Passage Supported Gametypes: Slayer, KOTH, FFA, CTF, Extraction, Flood Optimal Player Count: 6-10 Ordnance: SAWx2, Speed Boost x2, Railgun, Sniper Rifle, Sticky Detonator, Frag Grenades Vehicles: 2 mongoose per team FLOOD NOW AVAILABLE!!! Download it here. Let me know what you think of the map. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. If you'd like to test with me, friend request Chronmeister on xbla.
It's an awesome map, and I like it very much, but I have never gotten my hopes up, and then had them shattered like that.. I would maybe recommend changing the name? haha Seriously, though I REALLY like the map, it's rather interesting in design, and has almost perfect aesthetics (at least in my opinion...). The few things I would change are a few blocks, and adding some scenery. In a few places, the textures seem a bit messy, and a few crates, barriers, or even cones could remedy the situation, and those "messy" areas are the only thing from making this map literally perfect, and beautiful. I don't mean this in any way, except for positive! Have a great day!
I have to say, I was sort of expecting (hoping?) for something of a remake of the actual Sidewinder from Halo 1 as well, given the name. That said, I also agree with Snipes that the map looks really nicely designed. The overlapping of a couple of the floor pieces looks kinda bleh in those specific areas, and you could probably spruce up some of the natural areas by adding a few more rocks and/or downed trees or bushes (turning trees sideways and phasing them into the map so only some of the leaves are visible) near the base of the rocks, and a few crates or barricades in and around the bases, as Snipes suggested, but other than that it looks pretty good.
There really needs to be some sort of list of untouchable map names. I had to rename this map twice. After playing on it though, this name actually fits better than the others. I have changed quite a bit since its release, making the red base much more defensible and adding Flood mode which I cant wait to test. So far KOTH seems to run rather well and the optimal player count suits a 4v4 plus size group.
I really like the layout of this map. The name really suits it as it really looks like a narrow passage. Just from judging the pictures I really like the big bases compared to how most maps have small ones. Due to the layout does most of the action happen in the middle base or is it evenly spread out? It seems if you hold the middle base you control the map for CTF as it seems from the pictures you have to pass through this area to get to the other base. Would a rock tunnel going bethind this middle base possible counteract this? This would also add another route for vehicles. This just a suggestion. Overall a really nice looking map with a good layout. You have my download.
There isn't really a middle base. The bases pretty much extend from the spawn zones all the way to the rock structure in the center. There is a tunnel leading from the central area in front of the rocks into the heart of blue base. The matches I've played have been a push back and forth across the map. Slayer moves with the dominant team, and of course, the objective matches move with the objective. I really haven't had a problem with the matches becoming too centralized yet, but I'd like to keep playing and make sure. I hope more people try this map. The objective games work really well here.
This is your reminder to fix your slayer spawns to game specific. They messed up your flood game spawns.
I already did. I still need to test I it out though. Im not sure what was causing it exactly. I had already labeled the spawns as game specific. I removed the FFA spawns that I think we were getting thrown into but im not really sure if that is what was causing the problem.
White (initial) spawns won't affect flood, even though its technically an FFA gametype, everyone is labeled as "Attacker" and "Defender." What happened was your regular spawns for Slayer types were probably placed in basic editing and need a label. Go into forge in slayer mode, your flood spawns should be invisible, and change all the red and blue initial spawns to gametype label: team_spawn (I think). Then those spawns will work for any non-FFA games (even non-slayer) and they won't interfere with your flood game.
All spawns have been fixed for all gametypes. I erased them all and started over. If they aren't right now, I really need some help. Anyway, thanks for being like the only person on this site who is down to play customs all the time. If anyone reading this is a dedicated custom gamer, you need to get us on your Friends list, or should I say, ANYONE ON THIS SITE WHO PREFERS HALO 4 CUSTOM GAMES OVER ALL ELSE PLEASE SEND FRIEND REQUEST IMMEDIATELY. WHY WASTE TIME FORGING IF YOU AREN'T GOING TO PLAY ON YOUR MAP. LET'S PLAY GUYS. COME ON!
WORD. Sorry I haven't responded to all of the game invites... sometimes I'm very tired and can only barely forge a little and usually fall asleep forging. I have a brand spankin new baby as a good excuse though, ;P But I will try to get in some custom games with you guys soon!!
Me me me! GT: AnotherClaymore Hit me up almost any weeknight Mon-Thurs 4-10pm CST. Im down for customs, unless im Forging. (got like 3 works in progress right now) Back on Topic, very nice map. I enjoyed this one alot, although we playtested it with 3v3 it still played well. With more players I would imagine it would be even better, would really like to run a full 8v8... maybe someday we can get enuf guys to run a full BTB custom lobby...
Sweet, I'll definitely send you a FR. I'd like to run some Extraction and CTF games on this map soon if you are interested. Flood and KOTH seem to run really well, but I've yet to get any good games on these two modes. Good to see that I'm not alone. It's amazing how many hundreds more guests than members view this site, and for what. I think many may actually have ulterior motives(stealing ideas for maps on other games, etc.), but the majority of these guests have to actually be interested in playing custom games. IF ANY GUESTS ARE READING THIS, JUST JOIN THE SITE. WHATS THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN. ITS FREE! YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF LIKING HALO A WHOLE LOT MORE THOUGH
I should be on tonight for a while JK. I wanna run extraction on this map and I have a other map I just finished called Shelter that I would like to test as well. I hope to see you online. Have you done any work to La Forge since our last match on it?