Maverick

Total months making Maverick: Two months+
Approximate number of hours making Maverick: about 150 hours
Creator: AmercanPsycho

Maverick is an asymmetrical map that is best played with 2-6 players. This would be 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3. I have been an active member on Forgehub for a long time now, and I needed to post this map eventually. The build time for the map was about a month and a half, with about ten hours focused on the curved tunnel, with a few more hours touching it up. The main feature of this map is the curved tunnel that the defender team spawns in. There are three main areas, the curved tunnel, outside, and the sniper tower. The sniper rifle doesn’t spawn in the tower, but it spawns outside which I’ll cover later.

The outside area is the attackers spawn, and also holds the beam rifle on the bridges serving as a shelf. After much weapon placement and replacement, xX5w33ny70ddXx helped me with the weapons after the second testing session and we decided that the beam rifle was the best choice for the asymmetrical gameplay.

The camo, spawns outside also, in a geomerged box that slightly in lopsided as many may say, but it is perfectly placed to allow frags to be bounced off the back wall to kill anyone inside. You may notice the shield door on the front, and think that everyone will camp there, but actually no one camps because you will be fragged to death.

Also outside is a structure that includes a Battle rifle, and a plasma grenade. This is the main fighting area for the outside area because it takes up about half of the grounds. Above this is the shelf that holds the beam rifle.

The sniper tower holds one of my favorite features, which is the quick escape/ninja drop through the window panels. Zachary9990 had fun assassinating me when I was hiding below the tower. This was added for a few reasons that I don’t need to mention, but the main reason was to mix up the gameplay so battles didn’t get boring.

There are two floors to the sniper tower area; the bottom area is a small fighting area with an interlocked b-sign for cover. The top area is another small fighting area, and a good position for map control. It gives you an overview of half the map, and has a BR in it, as well as close proximity to the mauler.

Important locations: The two power weapons on the map are the beam rifle and the mauler. The beam rifle spawns on the ledge above the attackers spawn outside, and the mauler is by the sniper tower on the box sticking out of the bottom sniper tower. They are each on 180 second respawns, so use them wisely. Don’t waste ammo with the beam rifle taking multiple shots at one opponent, use one of the BRs or carbines to finish them off after one shot that takes down their shields. The geomerged ramp (double wall) is a key location if you have a BR or carbine too. Use the power drain that spawns halfway up to deplete enemy’s shields and gain the advantage in a battle.

Thanks to Zachary9990 for the video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GyywTESq0MWeapons:
Battle rifle x5
Covenant Carbine x2
Beam Rifle x1 180 second respawn
Plasma rifle x1
SMGs x4 In pairs of two
Needler x1
Mauler x1 180 second respawn

Equipment:
Power Drain x1 120 second respawn
Active Camo x1 180 second respawn

Vehicles:
None

Supported Gametypes:
Team Slayer
Team Crazy King (one of my favorites!)
Multi flag Capture the Flag
One flag Capture the Flag
Team Oddball
Juggernaut

Now for the pictures:

Overview:


Checkerboard wall and overview:


Overview and sniper spawn on the left shelf:


Geomerged boxes and sniper spawn on the left:


Sniper spawn on shelf:


Curved tunnel:


Camo spawn:


Sniper tower:


Hallway between sniper tower and curved tunnel:


Action shots:

Starting off with xX5w33ny70ddXx noscoping me in testing:


Battle outside:


Battle between the window panel floor:


Special thanks: (people who helped with something other than testing are first, then testers in no particular order)
xX5w33ny70ddXx- Thanks for helping with weapon placement and testing.
XxsdrakulichxX- Thanks for testing… over and over and over and being a good friend.
Zachary9990- Big thanks for testing, and making the video
InferiorPigeon- Thanks for testing and helping with spawns after testing.
DeathToll77- Thanks for breaking the map and testing.
Uc Gollum- Thanks for helping break the map.
Otherdark- Thanks for testing.
NightFire33- Thanks for testing.
Murdock Sampson- Thanks for being a tester even when we didn’t have enough people.
Teerav11- Thanks for testing.
Xx PH0ENlX xX (huntaro002)- Thanks for testing.
Warfang866- Thanks for testing.

Please let me know if I forgot to mention you above.

Well thanks for looking at Maverick and I hope you decide to download it. It took about 200 hours to make and test over the course of two months, so I put a lot of work into it. A lot of people were waiting for this map to be released, so enjoy! Please rate and download!

-AmercanPsycho

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Thanks for the feedback, and I updated the weapons list.

Why thank you good sir.

First off, video is now in the post.
Second, Thanks, two months of work paid off in the end, and I'm glad you tested.

The curved tunnel... iz teh **** dawg... isn't it lol. And I think you're talking about SweenyTodd.

Lol. We should play soon. Very soon.

 

Thanks for removing that. Thanks for the comment.

 

Lol, we had that problem before, where was your victim? I'm glad people are liking the map, it's getting around 8-9/10 for each review!

 

Thanks, and in previous versions, I had two human snipers, then that was overpowering, so Sweeny Todd helped me out and said that beam rifles are good asymmetric weapons. I moved the beam rifle to the outside shelf in the final decision.