YouTube - Death's Door:: 12 Player Infection Map

Death's Door is a very unique, competitive medium-sized infection map. Death's Door sports the fun packed delight of On The Way, Right?'s teamwork, and the classic stealthiness of Splinter Cell. In Death's Door, the human population is on the verge of spilling over. You are either a part of the small team of survivors, or you are a zombie. The humans must follow a pathway of mayhem and chaos to reach the end, which is indicated by the purple light. I don't care if you think it's blue, it's purple. Although there is no reward in the end, you don't get an achievement saying "You just beat Death's Door!" You get the pride and honor of finishing what is by far the most difficult journey you will ever encounter. Although the first thing that might come to mind when you start the game up is Manifest, because of the alike starting room. But don't let this fool you, the path to the end will be a much more different experience than that of Manifest.

The humans begin their journey in a small room, with a few weapons and a warthog. Beware though, the warthog is going to blow up in ten seconds. Don't think that just because there appears to be no way out of the room that you cannot escape, the path will be clear after twenty seconds. Don't try camping in this room though, it has been fixed with a geomerged reciever node that the zombies have access to as soon as the warthog vanishes. As you continue along your pathway to freedom, you will encounter many places that I call "Destinations." These destinations are off the trail, but always seem to attract customers because of their sporting weapons, grenades, and cover. Along your pathway, you will also take quick notice of the side barriers, some tall, some short enough for a zombie to jump over. That's right, zombies have access to the entire map because they can jump the barriers, and the humans cannot. Following the destinations I explained earlier, are the abandoned homes that supply the most cover and weapons out of every small destination in the map. There are two abandoned homes located throughout the map. Each located behind your main priority; what I call the L4D elevator scene of Halo 3. At these locations you and your team must survive long enough for the warthog to spawn. The warthog will allow you to jump over the barrier, and continue on your road to success. The rest is up to you, don't flip the warthog, and don't attempt to camp anywhere but the purple light. If you don't follow these simple instructions, it won't be me you'll be afraid of, it'll be the zombies.

The zombies journey ended before it started. You, sadly are a dead human, who either started out as a zombie in this whole mess, or became one when you died. Don't feel sorry though, you don't have any feelings! In fact, you don't even have a choice as to what you do anymore, so leave the deciding to the player who is playing you. Now where was I? Oh yes, the zombies. The zombies begin their adventure (Not journey!) off in the middle of the map. The humans cannot reach this section even if they tried, however you can easily access anywhere on the map you want. Just jump over the barrier, and you will start your adventure. Located in your starting area are four teleporters in the order of where they bring you. The one on the left brings you to the first destination for the humans. The one in the middle brings you to the first house. The one on the right brings you near the purple light. And the one located off to the side of the other three brings you to the human starting room. However you won't be able to access it until the warthog vanishes. Each reciever node is geomerged snug into the ground, so they do not get in the way of gameplay, and the humans cannot camp them, because they won't be able to see them. Go for assassinations, be stealthy, and don't get angry when you slice the humans fifty times and they don't die. Their shields don't recharge, and even teamwork is necessary for zombies.

Once again, Death's Door is another one of my maps that I had no intention on building. In fact, I was going for an exact remake of Manifest: Help's on The Way, Right? But then realized I had no fence walls. And most of the important stuff on Manifest was made of fence walls. So I began with the starting room for humans. It was tough to build, because I didn't have the advantage of dumpsters, and as most of you might know the objects I replaced the dumpster with were blocks. Blocks are not movable by gravity lifts, and only man cannons. So you see where I ran into a pickle there. When man cannons spawn later in the game, any movable object that is in front of it will not move unless something touches it. So I thought and thought, and came up with the most simple thing ever. Use a man cannon, and have a magnum spawn underneath the blocks when the man cannon does. The magnum moved the block when the man cannon spawned, and my plan unfoiled as planned. I then continued attempting a direct remake of Manifest, and left the remake in spite of all my efforts, and created something new and original. Perhaps if I hadn't mentioned the unplanned part, you wouldn't notice. The path is so unique and complex you can't tell a difference.

The year is roughly 2800, and the government isn't improved at all. In fact, the government now is better than in 2800. But that's not the point. The point is that the government felt life was boring. The Earth was at peace with all galactic races. The flood was banished, and all was calm. The government then decided to do what they do best and break this silence the galaxy was in, and spread a virus. A virus so bad it would effect the Earth more than the swine flue in 2012. Of which the only reason the Earth rose in population again from the swine flue was because Hell was so damn overflowed with people, the Devil himself spat everybody who had died of the swine flue back onto Earth. God however, fealt no need to rid Heaven of it's low population of one-thousand people, and kept them to himself. Back onto topic though, the government created this disease, and injected it into a bird. The bird was then to fly to another country and spread it around there. Until this disease was spread throughout the world. Instead, the bird died of age, and it's body landed in a river somewhere in the state of Oregon.

