Excavation

Excavation
The discovery and security of Forerunner technology was the sole purpose of this station.​

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Excavation is the first map I've made in Reach. I decided to start my first map in the quarry as it makes a decent playable area. It consists of a large "ship" that serves as the blue base. The red team starts at the opposite end of the map in a small cave system. The ship is located lower than the quarry ground level. There is a large cavern in the middle of the quarry with various aesthetics surrounding this area. There are 3 ways to the ground level. A mancannon that sends you into the mouth of the cavern, a teleporter that takes you to a platform, and a tower with a grav lift. There is a lower corridor running under the ship with 4 ways of entry into this corridor, effectively connecting the 4 corners of the ship. I hope you enjoy. Very fun with all gametypes and all armor abilities. Constructive criticism is always appreciated.​

Weapons:
DMR X 4, 75 second respawn, 2 spare clips
Sniper Rifle X 1, 150, 1
Needle Rifle X 2, 95, 2
Grenade Launcher X 1, 120, 5
Rocket Launcher X 1, 120, 1
Concussion Rifle X 1, 120, 2
Plasma Repeater X 1, 60
Needler X 1, 60, 2
Gravity Hammer X 1, 120
Health Station X 6, 30 sec respawn
Plasma Grenade X 4, 50 sec
Frag Grenade X 2, 30 sec​

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Lower ship corridor. Entrances at the ends of the hall and in the front connected by glass tunnels. Gravity hammer and health station located here.​

Lots of action in front of red base. Needle Rifle is located on the platform on the orange platform on the left.​

Action on the grav lift side.​

Neutral base. Grenade launcher is located underneath in the small tunnel. Health station and DMR also located here.​

Very dangerous in the middle.​

Inside e cavern. thThe rocket launcher is located here.​

Always lots of action around the orange platform​

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Fighting around the red base sniper spawn.​

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Left side map overview​

Right side map overview.​

Update: Deleted blue base sniper rifle; moved red base sniper to grav lift platform by the plasma grenades. Added needle rifle to blue base side. Deleted shotgun; moved concussion rifle to where shotgun was previously located. Decreased respawn times for health stations to 30 seconds for blue and red base. All neutral health stations are set to 45 secs. Added a respawn zone for FFA gametypes.

If you missed the download link above: Excavation

I hope you like it.​

 

Thanks, Jambo. Glad you liked it. I like the way the hammer tunnel came out too. The yellow and orange lights give it a pretty cool look. FFA Koth is a good game on this map. Appreciate the feedback. We need to get some customs going this weekend on our maps.