Sandbox Brobius

Now that is a good competitive design. Love the layout and the forging seems fairly solid. Hopefully I'll get to try some flag on this.

 

You should be able to do both of those things by going to your profile then "edit profile". It is fairly simple to work out once you find it. For my sig I copied and pasted the "BBcode" (I think that was it) from my list of Bnet sigs after picking the one I wanted. Hope that helps.

 

The aesthetics are great, especially with the finishing touches like the wedges atop the columns. Most people do not take enough time in building maps to add such things. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember seeing this map before in another post.

 

This map had some very interesting structures and a good layout. The only problem was that there is one line of sight that needs to be broken up. The middle. With a BR you control the whole map from one of the side structures.

 

For the smallness of this map, I quite enjoyed playing on it, even though usually, these small of maps aren’t my cup of Joe. Playing this map was definitely a different experience for me, as most maps released these days have so many playability errors that make me not even want to replay them. On this map, however, I played it about 3 times, each time enjoyable as the last, and maybe even more so as I learned some of the jumps and such.

I guess I’ll start out with the pros of the map, as I generally like it, and had more to say about the good parts of it. First off, your aesthetics are pretty top notch for such a simple design, you pulled it off very well. Getting off the old beaten path of aesthetic praise, and on to game play, I must say, the spawns worked out quite well. I only had one inopportune spawn, when I spawned almost directly in front of one of the other team (we were playing a 2v2), I got grenaded, and died. Other than that, most of the spawns worked out, and it was even intriguing wondering where I was going to spawn next, what I would have to do to regain the ground from my opponents. The weapons were averagely placed, I mainly say this because of the amounts of rounds in the BR’s, it seems as though I never ran out of BR ammo. The needlers were pretty well placed, and served as a great way to take over an area of the map my enemies seemed they were controlling for a long time. Having the mauler in the middle was what I think the best weapon placement on the map, as you had to go smack dab in the middle to get the weapon, and usually, you had to stay around that area to get kills with it. If you strayed out of the middle structure with the mauler, most likely you died before you could even take the high ground. The carbines, if I am going to go ahead and say something bad in my “good” paragraph, were pretty uselessly placed on the map, as with all the BR’s on the map had very good positions, and unless you just really wanted to risk dying to get a carbine, most of the time I left them where they were, and most games they stayed exactly where they spawned.

And now for the cons of the map as I saw them, there weren’t many of them, but I thought I might as well throw them out there in case you are thinking of a V2. First of all, breaks of lines of sight were very well placed in most of the map, however, in some places, they arguably broke game-play. One such example is on the center structure, with your fins, as I would many times start shooting at a guy, he would just hop in-between the fin, back and forth till his shields recharged. Another is just simply between the center of the map and the needler spawn; it was a death pit, even for the reward of the needler. Secondly, and although this benefited me during games, the BR’s on the games I played ruled the top weapon kills. If you were a decent BR’r, you would be able to take out most of your opposition. If you have a good BR, such as myself , you can rule the whole map simply without ever having too move from the high ground area on the sides, that is if you can keep ammo, and a few grenades on hand, which I did, much to the disapproval of my enemies .

Congratulations on having an actually very fun custom made map in halo 3, which is something, as disappointing as it is, not very often seen in a competitive map. You’ve seen here what I think needs to be fixed, and what I like, so I’m gone.

 

I agree with Pyro. I to remember seeing this map in another post but have been unable to find it. I am %100 positive that it was not the same post, I remeber seeing this map on forgehub last week.