Winter Ridge

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Winter Ridge
Koth Winter Ridge.png
Basic Information
Map type: King of the Hill
File name: koth_winter_ridge_rc1
Version: Release Candidate 1
Released: November 7, 2024
Last updated: April 9, 2025
Developer(s): Alox57
Lizard Of Oz
Link(s): TF2Maps
Map Info
Environment: Alpine
Setting: Daylight, Snow Storm
Hazards: Deadly waters
Map Items
Healthico.png Health Kits: Smallhealth.png ×1  •  Mediumhealth.png ×5
Ammoico.png Ammo Boxes: Smallammo.png ×2   •   Mediumammo.png ×5   •  
Largeammo.png ×1
Map overview
Winter Ridge overview.png
Explore this extremely cold and desolate environement(sic) and conquer this territory for the profit of your team!
Winter Ridge publicity blurb

Winter Ridge is a custom King of the Hill map. Winter Ridge is set within a coastal desolate industrial area experiencing turbulent frigid weather. When the center control point is captured there is a chance for a snow storm to blow through for 15 seconds, rattling players as a thick cloud of fog is casted onto the map with a strong windgust sound effect.

A Halloween version of the map was released in the Scream Fortress 2025 update.

Locations

  • Spawns: The RED team spawns inside of a large lumber facility while BLU spawns within the confines of a steel factory. Each team has three separate spawn exits available.
  • Dead Tree: Located in front of the spawns, on the left/right side, is a open field with a dead tree in its middle.
  • Dugout: This is one of the paths leading to Mid. It is a narrow cave that starts near the Dead Tree area and leads to a medium health and ammo pack.
  • Warehouse: A large, single-room building that offers the quickest route from the Spawn to Mid. It can be accessed through two big and wide open barn doors.
  • Stairwell: Inside the Warehouse's right/left wall is a stairwell leading to the top of the Railway Bridge. Found beneath these stairs is also a medium health and ammo pack.
  • Mid: This is the central-most part of the map. Found in its middle is a dilapidated barn that houses the central control point. There are several openings in this barn from the front entrance facing the Railway Bridge, two large ground level holes in the wall covered by awnings, two smaller holes further back and a larger opening on a pile of rocks. The areas surrounding is called the barnyard.
  • Railway Bridge: Found on the right/left side of mid is a railway bridge elevated above ground that connects the two Stairwells. Below the bridge is a cliff with a small health pack and a medium ammo pack.
  • Perch: Opposite the Railway Bridge, on the other side of mid, is an opening in the cliff that leads to a perch a waterfall draining into an adjacent river. It features a medium health pack and a large ammo pack.

Changelog

Changelog:
Feburary 13, 2025
  • Winter Ridge is created.

Feburary 15, 2025

  • Small fixes
    • Fixed being stuck on the bridge
    • Added Ammo/Heath patches
    • Added a bit more heath around the map
    • Fixed clipping issues
    • Minor detailing enhancement
    • Slightly widen the bridge (you can now cross to the other side)
    • Enlarged some doorways

Feburary 24, 2025

  • Fixes
    • Clipped a lot of stuff (beams and fences)
    • Detailing (still not final)
    • Slight dispacement changes
    • Slightly widen the bridge (again!)

March 9, 2025

  • Notoriously BIG Update
    • Completly removed the flank (useless after 3 feedback session, really disliked, even by me)
    • Reworked a bit spawn and added a new spawn door (after many request and some doubt), more direct to the mid, the other 2 are still there and will serve as "in case spawncamped" or to hide a teleporter
    • Added a new deathpit, previously flank, with some ressources
    • more details
    • more fixes and clip

March 23, 2025 #1

  • Flanky!!
    • Added a new flank tunnel between spawns and shack
    • Added a new ramp route in the smaller shacks near the bridge
    • Moved ressuply cabinet and added a second one
    • Added/Moved rocks at mid
    • Minor detailing

March 23, 2025 #2

  • wrong extension
    • was in zip instead of bsp

March 31, 2025

  • Optimization
    • Increased optimization (Prop fade, Occluders, Hint/Skip,...)
    • More detailing

April 9, 2025

  • Workshop Release
    • More optimization, and workshop release!
    • Thanks for all the playtest and feedback!

Trivia

  • Winter Ridge started off as an Arena map, but the developer thought there was a general negative conception among members of the TF2 community towards the game mode. This influenced them to switch the map's game mode to King of the Hill.[1]

Gallery

References

  1. TF2maps post describing the history of the map.