Arms Race

The goal of an Arms Race map is the same for each team: a player must get two kills with a weapon to unlock new weapons. The last weapon unlockable is a golden knife. The first team to get a kill with the golden knife wins.

Players will respawn with their last held weapon if they die, unless the death was by knife or suicide in which case they will revert to their previous tier weapon. If a player dies while wielding the golden knife, they will lose it.

Setting up
Arms Race maps should use and  for spawns. Since servers can go up to 32 players, each team should have 16 spawns, otherwise players will spawn inside other players.

At one point special spawn entities were added for this gamemode: and. These should not be used as they don't work for some reason.✅

The convar  must be set to 1 before the map loads, or the game will think it's is a Defuse map.

Miscellaneous
Though your Hostage Rescue map will work correctly with any prefix (or with none at all), using the  prefix allows the game to correctly identify the type of map as a bomb scenario during loading screens.