Sandbox Epsilon Eridani

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  1. Aschur

    Aschur Wubba lubba dub dub
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    Epsilon Eridani

    Epsilon eridani is my first aerial combat map, it is based in outer space surrounding the star; epsilon eridani. Please notice that this was not a genuine attempt at forging as I am currently working on something much better.

    Weapons list:
    Rocket x2
    Missile pod x2
    Spartan laser x1
    Machinegun turret x4
    Sniper rifle x1
    Beam rifle x1
    Mauler x2
    Battle rifle x2


    Equipment:
    Bubble shield x1
    Power drain x2


    Vehicles:
    Transport hornet x2
    Banshee x4
    Hornet x1


    The map works with all team based games, and team king or territories are the most fun.

    Supports up to 5v5 but the hornet must allow the extra two to ride

    Backstory
    I started this map after I got the mythic map pack and I wanted to get used to working with the items on sandbox, seeing as I probably will be forging on it frequently. I had played around on aerial combat maps before but they always lacked the enthusiasm of the fact that if you pilot dies, you crash and die too... I decided to put in the skybubble so that there was no way to possibly land on the ground after bailing out of a vehicle. This then provided a nice aethetic purpose as I moved to make the map look as if you were flying in space, when I added the killball sun in the center.

    All in all, the map took me about a week of on and off forging about 1 hour a time.

    Pictures
    Its full scale
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    My uber blocky asteroid
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    Blue side space station
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    Red side space station
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    Spartan laser and two turrets
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    The sun
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    Download

    And for those of you who have been following my upcoming map, a little teaser for you.
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    A nice twist on something familiar.
     
  2. Reincarnation

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    i really like your idea, it helps that ive played on this too, its pretty smooth playing, can hardly wait for Architecht, SWAT was awesome on that map, and so was KOTH

    - Some Trees
     
  3. ImI METAL ImI

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    Picsr2big. I can't understand the map from them, but the name is promising. Always respect one who hath readeth the Halo books.
     
  4. Aschur

    Aschur Wubba lubba dub dub
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    Its the actual star; epsilon eridani. Also the pictures are from haloscreenshots.net, I can't make them smaller... And I've never had anybody say they were too small before on any map so I'm assuming its just you.
     
  5. jaybo1996

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    No they are two big. Go to bungie then save the pics to your computer and download them on photobucket.com OR just ingnore us and say there perfectly fine like most the people here. You know who you are. :mad:
     
  6. Aschur

    Aschur Wubba lubba dub dub
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    They aren't too big for me, I don't know what it is... I personally think it just you two, anyways it should resize itself if its too big.

    I honestly am not having any problems viewing them.
     
  7. Meteor

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    It's posted :) Good map, Chaos; were you able to add any extra cover to the original spawns to prevent excessive spawn camping? Still a well made map if not, and unlike other aerial combat maps I have played as it actually has floating cover. You have my download.

    Also, to those who are saying the photos are to big, are you using a widescreen? They are fine on mine; that could be the problem.

    Can't wait for your next map either, it's looking great.
     
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  8. Aschur

    Aschur Wubba lubba dub dub
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    Thanks, I moved the spawns behind the shields so you can't be spawn killed... Couldn't manage to add anything since you saw it (I think)

    I was thinking the same thing for the pictures, as I am using my phone right now and I still am not having a problem.

    (Lol, I just replied using a blackberry)
     

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