Hardcore 5.0 (may 1, 2014 – jun 1, 2015)

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While designing 5.0, HC4.0-4.1 had seen most players use the fire/ice path, even after balancing. In order to remediate this, the path was removed and replaced with the path of nostalgia. This would allow players to pick an easier path, but receive no middle checkpoint. Newer maps joined this rotation, replacing a few older maps. It was around this time in the design process that those working on the HC designs shifted towards adding map-quality as one of the criteria for HC maps.

At the time, HC 5.0 was considered to be one of the hardest HC versions conceived.

Towards the end of this version of HC is where server ownership changed hands.

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