Powerhouse

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Powerhouse
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Basic Information
Developer(s): Unknown
Map Info
Environment: Industrial
Setting: Daylight, sunny
Hazards: Drowning
Map Photos
Loading screen photos.
Map Overview
Powerhouse overview.png
The densely-packed, fast-paced Powerhouse is TF2's first three-point CP map. Commit wasteful crimes against nature in the environmentally conscious shadow of a clean, renewable energy source!
— Powerhouse Publicity Blurb

Powerhouse is a symmetrical three point Control Point map introduced in the Gun Mettle Update. It is set on a hydroelectrical power plant.

Locations

Strategy

Control Point timing

Related Achievements

Update history

Trivia

  • In both team's bases are references to outer space in the Team Fortress 2 universe.
  • Behind both team's spawns is a room filled with rockets similar to the one used on the map Doomsday.
  • To the side of the rocket room is a metallic room with a lone spherical chair similar to the ascetics of Asteroid.
  • At the center of each base is a closed launch pad with a rocket inside prepped for launch, and above a partly opened roof shutter.
  • In the control room near the team oriented control point is a computer terminal and bulletin board with several references.
  • On the terminal, there is a launch sequence code "111....1" This is a code said by Soldier in Meet the Spy.
  • On both the terminal and the bulletin board are references to Poopy Joe.
  • The bulletin board has a newspaper referencing the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
  • The terminal says "Capacity: Lolololol", a phrase commonly seen on the title cards of the Meet the Team videos.
  • Powerhouse is the first official Valve map to feature exactly three capture points.

Gallery