Sandbox Midship

Midship Remake

Midship
"These ruins of the Pious Inquisitor were unearthed long after its fatal crash into the sand."

Before you read:
This map was originally meant for a contest, and the original is not compatible with slayer, although there is an available slayer-compatible version. The contest forced me to incorporate a specific gametype, and the gametype(s) I chose did not allow any escape from the map on the chosen settings. This means that on the slayer-compatible version, there are indeed a few areas that can be used to escape the map, however they are not too obvious. Anyhow, I will make everything available to download, in the case that you want to play the original games without having to worry about escapees…

Brief Description:
This map is a Halo 3 Version of the Halo 2 Map Midship made on the ground floor of Sandbox. There are quite a few things which make this map interesting. (In terms of Slayer on this map,) One of these would be the long sightlines--however, although you can see your enemies from across the map, the map's unique weapon set makes it very hard to get kills at such distances. This makes the map's single carbine and two BRs almost power weapons if used properly. Similarly, the power weapons with which we are all familiar on this map, the shotgun and the sword, can be used to no lesser extent, given the great amount of available cover and varying levels of playing height on the map. (In terms of the map as a whole,) Two other great things about this map are its aesthetic beauty/broad utilization of forging techniques (nearly every object exhibits some form of advanced forging) and its accuracy to the original "Pious Inquisitor" from Halo 2. There are but a few things lacking in accuracy, particularly on the "Carb" side, but the overall effect is undoubtedly the best available in terms of Midship remakes.


The Map:
Midship from Halo 2 - Doesn't have weapons on the map! (gametypes neccessary)
-Supports Halo 2 gametypes King of Blades (King of the Hill with swords and pistols--can get rather interesting), Fight Club, Team Fight Club (the ancestor of Team Melee, but with modifications to lengthen close-quarters fights), and Midfection (a simple Halo 2 infection variant)
...also available in a Slayer-Compatible Version - Does have weapons on the map! (gametypes unneccessary)
-Supports any slayer-based games, the keystone to Halo multiplayer
(Note: Team BRs is especially nice on this map if you're looking for that nostalgic Halo 2 feel, but regular Slayer promotes the use of the map's unique weapon set. Also, the teams must be only either red or blue.)

Recommended Number of Players:

King of Blades- 6 (FFA)
Midfection- 6-8 (FFA)
Fight Club- 6 (FFA)
Team Fight Club- 3v3 (Team) or 4v4 (Team)
Slayer- 6 (FFA) or 4v4 (Team)

Weapon Set:
4x Needler
1x Carbine
1x Plasma Pistol
2x Plasma Rifle
1x Energy Sword
1x Shotgun
2x Battle Rifle
2x Plasma Grenade
3x Frag Grenade

Perspective Pictures:









Action Shots:

Thank you very much to my map assistence as well as to my multidude of map play-testers!

To All: I would very much appreciate any and all ratings, criticism, critique, or commentary! Thank you!

 

Forging epitaph wouldn't make sense lol.

About the escaping, like I said, the original map + gametype(s) is inescapable.

 

Yea, so I've heard lol. I didn't go out and make this because I thought it would be a super great idea, though. I mean if it wasn't for the contest, I wouldn't have made it. Fortunately, I don't believe this changed the quality of my map though.

 

Yea, I entered it for the Mjolnir Battle Tactics Halo Classic Forging Contest. The results haven't come back yet tho lol

 

Yea, people need to remember that remakes are about convenience first. The objective for anyone making a remake map should be to make the map so that getting out the disc isn't worth the trouble. I'm interested in what you said about this vs. the Bungie remake. That's a good point that this has editable map geometry, I had never thought of that before. I had always just assumed this map would be obsolete by the time Bungie's remake came out. Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked it.

Also,

How is this done?

 

My only wish for this map was that it would be better suited for more gametypes, but I appreciate all of the approval it is getting. I had to sacrifice a lot for accuracy towards the real map by lifting the entire thing off the ground in order to make the center lowered in relation to it. If it wasn't for this, I would've been able to go a lot further with this map lol.