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
Map Photos
Loading screen photos.
Map Overview
Rotunda overview.png
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

Rotunda is a community-created King of the Hill map. The map is set in a dilapidated, full rotunda railway roundhouse in southeast Germany, with the teams fighting over a reactor on a flat car on the turntable with a team-colored steam locomotive coupled to each end. This map is partially inspired by the open layouts of Nucleus and Harvest.

Rotunda was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Locations

  • Spawn Yard: The Yard rollout for the Spawn room.
  • Train: A slow, continuously passing train protecting one Spawn gate.
  • Outer Rotunda: The outer ring of ground floor rooms and routes.
  • Inner Rotunda: The open platform around a Turntable.
  • Turntable: The control point is at the center of the Turntable.
  • Basement: From the yard, an entrance under a "secret" hatch leads to a maze of basement rooms.
  • Pit: The level below the Turntable.
  • Catwalk: The platform overlooking the Turntable, connecting to a small control shack that houses a medium health pack.

Strategy

Main article: Community Rotunda strategy

Update history

July 12, 2023 Patch #1 (Summer 2023 Update)
  • Added Rotunda to the game.

July 20, 2023 Patch #1

  • 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]

Gallery

References

  1. Creator confirming the reference
  2. a b Creator confirming the reference.