Expert CTF is the
product of extended design focusing on game depth and playability. Through many means,
including balance and lowered lethality, simple-minded tactics such as camping and
ambushing are eliminated in Expert because they are ineffective, and reflexes and ping
have a reduced role in the game. Only through great skill and teamwork can players excel
at Expert.
Expert CTF is a mode of Expert Quake, a mod
that also supports basic teamplay and deathmatch, and is so configurable that it can be
reverted to unmodified Quake's behavior. The design work behind Expert Quake is published
at the Expert Quake site.
In addition to creating a popular CTF
modification, the Expert team has also been working on a pak of levels for their own
episode. They offered these levels for Xeno CTF when we approached them about All-Star
CTF. Therefore, it is likely that several of the levels contained in Xeno CTF will be
coming directly from Expert CTF.
The Expert team is currently designing
their own episode of levels for CTF. This episode will be included in a future
release of All-Star CTF. As a preview of this episode, the Expert team has allowed
two levels to be included in Xeno CTF 1.0