Tunnelball is a deceptively simple, fast paced, intensely fun game based off of the Hockey gametype in Action Sack. It's played in four rounds of 3 minutes each, and the objective is simple: score by hitting the ball into the other team's goal. To accomplish this you have a grav hammer, and one member of your team can grab a focus rifle to assist the effort from afar. The arena's tunnel shape and rounded ends help pull off some wild shots, and each side of the tunnel works for one team or the other by providing man cannons aimed directly at the opposing goal. And the last 30 seconds of each round goes into multiball mode, with three balls dropping instead of one - some crazy scoring streaks can happen in those last moments. I've played this five or six times now with different groups and I don't think anyone has failed to have a great time. In fact usually each game ends with several people clamoring to play it again. Give it a try! Be sure to use the custom gametype, which has the proper loadouts and settings (including invulnerability for all players and greatly increased movement speed/jump height). Video YouTube - Tunnelball! (Halo: Reach minigame) Screenshots
this puts the hockey arena to shame. It looks pretty fun and chaotic with 3 balls. I'll have to download this one, nice job
I love it when the three balls drop down. Somehow even when playing goalie like two balls go in during the last 20seconds. Its a little hard to score without hitting the balls into the mancannons though
Wow this looks really cool. I like how you can use the mancannons and stuff. Pretty sweet. Stuff like this needs to be in action sack rather that power slayer and other games like that. Good stuff man.
This looks well made! I like how you made all the man cannons aim at the goals which add more spots to aim for. I'm also glad someone used the focus rifle with the halo ball variant, very nice combo for sure. I agree with cart0graph here, this really needs to be considered into action sack rather then what they have now. Of course the only suggestion I have is that you should make another version that can be played with 16 players =D.
Multiball definitely ramps up the fun. Sometimes as many points get scored in that last 30 seconds as the rest of the round. Regarding the goals, with practice I've learned to make lots of different shots - you can send them rolling from the side wall across the dish directly into the goal, though it's hard to pull off. You can also deflect them off those inline bumps set off to the side. And of course with a little luck you can just fire it straight in. I imagine with practice people would be scoring in this game right and left, so it's probably better to make a little harder to start out. Thanks, I agree! This kind of game is what I want out of action sack. Simple, fun, crazy, and killing-free (just as a change of pace). That would be pure chaos! I might have to build one that's like twice as big as this, that always has multiple balls going. That could be good for that many people.
Aw, yeah, I loved this map! It was a blast to play. The fact that you couldn't kill anyone made me love it even more (darn HaloBall...) If only this was in Action Sack, which I think you should try to do, Nutduster.
I'm not sure how to accomplish that, but if I could I would! I'd love to see more games like this in action sack. This kind of thing is what I had envisioned from the first time I heard that Halo 3 had a soccer ball in the forge items set - it is just a shame it took so long for Bungie to do the obvious and give us a gametype where this kind of scoring happens automatically.