Embargo

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Embargo
Embargo.png
Basic Information
Map type: Payload
File name: pl_embargo
Released: July 18, 2024 Patch
(Summer 2024 Update)
Developer(s): João "Hoppkins" Marcos
Patrick "Zeus" Hennessy
Rodrigo "Rapoza Dynamica" Carneri
Torkil "TheLazerSofa" Malvik Bidtnes
Lizard Of Oz
Vasilis "Billo" Chatzikostas
Maksim "Velly" Streltsov
Szabó "Maxxy" Attila
Elian "iron" Rodriguez
Sarah Jane Eve
Chandler "OctoBlitz" Dunaway
Alex "FGD5" Stewart
Nick "nickybakes" Baker
Audionexx
Map Info
Environment: City
Setting: Daylight, sunny
Hazards: Pitfall, Helicopter blades, Crushing, Lava walls
Deep Water: Yes
Map Items
Healthico.png Health Kits: Smallhealth.png ×12  •  Mediumhealth.png ×11  •  
Largehealth.png ×1
Ammoico.png Ammo Boxes: Smallammo.png ×1   •   Mediumammo.png ×14   •  
Largeammo.png ×4
Map Photos
Loading screen photos.
Map overview
Embargo overview.png
Map Stamp
Item icon Map Stamp - Embargo.png
Supporters Leaderboard
Embargo is a Cuban Island under the domain of the evil comandante and his global counterfeit operation. As part of his operation he has been funneling money to sabotage mining operations over brazilium and risks the integrity of MannCo(sic) shipments for the next few decades..
Embargo publicity blurb

Embargo is a community-created Payload map released during the Summer 2024 Update. The map is set in Cuba, featuring a Payload track through the streets and the "Rojo's Casino", which plays music all throughout that can be faintly heard from outside. The map follows a strike team from Bureau Bomb Department (BLU team) efforts to deliver a bomb filled with paint (to dye the money and brazilium) to the center of El Comandante's lair, the fictitious dictator of Cuba, who sends his elite squad (RED team) to stop them.

The setup timer is 1 minute and 10 seconds.

This map features its own announcers: El Comandante (RED) and Agent 96 (BLU).

Embargo was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Features

Cart

Embargo features a Payload cart that changes form throughout the map, being brought in by a helicopter at the start, then going from the standard Payload cart to inside the back of a truck. When the first checkpoint is captured, the Payload cart can be pushed into a truck's shipping container where it must be ridden via the platform behind it, similar to Li'l Chew-Chew from Frontier. When the third checkpoint is captured by BLU, the top of the container opens up, and the Payload cart is removed via an overhead crane before being placed back onto the track.

Robots

All around the interior of "Rojo's Casino" are small red robot butlers. They are harmless and are found exclusively in the casino area, and can be attacked and destroyed. Some of the robots can be found roaming around the casino floor on a set path with health kits on their trays. These health kits can be acquired by both teams, but the robots actively pursue injured RED players to deliver kits to, whereas BLU players are ignored. When picked up, the health kits respawn on their serving tray after 10 seconds and, if a robot is damaged, they either stop moving, roll in circles, or flee the player. When destroyed, they drop a health kit on the floor if carrying one and respawn after 25 seconds. Dropped kits despawn after 15 seconds.

Additionally, some robot butlers can be found roaming around out of bounds, as well as manning the various forms of gambling around the casino. When destroyed, they do not drop anything and respawn after 25 seconds (except for the robot butlers at the gambling tables, which never respawn).

Accompanying lines from the announcer play after a robot is destroyed depending on the player's team. If a player is standing in front of a robot, it rolls around them to get past.

The robots are voiced by Hoppkins .

Item icon Botler 2000.png  Responses

Idling

Healing a player

Taking damage

Locations

Pictogram comment.png The following locations are described from the BLU perspective.

Checkpoint A

  • First BLU Spawn: An older stone building with three exits. A ramp leads down to the lowest exit directly to the cart's starting point, next to the ramp is a second exit leading to the left side. There is also set of stairs leads up to the third exit, a balcony with a small overview of the starting area.
  • Cart start: The cart starts on a helicopter landing pad at the edge of a small cliff.
    • The cart is delivered via a helicopter at round start, and cannot be pushed until the helicopter has landed. The round timer does not begin counting down until this sequence is complete.
  • Cave: Next to BLU's first spawn, acting as a small flanking route.
  • Metalurgica Building: A large open building. A small bridge stretches above the cart's path, with small side rooms to each side of the building. A loading dock gate blocks the path until the cart reaches the ramp up to it.

Checkpoint B

  • BLU Truck: The cart leads into a small truck with a rideable platform that also acts as a BLU Dispenser on the back, similar to the cart from Frontier. The front of the truck provides cover, but is also difficult to see past. Unlike the regular cart, the truck does not reverse when left unmanned for too long.
  • Main Street: Connecting the checkpoints A and B is a narrow asphalt street on which the cart-carrying-truck drives. On either side of the street are buildings containing health kit and ammo packs.
  • Ropa Vieja: The closest building to the cart's starting position; located on the right side of the Main Street. Inside it is a set of stairs leading to the roof which offers a sightline over the Main Street.
  • Flag Tower: To the left is a large spire with a flag pole on its top. Within it are stairs leading up to the second floor, containing health kits and ammo packs, with a path leading directly to checkpoint B, or to the Pedway which itself leads into Peixuxa.
  • Peixuxa: Located on the corner of the Main Street is a small building that also contains BLU's second spawn. Stairs lead up to a pair of medium health kits and ammo packs, as well as to the Pedway.
    • Second BLU Spawn: Located in the back of Peixuxa; becomes active once checkpoint B is captured.
  • Pedway: An elevated walkway spanning across the Main Street that connects both Ropa Vieja and Peixuxa.
  • Barricades: After cart makes enough progress, a pair of RED tanks show up and block off the part of the Main Street that is located besides one of casino's entrances.
  • Rojo's Casino: The casino has three entrances, with a closed door at the front up a set of stairs, and an opening to the right side that leads into RED's first spawn. The third entrance is at the checkpoint itself, but does not open until the truck reaches the checkpoint.

