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After months of private community testing, the "CP_Snowplow" map planned for release with the upcoming "End of the Line" update was leaked to Reddit earlier today. The map, which is heavily related to the End of the Line short created by James McVinnie, has BLU team guide a train through a map while RED team attempt to destroy it with large traps. BLU team must capture control points in a linear fashion to prevent the traps from doing damage to the train, eventually destroying it after 10 successful hits.
The map, which is being created by community mappers YM and Frozen, was recently opened up for "public" beta testing amongst the TF2Maps.net community in order to receive more gameplay feedback about balancing, progression, and flow. Unfortunately, one of the individuals invited to this evening's test decided to leak the map and a number of screenshots to Reddit, effectively drawing back the curtain on what was a well-kept community secret.
In response, Frozen and YM have decided to release a new version of the map to the public on the TF2Maps.net EU and US servers, allowing anyone to play the current version of the map freely while also providing important gameplay information, such as feedback and heatmap data. Like Asteroid and Cactus Canyon, Snowplow is far from complete and features a bunch of weird balancing issues, incomplete architecture, and missing textures.
If you're looking to check out the map ahead of its release later this year, be sure to head on over to the TF2Maps.net servers, as playing over there will help collect data for Frozen and YM to help make the map even better. If you would rather wait until the map was all shiny and finished, we don't blame you.
Personally, I've been involved in the private testing of the map since early May, and it's been exciting to see how the level has continually grown and changed over months of iteration. With over a terabyte of raw footage recorded from over 30 different map versions, expect to see a very special episode of ValveTime Spotlight Exclusive arrive alongside the release of the End of the Line short and the fully finished version of Snowplow sometime in the future.
The map, which is being created by community mappers YM and Frozen, was recently opened up for "public" beta testing amongst the TF2Maps.net community in order to receive more gameplay feedback about balancing, progression, and flow. Unfortunately, one of the individuals invited to this evening's test decided to leak the map and a number of screenshots to Reddit, effectively drawing back the curtain on what was a well-kept community secret.
In response, Frozen and YM have decided to release a new version of the map to the public on the TF2Maps.net EU and US servers, allowing anyone to play the current version of the map freely while also providing important gameplay information, such as feedback and heatmap data. Like Asteroid and Cactus Canyon, Snowplow is far from complete and features a bunch of weird balancing issues, incomplete architecture, and missing textures.
If you're looking to check out the map ahead of its release later this year, be sure to head on over to the TF2Maps.net servers, as playing over there will help collect data for Frozen and YM to help make the map even better. If you would rather wait until the map was all shiny and finished, we don't blame you.
Personally, I've been involved in the private testing of the map since early May, and it's been exciting to see how the level has continually grown and changed over months of iteration. With over a terabyte of raw footage recorded from over 30 different map versions, expect to see a very special episode of ValveTime Spotlight Exclusive arrive alongside the release of the End of the Line short and the fully finished version of Snowplow sometime in the future.
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