Sentries Versus Bots

Minigame: Sentries Versus Bots

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This is a minigame map for Team Fotress 2. The idea was to make a proof-of-concept Plants Versus Zombies style minigame within TF2. This map is what came of the idea.

If anyone not familiar with Plans vs Zombies, PVZ is a tower defence game where players place down plants to fend off waves of zombies from reaching the left of the screen. The basic concept carries over into this TF2 map. Just replace ‘plants’ with sentries and ‘Zombies’ with bots.

The goal of the game is to stop the bots that spawn on the right from reaching the control point on the left and capturing it. This is done by spawning in sentries to defend the point.

How to play: Join RED TEAM. Wait for the waiting-for-players-to-join phase to end. Walk up the stairs and drop down into the play space. Now the game will start.

Click buttons to spawn in sentries and dispensers. Spawning in buildings has a cost. In the sky is a clock that slowly regenerates. Level 3 sentries drain the clock 3 ticks. Level 2 drains it by 2 and level 1 is the cheapest, costing only one tick. Dispensers don’t provide any firepower BUT they increase the rate the clock regenerates at. (Dispensers are sort of like sunflowers from PVZ) At 0 dispensers the clock regenerates 1 tick every 7 seconds. At max dispensers the clock regenerates 1 tick every 3 seconds.

Make sure to balance and choose wisely what to build and where. If the bots get past all the sentries there’s still one last line of defence. Red carts line the left side. When the first bot gets to a cart it gets triggered and rolls down the track, killing everything in it’s path and exploding at the end. Carts are basically one-time-use lain-clears. They function like the lawn mowers from PVZ.

Have fun and tell me what you think.

NOTE: the map was made for SINGLEPLAYER but can work with more players and on servers. It’s no recommended to use this map on a public server as bots take up player spots and random players will likely not know what to do/how the minigame works.

If map doesn't work use console command sv_allow_point_servercommand always and then try again.