Embargo

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Embargo
Embargo.png
Basic Information
Map type: Payload
File name: pl_embargo
Released: July 18, 2024 Patch
(Summer 2024 Update)
Developer(s): João "Hoppkins" Marcos
Patrick "Zeus" Hennessy
Rodrigo "Rapoza Dynamica" Carneri
Torkil "TheLazerSofa" Malvik Bidtnes
Lizard Of Oz
Vasilis "Billo" Chatzikostas
Maksim "Velly" Streltsov
Szabó "Maxxy" Attila
Elian "iron" Rodriguez
Sarah Jane Eve
Chandler "OctoBlitz" Dunaway
Alex "FGD5" Stewart
Nick "nickybakes" Baker
Audionexx
Map Info
Environment: City
Setting: Daylight, sunny
Hazards: Pitfall (ocean),
helicopter blades,
crushing (under lowering Gate A and helicopter),
tanks,
train (under lowering bomb cart)
Deep Water: Yes
Map Photos
Loading screen photos.
Map Overview
Embargo overview.png
Map Stamp
Item icon Map Stamp - Embargo.png
Supporters Leaderboard
Embargo is a Cuban Island under the domain of the evil comandante and his global counterfeit operation. As part of his operation he has been funneling money to sabotage mining operations over brazilium and risks the integrity of MannCo shipments for the next few decades..
Embargo publicity blurb

Embargo is a community-created Payload map released during the Summer 2024 Update. The map is set in Cuba, featuring a Payload track through the streets and the "Rojo's Casino", which plays music all throughout that can be faintly heard from outside. The map's story follows a strike team from the USA's (BLU team) efforts to deliver a bomb filled with paint (to dye the money and brazilium) to the center of El Comandante's lair, the fictitious dictator of Cuba, who sends his elite squad (RED team) to stop them.

Embargo was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Features

Embargo features a Payload cart that changes form throughout the map, such as being brought in by a helicopter at the start, then going from the standard Payload cart to inside the back of a truck. When the first checkpoint is captured, the Payload cart can be pushed into a truck's shipping container where it must be ridden via the platform behind it, similar to Frontier. When the third checkpoint is captured by BLU, the top of the container opens up, and the Payload is removed via an overhead crane before being subsequently placed back onto the track.

Robots

All around the interior of "Rojo's Casino" are small red robot butlers. They are harmless and populate exclusively the casino area, though they can be attacked and destroyed. Some of the robots can be found roaming around the casino floor on a set path with health kits on their trays. These health kits can be acquired by both teams, but the robots actively pursue injured RED players to deliver kits to, whereas BLU players are ignored. When picked up, the health kits respawn on their serving tray after 10 seconds and, if a robot is damaged, they either stop moving, roll in circles, or flee the player. When destroyed, they drop a health kit on the floor if carrying one and respawn after 25 seconds. Dropped kits despawn after 15 seconds.

Additionally, some robot butlers can be found roaming around out of bounds, as well as manning the various forms of gambling around the casino. When destroyed, they do not drop anything and respawn after 25 seconds (except for the robot butlers at the gambling tables, which never respawn).

Accompanying lines from the announcer play after a robot is destroyed depending on the player's team. If a player is standing in front of a robot, it rolls around them to get past.

Strategy

Main article: Community Embargo strategy

Update history

July 18, 2024 Patch #1 (Summer 2024 Update)
  • Added Embargo to the game.

July 25, 2024 Patch #1

  • Minor visual and clipping improvements.
  • Fixed the cart's missing outline.
  • Added an extra Botler to the playable space.
  • Fixed the paint splat overlay not applying to players within the explosion range.
  • The ambient music inside the casino now respects the music volume settings.
  • Improved player visibility against certain walls (Thanks Arthur).
  • Added the kill icon to the helicopter blades.
  • Fixed an override of a TF2's base texture.
  • Fixed being able to block the cart shortly after point A (Thanks Aar).
  • Fixed getting stuck in a door near C while it closes.
  • Fixed indoors fog sometimes getting applied outside (Thanks Phe)
  • Increased respawn time for RED on the last point.
  • Fixed the client crash related to custom models.
  • Improved performance on the last point.

July 25, 2024 Patch #2

  • Updated pl_embargo to fix visual glitches.

Bugs

  • Before the Payload cart is brought out from the helicopter, its hitbox and healing/ammo refill functionality is already present on the helipad.
  • When the Payload cart is being lifted from the truck back to the tracks after the third checkpoint, the particle effects and healing/ammo refill functionality stays inside the truck.

Trivia

  • In the "Ropa Vieja" restaurant is a missing persons poster of a health inspector. In one of BLU's spawn rooms, the kitchen of the "Peixuxa Restaurante", the same missing poster is crossed out with blue paint. Not far from that poster is a severed hand next to a notepad and pencil commonly associated with health inspectors.

Gallery