Capture the Flag

Capture the Flag (CTF) is a team-based game type where two teams try to steal and capture each others flag. A typical CTF map has two flags at both ends of the map. A flag is usually located next to team respawn points.

• CTF can only be played on CTF maps

Default rules

Rule	State
Team-based
Team damage
Item pickups
Points awarded for	Capturing the enemy's flag
Fall damage
Self damage
Starting health	100
Starting armor	0
Respawning mid-game
Time limit	20
Score limit	0
Overtime	5 minutes
Starting weapons	(Instagib only)
Starting ammo / Max ammo	0/100, 0/20, 0/20, 0/20 0/150, 0/150 0/10
Stunning
Challengers Queue

Item respawn times

Item	Time (s)
Ammo respawn time	20
Armor respawn time	25
Weapon respawn time	5
Health respawn time	25
Powerup respawn time	90
Mega Health respawn time	20
Ultra Health respawn time	40

Strategy

Farmz0r (CTF pickup veteran) chatting about tactical basics:

• For 4v4 the easiest way is to split the team with 2 defenders and 2 attackers.
• Usually the defenders split areas. 1 tries to control Red Armor and the surrounding area/entrances/flagspot if it's closer, the other takes Yellow Armor and tries to handle other parts/control other resources.
• The Health and Armor resources in your homebase are dedicated for your defenders (unless they are superstacked already and leave the Red Armor to their attacker or want a temporary role swap to make use of their stack), weapons in your base are for everyone, though you don't want a "naked" defender, so in doubt leave that weapon to your freshly respawned defender teammate.
• Recovering your own flag when stolen is #1 priority in 99% of cases.
• As attacker, it's often a waste of time for you to take fights with the opponent attackers - this doesn't get the enemy flag stolen, it might cost you health, it grants the enemy defenders time to stack up and prepare, and gang up on your teammate 2v1.
• Pretty much every map has chokepoints or points where you can see all the connections between bases.
• If your flag is stolen but didn't make it out yet, it usually makes sense to block the most popular exit routes/position on above mentioned chokepoints and try to close down the exits
• Since capturing the flag takes some time try to recover the thing! Don't call it quits if the enemy escaped your base with flag, it's not Quake. We have a realistic chance to recover; merely interrupting the cap is good too - maybe it delays the capture long enough for your teammates to arrive and get the job done.
• If one of your guys has the flag and is capturing, the whole team should help out securing the cap.
• Like 3 guys at ur own flag just to def it out... is totally ok.
• It's easy to rush down somebody who has to stand still at the flagspot for minimum 3s. You want to help the guy make sure it doesn't happen.
• As attacker it can be important to get the most important items are the enemy base.
• Though you can also try to abuse the timing for a sneaky flag steal/setup.
• It opens up some opportunities to know when the enemy is probably gonna be somewhere.
• You usually really want more than 100/0 stack when trying to clutch enemy def.
• But trolling around in enemy base can also get you there.
• There's some map dependent positioning/game plan stuff that would be best shown ingame.