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Description
Game: Unreal Tournament 1999
Gametype: Symmetrical Vanilla CTF
Name: CTF-Drainage
Filename: CTF-Drain
Music: Botpack #10
Description: Under the highway lies two opposing factions!

This is my very first CTF map for the original Unreal Tournament, designed as an under-the-highway
CTF map between two urban areas, inspired by the under-the-highway brawl scene between the Sharks and
the Jets from the movie West Side Story.
Each of the bases are emptied water storage houses, completely symmetrical, connected by the outside drainage area,
and an underground junction annex housing the shieldbelt and invisibility.
The most interesting part of the map is the outside area, housing the namesake drainage pools, each holding a superhealth
underneath the minigun/miniammo metal bridges, separated between two bridge supports which hold a udamage each.
A redeemer can be found on each of the fenced in dirt ledges on the sides of the outside area, perfect for clearing out the
enemy flag room if an attacking player can make it that far, and for a high ground escape back to base, prior to collecting
the sniper rifle/ammo and the 50 armor on the wooden planks by the upper doorway.

This map has held several problems over the development cycle, BSP errors(such as players falling out of the map's
geometry and cratering), a few bot pathing hiccups here and there, Red human players spawning in the Blue
base for no reason at map start of all things, and the like plaguing its various versions.

I have yet to find these problems and fix them, but as I keep troubleshooting, I begin to realize that the map's
problems possibly can't be fixed without drastically overhauling the map's architecture and basic geometry.

...If only UT99 could use static meshes with unique collision shapes like the later games...*sigh*

Description
Game: Unreal Tournament 1999
Gametype: Symmetrical Vanilla CTF
Name: CTF-Drainage
Filename: CTF-Drain
Music: Botpack #10
Description: Under the highway lies two opposing factions!

This is my very first CTF map for the original Unreal Tournament, designed as an under-the-highway
CTF map between two urban areas, inspired by the under-the-highway brawl scene between the Sharks and
the Jets from the movie West Side Story.
Each of the bases are emptied water storage houses, completely symmetrical, connected by the outside drainage area,
and an underground junction annex housing the shieldbelt and invisibility.
The most interesting part of the map is the outside area, housing the namesake drainage pools, each holding a superhealth
underneath the minigun/miniammo metal bridges, separated between two bridge supports which hold a udamage each.
A redeemer can be found on each of the fenced in dirt ledges on the sides of the outside area, perfect for clearing out the
enemy flag room if an attacking player can make it that far, and for a high ground escape back to base, prior to collecting
the sniper rifle/ammo and the 50 armor on the wooden planks by the upper doorway.

This map has held several problems over the development cycle, BSP errors(such as players falling out of the map's
geometry and cratering), a few bot pathing hiccups here and there, Red human players spawning in the Blue
base for no reason at map start of all things, and the like plaguing its various versions.

I have yet to find these problems and fix them, but as I keep troubleshooting, I begin to realize that the map's
problems possibly can't be fixed without drastically overhauling the map's architecture and basic geometry.

...If only UT99 could use static meshes with unique collision shapes like the later games...*sigh*