Byre

Byre
Basic Information
Developer(s):	Unknown
Map Info
Environment:	Farmland/construction
Setting:	Daylight, sunny

“

The mercenaries can't even finish building a barn. Let's see if they can finish a fight. — Invasion Update

”

Byre is a community-created Arena map. It was added to the game with the Invasion Community Update.

The goal is to eliminate the entire enemy team or capture the two control points.

Byre won 3rd place in the 2014 TF2Maps.net Major Mapping Contest #11, "Mercs vs. Aliens".

Byre was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Locations

Overview of Byre

Overview of Byre (With Interiors)

• Death Ray: The center of the map is separated by a death ray. On both sides of the ray are the two control points.
• Team Barns: To the sides are the team-colored barns holding Control Point A & B respectively. Each barn has three entrances from a rear plank, the side opening, and the front opening. On the rear plank is a small ammo kit.
• Tool Sheds: In front of each spawn is an unfinished toolshed. To the left of the shed is their team's corresponding barn.
• Ditches: On side of each team's spawn is a small ditch that can lead to their corresponding barn. Inside the ditch is a small health kit.

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  Barn A interior

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  Barn B exterior

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  RED spawn

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  BLU spawn

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  View of BLU's ditch near the point.

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  View of BLU's ditch from their spawn.

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  View of RED's ditch near the point.

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  View of RED's ditch from their spawn.

Strategy

Main article: Community Byre strategy

Control point timing

Control Point	Multiplier	Seconds
Capture point	×1	14 .000
	×2	9 .333
	×3	7 .636
	×4	6 .720

Changelog

This is the changelog of the map before it was added to the game.

Changelog:

b4

• some more detail
• a lot more optimization
• clipping
• cubemaps
• added ufo that goes boom when you win
• added a small ammo on both sides
• all classes can get on the shack roofs now

i forgot to make a changelog entry for b3 and im not sure what i actually changed, if anything

b2

• lotsa detail changes and additions
• added hole in barns' roofs
• changed attic platform to planks to make people more vulnerable

b1

• detail
• added another attic route to the barns
• added Overtime
• tried to add a 10 second unlock period but arena doesn't seem to like that

a3

• added ufo and laser finale thing (its dumb)
• will get stalemates working properly later, sorry
• r.i.p. cool dog screenshot

a2

• map is now 2cp arena
• removed final
• redid entire layout to be less cramped and flow better, but same general concept and buildings

a1

• first version

Update history

October 6, 2015 Patch (Invasion Community Update)

• [Undocumented] Added Byre to the game.

November 13, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added the Invasion Community Update maps to regular quickplay lists.

Gallery

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  The UFO

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  The room showing barn blueprints in BLU spawn.

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  RED's room in their spawn.

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  Point A's Barn rafters.

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  Point B's Rafters.

Bugs

• Players can sometimes get stuck in the gates to their spawn when they open at the start of the round while touching them.
• Killing all enemy players after the match has already ended by capturing both control points will trigger the finale cinematic twice.

Trivia

• Byre originally started as a symmetrical 4cp map, where teams had to capture both middle points before attacking the final point.
• A total of 15 different sounds are triggered during the finale laser cinematic.

External links

• Mapping contest results