As with the alpine theme, we’ll be looking for new spins to put on it with future levels. It also allowed for similar styles of industrial structures seen in other maps, which helps to maintain the game’s visual identity. Importantly for our limited development resources, it didn’t require a large amount of new assets to bring to life, too. As with existing environment themes, the Arctic theme carried the advantages of providing an immediately recognizable setting. There’s plenty of snowy maps, but not many that go the extra mile with the icy cliffs and wide-open expanses that you might expect from the Arctic.
The Arctic theme was chosen so we could try a style that isn’t often seen amongst TF2 environments.
With this new gamemode variant also came a new environment theme.
