Frontlines: Junkyard + Center Mound

Gametype: Frontlines | Map: FL Center Mound | Map: FL Junkyard

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This gametype and two maps were created with testing help from several members of the Forge Union. Big thanks to:

IrishRebelA07
Golfer43815
Furry x Furry
arrrghSAM

And big thanks to Crusty Inferno for testing help as well.

Testing courtesy of H3Customs.

Contents

- General Information
- Lobby Inventory
- Lobby Screenshots
- Arena Panoramas
- Second Post: Action Shots and Mechanisms

Frontlines is an intense, unique Non-Foundry game that brings King of the Hill to a new, literal meaning. Teams spawn in separate lobbies, or armories, and choose their power weapons. Everyone has 300% health and normal damage inside the hill. After picking their weapons, they head through a teleporter and onto the hill. Once you're on the hill, you cannot pick up weapons, so be satisfied with your choice. There are four receiver nodes per team on Junkyard (High Ground) and three per team on Center Mound (Valhalla). This system effectively creates a spawn system after players get to choose their weapons.

Each player has infinite ammo, grenade regeneration and cannot pick up weapons once on the hill.

The hill is large and takes up a spacious, open part of each map. There is sufficient enough cover to possibly evade an enemy for a while, but not enough to run away from him for good. Team firing is a huge key to success in this game; every player has a power weapon and 300 percent health, so focus fire to take out a player one at a time.

There are three rounds, and in each one, every player has seven lives. Don't play conservatively, because it doesn't help to be the last one left on your team, getting slammed by power weapons by yourself.

Running outside the hill will make you very weak and unable to do damage. The reason this isn't just a slayer game with weapon lobbies is to eliminate areas like the base-side of High Ground and the majority of Valhalla, leaving one smaller arena.

Junkyard, taking place on High Ground, is best played with 4 to 10 players, while Center Mound on Valhalla is a bit larger and can support 6 to 14.

The lobbies are a huge part of the maps. The weapons inside them vary based on the maps, but each team has the same weapons. All of them have a very quick respawn time. Most have a ten second respawn time, some have 30, and one power weapon per map has a 45 second respawn time. This may sound rediculous, but the maps are based around power weapons. One weapon, the laser on Valhalla and the Rockets on High Ground, only spawn once per round. Keeping in mind you have infinite ammo but cannot pick up weapons on the hill, one player will have a chance at using those power weapons per round. Use them wisely.

Center Mound Inventory
Per base - one team's weapons

2x Sentinel Beam
Spartan Laser*
Needler*
Machine Gun Turret*
Missile Pod
Sniper Rifle
Deployable Cover
Bubble Shield

Junkyard Inventory
Per base - one team's weapons

Beam Rifle
Rocket Launcher*
Plasma Cannon*
Deployable Cover
Bubble Shield
Sentinel Beam*
Fuel Rod Gun
Brute Shot
Covenant Carbine

*Indicates second-rate power weapon - 45 second respawn.
*Indicates first-rate power weapon - never respawns.
*Indicates "default-choice" weapon - instant respawn.

Because Center Mound's lobbies are symmetrical, screenshots were only taken of one.

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