipers like to stay in the upper levels of their team's farmhouses. If you happen to be in the area, take a moment to sweep the upper floor for enemy Snipers.
• Scouts can double-jump to the middle shed and then across to the other team's building. This can be useful if the ground-level area is highly contested.
• Spies are very effective on Harvest. Snipers in their team's respective farmhouse or near their team's shed are easy targets, and enemies that like to travel through the farmhouse to get to the point are as well.

Control Point Timing

Control Point	Multiplier	Seconds
Control Point	×1	16 .000
	×2	10 .667
	×3	8 .727
	×4	7 .680

Gallery

• KOTH Harvest Control point.PNG

  The Control point in side the Center Shed

• KOTH Harvest Farmhouse.PNG

  The Blue Farmhouse

• KOTH Harvest Side shed.PNG

  The Red Side Shed

Previous changes

November 2, 2009 Patch

• Fixed client-side perf problem after changing levels on Harvest Event.

Trivia

• Harvest is one of the three maps developed by Sean "Heyo" Cutino that were brought to official status by Valve, the others being Egypt and Junction - the latter two released with The Scout Update.
• Harvest was initially an Arena map. This version is still available for download. [1]
• The King of the Hill version was bundled with the Big King KotH map pack prior to its promotion to official map.

External links

• Hallowe'en Special