Applejack
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| Basic Information | |
| Map type: | Capture the Flag |
| File name: | ctf_applejack
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| Released: | July 18, 2024 Patch (Summer 2024 Update) |
| Developer(s): | Rhafael "Rhamkin" Oliveira Al "Square" Rodgers Yiming "Coolchou" Zhao Alex "FGD5" Stewart Aeon "Void" Bollig |
| Map Info | |
| Environment: | Farmland |
| Setting: | Afternoon, sunny |
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 Health Kits:
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 ×2 •  ×6
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 Ammo Boxes:
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 ×6 •  ×2
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| “ | Misquotation, its(sic) not something to take lightly, one slip of the tongue could spell disaster down the line.
For example the very well known expression ' An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away', is not the full phrase... — Applejack publicity blurb
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Applejack is a community-created Capture the Flag map added in the Summer 2024 Update. It is made of two opposing farming complexes comprised of barns, sheds, and housing surrounded by team-colored apple orchards, each for the RED and BLU team respectively. A large population of harmless chickens also inhabit the area.
Applejack was contributed to the Steam Workshop.
Locations
- Spawn Room: A square room with two exits and a resupply cabinet. The right exit leads almost straight to the Intelligence room.
- Spawn Yard: The area immediately outside the spawn room.
- Intelligence Room: A small room with two main doors on opposite sides. A small portion of the room has a higher floor and is partially covered by some computers, which also cover a third, smaller door facing the spawn.
- Intelligence Yard: An open area next to the Intelligence room with a large ammo box and a medium health kit on a wooden catwalk. Most classes need to leave through the Intelligence room, but open windows of the team's building can be accessed through jumping techniques.
- Team Building: Each team has a massive building separating their spawn and Intelligence rooms from the center of the map.
- Garage: The room with a truck full of apples.
- Balcony: A balcony overlooking the center of the map.
- Waste Area: The lowest section of the team building's interior, containing radioactive and biohazardous barrels. Part of the dirt ground is under very shallow water.
- Main Battlements: The center of the map. A small storage building sits in the middle, with crates on either side that players can climb to get on top of it.
Inside view of RED spawn.
RED spawn.
BLU spawn.
Inside view of BLU spawn.
RED intelligence room.
RED intelligence yard.
BLU intelligence room.
BLU intelligence yard.
Main battlements.
RED waste area.
BLU waste area.
Strategy
Main article: Community Applejack strategy
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Update history
July 18, 2024 Patch #1 (Summer 2024 Update)
- Added Applejack to the game.
- Improved clipping.
- Brought some stairs.
- Improved tree collision.
- Added more chickens.
- Improved detail.
- Fixed Ol'Betsy (Thanks Aar!).
October 10, 2024 Patch #1 (Scream Fortress 2024)
- Fixed the projectile weapons from not working inside the buildings.
- Removed bullet collision from the Intelligence room handrails.
- Removed the prop jump up to the Sniper balcony, to help Snipers feel more comfortable there.
- Removed the vents with missing textures.
- Fixed the bug with being able to get stuck in the blue shed.
- Fixed a stuck spot in mid shed (ty Midnite!)
- Fixed a texture being weird in the Intelligence rooms.
- Fixed a black displacement in the red Intelligence yard.
- Removed the collision from the food in the red spawn table.
- Added block bullets to some stores.
- Unblocked a window at mid, allowing Snipers to shot across the middle hut.
- Removed the missing texture in BLU spawn.
- Gave a chicken a friend, because friendship is magic.
Trivia
- The map is named after the alcoholic drink, applejack, which is a type of brandy produced from apples.[1]
- In a building on the RED side near the gate blocked by some crates, a barrel, and an arrow sign, is a Pocket Purrer wearing a Last Straw in a bucket. This is a signature of one of the creators, Rhamkin.
- Between the RED spawn and the Intelligence, a tree can be seen out of bounds with a hand-drawn missing poster for a "missing Pootis". This is a reference to the "Lil Pootis" animated series by YouTuber Quazies, where the RED Scout in that series owns a pet "Pootis" (a bird version of Heavy).[2]
- On BLU side, near a panel with some levers, there is a hand drawn version of the YouTuber Aar's logo. This was included as a thank you to Aar for helping with the map.[3]
Gallery
Steam Workshop thumbnail for Applejack.
The Pocket Purrer with the Last Straw.
The "Missing Pootis" poster.
Hand drawn Aar logo.
References
- Jump up ↑ Map creator confirming the map name.
- Jump up ↑ Map creator retweeting Quazies's tweet about the reference.
- Jump up ↑ Map creator confirming the Aar easter egg.
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