A couple years later, the government became weary that the Earth hadn't turned into a giant hellhole, and then created another disease. A disease twice as deadly as the last. The same thing happend however, and the bear they injected it with drowned in a river in the state of Oregon. But this wasn't the end of either disease. The bird's body had been backed up in a stream the entire time, head bobbing up and down in the water. The bobbing caused the bear to swipe at the bird, thinking it was a fish, the bear missed, fell into the water, and drowned. Both animals were then backed up in the river stuck behind a large rock. A young fish swam by one day, took a nibble out of both the bird and the bear, and swam away. The same fish was later cought by a local fisherman, claiming he had cought the most odd looking fish in the world, in fact cought a zombie fish. The fish bit him, he turned into a zombie and bit his wife and kids. And you get where it went from there, right?

I recommend playing with 5-12 players.

Infection
Infection is the only gametype Death's Door plays with. The game plays out exactly like Manifest: Help's On The Way, Right? But a lot longer. And trust me, you are going to have to cooperate with your teammates to get through this one. Death's Door also pulls a few skeletons from it's closet. Such as a ripped off version of the Grindnaut from Manifest. That's in here to.

General Settings

Initial Zombie Count - 25%
Number of Rounds - 5
Time Limit - 5 Minutes

Custom Powerup Traits
Duration - 90 Seconds
Damage Resistance - 500%
Shield Multiplier - Normal Shields
Shield Recharge Rate - 50%
Damage Modifier - 90%
Player Speed - 75%

Player Gravity - 150%

Base Player Traits
Damage Resistance - 200%
Shield Multiplier - 3x Overshields
Shield Recharge Rate - O%
Damage Modifier - 90%
Primary Weapon - SMG
Player Speed - 75%

Player Gravity - 200%

Motion Tracker Mode - Off

Motion Tracker Range - Unchanged

Infection Settings
Zombie Kill Points - 1
Infection Points - 3
Last Man Standing Bonus - -5
Suicide Points - 0
Betrayal Points - 0

Zombie Traits
Damage Resistance - 500%
Shield Multiplier - No Shields
Shield Recharge Rate - 0%
Damage Modifier - 25%
Primary Weapon - Energy Sword
Player Speed - 100%
Player Gravity - 100%
Motion Tracker Mode - Normal Mode
Motion Tracker Range - 10 Meters

Every Weapons On Death's Door Is Set To Never Respawn, With 1 Spare Clip.

3 Assault Rifles
The worst excuse for an infection weapon since the SMG. Although the assault rifle is better than the SMG, and is a good replacement for it. I would dual wield the SMG anyday over picking up one of these.
7 Battle Rifles
The one weapon to conquer them all. You remember how much this weapon dominated in Manifest: Help's On The Way, Right? Well it dominates on this map as well. Don't let the high amount of them get you confused however, this allows for about only one battle rifle per human. With one spare clip. How will you ever survive!?
6 Shotguns
During testing I found myself crowded in a corner by zombies with a battle rifle at hand, wishing at the same moment that I had one of these bad boys. Ever find yourself in a tight situation? Get this and a battle rifle, you're geared for life. This and the battle rifle are the two prefered weapons to be used on Death's Door.
3 Sniper Rifles

If you're always the guy in the background singing "He.. got.. a.. noooo scoooope!" Then boy are you going to be happy I put three of these on the map. However bad I think these are in infection games, the better they get. It always seems that everybody rushes up the first house's stairs just to get this, then they don't use it.

4 SMGs
The starting weapon, although I don't recommend you keeping this if you want to survive longer than the first abandoned home, it's still a good weapon for spread damage. Assisting teammates in kills is still a good thing, right?
6 Magnums
If there isn't a battle rifle around, then this should be the next best thing. Sense two of these are located right off the start of the game, I'm sure you won't find an excuse not to pick one up. Unless you suck at earning headshots, then stick with something a little easier to fire. Perhaps something automatic?
1 Rocket Launcher
The very last weapon, located at the very last section of the map. The purple section of the map is the most deadly of all. Giving zombies every way they can think of to get at the humans. It's okay to camp with this. But don't be to shy to shoot the vehicles located across from it. They won't, cause an explosion or anything of that matter.
6 Frag Grenades
Although I originaly planned on having only firebomb grenades on Death's Door, I fealt frag grenades necessary. I don't know why, I just did. Frags have a large blast radius, they are great for spamming. Frags will help you out a lot in the last fight at the purple light, I can tell you that much.
8 Firebomb Grenades
With all the things burnable on Death's Door, who couldn't resist sticking all eight of these around the map! Me, that's who. Burning pallets, and zombies alike couldn't get any better than this!

No updates or changes have been made to this map. Be the first kid on your block to criticise Death's Door, and inform me of any changes or additions I can make to Death's Door in order to make it the best I can.

I would like to thanks everybody who helped me test Death's Door out. Especially Silent OO Death for his countless appearances in the testing sessions for Death's Door. Without you Silent OO Death, Death's Door wouldn't be what it is today! You gave me so many helpfull pointers! Fluffy Player, InnerSandman15, thanks you guys. And Public Servant! Although you only joined to check the map out before leaving, I'm glad you were there! Although I didn't recieve an opinion on the map from you, because you started out as a zombie. You still rock! Woot! Thanks everybody!