might actually be the worst map i ever played

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demo spam: The map

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MAP, it's just about everything I like in a good choke-heavy A/D map, but!

There are some real UI/UX problems that take down this map a couple of steps:
- Some announcer lines are missing, like when the intel is picked up, dropped, or respawned.
- There's no prompt to take the intel to the point when picked up.
- There's no intel icon that flashes briefly when you pick it up.
- The map never tells the player has to touch the desk itself instead of the misleadingly-marked cap area.
- And invisible Spies can block caps, leading to some cheesy (albeit somewhat funny) Spy plays.

All of this together makes it so new/learning players have a really hard time at the map, and in some cases even accidentally grief their own team without even knowing.
I'd love for these issues to be fixed so this map could go straight into the Top 10!

There is currently a bug on the map where invisible spies can prevent the intel from being captured by standing on the point, even though they are invisible and can't usually interact with map objectives in this way. Are there active plans to address this bug?

I love map exploits

i love the maps lore

Is there a chance to add an answer for the administrator when the flag returns to the BLU base?
“Our intelligence has returned to our base.” for BLU
“The enemy intelligence was returned to their base.” for RED

would be good but uh it kinda isnt

valve should experiment with non-standard maps like this. sure, the map is kind of confusing at first glance but it's a blast once you get the hang of it.

i had a silly moment on last where we couldn't push through the RED defences, and we ended up getting a soldier to jump to the last "control point" with the intel whilst i was ubering him with the vaccinator resistances

So glad this map is now permanent, don't why Valve waited for the summer update to make this all year round

Does the defending team forget that they need to stand inside the capture zone to block the flag delivery?

and we (Junk)tion over this?

hi. not a fan of this map. but I want to suggest; you should make the flag instantly despawn when the flag carrier is killed/drops flag, please.

the insta-cap is gross. but it could possibly be balanced with the flag not being able to be passed between players.

AND the control points should need to be stood on for 5 seconds by the flag carrier in order to capture.

Now you can play this masterpiece map not only in winter. Its very cool. I LOVE THIS MAP

they just re-added the map into CTF and then they change it to Attack/Defense XD
this is very good because the map itself is very cool, and now we can play it Anytime!

how can i get into the map

Is the out of bounds trick with the sentry jump patched out? I hope its not.

Please get whoever is at valve to remove the event-only tag. The map is a lot of fun to rocket jump on

this gives me some operation blackout vibes.

This gotta be my fav map in the game

They marked it as Event-Only map probably because of unique take on Capture The Flag, like they did with Crasher and Carrier. Seems Valve sees Offence CTF as too special gamemode.

Emerge was kept as a new all year round permanent map but not Haarp even though they both have snow lol?

Please make this year round VALVE

Eric pls add it into the all year round permanent pool :(

This has no reason not to be in the year-round map pool, they could throw it in the "misc" section for all I care.

Hey Valve why the heck is this Smissmas only? This map deserves to be all year round, it's too unique to be limited to Smissmas.

Rip, smissmas only map because valve said so

This map doesn’t have any christmas decorations (snow doesn’t count) so it definitely deserves to be added to the permanent map rotation.

please make insta caps into something like 3 sec caps

Amazing map. i hope it gets added permanently

Now aint this a hidden gem found

Congrats! Always had a soft spot for this map.

The map also really needs outlines for both capture points, other than that good map

This map needs voicelines for when the intel respawn or is dropped

I knew I played it before, 8 years! Wow!

the cubemap might need a fix, its mostly noticeable on the floor on the last phase of the map

Congratulations. Took longer than Cashworks to get in. Well earnt. Now to see casual have to learn how to block captures on an A/D CTF hybrid map.

The aisles are as narrow as on the dustbowl, so this is a map of who spams better

Holy this is one old map to add Valve

14 years

I love this map so much

Congrats on getting this map officially added to TF2! Well, Well Well, The OG ATK/DEF game mode from team fortress classic has made its official return after 16 years!

no fucking way, congrats

I asked, because I've been waiting years to actually play this map.

Not trying to sound mean, but who asked for this? Why did a map created several years ago get plucked into the game only now?

CONGRATS ON MAKING IT IN FELLAS!!!!!!! I remember seeing this map on fpsbanana years ago!! So stoked for you guys, this map rules <3

Finally this map was added. It was a long time coming, congrats man!

my god, it's finally been added to the game

oh my goodness gracious