Hellium Created by Transactionzero & Stevo Recommended Gametypes: Throwdown Recommended Players: 4 The Throwdown Competition may have only just begun, but yet again it's time for another feature. After all, you wouldn't want to begin practicing on it the day before your match now would you? Hellium will hit the competition Monday, August 29th so you should have some time to get your skirmishes in. The map is set for round four and five, where round four will be for both winner and loser bracket teams, and five will be for the uhh, the less fortunate...*ahem*. Designed by one of our administrators, Transactionzero, and some journalist by the name of Stevo, Hellium is the 3rd map in our line-up of 2v2 battlefields. Unlike Haze, this level is completely asymmetrical allowing for easy callouts and excellent player orientation. This is room-to-room based combat at its finest. No real inspiration went behind the scenes here; the two just got together and magically crafted a masterpiece. However, the three catwalks connecting purple to shotgun seem a little reminiscent of Damnation if you ask me. There are three main locations in this arena, green room, center, and purple. While green and purple only have traffic flowing through one route, middle is a different story. This area has two floors; while most of the flow will be directed towards top mid, you should expect to see quite a bit at bottom mid as well, considering it houses the almighty overshield. Speaking of power-ups... You'll want to be acquainted with the power weapons that lie in this map. In green room rests the grenade launcher awaiting your possession towards the back of the room. A lovely shotgun can be found at top mid perched on table for easy recognition. And finally, the weapon most players want their hands on, the sniper rifle. It lies in the yellow room just below purple. Transactionzero and Stevo put their hearts and souls into this unique playspace so I'm sure they'd appreciate it if you gave this a download. Who am I kidding, do you have a choice? Press the download button and get to practicing, you only have 7 days! But first, check out this sweet video showcasing the map! Writeup by Skisma. Hellium - 2v2 Throwdown: Round 3 - YouTube Download Hellium Want to see a map featured? Let us know here.
Wooooooooooooow this map has changed sooooooooo much. I remember when I first stepped foot on this map before I knew it was in the 2v2. You guys have really done a lot of work with this map and if it weren't featured for the tournament, it for sure could have been outside.
Nice write-up and video! ...Oh and the map is pretty cool too. But seriously this map really is good. Congrats Tz and Stevey!
I'm just so curious to see who wrote this... But really, I like the map and there's a great write up to go with it. [size=-5]Stevey-O told me the truth.....[/size]
<i>Hush</i> now, its a secret and he shouldn't have told you. Because secrets aren't as fun when everyone knows!!
Secrets? What secrets? You only tell somebody a secret secretly. I have no clue what you babble about ;;;;;;
I wanna know this secret! Or do I already know? But seriously I have know idea...or do I? ...But seriously Rounds 4 and 5
Ok this seems like major corruption right here. It may be a good map but two features for Stevo within 2 weeks? I find it hard to believe that there were no other maps that could have taken its place in the throwdown contest. Also weren't users limited to one submission only? Corrupt staff is corrupt and angry cryppy is angry (but not just because of this). Glad Im out of the competition. It eases a huge burden off my chest. Good luck to all the rest. EDIT: Nice vid skisma but didn't the mods want... well... user friendly music? :/
Not a fan of teleporters in competitive maps but I'll need to get some game time on the map before I can really get a feel of it. Good luck everybody!
The order is determined by quality, always has been in the contests. In the past there was a larger pool of people forging (I believe) or at least more maps made per capita, so staff essentially had pick of the litter. This time around that wasn't the case. I'm not speaking for the overall quality of the map, but in the context of the tournament. Really, if the pool of maps was exactly the same, this could've been posted at the end and your point about sequential features would've been moot. Also, Bows got his features legitimately (for lack of a better word) in quick succession, so it isn't unheard of in practice.
Had a chance to play this last night. Loved it just about everything about it, though one of the spawn points is messed up to where Ace spawned directly in front of one of my friends at one point and vice versa at another, according to them. Regardless, definitely a fun map to play on, in my opinion, even if I only spent a short time playing on it (first to 15.) Much better than Haze, too. Had the opportunity to play that as well and just... Ugh. I seriously went into Forge with Ace and moved/removed some things and swapped the GL's and Sprint and it played 5x better when we tried it out, but I digress.
Wow, this sucks for me, because I had played it a while ago and saved the layout. What I memorized is now entirely irrelevent. But hey, let's see if the secret spot is still there... Won't this make Stevie an artisan?