Vineyard

Vineyard
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Basic Information
Map type:	Payload
File name:	pl_vineyard_rc8b
Version:	Release Candidate 8b
Released:	April 22, 2018
Last updated:	June 8, 2023
Developer(s):	Matthew "Panckakebro" Hiller Hieronymus7Z Elián "iron" Rodríguez Denis "xB33" Varchulik
Map Info
Environment:	Maritime City
Setting:	Daylight, sunny
Hazards:	Pitfalls, Payload cart explosion
Map Overview

Vineyard is a community-created Payload map. It is set in an Italian coastal city.

A Halloween version of the map was released with the Scream Fortress 2023 update under the name Spineyard.

Locations

Checkpoint A – The City

• First BLU Spawn: A building with three exits, two on the ground level near the cart and an elevated one behind the cart. A single resupply cabinet sit in-between the ground level exits.

• Vino Dalla Vigna: A building right in front of BLU's spawn. Its roof can be easily accessed by a pair of stairs, one on each side.

• The Three Buildings: Three buildings with connected interiors. The doorway behind Vino Dalla Vigna leads to a drop onto the middle building's interior. From here, an exit below the drop takes players just past checkpoint A; the exit on the opposite side leads to the Fountain.

• The Two-Store Building: A building right next to BLU's spawn. The only ground level entrance is close to the cart's starting point, which is right in front of a flight of stairs. Two windows, one with and one without glass, offers a view of the Fountain, the Alley, and the first checkpoint. Turning back reveals another flight of stairs, though much shorter, that leads to a room with another window to the Fountain and a path back to the Vino Dalla Vigna's roof.

• The Fountain: A roundabout with a fountain in its center. The cart must go around the fountain before reaching the final ramp and curve leading to the point.

• The Alley: A path that connects the Fountain to checkpoint A, passing by one of the doors of the second BLU spawn. The area close to the Fountain is in a lower level, while the part close to the point is an elevated ledge. Scouts can easily go up this ledge, but a green car and a trash bag serve as steps for other classes.

• Second BLU Spawn: BLU's spawn once A is captured. It has two exits, each with a resupply cabinet: one in the Alley and one in a corridor that takes players to the Hotel.

• The Point: The area around the point offers a good number of cover options, though mostly for RED.

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  First spawn area for BLU.

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  Inside view of BLU's first spawn.

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  Vino Dalla Vigna front.

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  The Fountain.

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  Outside view of BLU's second spawn.

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  Inside view of the second spawn area for BLU.

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  First Capture point.

Checkpoint B – The Road

• First RED Spawn: The backyard of a building with a large wine rack right next to point B.

• The Castle Stairs: A flight of stairs that leads to a vantage point over the area just after the ramp the cart must go up once A is captured.

• The Hotel: A white building that leads to a ledge overseeing the area after the ramp following A's capture.

• The Alley: A path that passes behind two buildings. The first area (going from point A to B) is lower than the main path; the second area offers access to a ramp that leads to a vantage point over the Lone Gravestone, the top of the Tunnel, and the Castle's One-Way Gate; and the third area is another vantage point over the Lone Gravestone.

• The Tunnel: An arch the cart must pass under, but dark enough to look like a tunnel. When the car passes by the exclamation mark sign on the wall, the Castle's One-Way Gate becomes accessible.

• The One-Way Gate: A gate that only opens up when going from point A to point B. It leads to the other side of the Tunnel, a small ledge overseeing the Lone Gravestone, an underground passage to the Lone Gravestone, and a drop just before point B.

• The Lone Gravestone: An open area with a single gravestone in its lower part, right in front of the third BLU spawn. It offers a side route to point B.

• Third BLU Spawn: A small room in the Lone Gravestone's area. It has one resupply cabinet and one exit.

• Checkpoint B: Once Checkpoint B has been captured, the cart must advance a bit before the gate in front of it opens. There are side routes through the buildings on each side of the gate.

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  First spawn area for RED.

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  The ramp next to the castle stairs, leading to B.

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  Third BLU spawn.

Checkpoint C – The Restaurant

• Second RED Spawn: An underground storage for wine barrels. It has one resupply cabinet and one exit.

• Third RED Spawn: A room with floral wallpaper and two bookshelves. It has two exits and one resupply cabinet.

• The Lone Coffin: The area right in front of the second RED spawn and just past the gate in front of Checkpoint B, with a lone coffin standing against a wall. When the cart passes by the yellow and black striped signs on the floor, the building directly in front of the cart becomes accessible, granting access to a small platform with an overview of the area.

• The Steep Incline: A short wooden ramp the cart must go up, with yellow and black striped signs on both sides of the track. The cart rolls back if left unattended while going up.

• Final BLU Spawn: A white building right next to Checkpoint C. It has two exits and a resupply cabinet. The exit with the "Exit" sign leads to the rest of the building, which includes a stair to a terrace and part of the remaining cart tracks; the other exit leads to a small room overseeing checkpoint C.

