Legendary DLC Concealed

wow bro I would have to say you have *Explicit Forge Master* skills like me and I'm impressed, I usually am not impressed with any maps here but I'm starting to see improvements. Good job and here's a million dollars, oops well Its here in mind : P

 

This map looks amazing man. When I saw the screenshots I had to que this for download. I can tell that you put a whole lot of time into this map due to the well merging, and I know how it feels to spend countless amounts of hours forging. I'll Check it out when I sign into live.



-Skisma

 

MLG Darkness has been on my hard drive since I first came across it, it is my favourite Blackout map by far and I know this is going to be the map to take its place. Great work and thankyou.

 

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Concealed​

Enjoyment

Concealed is an interesting map. So few maps are created on blackout worth any mention, so it’s always nice for players to get a breath of fresh air so to speak, a break from everything else that they are used to when playing Halo 3. However, there is a host of design flaws that make the map less enjoyable such as grenades getting stuck by the man cannons and poor map flow. The biggest factor reducing the enjoyment of this map being that the bottom floor of Blackout is not blocked off. It is very rarely used, and when it was used its main purpose is for camping. Also the weapons are almost impossible to find and the lack of variation from the Battle Rifle frustrates those who are not MLG pro. The darkness of the map was cool aesthetically and added a mystique to the other players that many enjoyed.



Balance

Balance was a key trait this map lacked. One team spawned high up and was blessed with a decent view of the opposition’s spawn, while the other started the game on a far out random place in the map near a giant wall. But that doesn’t compare to the maps flow problems. The map creator attempted to renovate Blackout into something that could be played properly, but what ended up happening was another map created and portions of Blackout randomly blocked of, creating a map with two styles of play. The top half was basic arena skill style while the bottom was (incredibly underused) created with a more tricky intelligence style, and that did not complement itself at all. Besides the fact that the bottom of the map was ignored by most players it was an excellent place to disappear for a couple minutes or so if you’ve got a close lead. The weapons were decent choices for the map, just not cleverly placed. They felt out of touch and got used in strange ways for their locations. Spawns on the map were very well placed, but interestingly random at times and once a game a player spawned with the wrong team near them. They did not complement map flow on the top floor even if they were located well, and it caused some areas to be ignored.



Durability

The spawn system was slightly exploitable. For instance, the start of a round found blue team able to grenade red team instantly but not vice versa. And red team could see blue’s starting area after about two spots from their starting spawns. There were several minor holes, and only one actual map break could be found, a problem that already was common in the default Blackout map as well.



Aesthetics

Aesthetically Concealed had a few intriguing qualities, such as the fact that it is built on Blackout and uses a different set of items as opposed to the more generally used Foundry and Sandbox objects. The use of Man Cannons to light up the darker pathways is rather brilliant, but sometimes has repercussions; often a grenade will get thrown with the intent of bouncing up into a players face, but it will actually stick to the ground until it gets kicked and blown up. Also a player walking across one of these lit platforms may trigger the noise associated with the Man Cannons, and alert other players his/her location. Most of the merging however was clean and creative, and the overall dark effect on the top of the map was just cool.



Originality

While there are few maps built outside of sandbox and foundry, it still is common enough now that superlative bonuses cannot be awarded simply for the canvas. This map attempted to turn Blackout into an arena style map, and while it may not have done the best job of that it did a pretty damn good one. It has a unique and dark feel to it that is very interesting, and the flow structure is borderline genius with just a few simple updates to the map. However nothing about it is unique enough or new enough to allow for one to properly enjoy this category or the map to its fullest.



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I love everything about this map and what i think is the best is u took a kinda cramped 4v4 map and expanded it to easily support 4v4. Gameplay really gets interesting with new movement on the map that u arent familiar with on blackout. And i really dont think the darkness thing is a problem, especially with the lifts as lights. 10/10 especially for originality/creativity