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TTT 4 Buttons a5

this map is simple:
- there are two timers, 120 seconds for innocents, 30 seconds for traitors
- there are four buttons each in separate rooms
- the innocent timer counts down while no buttons are pressed
- the traitor timer counts down while a button is pressed
- when a team's timer hits zero, they win
- every second counts: the timers are only ever reset when the round ends

this map doesn't require anything else installed to work

this map is based on chaz's ttt_the_button which is a very unique and experimental map
(and i think ttt needs more maps like it instead of just the usual big open maps with a traitor tester tucked somewhere)

i made this map because i was really excited to play chaz's map because of its unique concept, but it turned out to not play very well, so i wanted to quickly make a "fixed" version of it

the problem with chaz's map is that the traitors don't really have any good reason to try to press the button since it's just suicidal because they have to be completely exposed,
so the map just ends up revolving around controlling the upper floors instead of revolving around using the button

my solution is basically to quadruple the number of buttons so that the innocents can't just camp, and to put the buttons in separate rooms to break up sightlines

this map's layout is very basic since i came up with it in mere seconds, but after some playtesting, it turned out to work pretty well

each button's room has 3 entrances, two lead into a hallway into the adjacent room and one leads into a central hub that's connected to every room;
staying in the hub guarantees the fastest path to every room, but you're very exposed to being attacked from every direction

the innocents are forced to try to spread out to cover most of the rooms without spreading too thin, while the traitors always have every reason to press a button if nobody's looking,
so it becomes a fast-paced game where both teams try to outsmart and flank each other while still keeping the social deduction elements of ttt since traitors still want to keep their identities secret and the innocents still want to figure out who the traitors are

this is a very fast-paced map (rounds last no longer than 2 minutes) so i recommend setting your server's ttt_round_limit cvar to a higher value for this map

if you get the "LUA_RUN FAIL, BLAME THE SERVER OWNER" error, then you have something that's preventing gmod's lua_run entity from working because you're a coward
(the map needs it to work properly)

this map should be compatible with any ttt addon like Custom Roles, TTT2, etc
(pls don't blame me for balancing issues with them though, since i designed this for vanilla ttt)

current filename: ttt_4buttons_a5.bsp

credits to early testers for their feedback: whirleaf, etc

if you want a vmf, then you can use bspsrc since this map is simple enough that it decompiles very well, and you're completely free to use any element of this map or make your own version of this map