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I have been playing Team Fortress 2 for two weeks, and I often play the new map "Snowplow". At the bottom of the HUD, there is a train, which holds values from 10…100. It counts down during game play, but does not represent the progress of the train, itself.
Whats does this symbol mean?
There are 3 glow effects in the game.
Glows are visible through walls.
I assume that enabling this (it's disabled by default) will show any glows you would normally see.
It's not useful most of the time, unless you were recording a replay of a demoman life.
This attribute used to be a joke up until the June 20, 2012 Patch. Now you can use it to "solve" the mistery of the six crafting ingredients.
Please note the actual item descriptions are only a random selection of letters from each description - each user having a different selection. The above is what you get by plugging the holes together.
What follows, instead, is what you get from all of the above.
When combined with the other items added in the June 20, 2012 Patch, the full quote reads:
Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser.
Best Answer
You are looking at the train indicator, an element unique to the map "Snowplow".
The basic idea behind the map is that one team has to get the train into the other teams base, while the other team has to place obstacles to damage the train.
The train symbol is an indicator to the trains current health.
The % symbol means "percent". It derives from the English words "per centum", which was eventually shortened to "percent". It pretty much means "per 100". If you are at 100% health, your health is full. If it is at 50%, you have half of your total health. At 0%, your health is at 0.
If you are on the BLU team, you are on the offensive. Your objective is to get the train into the enemies base. By capturing control points, you will remove obstacles placed on the track, and move the train closer to the RED base.
Each time the train hits an obstacle, a timer will start. When the timer hits 0, a missile will be shot at the train, reducing its health by 10%. The timer will reset and continue to count down, until the control point has been captured, or the train has been destroyed. When the control point is captured, the train heals 10% of its health, and continues to the next obstacle.
If you are on the RED team, you are on the defensive. Your objective is to prevent the train from getting into your base, by preventing the BLU team from capturing the control points along the line.
If you find the map to be confusing, this is likely expected. As the quote reads, the map was held back; The main reason being that it was not "newbie friendly". That said, these sort of things grow on you, with experience.
You will find a more in-depth analysis of the map here, along with a better explanation of the game rules - including a run down of all the control point locations, and the multiplier conditions for adding time on capture.