One of the core concepts born out of this map is the proximity and traversal between the options players get at the first choke point. It is currently on hold but we may return to this and give a few areas a once over now that we know more.īlackstone had a great overall narrative in its structural design and premise that was immediately more easily understood battlements are a natural first perimeter, breaching a castle, etc. We learned a ton more with this one and came up with a lot of core components and mechanics of the game mode thanks to this map. Dropped flags often ended matches or provided the defending team a huge time advantage because they were so easily locked down this eventually led to the backtracking mechanic of the dropped flag, which allowed for fun dynamic shifts and decision making around the flag instead.īlackstone was the first shell that was purpose built for Blitz, and incorporated a lot of the lessons learned from testing Bigrock.

There were three main routes into the defender base, two of which connected back together before hitting the capture point. We knew that asymmetry was going to play a huge part in the gameplay and feel of Blitz, so those types of maps were a logical place to start to get something up and running quickly.ĬTF-Bigrock ended up being the shell we iterated on the most because a lot of its inherent design lent itself well to Blitz as a starting point. Our first testing grounds for Blitz were a few of our old asymmetrical CTF shells.

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