[Feature] Halftime option for CTF, 1FCTF, Harvester and Overload.

[NeonKnightOA]

The mode is better explained by how Unreal Tournament 4 handles it. The time limit is divided in two halves, with a short halftime in the middle. In the second half, members of both teams switch sides, red team members play in the blue half and viceversa.

The obvious benefit this approach has is that it allows asymmetrical CTF maps to become viable.

In OpenArena this could be implemented in the non-round, base-based modes such as CTF, 1FCTF, Harvester and Overload. Round-based modes such as Elimination, eCTF and Double Domination won't benefit from this as much.

[The-Gig]

Would this be something similar to elimination_ctf_oneway?

[NeonKnightOA]

No. In essence it's closer to real life football/soccer. This video explains the idea better: https://youtu.be/0Ef_XpN55ac

[The-Gig]

Okay. Might be nice!

Anyway, a few notes I can think about:

• People might be confused about finding themselves in Red Team but spawning in Blue Base and having to steal the Red Flag. Does UT provide some trick to help navigating the "team swapped" map, like having the base-indentifying colored textures/arrows being special "dynamic" ones which automatically change color each time (something we could not do)? In Quake Champions in TDM the user always appear to be in the Blue team and the enemies always appear to be in the Red team; I don't remember ever playing a CTF match there so I don't know how they handled team colors in CTF mode.
• You would still need appositely-created maps to really take advantage of this, as at the moment most asymmetrical maps might not have flags in them. Not that this alone should stop from doing it... just a thing to consider.
• Harvester can already be played in non-symmetrical maps, as long as the skull receptacles are at the same distance from the skull generator.
• Standard Elimination does already alternate team spawn points each round AFAIK.

[NeonKnightOA]

First bullet, yeah, there are considerations that should be taken in place. Perhaps switching the teams for the second half? Blue players in half 1 would play in the red team and spawn at the red base and viceversa.

Second and third bullet: Ideally while all maps should be thought for the gametypes they point to, they should also have the other entities (and the right amount of spawns in case someone might play the other modes. In some maps this may be difficult to do, such as galmevish (the whole action can take place either at the top or bottom level).

Fourth bullet: Once again, this should be an option for CTF, 1FCTF, Harvester and Overload. Elimination, eCTF and DD by design are round-based, they don't need this option.