Just to point out and start with, I do not know what swat from halo 2 is, sooo I don't know if this is similar or not. The Name just fit perfect. -DOWNLOAD THESE - Map: Drug House Variant: Swat Hello everyone, ggrozny here, I have recently finished this map. It isn't just another foundry map, with bridges bases and everything normal to halo. I made this map to give you another way to play halo. This map is a very tactical map and is a ton of fun. Best played with 4-10 players. In this game you have two teams, one swat team, and one bad team (The Drug Dealers). If you start off as the drug dealers inside the house you need to stay either inside the house or very close to it, don't go out past the fences or the walls outside of the house, just to keep it more fun. If you are the swat team you will spawn inside your swat truck. From here you have multiple ways to advance into the house. You can go through an opening in the fence and right into the front door of the house if you want, but I wouldn't recommend it. Next you could advance to the right of the house where you will find a hole in the fence leading to a tunnel where you will find a gravity lift, use this lift to jump through the window on the top floor. If you don't want to go through the top window, you have the option of crawling right under the house where you can jump up through a hole in the floor into the bottom level of the house. Other than going to the right through the tunnel you have the option of going back through the hall where you will find one sniper rifle, and head toward the building built for your sniper. Past the sniper building you will find plenty of cover to advance up the left where a flare will be waiting for you. Use the flare how ever you would like, some suggestions would be to roll it under the house or throw it through a window. If you are on the top floor and hear the other team advancing up your stairs there is a well placed hole in the floor where you could drop down and come up behind them. And of course you can always go through the front door and the back door. VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: This note is about the game type. Everyone is only granted one life, so use it wisely, sneak around take your time BE TACTICAL! There are five rounds, and it switches your side every round, so everyone gets a chance to be swat, and drug dealers. Everyone starts out with a BR and a Shotgun. Inside the house you can find only two flame grenades to use as your napalm. Outside there are three spike grenades spread out as the swat are advancing. None of the grenades respawn. Everyone on both teams are forced color black, and everyones radar is dropped down to 10 meters instead of the normal 75. I have had some suggestions to take the radar off completely, but with it being so close range I like it, Its similar to hearing footsteps. Now some time for a few pictures, well a lot.... I really suggest getting in there and trying it out though. I know some people will tell me it looks rushed and that it looks shabby, but its a DRUG HOUSE. The holes in the wall make for some interesting look out points, as well as fire fights through the holes. These first few pictures give you a basic layout of the area, with the house and the swat truck. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15959780-Full.jpg[/img] In this photo you can see the hole in the fence where you find the gravity lift. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15959806-Full.jpg[/img] [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15959820-Full.jpg[/img] [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15959824-Full.jpg[/img] Here is a picture of the drug dealers spawn inside the house. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15959976-Full.jpg[/img] Inside the tunnel is the gravity lift, that you use to jump to the top floor through the window. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15959873-Full.jpg[/img] [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960066-Full.jpg[/img] Here this guy is crawling under the house and jumping in through the hole in the floor, careful though the bad guys can see through the fence floor and shoot you through it. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15959896-Full.jpg[/img] [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15959915-Full.jpg[/img] Here is the sniper in the hall, and the sniper building facing the drug house. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960131-Full.jpg[/img] [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960287-Full.jpg[/img] Here this guy is advancing to the left of the drug house, you can see the spike, flare, and plenty of cover. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960164-Full.jpg[/img] This photo is a shot of the Top floor, inside the open box are two fusion coils so be careful around that drug lab... [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960069-Full.jpg[/img] Careful doing up the stairs, you might get shot in the back [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960427-Full.jpg[/img] [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960101-Full.jpg[/img] This guy threw the flare through the window, so they could both crawl under the house and catch them off guard. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960352-Full.jpg[/img] Use the windows to see where the swat are coming from and be sure to let your team know [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960457-Full.jpg[/img] Here the swat is inside the house clearing out the rooms on the bottom floor. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960412-Full.jpg[/img] This shot is to show off one of the fire fights through the crack in the corner. It allows the swat to shoot inside, and for the drug dealers to shoot out, it also lets the drug dealers call out to their team if they see the swat advancing on that side. [img width=800 height=450]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii192/ggrozny/15960548-Full.jpg[/img] I know it is a lot of information to take in from a map thread post, but it's nice knowing the various ways to use the map. Get in there, get some really good tactical friends and I guarantee you will have a BLAST!! Everyone I have played this with so far have LOVED it, and downloaded it immediately. I will make another one, with the same idea, and two of my friends that really liked it are making one called "Meth Lab" that I can't wait to play on. If anyone would like to make one with the same idea, I would love to play it, please just send it to me over xbl, I would like to have a collection of swat vs bad guy maps like this.
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match Swat is typically BRs+no shield. But this looks kinda sloppy, yet fun to play.
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match Like killer carebear said it is BRs and no shields but you also have magnum and nothing else on the map. You might want to change that name because people might think you mean the swat us halo 2 players think of. maybe something to do with just cops.
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match I do admit it is a bit sloppy, but I actually liked the way the sloppyness ended up, so you can see and shoot through the holes in the drug house. Feel free to make one with the same idea and different bases to advance into, like I said I would love to have a collection of games just like this. It is a BLAST! Cops suck, Swat are cool... I think I will leave it named swat since its only the variant, and the maps will be named different. Plus I will have the little warning at the top PS: Thank you both on informing me of what H2 swat is.
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match How many people would you recommend playing this with? What's the least it's good with?
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match This actually looks fun! I bet the sloppiness makes it seem like this building has seen more than one fire fight.
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match I like this whole idea...especially the SWAT truck. You don't mind me using your idea for future maps?
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match No, I don't mind, you can use it however you like. My 1st time to test it was 2v2, and was a blast.
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match I have a name suggestion. Crackhouse Cleanup, does anyone remember that flash game from stickdeath.com back in the day. ;D good times. That's the first thing that popped into my head while I was reading the description and looking at the pictures.
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match Yeah, you definitely dont want to name it Swat, just because that is already a gametype that everyone considers BRs no shields, so people are going to get confused. I was going to comment on how sloppy this map looks, but its kinda cool how the sloppyness gives it that run-down crackhouse feel. I just wonder if that was intentional??
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match That's what I was arguing with myself. I came to the conclusion it was intentional, but not to that degree. amirite?
Re: Drug House ::: Very Fun Swat Match hmmm more of an accidental intentional...you could say, some spots weren't lining up right and I noticed a friend shooting through them, and figured that could be handy, and since it was a drug house, figured the sloppyness, beat up look could work out great. If anyone wants to play this with me let me know, or if anyone would like to forge another fort/house/base to breach into like this let me know we can think of a cool one. The name in my fileshare will remain swat, but on here ive changed it to breach.