Crossover is a remake of the TFC map Crossover2. When I joined the Fortress-Forever team it was being created by 'Eat'. However he had to leave the project and so the map was given to me to finish.

I soon realised why the screenshots of the map were very selective as the map had only one base finished and had not been mirrored. When I compiled it for the first time I found out why it had not been mirrored, it was using 95% of the total maps resources!

Many weeks were spent reducing the resources used in the map, replacing complex curved brushes with displacements, non essential brush work with func_details and generally tidying up the entity system to make it streamlined.

I also visually improved the look of the map with improved lighting (orange for a warmer feeling in the corridors) as well as falling snow for ambience plus ambient background sounds. From the initial testing it was clear that a few things we're imbalanced so for the final release I resolved these balance issues by making some routes one way like the original map and increasing the width of corridors to allow more players to fight in them at once.

Map included in Fortress-Forever.