Control Point

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“

This point ain't gonna cap itself! Get over here! Click to listen — The Engineer

”

See also: Control points

Control Point maps have two main types of game modes.

Control points are circular platforms with a team-colored light in the center (neutral points will have a white light). To capture a point owned by the enemy team, the player simply stands on the point until the capture meter fills with your team color. The more people of the same team on a point, the faster it will capture, though only to a limited extent. Scouts and those wielding a Pain Train count as 2 players when capturing points. No capture progress will be made when players of both teams are on the point. If all the capturing players are killed or driven off before the capture is completed, the capture progress will not reset immediately but instead will slowly fade away.

There are three statuses for a control point:

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  Neutral: The Point can be taken by either team (usually the central point in a standard CP map)

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  Captured: The Point is currently owned by the RED team but can be retaken by the BLU team.

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  Locked: The Point is currently owned by the RED team and cannot be retaken by the BLU team.

There are two main types of control point maps – Standard Control Point and Attack/Defend maps:

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Standard control point

Standard control point (or Linear Control Point) maps play symmetrically. Both teams start with an equal number of two controlled points and a central point starts out controlled by neither team. The team that captures all the points wins. Traditional Control Point maps will go into Sudden death (or Stalemate) if no team captures all the points before times runs out. Control points close to a team's spawn point are captured more quickly by the enemy team.

Standard control point maps:

• Badlands
• Coldfront
• Fastlane
• Freight
• Granary
• Well
• Yukon

Attack/Defend

Attack/Defend maps play asymmetrically. RED begins with all the points in their control. BLU wins if it captures all of RED's points. Points may only be captured in a set order (though some maps, such as Gravel Pit and Steel, may make exceptions). RED wins if it prevents BLU from capturing all points before the timer expires. Points captured by BLU are typically locked and cannot be taken back.

Attack/Defend maps can come in various styles. Some maps such as Dustbowl and Egypt require BLU, the attacking team, to go through multiple stages before they can ultimately win the map. If the attacking team fails to win each stage, teams will switch and the defenders will then take turn to be the attackers. Other maps such as Gravel Pit and Junction, allow the attacker to capture two points in no particular order (points A or B) before attacking the final point (point C). Steel is a unique Attack/Defend map in that capturing each minor capture point (points A,B,C and D) will allow better accessibility to the main point (point E), such as allowing more routes into point E or extending bridges to the point so that classes other than the Scout, Soldier, Demoman or sentry jumping Engineers can capture it.

Control Point maps

Control point maps carry the cp_ prefix.

Standard control point

	Map	File Name
	Badlands	cp_badlands
100px	Coldfront	cp_coldfront
	Fastlane	cp_fastlane
	Freight	cp_freight_final1
	Granary	cp_granary
	Well	cp_well
100px	Yukon	cp_yukon_final

Attack/Defend

	Map	File Name
	Dustbowl	cp_dustbowl
	Egypt	cp_egypt_final
	Gorge	cp_gorge
	Gravel Pit	cp_gravelpit
	Junction	cp_junction_final
	Mann Manor	cp_manor_event
	Mountain Lab	cp_mountainlab
	Steel	cp_steel

See Also

• Capping (competitive). User guide to capturing efficiently.