Two mirrored sandstone forts face each other across a strip of sand, with dry mountains rising behind the walls under a pale daytime sky. Each fort has an arched gateway, a wide flight of steps down to the sand and a decorated band running along the masonry at waist height. One frame stands on the steps and looks straight down the axis at the opposite gate; another shows a row of sniper rifles laid out on the tiles by the wall.

The map covers 3584 × 2304 × 640 units and is low: the walls leave little vertical room above the sand. Each side has 16 spawns, for up to 32 players. There are no bomb sites, no hostages and no buy zones of the map’s own, so the engine places them at the spawns. Weapons lie on the ground in quantity: 32 AWPs, 100 flashbangs and 200 sets of kevlar with helmet. Geometry is 2,867 faces on 15 textures, roughly half of de_dust2 (5,383 faces).