MLG MLG Trepidation

Trepidation v3.0
Mind the gaps.
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Objective:
Trepidation has been in the works since the release of Halo: Reach. My goal in creating this map was to build a map that played and felt like a Halo map rather than like a forged Halo map. I drew influences from map design in each of the previous Halo games. This map is unlike any forged map I have seen yet, in regards to the use of elevation and height as well as the general style of the map.

Layout:
Trepidation is an indoor symmetrical 2 base map. It is room based and contains 6 rooms in total. There are two bases, two upper rooms, a middle room with an overhanging platform, and a lower room. Each room is connected by ramps, walkways, and hallways. It was built in Forge World's coastline area. The middle of the map was forged to include openings into the water below. Trepidation is similar in size to Beaver/Battle Creek.

Features:
-This map contains no pre-fab pieces, except when used for decorative purposes.
-There is no apparent z-fighting.
-There is no apparent framerate lag in full screen or split screen (has been tested in a 4v4 game).

Playable MLG gametypes:
-Team Slayer
-Capture The Flag (multi flag only)
-Neutral Bomb
-Territories

Weapons and items:
-4x DMR
-4x Needle Rifle
-2x Plasma Pistol
-2x Magnum
-2x Sniper Rifle
-1x Rocket Launcher
-1x Shotgun
-4x Plasma Grenade
-4x Frag Grenade
-2x Jetpack
-1x Evade (only on TS, CTF, and Territories gametypes)
-3x Health Packs

Screenshots:

-The middle of the map. This is also the starting loadout camera.


-The middle of the map from rocket side.


-Blue base.


-Blue base.


-Blue base.


-Blue base.


-Rocket room.


-Blue "dining room" that connects each base to the upper shotgun platform.


-A view down "pistol hall" that connects each dining room to the upper shotgun platform.

Changelog and Notes
Version 3.0 released 12/24
Version 2.0 released 12/1
Version 1.0 released 11/21

Changes made for v3:
1. Widened all skinny/connecting hallways for more breathing room. The width of each perpendicular connecting hall has increased from 1 unit to 1.5.
2. Widened ramps from main level of bases to the dining rooms.
3. Widened dining rooms by a slight margin to accommodate for changes #2 and #3.
4. Increased the size of the main level middle room by roughly 1.6 units to allow for more playspace and dance floor.
5. Improved respawn system. There is a weak respawn zone encompassing the entire map, a regular respawn zone for each team's half of the map, and an anti-respawn zone on each half of the map to prevent respawning on the wrong side (blue anti on red side, red anti on blue side). This system appears to work more effectively and less predictably than the previous respawn system did.
a. Moved some respawn points around to accommodate for changes #2 and #3.
b. Removed all respawn points located in the middle room
6. Moved struts in rocket room to allow for more breathing room and decrease ease of falling off map - they are now closer together and hug the middle ramp. They no longer stick out into the floorspace of the rocket room.
7. Added a column on each side of the top of the ramp from middle room to rocket room.
8. Added short railings at the top shotgun platform to decrease ease of falling off map and slightly contract the high-to-low LOS.
9. Changed the locations of the jump pad and jetpack pickup pad. Jump pad is now located near the hall to rockets. Jetpack pickup pad is now located by the flag spawn, underneath the upper walkway to dining room.
10. Replaced the 1x1 block in the very middle of the map with a 3x1 block, it is no longer necessary to jump onto the middle block to grab evade or the bomb.
11. Made a few minor decorative revisions.
12. Tweaked the location of some DMRs and NRs; they are still all located in the same area but on different walls, etc.

Changes made for v2:
1. Base layout has been redesigned to provide purpose to the upper levels.
a. Turned "top tower" into a platform overlooking the entrance of each base.
b. Changed flag / initial spawn platform to be accessible via ramp from every angle.
c. Removed steep ramps and added ramps that exceed no greater than a 27 degree angle.
d. Lowered height of sniper perch and upper part of base to be equal height to the shotgun platform and dining room walkway.
e. Added a "jump pad" enclosed lift that allows for easier vertical transportation.
f. Added a "jetpack pad", identical to the "jump pad" but it holds the jetpack instead of an enclosed lift.
g. Walkway from base to dining room is now less open.
h. Tweaked base spawns.
2. Added "corner wall" cover to each side of the rocket room to make room less bare.
3. Tweaked spawns in rocket room.
4. Changed shotgun extra clip size to 0.

Feel free to add me on XBL to test, but be warned that I can be very unavailable sometimes. Besides forging, I spend a lot of time goofing around on Reach with my local friends and getting competitive games in with my other friend and GB/MLG teammate. So if you see me online, it doesn't necessarily mean I can play. The best thing to do is ask me if I'm free or when I'll be free next. GT: NamebranDDDDDDD

*Not associated with the Halo PC Custom Edition map of the same name*

 

Thank you kind sir If I may ask, what part of it reminded you of Lockout? I've heard the Halo CE comparisons but hadn't heard anything about Lockout!

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Edited by merge:

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Just updated my post to include a thumbnail, not sure why the thumbnail didn't show up when I originally posted this map.

 

Let me know how it goes! I've gotten a ton of feedback regarding the look of the map but not nearly enough regarding how well it plays. Feel free to send me a friend request on XBL: NamebranDDDDDDD (7 D's).

 

I finished a v3 (MLG version, non-MLG coming soon) of my map a few weeks ago, but never got around to updating the original post here until today.

In the new version there is some slight framerate lag in split screen when looking out from the flag spawn. I have begun testing to isolate the cause of the framerate lag and fix it if possible. I'm hoping to have a v3.1 of my map out within a week or two.

After v3.1 MLG/non-MLG is released, I am done with this map. I have spent many hours on it and am ready to move on to my next Forge project. The next project I have in the works is going to be a room-based asymm, and I am very excited to start work on it. If everything goes well, it will greatly surpass Trepidation in aesthetics, gameplay, and object coordination. My goal is to have it done by March 1, so keep your eye out for a post by me around then.