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Hellsgate

In a small seaside town known as Illnull, there rests a tradition, a coming of age event where young boys and girls light candles in town square to honour their gods. This is called the candle festival of the gods, a three day celebration, full of festivities.

But amidst all the confetti and candy apples, trouble is brewing. To the shock of the townsfolk, a beam shot out of the ground, tearing a hole in the earth. A botched Merasmus spell has opened the doors of Hell, letting those trapped escape the eternal pit of torture.

The citizens all cower in fear, but an unlikely team of heros emerge... or rather two that is...

The Red and Blu teams learn of a ritual used to seal off the gate and vanquish the lost souls. Only slight issue is that neither team can settle on who will get the credit for saving the world. And thus an all out battle takes place.

Will the Mercs use the candles from the event to perform the ritual to close the gate and stop the souls of the damned from consuming the world? Or will they fail?
And what if... performing that ritual and being the only ones to uphold the true meaning of the festival means divine intervention may bless them as they did so long ago?!

15 minutes left on the clock, choose your fate...










Hellsgate is an Invade Capture the Flag map set in a seaside town. Players collect candles from the truck in the center of the map and bring them to the enemy base. Three captures, you win, simple as that!

Players can fight:

• On broken structures,
  
• Inside dusty houses
  
• In slimy sewers
  And
  
• In the streets

The map is bound to a 15 minute timer that never increases, only decreases. If neither team forms the ritual circle in time, then the world blows up in a fiery explosion...

If you ever want to see your loved ones again, you better be quick... those ghouls aren't here to play!



Who knew the sound of the end of the world would be so grand.
To sell the mood and the anxious nature of the clock running out this map features a fully custom orchestral music track made by the one and only Polybrow!

When the clock hits 5 minutes left this song amps up the players and makes them feel the pressure on their shoulders...

Here have a listen to it on Youtube and Soundcloud!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qav-xP6_qTw

https://soundcloud.com/seacat08/ending-dawn






Seacat08: Layout, Artpassing, Textures, Particle effects, Promos, Soundscapes
Polybrow: Music
Fancyy: Bespoke models
FGD5: Truck prop
Freyja: Greek pack textures, Himalaya pack assets
Lacry: Lacry pack assets
Happyhead: Water texture



I would also like to extend an additional special thanks to Aarmastah for helping to troubleshoot problems, and for testing the map on his server! I'd also like to thank all the people that supported not only the map, but me and the rest of the team too during development. It was a hard one and I cherish every piece of feedback (good and bad) equally!

Thank you!
-Seacat




The map can currently be played on Aar's server in rotation
https://aarmastah.xyz/servers/tf.php
connect tf2.aarmastah.xyz:9000