Kraken Pier

Kraken Pier
File name	pl_krakenpier
Game mode	Payload
Teams	Attackers, Defenders
Time limit	20 minutes, plus 7.5 minutes per checkpoint
To win	Attackers: cart reaches the end. Defenders: the clock runs out.
Summary	Attackers push the payload cart to its final destination. Defenders must stall until time runs out.

Kraken Pier is a Payload map. The attackers push a cart along a railed track over the pier while the defenders try to run the clock out.

Rules on this map

• Setup: the cart is locked for the first 30 seconds.
• Clock: 20 minutes once the cart unlocks. Each checkpoint the cart reaches adds 7.5 minutes.
• Pushing: 1.0 m/s for one attacker, 1.4 for two, 1.7 for three and 2.0 m/s for four or more.
• Blocking: a single defender beside the cart stops it dead.
• Rollback: if no attacker touches the cart for 20 seconds it rolls back at 0.5 m/s, but never past a checkpoint it has reached.
• Overtime: ends once no attacker has been on the cart for half a second.
• Both teams' spawns move up with the cart, so respawning players come back at the spawn point nearest the front.

• Respawns use the normal 8 second timer.

The coaster

Partway along, the track becomes a roller coaster. From the station to the splash the cart rides on its own: slowly up the lift, faster on the level, fastest down the drop, braking into the splash. Nobody can push, block or roll it back on the ride, and anyone standing on it rides along. From the splash the finale is pushed as usual.

Tips

• The first fight happens at the cart: the 30 second setup is long enough to pick a class and walk to the front.
• Extra pushers help less each: piling the whole team on the cart leaves nobody clearing the way ahead.
• Dying on the cart and running back costs nothing, since rollback waits 20 seconds.