UGC League

UGC Highlander Week 8 - Arctic

Tue, Mar 5, 2013 by Cold

My fellow UGC members,

My dear cousin Roberto Frost wanted to honor with this week's map with a poem. Normally I don't allow outside influences into my news posts, but I owe him a favor for dispatching some ill-recieved janitorial staff of mine. It is so hard to find good help these days.

There, an icy-covered palm, which characters come to rest.
Fingers are extended, curled, and knuckled beneath.
Colors change to denote who's fight was fought best.

Either hold here, or dread not.

Visible clouds of air mark those still bearing fight or flight.
To what one commands many, "We shall push back and take what is ours! They will retreat."
A scope & rifle use to pucture and ripple through searing lines of sight.

Predictable movement. Boom, headshot.

That's right, this week's map is koth_arctic! (now with vitamin B3!) We were fortunate enough to get a recent update from the map author that fixed some frames/second issues. Head on over to the HL Downloads page and enjoy a copy of koth_arctic_b3 today! (warning: koth_arctic_b3 is meant to be used through Team Fortress 2 and not to be ingested by any means)

Also in celebration of this map, I decided to take the United Gaming Clans company helicopter down to the Transantarctic Mountains and film an episode of "Cold Cuts: Arctic". The editing team should be finishing the video as we speak and should be up by sometime this Friday, March 8th (wait, it's up now!!).

Match Scoring for KOTH (See: Match and Gameplay Setup from our HL Rules page)

Scoring: The winning team is the first to reach 4 TOTAL capture points. The match is played in two match-rounds. The first round plays until a team reaches 3 capture points. The second round is played until a team reaches 4 TOTAL cap points(including caps from first match-round).

Overtime: If teams are tied (for example, 3-0, 0-3) after 2 rounds, play a 3rd round where the first cap wins

Map Execution (for server operators only)

Authenticate to your server with rcon_password (rcon_password myPassw0rd)
Execute ugc_HL_koth.cfg from the console (rcon exec ugc_HL_koth.cfg) and reload the map ( rcon changelevel koth_arctic_b3).
Re-execute ugc_HL_koth.cfg to ensure everything is properly configured.

Map resources