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  Second RED spawn room.

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  Outside view of the second RED spawn room.

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  Outside view of the Third RED spawn room.

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  Inside view of the third RED spawn room.

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  Third checkpoint

Checkpoint D – The Winery

• The Building Bridge: Once the cart has made a right turn after checkpoint C was captured, it is possible to see a sign with an arrow pointing right right under a street lamp. The stairs right next to it allow players to go through the Building Bridge - a corridor connecting two buildings that the cart must go under. The building on the right, where the corridor drops players onto, offers an overview of the Second-to-last Yard. The other building also offers an overview of the Second-to-last Yard, as well as a series of flank routes to the Winery Yard.

• The Second-to-last Yard: The white signs with black arrows point to flank routes. The single-headed arrow points to a flank route that can take players either directly to the Pit or to a veranda overseeing the Winery Yard; the double-headed arrow points to that same route (going left) and to a different route (going right) that leads behind to the back of the Winery Yard.

• Final RED Spawn: A big room with two floors, each with an exit and a resupply cabinet. The top floor leads to the catwalks above and around the Pit, and the lower floor leads behind and below the Pit.

• The Winery Yard: The last area of the map, containing BLU's goal - the Pit.

• The Pit: The hole in the ground where BLU must throw the cart into in order to win.

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  The ramp leading to the final point.

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  Final point.

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  Final spawn for RED.

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  Cliffside View.

Changelog

Changelog:

Dec 3, 2021

• You can now leave spawn!
• Changed the ambient lighting
• Messed with some routes and pickups

Dec 5, 2021

• too many things to say

Dec 5, 2021 #2

• its a bsp now lol

Dec 6, 2021

• Made B less chokey
• Added pickups in spots
• Fixed bugs
• Added some lights

Dec 8, 2021

• now called pl_vineyard
• stairs in a spot
• window in a spot
• new flank at A

Dec 10, 2021

• Added a better forward spawn route for blue for B
• Added some high ground for blue to push into the hill into B
• Fixed some sight lines at B
• Made D more accessible for blue
• Shuffled ammo and hp around

Dec 15, 2021

• Fixed some sightlines at B
• Gave blue some high ground into D
• Fixed sightline into forward spawn at C
• Added window to help Blue push A
• Health kits and whatever in some spots

Dec 20, 2021

• Redid some connectors at last to give blue an advantage through the choke
• Gave blue some more highground into the choke before B
• Fixed a broken respawn room
• Added a force respawn when B is capped to help Red defend C
• Fixed misc sightline issues

Dec 25, 2021

• Reworked upper flank into A
• Moved B closer to A
• Reworked the window into B
• Added some side routes to B
• Added a gate between B and C to slow the cart down
• Widened the tunnel leading up to last
• Added a prop jump into a window at C
• Fixed some dark areas
• Health/ammo stuff

Dec 27, 2021

• fixed a lot of sightlines
• fixed flank that let red get behind blue too easily at A
• health/ammo stuff
• clipping fixes
• removed a rollback at C
• pickup overlays
• hedge edges
• bug fixes
• changed enviornment lighting cuz

Dec 28, 2021

• Reworked some routes at last
• Added some gates to prevent people from going places they shouldn't
• Sightline fixes
• Removed a tree at B
• Health kit stuff
• Fixed some missing overlays

Dec 28, 2021 #2

• added some windows in some spots
• reworked the upper flank into B for blue
• bug/clip fixes

Dec 30, 2021

• connected a few flanks to the main routes to make them less isolated
• gave red a sentry spot
• health and ammo stuff
• make some hedges unable to jump over
• sightline fixes

Jan 2, 2022

• Added some arrows
• Reduced the cart speed reduction on hills from 0.60 to 0.75

• Point B:
  • Reworked some sightlines
  • Added a new flank door that opens when B is capped
  • Blue spawns more forward in their spawn when attacking B

• Point C:
  • New forward spawn for blue to attack C
  • Added one way door to the highground flank
  • Added some highground for blue near the bend

• Point D:
  • Connected upper spawn exit more to the lower one
  • Added a route that lets blue gain access to their highground without entering a sightline

Jan 2, 2022 #2

• Redid a flank for blue into last

Jan 3, 2022

• Made it possible for blue to hold the lobby before D
• Added another route into B
• Made B more defendable as engineer
• Added a sniper spot for Red at C

Jan 4, 2022

• Redid some routes at B
• Redid some routes at C
• Added stairs in red spawn up to highground
• Added some boxes for cover
• Added respawn room signs
• Added soundscape
• Fixed bugs

Jan 4, 2022 #2

• Reduced the number of routes into B for blue
• Made it slightly easier for blue to hold the hill above D
• Adjusted spawn point locations at last to make it easier to defend C
• Added door that opens with the main gate to the window highground into C

Jan 6, 2022

• so much stuff lol

Jan 8, 2022

• Moved the entire 2nd half of the map closer to A
• Added some forward spawns
• a lot of other stuff

