Map Title: S78 Pinball
Pinball Machine

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Description:
This is my first attempt at making a map. I've been trying to come up with an original idea to create in forge but everything I thought of was already done at least once, including pinball. I know someone else on ForgeHub just posted a Pinball map (I was 2 days late releasing mine) so I called my S78 Pinball to distinguish it from the other one. However, I still haven't seen one that has all of the elements of a pinball machine. The map I created contains the following:
- 2 Flippers
- Ball launch
- Bumpers
- 2 Ramps
- Targets
- Multiball

Here is how it works, there are 2 gravity hammers to use as flippers. You push the ball into the ramp on the right, this launches the ball into the playfield. There are 2 ramps, When the ball hits the grav lift under the ramps it will go through one of them, depending on the angle that it hits. There are 2 fusion coil targets on the left side, when hit they fall and explode (most of the time). I tried adding as many pinball elements as I could. My favorite is the multiball! After 2 minutes a grav lift appears at the top allowing you to get the ball to hit the multiball target. This falls and sets off a chain of explosions that expell the extra 3 balls from the cage. The explosion also destroys the grav lift, which respawns 2 minutes later. There is also a trip mine that occasionally spawns between the flippers. I wish that you can spawn active trip mines because I would use them as targets as well. If anyone knows of a glitch that will allow this, please let me know. The 2 power ups (overshield and custom) are just for decoration of the bumpers.

There really isn't a way to keep score. You can move all around in the map, but to follow the example of a real pinball machine, you should stay in the areay seen in the "Flipper" image below. For 2 player action I have set up a team slayer varient that does not allow friendly fire, has infinite grav hammer ammo and invinciblitly, since this was not designed as a killing map. If you prefer to battle on the pinball machine, be my guest... :)

Overview of the Pinball Machine
This is a view showing the pinball table from the bottom up. At the bottom you see 2 kickers/slingshots, just below (out of view) there are 2 gravity hammer spawns and below that is where you spawn and push the ball into the launch (I will try to get a better shot tonight that shows this area), above the kickers are 2 bumpers (man cannons/powerups), the left are 2 targets (fusion coils), on the far right is the ball launch ramp (between the bridges), the grav lift on the right lifts you to the ramps, way in the back is the cage with 3 extra balls for multi ball.

Overview 2 -this one i took away the walls and labeled items (click to enlarge and read the labels)

Ball Launch

Bumpers

Flipper

Ramp one

Ramp two

Targets

Multiball ready: Use the grav lift to hit the target...

MULTIBALL!!!

Let me know what you guys think.