Battle Hogs: Updated 1/20/11 Changes! - Soft kill boundaries in all pockets. - More "game changer" weapons. (Concussion Rifle x4 and Plasma Grenades + Original 4 Plasma Pistols/all of which will spawn with 30 seconds left) - Player cannot jump while inside the hill -Teams Enabled (Red, Blue, Green, and Orange teams are available) Description: Battle Hogs is a mini game where 2-8 players will try to stay on the platform (hill) while using Warthogs to to push each other off in order to win. There are ten rounds full of action and fun. When a player dies or falls off, he/she will spawn in the surrounding watch area. Although there are various variants somewhat like this, I believe this variant in particular is a better playing experience. There are ten rounds that last two minutes. If more than one player is still on the platform, the round ends in a draw. The center pit, corner pockets, and surrounding edges are all areas where you can eliminate your opponents. You may end up getting in to some pretty big collisions. Warthogs will be beaten up, but you won't die, or at least I've never seen it. Sometimes debris will fall in the pockets and cause the mines to go off. The corner pockets, aka "Rocket Pockets" are areas to push each other in. Four mines rest in them, waiting to blow someone off the platform. Be careful though, while pushing someone in, you are at risk of being blown up or off the platform also! These platforms send you flying way off the map! The middle pit, aka "Popcorn Popper" is the deeper, centralized pocket on the platform. Not only is it much safer to push someone in over the corner pockets, but the explosion is a bit more spectacular to the eye. When the match starts to stall with 30 seconds left, a plasma pistol in each corner to the stands will spawn. Use these to help manipulate the outcome of the game. Question you may ask: What if the player gets out of his/her Warthog? -If the player gets out, he/she is at risk of being run over. The player cannot walk fast or jump high. If the player gets away with it, consider he/she being lucky! What if the last players left fall off at the same time? -Player will have to wait out the rest of the round, and it will end in a draw. Can't the players just jump from the stands back on to the hill? -Nope, a death zone is placed above the hill to keep this from happening. Nice try cheaters! Any questions or suggestions would be appreciated! Enjoy!
This looks so awesome! I love a good Demo derby!I am going to get this asap. I like your design for the trap pits very cool!
Aww this looks awesome. I like the stadium feel to it, or is that just me? And I will remember not to be that guy
I was playing earlier today with my sister and we both fell in to the middle zone (not sure what it's called) at the same time. When we respawned we where both in the outside area and the match did not end. Other than that really fun. 9.5/10
Yeah, that's one of the few flaws the game has. I couldn't get it to end when everyone was outside of the hill. However, even though it does not end right away, the time limit to the round should go down fairly quick, since it is only two minutes. Glad you like it though! And thanks everyone else for the comments!
I love this map alot, me & my friends play it often. There are you things I like to share though. 1: When its just 2 players left, its hard for the game to end; if its just 2 people most of the time they would go around in circles trying to hit each other or when one is about to strike the other counters it. I realize that when its 30 secs. left plasma pistals spawn, but when either of the 2 players left in the hill are EMP'd they would just jump out of their warthog to survive it & jump back in their warthog or jump over the other players warthog as they are about to get splattered. I brought this up because most of the time the round ends with no one getting points. 2: Some people hide in the "Rocket Pockets" or even the "Popcorn popper" (just them & them only, they are not with their warthog). I brought this up because its annoying to some people & sometimes pisses people off until they just leave. 3: Sometimes people aren't playing or don't play correctly. I brought this up because it could cause little frustration or get people annoyed when this happens. 4: When theirs 30 secs. left, there are only 4 plasma pistals. I brought this up because what if theirs more than 4 people dead? What would the other people do if they don't have a plasma pistal? Solutions -Make the arena more deadly, put more stuff to it like man-cannons or kill balls. -Put death barriers in the "Rocket Pockets" & "Popcorn Popper". -Make the game type with high gravity & low jump so no people can jump anymore. -Put a soft-death barrier on the arena itself, but small anough that it would only affect you when your on foot & not on the warthog. -Put some weapons like grenades, or concussion rifles for those who died & put those weapons on for different times like you did for the plasma pistals. If you would like to send me an invite on Halo:Reach for ideas & everything that would be great! My GT is "DANTE0909" (they are zeros, NOT the letter "O"; people make that mistake often). If you do add me, please tell me who you are & everything (including like this entire text im typing).
