Kong King
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| Basic Information | |
| Map type: | King of the Hill |
| File name: | koth_king
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| Released: | August 10, 2012 Patch |
| Developer(s): | Valentin "3DNJ" Levillain |
| Map Info | |
| Environment: | Urban |
| Setting: | Night |
| Bot support: | Yes |
| Map Items | |
 Health Kits:
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 ×6 •  ×4
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 Ammo Boxes:
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 ×8 •  ×2 •  ×2
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| Map Photos | |
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| Map overview | |
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| Map Stamp | |
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| Supporters Leaderboard | |
| “ | Were you thinking, "I really like playing TF2, but I wish there was a King of the Hill map set in a Chinese cityscape"? Well, your oddly specific and scarily prescient dreams have come true! Introducing Kong King - TF2’s first city-themed map!
— TF2 Official Blog
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Kong King is a community-created King of the Hill map commissioned by Valve[1] with a radially symmetric layout. Teased in the Triad Pack update, it was released in the August 10, 2012 Patch.
Kong King takes place in the middle of an unspecified Chinese city. It is the first official map released by Valve set in an urban environment. It is based on the video game Sleeping Dogs. It is a largely two-story map, with a covered control point on the second floor in the middle. The map has a very vertical design, with multiple signs, and other outcroppings for a crafty player to jump onto. There is a lot of detail in the map, including signs in Chinese, apartment buildings overlooking the map with air conditioners in the windows, boxes littered about, and abandoned team-colored buses on either side of the map.
Contents
Locations
Note: If you are having trouble with finding the locations listed here, see the Helpful overview section to see their exact position marked on the map.
- Spawn: Each team's Spawn is located on the ground floor of an otherwise inaccessible building. Each spawn room has three exits: The front exit that leads directly to the Street that stretches across the width of each team's side of the map, the right exit which leads to the Alleyway and the left exit leading to the Covered Bridge and the Double Stairs.
- Alleyway: A narrow, zigzagging path in between the buildings that flanks around to the entrance for the Pillar Room.
- Street: A wide street that runs perpendicular to the Spawn's front exit, from left to right. Players must cross this street in order to access the control point. The street ends in a roadblock. Directly in front of Spawn is a team-colored bus serving as sole cover of the Street.
Outside view of BLU Spawn.
Inside view of BLU Spawn.
Inside view of RED Spawn.
Outside view of RED Spawn.
The Alleyway.
BLU's Street.
RED's Street.
The BLU bus.
The RED bus.
Another view of the Street and the bus.
- Short Stairs: This staircase, located just behind the bus, is the most direct route to the control point from Spawn. Next to the Short Stairs is a passage leading to the Pillar Room.
- Covered Bridge: A pedestrian bridge that crosses over the Street, offering an alternative route to the point.
- Double Stairs: A long flanking route containing two parallel sets of stairs, one covered, one uncovered. It leads to the left side of the control point.
BLU's Short Stairs.
The Covered Bridge.
Another view of the Covered Bridge.
BLU's Double Stairs.
RED's Double Stairs.
Second view of the Double Stairs.
- Pillar Room: A subway-like section located below the Park, filled with various shops and vendors. It can be accessed either by a door underneath the Covered Bridges or through a large opening besides the Short Stairs. It has a staircase leading directly to the point. Additionally, there are two switchback stairs on either side of the map connecting the Pillar rooms with the top of the Park.
- Park: The center of the map with park benches, plants, and two small sheds as the only cover. A small depression covered by a roof houses the control point.
The path to the Pillar Room.
Another path to the Pillar Room.
The stairs on the right leads to the Pillar Room.
The Pillar Room.
RED's switchback stairs.
The switchback stairs as viewed from the Park.
The Park, and the control point in the center.
The Pillar room, showing the staircase leading directly to the point.
The central control point.
Helpful overview
1.Alleyways 2.Buses 3.Covered Bridge 4.Double Stairs 5.Short Stairs 6.Side Stairs 7.Pillar Rooms
Strategy
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Control point timing
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| Control Point | ×1 |
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Update history
- Added Kong King to the game.
- Added the
.navfile for Kong King.
- Added some geometry to hide floating staircases outside of playspace.
- Performance improvements from prop reduction, additional surfaces tagged as nodraw, and reduced overlay counts.
- Fixed some building faces where extra faces were being generated behind windows/etc due to spaces in geometry.
- Reflections fixed for the floors and some glass windows.
- Modified model file for the sign 6 through 9 to avoid Red signs on Blu side of the map.
- Modified light pole to merge bulb and pole into a single model for perf.
- Fixed location where mini-Sentry Guns can shoot through a bush without being seen.
- Clipping pass.
- Added glass on footbridge roof and lights nearby.
- Prop reduction for perf.
- Some props changed to non-solid for player mobility.
- Adjusted health and ammo in various spots.
- Health and ammo packs now match on Red and Blu sides of the map
- Players can no longer build in spawn doors
Trivia
- There are two signs that bear Chinese text for "Reliable Excavation Demolition" (可靠的開挖破坏) and "Builders League United" (建设者联盟联合).
- Other signs read "Fish and Chips" (油炸魚排加炒薯條), "Traditional Restaurant" (傳統的餐廳), "Red Pharmacy" (紅色藥房), "Bar" (酒吧), "Civil Engineering Industrial Company" (土木工程產業公司), "Hotel" (酒店), "Old Antique Dealer" (老古董商), "Fresh Fish Market" (新鮮的魚店), "Liquor Store" (酒精酒品店), "Chinese Noodle House" (中国面馆), "Red Hotel" (红旅馆), "Bookstore" (書店), "Optician" (配镜), "Blue Infrastructure" (藍色基建), "Coyote Gray" (郊狼灰色) and "Dog's House" (狗的家). Some signs are references to Hong Kong, such as "Underground Railway" (地鐵)
- The map is based on Hong Kong, China, the city in which Sleeping Dogs takes place.[2]
- Some of the signs use Simplified Chinese lettering, which is uncommon in Hong Kong, which mainly uses Traditional Chinese.
Gallery
"Builders League United".
"Reliable Excavation Demolition".
"Dog's House".
"Hotel".
"Old Antique Dealer".
Alternate "Old Antique Dealer" sign.
BLU Pharmacy.
RED Pharmacy.
"Chinese Noodle House" on BLU street.
"Chinese Noodle House" on RED street.
"Liquor Store".
"Optician".
"Blue Infrastructure".
"Fresh Fish Market".
"Chinese Traditional Restaurant".
"Bookshop".
"Red Hotel".
"At Night".
"Coyote Gray".
"Civil Engineering Industrial Company".
The Soldier statue that appears every 12th–14th of April.
External links
References
- ↑ Confirmation of the map's commissioning.
- ↑ Level Designer & Artist - Team Fortress 2 - Valve Software (archived)
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