Rotunda
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| Rotunda | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Developer(s): | Unknown |
| Map Info | |
| Environment: | Alpine, industrial |
| Setting: | Daylight, sunny |
| Hazards: | Trains, crushing |
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| Map Overview | |
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| “ | Welcome to Rotunda, a steam engine workshop turned secret doomsday storage facility, now abandoned. Fight on trains, fight around trains, and fight for trains!
— Rotunda publicity blurb
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Rotunda is a community-created King of the Hill map. The map is set in a somewhat abandoned train depot in south east Germany, with both teams fighting over a reactor with 2 steam locomotives on each side. This map has been partially inspired by the open layouts of Nucleus and Harvest.
Rotunda was contributed to the Steam Workshop.
Locations
- Spawn yard: A yard straight out of the spawn room, contains an entrance to the Tunnels, a main path to the point, as well as an infinitely long train.
- Tunnels: Straight out of spawn, some underground tunnels can be found under a hatch lifting up two shipping containers leading to directly under the point.
- Outer train depot: The outer section train depot conists of a large ring around the inner depot.
- Inner train depot: The main control point, contains an upper level and a lower level.
- Lower depot catwalk: A small catwalk near the control point, connects to a small building that houses a medium health pack.
BLU spawn yard.
Entrance to Tunnels.
Middle of Tunnels.
Ramp up to Outer train depot.
Exit towards the Inner train depot, below the control point.
Inner train depot, featuring the reactor on the point.
Inner train depot from BLU side.
Inner train depot from RED side.
Strategy
Main article: Community Rotunda strategy
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Update history
July 12, 2023 Patch #1 (Summer 2023 Update)
- Added Rotunda to the game.
- Aligned various textures
- Improved clipping slightly
- Raised gate to flank route for ease of access
- Aligned some props
- Aligned various textures and fixed cubemap issue
- Improved clipping
- Improved lighting and reduced visual noise on some textures
- Raised gate to flank route for ease of access
- Aligned some props
- Fixed out-of-bounds exploit related to
func_tracktrain(Thank you, The Nubing!) - Added missing collision to some props
- Sealed the map more
Trivia
- A Wiki Cap along with some Soldier gibs and an Intelligence briefcase can be found in BLU's tunnels. This is a reference to one of the creators owning a Wiki Cap.[1]
- Outside the RED spawn, a room can be found out of bounds containing an Engineer and Heavy doing the Kazotsky Kick and credits to the map developers.
- A small blue locomotive can be found riding around the upper depot catwalk, which also follows the same track as one of the spectator cameras for the main area.
- A summit cross can be found on the top of the mountain in the skybox, which is common in Germany.
- The locomotive models on the point are DRG Class 81.[2]
- In German practice, the model's locomotive number plate starts with the DRG locomotive class, 81 in this case.
- The remainder of the full plate number, 6745, is the signature of FGD5, the model's creator.[2]
Bugs
- The far end of the infinite train at spawn stops rendering while it is still in view.[3]
Gallery
Workshop thumbnail for Rotunda.
The dancing Engineer and Heavy in the credit room.
The credits in the credits room.
Soldier with the Wiki Cap and Intel.
The converted shipping container.
The small blue locomotive on the catwalk.
The summit cross from afar.
A close-up of the summit cross.
References
- ↑ Creator confirming the reference
- ↑ a b Creator confirming the reference.
- ↑ Invisible train bug
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