Glad you like it! I am aware of the problems you have encountered, as I have encountered myself. I've tried the death zones for the rocket pockets but they are not working for some odd reason, perhaps they are too shallow. I will go over them again and try to get them to work. As far as the players who are watching on the outside, I will probably give them some other choice of weaponry, maybe grenades, as you suggested. I suppose I could go over some things with you when I'm up to it and have the time. Thanks.
Sweet, maybe I can show you a few things I have you on my friends list, and maybe I can show you my version of your map; I've done mostly every solution I've included in the last text (including death barriers in the Rocket Pockets & Popcorn Popper. I made it big anough that it still kills you when trying to hide in them, but ALSO small anough that when you drive into them you commit suicide instead of it saying "You fell to your death".)
I have got to say I am quite impressed with this map! I had a blast with a group of 8 people on this map. However as mentioned before in the comments, people started hiding in the "rocket pockets". It became a honour rule based game. But they are fixable. I tried sending you a message saying I fixed up your map. I was just going to give it to you, but you declined my friend request and didnt respond to my message... However I became addicted to the idea, and my head was swarming with improvements, so I just decided to started making my own map. Not the same though, but I did say in my gametype description "inspired by laxman91". Overall through very well made map, nicely done! ...but yeah if you ever want to take a look at my map, just send me a message =)
Well I'm glad you like it also Anyways, I also see many improvements, most of them are the ones that most people have experienced. I'm currently working on fixing it. Sorry I didn't respond to your message. Sorry about not accepting your friend request also, I normally don't except many requests anymore from random people since my race map was on waypoint. Not trying to be rude or anything it's just a trend that has been going on for a while.
Hey man I had a chance to play this the other night and I loved it. I was always a fan of these kind of hog/king maps. I actually prefer when a player dies to just have one life. That way they can scroll through the cameras to watch the action unfold. The arena seemed a tiny bit too small. Maybe next time if you remake it, make the area a little bit bigger. I really like the potholes with the bombs in them. It made for more of a challenge then just a hole in the middle. Again, great mini game. I can only think of a few changes that I would make.
Thanks everybody for downloading my map and sharing some suggestions. I have made a few updates to the map now. I've made a few add-ons and fixed a few flaws that will make the gameplay better. I hope you guys like the update!
lookin for a map Hi guys, I'm looking for a couple of maps, and I haven't had any luck findin' em hope u can help me out: the first one it's on a small platform and has nothing but Warthogs on the edges and has rocks in the middle of the platform the point is to crash the others players and make them fall, after a little while it's nightfall and the game end's when there's only one player left. The other map has Warthogs and ghosts it's also a platform but in the middle there's a four way ramp and you start on a ramp in which you get either a warthog or a ghost and you jump into the platform and start crashing each other, after a while if there are at least two players left, a Wraith appears in the middle or the map (on top of the 4 way ramp). hope u guys can help me out
I'm not really sure what those maps are, but I suggest you make this into a topic somewhere else on this site. Good luck!
First off, this map is awesome. It is one of my favourite wathog-pushy-offy-maps ever. The only problem I found was this: When you have died and gone to the 'spectator arena' place, it is possible to jump back into the arena. This would be fixed by you making the kill barrier higher that is over the warthog arena. Apart from this, an amazing map. 9/10
Were you actually able to get in or are you just assuming that would happen? Just saying because I did put a kill barrier there. If you actually did it, I'm not sure if I somehow goofed it up when editing the map for updates. Maybe you changed a rule or so in the gametype? Whatever it is I'll check on it. Thanks for notifying me on that.
This map is pretty insane! I played it with four people a couple times right after DL'ing it it was Really fun, and then yesterday I got a party of 10 and it WAS absolute chaos, it was a blast. yet and then end some poeple found a way inside. kinda ruined it a bit but overal it was a blast. It has a well deserved place in my fileshare, and will play it up often when ive got a good party going. seems like a valid successor to the wildly popular Lava pit back form halo 3.
A job well done I played this map with a friend last week. Stellar job brother. I will be DL to put on my own HD. My clan is going to like this.