CTF4 FNB Temple Of Dragons

CTF4 FNB Temple Of Dragons

UT CTF4 - Large, 10-20 players. Alien world Ancient Temples. March - May 2005.

This was to be a Large CTF in an Ancient Fantasy Alien Temple environment. Worked on this version of TOD from March to May 2005, then resumed efforts for a CTF4 version early in 2011.

The cool thing about the AS FNB Temple Of Dragons layout design is that it is quite adaptable (with minimal changes) for other game types such as DM or TDM, DOM, Monster Hunt. and yes even CTF. What makes this possible is the fact the has six very different gameplay areas which are formed into a cross (i.e. N-S-E-W and a middle).

Since multiple warp zones connected the areas in an end-to-end and end-to-sides manner, there is a natural circuit flow (several shortcuts) between the main areas. The result is quick movement around an otherwise large map, making it suitable for 4 team gameplay (TDM, DOM, CTF4). With the removal or blocking of certain warp zones, the map game flow could then be tailored for the more linear approach (Assault, Monster Hunt, normal CTF).

Plain two-team CTF is unfortunately tricky. I did play with different symmetrical CTF layouts, where I had the middle plus each of the four "arenas" duped as bases (so that's four test maps, lol). None of the CTF layouts were all that great - well one was okay, but not too interesting.

So dropping the CTF TOD idea I focused more on advancing the AS version. Once that was done, then DM, DOM, CTF4 and Monster Hunt versions of TOD would be produced as conversions of a completed map. Good plan rob, lol!

Well at some point in 2011 I had tested a quick conversion of TOD at that time to CTF4 to see if would actually work and it did! So THIS is that CTF4 project (notice the FLAG positions in the image below).

This project was always a throwaway since work was ongoing on the AS map. Sometime later the AS work stopped in favor of a Monster Hunt version, which was eventually completed and released as BETA - but that is another story!!