Rotunda

Rotunda
Basic Information
Developer(s):	{{{map-developer}}}
Map Info
Environment:	Alpine, industrial
Setting:	Daylight, sunny
Hazards:	Trains, crushing
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“

Welcome to Rotunda, a steam engine workshop turned secret doomsday storage facility, now abandoned. Fight on trains, fight around trains, and fight for trains! — Rotunda publicity blurb

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Rotunda is a community-created King of the Hill map. The map is set in a somewhat abandoned train depot in south east Germany, with both teams fighting over a reactor with 2 steam locomotives on each side. This map has been partially inspired by the open layouts of Nucleus and Harvest.

Rotunda was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Locations

• Spawn yard: A yard straight out of the spawn room, contains an entrance to the Tunnels, a main path to the point, as well as an infinitely long train.
• Tunnels: Straight out of spawn, some underground tunnels can be found under a hatch lifting up two shipping containers leading to directly under the point.
• Outer train depot: The outer section train depot conists of a large ring around the inner depot.
• Inner train depot: The main control point, contains an upper level and a lower level.
• Lower depot catwalk: A small catwalk near the control point, connects to a small building that houses a medium health pack.

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  BLU spawn yard.

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  Entrance to Tunnels.

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  Middle of Tunnels.

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  Ramp up to Outer train depot.

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  Exit towards the Inner train depot, below the control point.

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  Inner train depot, featuring the reactor on the point.

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  Inner train depot from BLU side.

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  Inner train depot from RED side.

Strategy

Main article: Community Rotunda strategy

Update history

July 12, 2023 Patch #1 (Summer 2023 Update)

• Added Rotunda to the game.

July 20, 2023 Patch #1

• Aligned various textures
• Improved clipping slightly
• Raised gate to flank route for ease of access
• Aligned some props
• Aligned various textures and fixed cubemap issue
• Improved clipping
• Improved lighting and reduced visual noise on some textures
• Raised gate to flank route for ease of access
• Aligned some props
• Fixed out-of-bounds exploit related to func_tracktrain (Thank you, The Nubing!)
• Added missing collision to some props
• Sealed the map more

Trivia

• A Wiki Cap along with some Soldier gibs and an Intelligence briefcase can be found in BLU's tunnels. This is a reference to one of the creators owning a Wiki Cap.
• Outside the RED spawn, a room can be found out of bounds containing an Engineer and Heavy doing the Kazotsky Kick and credits to the map developers.
• A small blue locomotive can be found riding around the upper depot catwalk, which also follows the same track as one of the spectator cameras for the main area.
• A summit cross can be found on the top of the mountain in the skybox, which is common in Germany.
• A RED shipping container with blue paint on it and blue metal sheets attached can be found in the BLU spawn yard.
• The locomotive models on the point are DRG Class 81.
  • In German practice, the model's locomotive number plate starts with the DRG locomotive class, 81 in this case.
  • The remainder of the full plate number, 6745, is the signature of FGD5, the model's creator.

Bugs

• The far end of the infinite train at spawn stops rendering while it is still in view.

Gallery

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  Workshop thumbnail for Rotunda.

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  The dancing Engineer and Heavy in the credit room.

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  The credits in the credits room.

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  Soldier with the Wiki Cap and Intel.

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  The converted shipping container.

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  The small blue locomotive on the catwalk.

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  The summit cross from afar.

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  A close-up of the summit cross.