Welcome to Aviary! This map started out as my attempt to get the Falcon on some Team Slayer/Objective maps. I really enjoyed Standoff from Halo 3 and felt that type of gameplay was missing from the Halo: Reach map set. This is the end result... Aviary is a symmetrical map with two team bases separated by an open center structure. Each team has access to a Falcon towards the open side of the map. The two Falcon helipads are connected via a bridge that stretches out in the front of the map with a sniper rifle located in the center. The peninsula that the bridge wraps around holds rockets to battle the presence of the Falcons. In the center structure you will find a hammer in addition to some health packs and sticky grenades. And on the back wall is a tower holding a grenade launcher. The tower is accessible via a lift at the bottom and two man-cannons at the back of the map next to each team's base. Each team's base is two floors. The basement has 3 entrances: a large front entrance facing the center structure and two side entrances under the ramps that take you to the top of the base. The only weapon to be found in the basement of the base is a shotgun near the front door. At the back of the basement is a ramp that takes you past a health pack on your way up to the top floor of the base. The top floor of the base is home to a needle rifle and dmr in addition to a pistol in the sniper's nest. Under the sniper's nest are two grenades and the flag spawns. The walk-way that goes around the front of each team's base holds a plasma pistol and provides another access point to the base via the top of the center structure. In my experience this map plays extremely well for capture the flag game-types in addition to Team Slayer. The Falcon is fun to fly around in but you need to be careful with the grenade launcher & plasma pistols that your enemy may be carrying. Flying around the front of the map can lead to a long fall to your death if you are aren't careful. Give it a try! You won't be disappointed! Weapon/Health Summary: DMR x4 - 1 in each base, 1 next to rocks outside each base Needle Rifle x4 - 1 in each base, 1 next to rocks outside each base Pistol x2 - 1 in each base sniper nest Shotgun x2 - 1 in the basement of each base Needler x1 - 1 on the open side of center structure Assault Rifle x2 - 1 outside front door of each base Plasma Pistols x3 - 1 on walk-way of each base, 1 top of center structure Grenade Launcher x1 - 1 on top of tower Hammer x1 - 1 on bottom of center structure Rocket Launcher x1 - 1 in peninsula in front of map Sniper x1 - 1 on bridge connecting helipads in front of map Stickey Grenades x4 - 4 in bottom of center structure Grenades x8 - 2 under sniper next of each base, 2 on each helipad Health Packs x6 - 1 at the back of each base, 2 on the bottom of center structure, 1 in each helipad Now onto the visual goodies! To the red side of sniper spawn at the front of the map looking at the center structure. Near blue base helipad looking toward the center of the map. The bottom of the tower in the back looking toward blue base. At the top of blue base looking toward the front of the map. At the back of red base looking toward the center of the map. In front of red base looking at the tower at the back of the map. On the red side of the tower in the back of the map looking toward the front of the map. Blue base basement front door looking toward the middle of the map. Aviary Walkthrough VideoYouTube - Halo: Reach - Aviary Walkthrough Aviary Gameplay VideoYouTube - Halo: Reach - Aviary Playtest Download
Great video you got my DL. Just a suggestion if your gonna do video you might wanna try just a short walthrough i watched forever trying to figure out where the rockets were. Also took forever til you showed where how the gravlifts worked.
Looks really fun. I downloaded it. Not a big vehicle guy, but I bet this map would be just as fun without them.
Ha! Good idea! I have created a "walkthrough" video and am in the process of rendering it. I'll upload it soon. Thanks for your feedback!
the falcon has to be one of my favorite vehicles, riding in it reminds me of the battlefield series and flying it is fun too. the gameplay looked balanced, but the falcons looked like they took a little while to spawn, might have just seemed like that though cause it got shot down really fast. anyways, definite download, good work.
very good, this is kind of new. there have never been many vehicles on maps that fit good for 4v4, but the falcon on this map seems to be the best idea !! downloaded
Good map, but there doesn't seem to be anything preventing the guys in the Falcon from going AWOL and flying all the way to the Canyon or holing up in the Coliseum for the entire game. Was that intentional?
Actually, I added soft/hard kill zones so that you couldn't do that. If you are flying around in forge then you can fly wherever you want, but it should be working properly in a Team Slayer or Capture The Flag game. Let me know if there are any problems. Thanks for the download! Hope you liked it!