Carcass

Greetings fellow Forgehub Members, and welcome to my latest map, Carcass. I worked on this map for about 20 hours and it came out really well. I usually make larger maps, but this time around I decided to go for a smaller one. Before playtesting, I was kind of dissapointed in this map and thought the gameplay wouldn't be that great. But when I got a group together and played it I was very surprised at how well it played. It was probably one of the most fun custom games I've ever played.

Anyway, Carcass is a 3 leveled, symmetrical map designed for Slayer, Koth, Assault, and CTF. Imo, it plays best with slayer and koth, but that's just me. The hills ended up fitting the interiors of the stairwell and both the top and middle of the bases perfectly, it makes it seem like Bungie themselves made the map.


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UPDATES:

I've made a few updates since the release of this map, slight as they may be. I really just wanted to reduce the powerful weapon set, but I also went back and interlocked the weapon holders that hold up the firebombs, and I used teleporter nodes to create little lights in the stairwells and on the bomb/flag plants.


Weapon Set (Updated):

The weapons and grenades on the map now have decently long respawn times, so don't worry about it turning into a shotgun fest or a nade fest.

Mauler: 2x - 60 second respawn
Assault Rifle: 2x - 45 second respawn
Battle Rifle: 4x - 45 second respawn
Carbine: 4x - 45 second respawn
Smg: 2x - 45 second respawn
Spiker: 2x - 45 second respawn
Shotgun: 2x - 90 second respawn
Fuel Rod: 1x - 120 second respawn
Sentinel Beam: 2x - 60 second respawn
Plasma Grenade: 4x - 45 second respawn
Frag Grenade: 4x - 30 second respawn
Spike Grenade: 4x - 45 second respawn



Here come the pics.


Each side is its own base with 3 different levels.





There's the ground floor. You can either go right up the middle of those corner walls or take a stroll around the outside. The weapon holder on the wall you see is now interlocked with it. The paths around the outside are merged for a nice, smooth curve ending at the stairwell.



Here's the stairwell. On the Double box that you see is used as the ceiling for the stairwell, I have interlocked a teleporter node to create a small light.



Once you go up the stairs, you'll find yourself on the 1st floor of a base. It's basically a rectangle with walls and a ceiling and three exits (four if you count the stairs you just came up). There's two exits on either side of you and one in front.



This is what you would see as you emerge from a side exit.



Here's the catwalk that you will walk onto. It eventually dead ends a little bit past where those walls are.

Behind those corner walls you will find goodies, but you'll also find propane tanks.



So don't let anyone see you go in there... A cool thing about the propane tanks is that if you detonate the propane tanks on your side, the ones on the opposite side explode too. Makes for some funny kills.



Back inside the base, on either side of the staircase are mancannons leading onto the 2nd floor.



You'll wind up here if you decide to venture up one of 'em.



This is where your flag and bomb spawns will be. I've gone back and also interlocked teleporter nodes right above the Bomb/Flag spawns. If you're a forger (which, undoubtably, most of you are) you know how uncooperative those bloody boxes can be. Itaque, it is extremely satisfying to plant a bomb on one's face and blow it to Hell. (vv Check out my sig to quench your thirst for box blood)



You can jump off the side of the base onto some stepping stones made of pallets.



These pallets snake around the entire map from the top of one base to the next. While jumping on the pallets, they can fall off the teleporters they're on so you have to be careful. Or if you're a Pr0 JuMp3r, you can make them fall off as you make your way on purpose. This can stop people from following you for a while and you rain down wooden danger on the players below. People have been unlucky enough to be standing underneath a falling pallet a few times..hehe.



Here's an overview of the ground level. The walls on the ground floor are banked into a hemispherical shape. Those boxes are able to be crouch-walked through.

Now for the action shots...



I less than 3 sentinel beams.



Yummy shotgun.



Kewlness, that's my corpse flying away.



Hammer-smashed Face.



My revenge...hehe.



Nade spamming...ITz T4CT1CaL!!one11eleven!

Thanks for checking this out and I hope you enjoy! Constructive Criticism is greatly appreciated, for I know I have not yet become one with the ways of the forge. Happy Gaming, and thanks again!

 

I agree that it does have a lot of power weapons. My personal weapon set will never appeal to every one, so I just gave it abundant weapon set. People can adjust it to their liking if they want to. Thanks for the great reviews so far guys, I'm glad you like it!

 

Yeah, it's been done before and I liked the look of it, so I decided to add it in.

 

Thanks guys! I didn't think I'd get this kind of response at all. And thank you for noticing my sig Dented Drum, I like it too.

 

Lol alright I won't Linubidix, just thought it was funny. What should I say then? Forgehubbers? Thanks for the review too.

 

Thanks Cash, I'm glad you like it. I came up with the pallet idea at the last second and it turned out well.

 

What? lol

And thanks Gravedigger, I hope you enjoy.