Checkpoint C

  • Casino Reception: A large open room, with two sets of stairs leading up to the second floor, and a door that remains closed until the truck approaches it. Robots wander the room carrying medium health kits.
    • First RED Spawn: Apart of the Casino Reception is the First RED Spawn, which following the capture of checkpoint B opens up to be accessible by everyone, with the resupply lockers hidden away.
  • Main Lobby: An even larger room, with a chandelier and some planks acting as a bridge for the second floor. Two rooms on each floor are available towards the back; the Hot Tub room, and the one above it that contains a betting table, as well as health and ammo kits.
  • Flank Hallway: The primary way to reach the Main Lobby is through a large gate that opens up when the cart approaches it, but there also exists a small corridor that branches out from the Reception and leads to the Main Lobby's right side.
    • Third BLU Spawn: Connected to the Flank Hallways is the third and final BLU spawn, in which BLU is moved after they capture checkpoint C.
  • Hot Tub: A small room that is accessible from the Main Lobby. It contains a hot tub filled with steaming water.
  • Escalator: Located in one of the corners of the Main Lobby is a small escalator that takes one to the second floor as well as to the plank bridge. The cart passes in between the Hot Tub and the Escalator on its way out of the Main Lobby.


Once the point is captured, the cart is taken out of the truck and placed back onto the track, and reverses if left unmanned for 30 seconds like before.

Checkpoint D

  • Balcony: A view from the second floor of where the cart leaves the truck, acting as a vantage point while looking down the cart's path. The balcony leads down to a catwalk.
  • Lava Plant: A small room to the left of the cart's path. It can be used as a shortcut to RED's base, with a small fence to provide cover.
  • Servers: Another small room along the cart's path, this one contains servers and other electrical equipment while also being located on the right side.
  • Office Lounge: Found in between the Observation Post and the Servers is a tight chamber filled with office supplies and chairs.
  • Observation Room: A large, spacious room that serves as a flank route going around the right side of the Headquarters. The side of the room that faces the final checkpoint is covered in one-way glass panes, one of which is shattered.
  • Headquarters: The final checkpoint is contained in a large open room, with RED's second spawn directly in front of it. To both sides are raised areas, putting BLU at a height disadvantage for the final push. After the checkpoint has been captured, the cart creates a non-damaging explosion that surrounds the area in blue-colored paint; players who are too close to the cart during this explosion have their screens covered in a blue paint, which does not disappear until the round resets.

Strategy

Main article: Community Embargo strategy

Update history

July 18, 2024 Patch 1 (Summer 2024 Update)
  • Added Embargo to the game.

July 25, 2024 Patch 1

  • Minor visual and clipping improvements.
  • Fixed the cart's missing outline.
  • Added an extra Botler to the playable space.
  • Fixed the paint splat overlay not applying to players within the explosion range.
  • The ambient music inside the casino now respects the music volume settings.
  • Improved player visibility against certain walls (Thanks Arthur).
  • Added the kill icon to the helicopter blades.
  • Fixed an override of a TF2's base texture.
  • Fixed being able to block the cart shortly after point A (Thanks Aar).
  • Fixed getting stuck in a door near C while it closes.
  • Fixed indoors fog sometimes getting applied outside (Thanks Phe)
  • Increased respawn time for RED on the last point.
  • Fixed the client crash related to custom models.
  • Improved performance on the last point.

July 25, 2024 Patch 2

  • Updated pl_embargo to fix visual glitches.

August 2, 2024 Patch

  • Reduced respawn time on Last for RED from 34 to 22 seconds.
  • Asked Botlers to speak and explode more quietly.
  • Minor visual fixes.

October 10, 2024 Patch 1 (Scream Fortress XVI)

  • Fixed an exploit that allowed BLU to teleport to RED spawn (thanks Jameson)
  • Fixed the lack of countdown at the end of the round.

Bugs

  • Before the Payload cart is brought out from the helicopter, its hitbox and healing/ammo refill functionality is already present on the helipad.
  • When the Payload cart is being lifted from the truck back to the tracks after the third checkpoint, the particle effects and healing/ammo refill functionality stays inside the truck.
  • Health packs from the robot butlers are unaffected by health pack attributes, such as the one on the Back Scratcher.
  • If the health pack from a robot butler is picked up, walking into it immediately after can heal the player for a second time.
  • Stickybombs can get stuck between the vertical-opening doors at the casino.[1]

Trivia

  • There is a missing persons poster of a health inspector in the "Ropa Vieja" restaurant. In BLU's second spawn, the kitchen of the "Peixuxa Restaurante", the same missing poster is crossed out with blue paint. Not far from that poster is a severed hand next to a notepad and pencil commonly associated with health inspectors.
    • "Ropa Vieja", literally meaning "old clothes" in Spanish, is known as one of the national dishes of Cuba.
    • "Peixuxa Restaurante" references a Brazilian-made Classic map for Counter-Strike 1.6: cs_rio, where the terrorists occupy a restaurant of the same name.[2]
  • The dishes in the menus for the map's restaurants, from top to bottom, are as follows: rice with chicken, ropa vieja, tamales (a dish made of steamed corn dough), ajiaco (chicken, potato, and guasca soup), and mojito (a cocktail of white rum, sugar, lime juice, soda water, and mint).
    • There is also a note that reads "RED pays double."

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References