Flying Saucers Created by Batty Man a.k.a Cptn Bumbles Unidentified Flying Objects. Flying Saucers is a forge map that redefines thinking outside the box as it completely breaks conventional level design with great creativity. Saucers features four well forged flying saucers eerily hovering over the map. These space invaders bombard objective markers by raining missles done onto them. However, players can fight back against the foreign invaders by using a combination of vehicles or grenades to disable the craft's weapons systems by hitting that special sweet spot atop the saucer. The map is meant to be played with bungie's "Land Grab" territories variant. In game, the defenders are given banshees to protect the saucers. The attackers have access to many tools that can aid them in disabling a saucer so they can grab a territory. The primary, and easiest way to fend off the saucers is to hop into a Hornet, fly above the UFO, and fire onto the weak spot located directly on top of the invader’s ship. A successful attack incapacitates the saucer for a full thirty seconds. There are other, more difficult options afforded to the defenders of Earth. You can simply drive a Warthog underneath the UFO, and spray fire across the ships weapon launcher, hoping to destroy the oncoming explosives before they reach you or your teammates. This same technique can be executed using one of the stationary turrets on the map. The most difficult method, but also the one that requires the least amount of equipment, is to jump into one of the map’s giant man cannons. Each one (except for the four leading to and from the two main bases) propels you up and over a saucer, giving you a window of mere seconds to toss a grenade into the saucers weak point. The map is even left open for future forgers to design their own map around the four terrifying saucers. When playing, be sure to use the Land Grab variant, with terroritory capture time set to 20 seconds. Download Flying Saucers View Original Forge Hub Thread for More Info
Hmm. IMO, featured maps are getting weaker and weaker. Its like people are featuring just to feature. What happened to the featured maps that took skill. There are plenty of maps better than this that could get featured.
yah i agree plus all there are is 4 ufo's they are good creations but still for featured maps they should be better than this
This is defnitely a new concept though, UFOs in Halo? I thought it was a great idea when I first saw the original post and apparently other people did too.
Saw this along time ago and one of the first comments was "Wow, this is amazingly creative, this must be featured" and look where it is now this map is extremely fun to play with all your friends, the saucers just make this map, they are soo funny to look at just flying up there and shooting their bombs nice map, and great pick guys
i dont care if this took skill or not, it should be all about how fun it is unless it is merely aesthetic... personally i love it.
This map is definitely one of the more original ones out there. I especially like the fact that it's almost required to deactivate the UFO to capture the territories.
dont mean to be a mean but i feel the same way, like dont get me rong with is a good map but there are lots others witch deserve a feature way more. like really there are some AMAZING forgers that are going un-noticed on here. I can think of a few right of the bat who deserve a feature anyways, good map. thow
I completely disagree, this is the kind of stuff that should be featured. Stuff thats innovative. The focus lately has been on stuff that just looks really nice and uses advanced forging but doesn't play any different than a normal map. This actually looks really cool and unique.
Just downloaded it, its really fun, it would be flawless, except for the fact that on one of the UFOs, you can use the over-sheild
Ignorance is bliss, isn't it? No maps or forgers at the site go unnoticed. Maps are featured several times a week now, and just because this map got featured, does not mean that others are going unnoticed. I'm sorry you don't like the map, but open your eyes a bit. No one has done anything like this before. Its unique, innovative, one of a kind, and sure to be duplicated. Great job BattyMan.
i sort of agree about the featured map thing, but i do think that a lot of the judging on that should be based on fun. but anyway, about the map. it looks really awesome! the whole concept of the U.F.O.'s are awesome. and that's even without the game to go along with it. with excellent gameplay and an awesome idea with brilliant aesthetics, you can't go wrong. Great job! okay, i changed my mind. this map isn't excellent. it's f-ing genius! I just read the description it sounds so awesome the whole disabling of the U.F.O's is brilliant! amazing map, and from the looks of it amazing gameplay!
I knew this was gonna make feature as soon as I saw it. Congrats Battyman! Now, you just gotta wait to get Premium. You're a shoe-in I think, as I'm sure Arctic Horror will be featured someday as well. You just gotta wait on it. lol Good job man, and again, great map.
ya, i agree. i saw this map when it originally was posted. I DLed it then and it is good fun. So to all the peoples out there: You don't need some kind of perfectly interlocked forge map with perfect weapon sets just to be featured. An idea like this is good enough for me.