Download H. Here

five fun facts about H.
1. The eighth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
2. My second collaborated map with a forgehubber.
3. My third small map made out of my 18 maps.
4. My 16th map posted on Forgehub.
5. A song by the band Tool. One of my favorites by them.

Description/Background: H. is a very simple map. The layout is an H. When I first decided to make this map, I had no idea it would take me this long to make it. I started sometime back in July. H. went through A LOT of face lifts and minor changes and what not. The final version has been made possible with the help of my good friend xX5w33ny7oddXx, and the help of the tester's guild (they helped me test it, xX5w33ny7oddXx actually helped with the cover, spawns, and weapons). Like most of my maps, I decided to go with gameplay over everything, so it may not look like the best map ever, but it plays fairly well IMO. The floor, although hardly interlocked (and yes, there is interlocking in someplaces, also some geomerging) is smoothish, and fine; I know in some places grenades can fall in "cracks" but usually grenades aren't thrown/fall into them, so please don't say anything like interlock the floor moar plz. We already know that it's not interlocked in some places, and we know that grenades will fall if you look at the crack and throw it down it... we also know that it would please you if we fixed it, but honestly, we really don't have time to... so please just don't post about it. Thanks in advance... Besides, I don't think in an actual game you'll be look down at the floor seeing if there are any cracks (Unless you want to lose). Same with the roof. It's not the best look roof... but it does it's job (and that's to make sure you stay inside the map) So when I say this map is impossible to escape, I mean it. Sure, you could go in forge and just delete the walls that hold you inside H. but that's a given. For games, I have decided to make a five types, but there are six total suitable for H (the sixth being Conquest). I'll give out links for them later in this post There are things outside of H. that I put their for your viewing pleasure, so don't think I didn't worry just on gameplay. ;) Ok, now on to the map screenshots.

SweenyTodd's thoughts of the map:

Well, I missed 1st D=
Let me start off by saying, I knew vorpal well, but after working with him on this map, I got to know him even better, and he is a great friend. Now, onto comments. But Vorpal did most of the work, I just came in and added my 2 cents ;)
My Review
Ya, this is weird, since I partly created it, so I am criticizing myself as well XD
The Floor
Yes, not best thing to look upon, and it isn't the smoothest in spots, I find my character jumping up at times. I personally think this doesn't even affect gameplay, however people will complain cause this is forgehub ;)
Layout
It is such a simple idea, and it works great. I enjoyed the layout, it resulted in some great casual fun with that competitive edge. And the cover is great, not to much, not too little (self praise ;) but sadly, I haven't really gotten to play a full game on the newest changes, which reminds me, next time you get a small party going and I am along for the ride, we should play this.
Gameplay
For a map so simple, the gameplay from the very first version I tested was great. It was fun, as mentioned above, and I can only imagine that it is better now. I love the 'carbine towers' cause it was just a nice place to stay back, provide cover fire, and get some nice doubles in. It just plays well, simply put.
Now My Comments about my part in this
Alright, well when I first tested this map with Vorpal, afterward, I went to post a review, and was very descriptive. Vorpal then asked me to go ahead and make the changes that I was thinking of. There were 2 main issues.
1) Nades were quite powerful, so I solved this with sheild doors. This solution though created camping, so I reduced their size by putting them at a slant, still allowing for the more strategic grenade throwing.
2) It was quite clustered with various forms of cover. I removed almost everything, and made the cover system much more simple and dynamic, imo. You still get fair amount of cover, but no longer is it in the way when you are trying to quickly escape that frag grenade.
I also worked on spawns. Now, there was issues. This map was budget glithced, and sadly, that glitch messed up the spawns, by removing spawning areas (Yes, completely. They were not on the map, or in the inventory, and they didn't do anything cause spawns sucked) and not allowing me to set attack/defend. It also did the same to starting spawns. So, in the end I managed to make most due with what I could, and although I haven't played it yet, I heard they work great, except in CTF, but that I think is unavoidable, and smart strategic players can catch on how to fix this during game.
So, I won't rate, don't think I can unbiasly, but this is staying on my xbox ;)

Layout Screenshots:

This is an overview layout that shows off H. the best (also has notes in it so be sure to read them).

The A-side 1.

The A-side 2.

The B-side 1.

The B-side 2.

The Middle Area.

A closer view of the Mauler.

Action Screenshots:

Oddball, and cool stuff.

Default Action shot 1.

Triple Kill! :D

A cool effect shot.

"I'm in my base, watching you die."

Better watch out for them oddballers.

Blue Team spawning in Conquest.

Red Team spawning in Conquest.

Fighting for the middle area in Conquest.

Sweeny getting a killtacular, lulz (and pwn'd)

Weapon/Equipment on H.:

x4 Battle Rifles: 45 sec. respawn and 2 clips.
x4 SMGs: 30 sec. respawn and 2 clips.
x2 Carbines: 45 sec. respawn and 2 clips.
x2 Spikers: 30 sec. respawn and 2 clips.
x2 Brute Shots: 90 sec. respawn and 0 clips.
x1 Mauler: 150 sec. respawn and 0 clips.
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x2 Spike Grenades: 20 sec. respawn.
x2 Deployable Cover: 120 sec. respawn.

Now on to the gametypes...

NOTE: If you don't use my gametypes then at least put on BR start and in Flag and other objective held games put the running speed down. That way it's better gameplay. Also, you can do 1v1's here, but it's not recommended. 2v2's and 3v3's are the best size. Any more, or any less (or FFA's) are also not recommended.

H. Slayer: 2v2-3v3.
H. Flag: 3v3
H. Bomb: 3v3
H. Ball: 2v2-3v3
H. Pit: 2v2 (and 3v3 for a higher amount chaos)
Conquest: 3v3 (and 4v4's for very chaotic gameplay)

Well, I'm pretty sure I covered everything. At this point I would like to thank everyone who helped test this map out, and for xX5w33ny7oddXx helping me make this map way better. Also, I do encourage you to go into forge and look outside of the map. To get a better look of what's out there. Ratings on bungie.net would be nice, but you don't have to do it... One last thing, in case you missed the link at the top, here's another one if you did.

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ALSO! Please don't say anything like "Oh, you're just doing what the ABCrew is doing with letters and making them into maps..." I made H.'s layout because I had no real idea for a layout that'd be perfect for the name H. This map IS based of the song H. not really the letter H. So plz, no flame comments about me being a "copycat".

And for one last note this map was made by:

(Vorpal Saint on the left, SweenyTodd on the right)