14th December 2011 UPDATE:
So whats going to be new in V2? Find out now!

~Monoculus: I think this was pretty well known, but Monoculus will be added to V2. A second button has been added to the same room the HHH spawns in, and it been set up so that only one of them can be spawned at a time. This is just to prevent the map from crashing, though once all the new planned features have been added and the map re-optimized, we might be able to have both spawn at once. We’ve put the Monoculus in the same room as the HHH as its a nice sealed area that we can let the Monoculus loose in without him causing trouble around the rest of the map. The room they both spawn in is currently known as the Boss Room, and it has moved to….

~ The Basement: The factory has a new 3rd level, located in the basement. The basement houses 4 rooms; the Cart Room, the Pit Room, the Strange Room and the Boss Room. I’ll explain a bit about each room below. Red players go down a ramp where the office/staff room used to be, and blue players go down a ramp under the existing ramp in the helper tunnel. The office/staff room is still under the ramp, but it now in the basement as well. It’s also no longer a hidden room as the window is now a normal two-way glass and the door is just a normal door. There are some new things in the office, but I’m not telling you what!!

~ The Cart Room: The cart is now inside and has become a helper room. Red players can access the room at any time and can let in blue players to help them. The cart itself moves 10% faster and runs on a shorter track. As it no longer goes up or down ramps it should also be easier to ride on. Also the teleporters in the spawn rooms that used to go to the cart no longer work. Instead they now go to the teleport tower in the middle of the duelling area.

~ The Pit Room: The great lava pit that used to sit in the middle of the cart track has also moved inside, and also to a red accessed room. Blue players can be let in to help with achievements.

~ The Strange Room: The strange room has been upgraded and integrated with the main building. Players from both teams can now easily walk into the room, which now has lockable doors on the red side. The room itself is now more compact, squeezing in 6 booths with enough room to build and move while saving on space.

~ The Boss Room: The boss room is also part of the basement and is no longer under the hut. As much as I loved having a prison hidden in a fireplace lift, it was a pain having to show players where to find the HHH each time. By having it in the main building it means its all achievement items are in once place. Another reason for moving the room was to make it red only. A common problem we found was that players would leave their sentries unattended which mean if a player from the other team came in they would have to deal with the sentry.

~ The Teleport Tower: The teleport tower has had slight upgrade, it now has a upper room from where you can see the duelling fields. It is simply a room windowed all around so you can look without being sniped (or can’t snipe from)

~ The Pool: The pool has had an upgrade too. Now you can switch it between ‘Diving’ Mode and ‘Polo’ Mode. In Diving mode the diving boards (yes, two) are active. In Polo mode, the diving boards disappear and t2o goals spawn and a ball spawn instead. While it would be possible to add a scoreboard like on the Football field, we aren’t sure it would work properly if the Diving mode was activated.

~ The Skybox: The skybox will have a new design, but for now I am keeping the design secret. Like the v1b skybox, it will be all nobuild and the very center of the map will be inaccessible.

~ Bonus Items: So far there are 4 new items (2 built already, 2 WIP’s) Like before, we won’t tell anyone until the day the map goes live on the servers.

~ Release date: Having learnt not to set release dates from V1, there is no set release date for V2. It will be done when we finish it so please don’t keep asking us!