2 Player Co op Mission - The Blue Orchid THE BLUE ORCHID - A 2 Player Co op Mission Special thanks to Juggacly who helped make and test this map. BACKSTORY: You and your comrade have been captured by the Covenant and taken to a secret research facility designed to study human behavior. What the covenant fail to realize however is that you are not an ordinary human, you are of course a Spartan. You and your friend will use your enhanced abilities to make your way to the Blue Orchid monitoring station where you must gain entry to shut down the Covenant's vile operations. This is my second 2 Player Co op Map. The premise is similar to my last map The Temple of Doom. Basically you must help your friend to the end of the map as you will find you cannot complete the challenge on your own, therefore there is a heavy emphasis on teamwork. Unlike the Temple of Doom however, I have made the gametype a variation of King of the Hill. To complete the map only one player is required to be inside the hill and this will trigger the game to end. Very few puzzles have been recycled from The Temple of Doom so don't expect just another rehash of my last. This map came together better than I could have imagined and plays as good if not better than The Temple of Doom. All solutions to complete this puzzle are logical and there is no glitching required. So don't be concerned about looking for hidden objects in walls or using the fixed weapon glitch, etc. You must be able to double jump to complete this map - to do this simply stand on your team mates head, jump, team mate jumps, then you jump again to greatly increase your jump height. You will not be able to complete this map as an Elite so make sure you're player type is set to Spartan otherwise you will not get past the initial spawn section. I have included 2 checkpoints along the way so make sure you shoot the fusion coils when you see them as these are your checkpoints. I think you will be impressed by the checkpoint system as once the checkpoints are unlocked they are not at all random and work perfectly every time. And yes, if you were wondering, this map is as fun as it is pretty. Good luck and enjoy. If you have any questions on beating the map feel free to ask Thank you to Oli the G and SewerWaste for making walkthroughs for this map. I don't like to play favorites so I have embedded both Vids below:- Check out their Youtube Channels DuelWieldingGamers and MrEpicGamerz for all your gaming goodness YouTube - THE BLUE ORCHID Walkthrough YouTube - Reach: Blue Orchid Puzzle Map Tutorial
Really great map! Just finished this with my friend. The ending is awesome! Are you really not going to make any more co-op puzzle maps? These are the best I have played that said it required more than one player. Some I have played in the past were pretty good but we were often confused as to what parts actually needed all 4 of us and what parts only needed one person to do.
Glad u liked my map I have just updated the map to remove a few glitches and to give it a more epic and glitch free feel. I have completely revambed the ghost section. Check it out!
hey dude i just downloaded this map and i really like how you based the whole map basically in the air. reason being is because you can make the floor a kill barrier (which you did) and that removes the need to use excess walls. me and my friend had a blast playing it! im looking foward to your next puzzle map, whether it'll be a solo or co-op one
Glad u liked. Hey what did you think of my checkpoints? Btw would anyone be intersted in making a video of my map for youtube because I don't have the facilities to do it myself? I can provide the gameplay if needed.
great puzzle map! i love the checkpoints. but me and a friend are stuck at this part... please help??
Yeah this is one of my favorite bits. You will need the hog to get both people up on the ledge. To get the hog over you will need to use the armor lock. Let me know if youre still stuck
thanks man! worked great, i hope we didn't cheat aha we just came up with ways to beat it and it worked so i hope we did it correctly aha
Alright, well here it is lol. at first there is a long pause due to me having to walk my dog and stuff so that was a good 10-20 min maybe more lol so that part will take a while. we are pretty dumb (you'll notice) and some parts we don't know if we did it right so if we did it wrong please advise an easier way aha. HERE IT IS
Cool ill have a look later and post back here tomorrow. And dont worry i had a guy message me the other day that he beat the map after 2hrs and with 5 people lol, so if u beat it with just 2 people i think you did well [br][/br]Edited by merge: Lol you actually did every single puzzle as I intended except for the centre piece puzzle which is the highlight of the map haha. I'm talking about the bit with the first wartgog. You are actually supposed to have someone stand on top of the warthog while your team mate drives into the block sticking up at the end of the platform and this will launch you across to the other side where the ghosts are. I didn't think it was possible to use the hog as a platform to get across but i've now increased the kill barrier height to avoid people doing this. I'm sorry about the bit with the soccer ball getting stuck, i didnt think that was possible but ive fixed this too.
Ha ha this is an interesting map. uhhh but im kinda stuck on the part with the plasma shield on the ground. I figured I jump on my partners head and get across, but I have no clue how to get him up here too. Can someone help out a clueless noob? lol
holy crap lol that makes more sense now that you say it! yeah i always regretted dyeing there due to the fact that my friend hated doing that lol and it just took to long. but yeah cool then we thought we were cheating the whole time. great map man, better then lots of others where it seems like its impossible to finish due to things no one would ever think of and was just annoying. your map didn't have that. it made sense all the way through. we didn't get some parts but we managed, and with the one bit of ure help we were like "ohhh, that makes complete sense now" lol.
Well, this is a great way to turn your friends against you. XD Me and a mate tried this out, and we got royally stuck at the Hog part. No idea what to do there >.< But we cheated and looked around via jet packs, and the puzzles are very clever.
Everyone gets stuck at the hog part but its pretty easy. Dont want to give too much away but if u stand on the hog and have your team mate drive into the block at the end of the platform and jump forward as you hit it this will propel you across to the other side. Its fun too
Me and a friend just finished this puzzle in about an hour. I felt I must tell you how much fun this really was. Every puzzle was so unique and none were overly difficult. Just took a bit of thinking (who would've thought). I would recommend this to anyone who just wants to have fun trying a puzzle that won't have them in the fetal position because of how difficult they are. I hope you are planning to make more of these. EDIT: I forgot to mention that most of the map at the end had an immense amount of z-fighting. This can be easily fixed and would make that area look a lot better. Also, if you can afford it, a higher railing at the die part (where one person pushes it out of the tunnel) would be nice. More than once it is fallen off over the railing.
Yeah i'm not really sure how to fix the flicker, im assuming thats z fighting? Is there a thread about how to avoid this? But it is definately a pain. Also i agree some railing would be useful for the die because ive encountered the problem of the dice falling off too. Ill have to check my budget though
Stuck yet? Need a tutorial? Watch this video, it has a tutorial and is a timed trial. Took me 6 minutes to get through it. YouTube - Reach: Blue Orchid Puzzle Map Tutorial
Loved it took a long time cause i was a puzzle noob when I did this. It was my first co-op puzzle and my second over all puzzle. played it for about 3 hours or 4. Keep making more please there aren't enough co-op puzzles I can find!