I wonder what every ones opinion on CTF in TF2 is, I personally love CTF gameplay but don't think it has been nurtured enough to properly take-off in TF2. Both Well and 2forts are neither of them great CTF maps, with 2fort being too easy to turtle on and Well just too big for some people.

So I wondered if there was any support for trying some different custom CTF maps and having them replace the disliked customs that are currently in rotation.

Some thoughts on which customs:

http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/48692 (an adapted version of ut2k4's geothermal)
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/48860 (ctf-revolution)
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/48651 (ctf-smuggler)
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/51547 (ctf-impact2)
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/46613 (ctf-excavation)
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/51077 (ctf-barn)

Now I cannot say I've played any of them apart from the 2k4 version of geothermal, they are just ones that I have picked out from fpsbanana that look promising. But if others are interested in this and it gets some legs I will be more than happy to download and run through them to get a short list of the best I can find.

What are you talking about? CTF Well and 2Fort are the best maps there is after Goldrush.

I personally don't mind them at all and have fun playing them, I just don't think they are shining examples of CTF gameplay and I think others that dislike them will have many of their own reasons.

I come from a UT CTF background myself and I guess I'm used to slightly more honed CTF experience. But I think done well on a good map the class elements TF brings it would be another step above the everyone the sameness of UT.

I would expect a big-time spy player like you to love CTF maps anyways Agent47, spies having more uses and being so useful for extending the dropped intel timer etc hehe

Hehe maybe you're fight.

Yeah CTF is underrepresented in TF2, but that's mostly due to 2fort and well. In addition I think CTF is not really made (at least with these maps) for those huge-ass public servers you see nowadays (26 players on HH1!!). 2fort might actually be nice with 7v7 or something.

For public servers the push-and-spam-forward type of gameplay is just better suited... and I admit, I really dig that too :p

I think it would be most fun if you had highlander on 2Fort.

Played highlander on 2Fort the other day and it was excellent.

Minty, it's a fair point, but if half the people on the server don't really know the custom maps (I think its fair to say that most of the transient players who are just looking for a server to play on won't really appreciate the difference between good and bad CTF play, they just want to get stuck in).
It's going to take a concerted effort by some likeminded regs to vote for a suitable CTF custom map, which isn't impossible but will take some co-ordination.

*cough* Mach4 *cough*

Mach4 isn't a bad map at all. But at the end of the day its just another 2bases (2forts) clone though and it's even smaller making the 26 player scenerio no fun, it also suffers with the same sniper problem that 2forts does as well imo. Also I feel the intel room layout isnt the greatest, and dislike the way it splits the base up, erm and the under tunnels are far too narrow, I could go on for a while but i won't

By far the best CTF map is slaughter house. Regardless of the minor side effect that A I haven't finished, B its glitched so I can't run it untill I find the Problem and C Even when I finish it, I still don't know how to releace.