As promised earlier this week, Capture The Flag is our next game to make its way over to our brand new revamped backend! This massive Capture The Flag updates comes with many awesome new features which the community very much deserves after waiting all these years. Today I am glad to announce that CTF is officially out of beta, and looking forward to a strong future ahead! This changelog will detail all changes big and small that players can expect to see with this update. Spoiler: New Capture The Flag Maps New Capture The Flag Maps - Graveyard - Trainyard - Lost Kingdom - Lookout - River - Rebellion - Playground - Martian Outpost - Flood - Distillery - Construction 2 - Chernobyl Notable Players If you have ever played a game of Capture The Flag, you will understand how intense these games can get! Of course the main goal to win the game is to 'Capture The Flag' however there are many other aspects involved with a functioning CTF team. We felt it was time to give these players the recognition they deserved! At the end of every game, players will now be presented with a message in chat detailing all players whom deserve an honourable mention for that game. This message contains some fun stats such as 'Farthest Arrow Hit' 'Farthest Distance Travelled' and much more! Overtime Overtime was a topic which was frequently brought up on our forums. There is no worse feeling than playing a 15 minute game, finally about to capture that flag then boom... The timer runs out and the game ends resulting in a loss. Overtime directly addresses this issue. Upon the game timer ending, if there is a player currently holding the flag, the game timer will be extended by 2 minutes. This overtime is designed to give the team one final chance at victory with that last minute capture! Be careful though, if you die holding the flag, the game will come to an end. New Cosmetics Of course, what is a revamp without some beautiful cosmetics! I am proud to inform the CTF community that we have added some custom cosmetics explicitly dedicated for Capture The Flag (custom flag designs)! Being on our new backend, Capture The Flag will now also take full advantage of all other cosmetics which came as a result of this revamp (Player Tags, Guardian Angels, Projectile Trails and much more)! With over 300 cosmetics released so far with this revamp, we are positive this will keep you busy for a long time trying to collect them all. New Statistics Something that our old Capture The Flag setup was lacking, was the amount of available statistics. For many years now, our Capture The Flag community has been requesting the addition of new statistics. With this revamp, we have aimed to add as many statistics as possible for the CTF community, leaving no room for regret as we move forwards! Some of these new statistics include the following: Highest Win Streak, Assists, Steals, Recoveries and more! Quests & Achievements If you have been keeping up to date with this Minigames revamp, you should know all about Quests and Achievements! Capture The Flag will bring forwards loads of new available quests which can be completed by players (either daily or weekly) to reward them with Experience and Tokens to spend at the Token Merchant. Achievements are fun objectives giving players a secondary task to work towards in Capture The Flag (either challenges or long term goals over their entire career). Make sure to check out all available Capture The Flag achievements inside our Minigame Lobby and see which ones you can achieve! Spectate Ongoing Games Another awesome advantage of Capture The Flag making its way over to our new backend! Spectating ongoing games has many benefits. Not only is it a great tool for staff to properly moderate minigames (finally), it is also a great tool for new players or friends to simply watch games without the stress of playing! Spectating ongoing games can be done through the Join NPC inside the Minigame Lobby (this will display all ongoing games). Alternatively, if you would to spectate your friend on our new minigames revamp, you can simply type '/spectate <player>' to be instantly teleported to their ongoing minigame. 12 New Capture The Flag Maps It is no secret that Capture The Flag was in dire need for new maps. For many years now, we have had the same 12 maps in rotation. Naturally, for our very dedicated CTF community, these maps became stale and new ones were desperately needed. This massive Capture The Flag update brings forwards 12 brand new maps for players to explore (doubling our previous map count) bringing us to a total of 24 maps in rotation! We plan for this number to keep growing as we move forwards more with this minigames revamp (Keep them map submissions coming!) Miscellaneous Changes As you can see, many positive changes have been brought forwards with this long awaited revamp. Behind the scenes, Capture The Flag has been completely remade from the ground up. We have taken this opportunity to give everything a fresh new face (more in-theme with the rest of our network) alongside some necessary balancing changes. Some important changes which players can expect to see with this revamp are as follows: Strong Feet perk removed (all players now have no fall damage), Arrow Tank ability has been reworked (Thank you Zynnphony), Explosive Death ability has been removed and a brand new waiting lobby has been added! We hope you all enjoy this revamp, Enjoy. - CTF Revamp Trailer - A huge thank you to our staff member 89p for putting together this awesome trailer for the upcoming revamp!
