Frigid

Frigid
Basic Information
Map type	King of the Hill (Four-Team)
File name	koth_frigid
Release date	April 28, 2023 (Fight or Flight)
Developer(s)	wheatttttt savva
Map info
Environment	Frigid
Setting	Night

Find refuge from the cold in the sheet metal hallways and eight-foot-wide air ducts of Frigid, our first four-way King of the Hill map. If you can fend off three whole teams of maniacs pouring in from all directions, maybe you can use this arctic base for the betterment of mankind. Like digging aliens out of the permafrost. Or melting icebergs, for fun.

Frigid promotional blurb

Frigid is an official Four-Team King of the Hill map characterized by cramped interior flank routes leading to a spacious middle, with a small amount of action in the open outdoors. It is set within an arctic research base, the centerpiece of which is a mysterious glowing pillar.

Frigid was added to Team Fortress 2 Classic on April 28, 2023, in the Fight or Flight update. It was created by TF2 Classic developer wheatttttt and TF2 Classic contributor savva.

Locations

Overview

Spawn

Each team spawns within a single-room interior base, which leads to a small outdoors area with two short indoor corridors, a staircase leading to a balcony, and some side scaffolding that can be jumped off. All of them lead to the outdoors connector. There is little of value here, although the trio of exits makes it easy for an enemy to sneak in front of the spawn doors, yet difficult for them to keep a team trapped inside.

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  RED spawn (from base)

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  BLU spawn (from base)

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  GRN spawn (from balcony)

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  YLW spawn (from balcony)

Outdoors Connector

After spawn is an even smaller outdoor area, with all entrances leading to the interior. The closer entrance leads to the elevated perch and the side hallway. The farther entrance leads to the main hallway and the lower control point. The ramp entrance goes into the vents, which lead into the control point vent exit or the outdoors ceiling.

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  RED connector (side view)

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  BLU connector (side view)

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  GRN connector (front view)

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  YLW connector (front view)

Interior

Right before the point are some hallways, connected through shutter doors. The main hallway is a simple straight path with a slight elevation change, with two wide doorways leading to the point. The side hallway leads to an elevated perch above the control point, and to an alcove that connects the hallways of each team.

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  BLU hallway

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  YLW hallway

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  YLW side hall

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  GRN side hall

Point

The point is centered on an elevated platform with four stairs, above a thick pillar with revolving neon lights being studied by scientists. Players have to stand within the hazard zone, lit up by four lights, to capture it. The point can also be reached through one-way vents, with two teams funnelling into two vents.

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  Point from vents

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  Point from YLW perch

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  Point from GRN perch

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  The mysterious glowing pillar

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  Scientists putting those degrees to good use

Ceiling

Above the interior is a barren ceiling area, reached through separate vents, where the point can be seen through frosted glass. Given the distance from the main action, and how the most convenient path to the point is through a tiny vent managed by two teams, this area is generally empty aside from the occasional Engineer nest.

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  Ceiling overview

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  Ceiling from ground

Update history

2.1.0

• Added koth_frigid (Wheat, savva)

2.1.4

• Updated koth_frigid (Wheat):
  • Added a new dropdown route that leads from the rooftop to the side flank
  • Added reflections to various surfaces that didn't have them before
  • Added parallax corrected cubemaps to most of the map
  • Increased detail on several brush-based decorations
  • Vents now drop down into the hallway below instead of leading to mid

Trivia

• Frigid was originally designed as a Domination map with three Control Points, and was later changed to a King of the Hill map.