User:Baliame/TF2 Gamemode Theories

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Baliame's Gamemode Theories Note that this is a design theory page, it does not explain how exactly to set up these gamemodes. Later, I will write a tutorial for each of these gamemodes. Feel free to create maps of any of these gamemodes. Table of Contents Control Point Gamemodes Capture the Flag Gamemodes Elimination Gamemodes King of the Hill Defend the Flag Standard Elimination Jailbreak Control Point Gamemodes King of the Hill Complexity: Easy (2/4) Support: The current HUD does not fully support King of the Hill. Scoring and score display is done using workarounds. Description The King of the Hill gamemode consists of a Hill which teams must hold for a set amount of time in order to achieve victory. This is either done by displaying a timer of the remaining time until victory (the easy way) or having a score limit, awarding score to the holding team every few seconds (the hard way). Creation A control point is required in the role of the "Hill" with instant capture time. Another, unreachable, control point is required, as a workaround to automatic capture victory. The Easy Way Two team_round_timer entities are used, each activated when the corresponding team captures the point. When a timer hits zero, the team owning it wins. Timer HUD is usable. The Hard Way Counters are used to store the score, increased by ticks of timer entities set to a few seconds. Score is displayed using scoreboard brushes. Capture the Flag Gamemodes Defend the Flag Complexity: Very Easy (1/4) Support: Team Fortress 2 fully supports this gamemode. Description One sided CTF, blue team attempts to retrieve the red intelligence, the only goal for red is to keep the blues from taking it. Creation Seal off the blue flag somewhere unreachable, add a reasonable timer, extend it on each capture of the flag. Elimination Gamemodes Standard Elimination Complexity: Very Easy (1/4) Support: Team Fortress 2 fully supports this gamemode. Description A more tactical TF2 - everyone has one life. A map played with Sudden Death on all the way. Creation Fire a Sudden Death event on round start. Jailbreak Complexity: Average (3/4) Support: The current HUD does not fully support Jailbreak. The gamemode is done using workarounds. Description This game is similar to Standard Elimination, however players who get killed do respawn, however in jail, which is near the spawnroom of the opposing team. If all players of a team are in jail, the team is executed and the opposing team wins. However, if someone can press the release button, which is near the corresponding jail, the whole team is released. Creation This is a little tricky. The way to do this is through manipulation of respawn entities: the jails start off with a set of disabled respawn entities, while the spawnrooms have these enabled. After the setup timer expires, the state of this switches; the jail respawns become enabled, and the standard respawns become disabled. To check if there are no players of a team "alive", use a trigger entity with team filter and the EndTouchAll output. Finally, "jailbreak" is handled by a jail-wide teleport entity.