Barnblitz
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Barnblitz | |
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Basic Information | |
Developer(s): | Unknown |
Map Info | |
Environment: | Alpine |
Setting: | Daylight, Snowy |
Map Photos | |
Map Overview | |
“ | Prove that you’re “born in a barn” (secretly in the Mafia) with this Valve-made Payload Map! Show your enemies you can “hit the broad side of a barn” (be really good at the Mafia) while you make them “buy the farm” (quit their Mafia jobs and becomes farmers) on one outdoor and three indoor capture points (including a final indoor capture point).
— Über Update publicity Blurb
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Barnblitz is a Valve-made Payload map announced on Day 1 of the Über Update. It features one outdoor and three indoor capture points.
Contents
Goal
- BLU Team: The BLU team's primary goal is to guide the cart on its tracks throughout the map. By continuously pushing the cart forward and breaking through RED defensive positions, it will detonate and the BLU team will be victorious. Failure to push the cart forward by having teammates near it will eventually result in the cart slowly moving backwards after a period of time, eroding your team's past progress.
- RED Team: Opposite the BLU team's objective, the team function of RED, as a group, is to deter and stall the BLU team and prevent them from advancing the cart to its final destination. By fighting off their opposition for a long enough period of time, the RED team will be victorious. The most effective way to stall the BLU team is to remain very close to the cart, thereby halting it from moving even with BLU forces nearby.
Locations
Spawn to Checkpoint 1
- Spawn and Yard: The exit on the far left takes you behind the cart. The double gates exit allows you to immediately begin escorting the cart. The exit on the far right takes you out into the open under the cover of a large boulder, which makes for a common Sentry Gun placement on the opposite side. The small shed in the middle of the yard provides additional cover and a medium health kit.
- Left Shed: The shed to the far left allows you to flank enemies on the snowy platform. Use the boxes beside the ledge to gain access. There is a small ammunition box inside behind some prop crates. There is a small health kit and a large ammunition box behind this shed as well.
- Platform: Engineers usually build on the concrete platform to prevent the cart from approaching the first checkpoint. Use the shed mentioned above to flank them if you can't attack from the bottom of the ramp. From here, you can move into the enclosed area around the first checkpoint or down the rear ramp into the defender's yard.
- Approach: You can pick up a large ammunition box here and/or a small health kit. The rised concrete platform beside the small shed is another good spot for Engineers to build on.
- Checkpoint #1: This area contains a large ammunition box and a medium health kit. There is a wooden ramp that circles the entire room, which allows players to exit and enter to and from the snowy platform.
Checkpoint 1 to Checkpoint 2
- Defender Yard: You can access the dropdown via the stairs on the left. There is a medium ammunition box before it. There is also a large health kit behind the small shed in the center of the yard. The metal roof on the far right is good for ambushing escorting players coming from the first checkpoint. The platforms in the rear right are useful for defending Snipers. The cliff leading from the snowy platform can be used for a height advantage over enemies in the yard.
- Entrance: The gate at the bottom provides a flank to the next checkpoint. In the distance, a doorway leading from the room below the dropdown as well as the stairs to the upper level can be seen.
- Dropdown: You can either drop down into the room below or attack the defenders from the overlook. The room below this level contains a medium ammunition box and health kit.
- Approach: The flank described above can be seen here on the right. The stairway to the left leads upwards. The checkpoint is visible in the distance. Engineers typically build their Sentry Guns to the right infront of the gate or in the back to the left near the large ammunition box.
- Upper Level: To the left is a set of stairs leading outside and around back of the checkpoint. To the right is the platform overlooking the track. To the rear right is a small corridor with window for surprising the enemy as well as a hole to drop down onto a medium health kit behind the checkpoint. Before this window, there is a medium ammunition box and health kit at the rear of the upper platform.
Update history
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- PL_Barnblitz was added to the game.
Trivia
- Official Valve servers were running development versions of Barnblitz months before its official announcement.
- Barnblitz was later leaked in a promotional image for Steam's screenshot feature.[1]
References
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