Jan 11, 2022

• i dont remember

Jan 11, 2022 #2

• fix bug

Jan 11, 2022 #3

• bazinga

Jan 11, 2022 #4

• fixed some stuff
• added some stuff

Jan 13, 2022

• routes and stuff
• hp ammo
• the usual

Jan 13, 2022 #2

• eeeeeeeee

Jan 18, 2022

• Redid the last point
• Made changes to the map

Jan 19, 2022

• title

Jan 22, 2022

• buncha thingsa

Jan 26, 2022

• added stuff to the map

Jan 27, 2022

• minor change to B

Jan 30, 2022

• hi

Jan 30, 2022 #2

• fix

Feb 2, 2022

• improved the map

Feb 4, 2022

• gegsg

Feb 6, 2022

• fixed cubemaps
• made changes to A

Feb 6, 2022 #2

• added glass to a window

Feb 9, 2022

• might be final alpha

Feb 9, 2022 #2

• bux

Feb 9, 2022 #3

• added hacks

Feb 9, 2022 #4

• window

Feb 9, 2022 #5

• THERE WASW ROCK IN SPAWN

Feb 16, 2022

• Tweaked gameplay thingies in a lot of areas
• New sunset lighting and sky

Feb 16, 2022 #2

• Fixed a few thingies

Feb 16, 2022 #3

• hi

Apr 3, 2022

• Detailed the map

Apr 4, 2022

• Pickup adjustment
• Removed engineer camp site outside A
• Moved blue spawn forward for B

Apr 4, 2022 #2

• B

Apr 4, 2022 #3

• fixed

Apr 4, 2022 #4

• play

Apr 5, 2022

• Making A and B better

Apr 5, 2022 #2

• Tried to make A less of a hassle for blue
• Added a few cliffs

May 23, 2022

• updated artpass
• not done yet

Jun 1, 2022

• New lighting and no more dev textures
• Reduced noise
• Fixed a few sightlines
• Added another capture point between A and B
• Blocked off a few areas
• Added a couple routes
• Added cars
• Optimization

Jun 2, 2022

• Fixed a few bugs and materials
• Additional optimization

Jun 3, 2022

• Fixed bugs
• Daytime theme
• Some optimization
• Adjusted spawn locations

Jun 3, 2022 #2

• fixed bug

Jun 7, 2022

• Added spawn details
• Fixed bugs
• blah blah

Jun 8, 2022

• The regular

Jun 11, 2022

• yep

Jun 16, 2022

• We already know about the sign bug

Jun 22, 2022

• Map should perform a lot better now!

Jun 28, 2022

• Layout
  • Simplified areas with dynamic elements
  • Pickup placement adjustments
  • Opened up some areas to make it less cramped
  • Spawn time adjustments

• Art pass continuation:
  • Interiors detailing
  • Lighting improvements

• Misc:
  • Bug fixes
  • Clipping in a few areas
  • Some optimization

Jul 2, 2022

• clipping fixes
• bug fixes
• texture saturation adjustments
• lighting updates
• blue roofs on blue spawn
• bakery in blue spawn is now accessible
• pickup adjustments
• spawn time adjustments
• minor detail updates

Jul 16, 2022

• Reduced the saturation on the vehicles
• Made the skybox texture less geometric
• Added shadows to the ivy
• Desaturated some of the stucco textures
• Fixed packing error
• Fixed a non functional hint/skip
• Misc visual fixes
• Pickup adjustments

Jul 18, 2022

• Misc visual fixes
• Clipping improvements
• Adjusted the platform near C to be more generous to red

Sep 11, 2022

• Fixed a rare client crashing issue

Sep 11, 2022 #2

• Fixed an area where vvis was glitching

Sep 13, 2022

• Fixed a prop that would crash players with their model quality set below high

Feb 15, 2023

• Made it easier for blue to use the left flank route at B
• Optimization
• Minor pickup tweaks
• Moved red resupply further back in B spawn
• Lighting improvements in some places
• Exploit fixes

Mar 14, 2023

• New environment lighting and fog to make the map feel warmer
• Added a functional cash register in blue spawn that shoots wine bottles when hit with melee
• Minor improvements here and there

Mar 14, 2023 #2

• Fixed the fog starting too late
• Fixed an invisible staircase

Mar 17, 2023

• Added power lines
• Fixed a bad sniper sightline
• A lot optimization

Apr 7, 2023'

• Fixed a weird collision model
• A bunch of various visual fixes
  • Note: Will fix more of the minor things in the future after more are found

Apr 13, 2023

• Added some more ways to navigate point
• Added additional high ground for blue outside B
• Fixed various bugs

Jun 7, 2023

• Moved Red respawn for B back a bit
• Added a third route into D
• Additional optimization

Jun 8, 2023

• Fixed a wrong rail post model
• Fixed a clipping bug at a spot
• More occluders at D

Gallery

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  Steam Workshop thumbnail for Vineyard.

External links

• Vineyard on TF2Maps.net