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This once used to be a underground facility but was shut down due to numerous water flooding from the surface. (6-8)

Briefing: Façade is an asymmetrical map that features many abstract structures. It takes up the main Foundry floor and blocks off the back area. The map itself may seem rather open, but in actual gameplay it is not it also may seem breakabable (and by all means, you can buddy-jump out of the map) but by yourself, you can not. I had Buddhacrane him self do so and luckily for me he couldn’t get out of the map. Well, there was that one time during a CTF game that he got catapulted out by a mongoose…but that’s besides the point. Anyways, I’ll be moving on to the next part of my post now, which is a video BL00D F1R3 made for me.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ47Lbih1TI
I shall note in the video, actaul gameplay is from an older weapon layout, so don't think that those are the weapons in the map.

Background: I started Façade nearly two months ago when I was done with my map H. At the start, I had no real set theme, no real set plan, no real anything. So I did what I normally do when I start a map and just started to forge. Seeing what kind of things I could make and see if I could get a spark from them to make an actual map. After making five structures/bases, I finally decided to go into other maps to see if I could get a spark from them. For the most part, I didn’t see anything that gave me a spark… until I found myself looking around BlazeIsGod’s map Curbstomp. As you’ll see in this map, I’ve used a somewhat similar wall with bridge-bumps with A/B signs. You’ll also see that with it, I threw in my own touch to it. After I made the basic form of that most of the rest of the map came naturally. I ended up keeping one base that I originally had (because I liked it so much) --and did some touchups to it. I then added various cover and other things. The overall map was done within a month and a half. I then threw down some weapons/spawns and had my first few tests. The weapons weren’t that bad, but the spawns were god-awful. I had a good feeling that I was going to need a person that was experienced more with spawns than I was. One day I was up early talking to Linny about my problem. He suggested that I get help from JAY and Chipsinabox. So we all got on and Chips started to amplify my spawns. Though, he only did Slayer and CTF spawns, he basically put down the foundation of them and I later did the rest, with the help of Vicious Vice. Through the time of tweaking spawns to their current state I was adding/changing minor layout things (mostly involving prevention of escaping the map). A few days ago I was basically done. But then chrstphrbrnnn was part of one of my test sessions. He felt that the weapon layout could be better. At first I wasn’t fond of changing it, but I later gave in (and thank god I did). The new weapon layout made it much more competitive, and much more likeable to myself and thus I kept it and stamped COMPLETE on my long awaited map known as Façade. So, now I'm going to go ahead and move on to the pics. Since I bet you're all tired of reading The Wall of China.

Layout Shots

Attackers Base (Front View)

Attackers Base (Back View)

Overshield Spawn

Beam Rifle Spawn

The Curved Fence Wall CatWalk

The area behind the Fence Wall CatWalk
(wait is that a soccer ball I see? O_O lol)

The Pallet Wall

Inside the Defenders Base view 1

Inside the Defenders Base view 2

Action Shots

We r guys who r gun teach u lessonz

No Roche, Plasma does not put out the fire...

JAY is blue and is in need of some dye...

Two Plasma Pistols ftw?

Dark Flag

Pyrogoose

Mongoose Mowdown!

Flag-Duel

I r in ur base, sniping ur mongoose

Ok, now on to some more information such as whats on the map, top 7

recommended gametypes, and other stuff...

Weapons/Vechicals/Equipment

x6 Battle Rifle; 30 sec. respawn, 2 clips.
x1 Shotgun; 120 sec. repsawn, 0 clips.
x1 SMG; 30 sec. respawn, 2 clips.
x2 Plasma Pistol; 60 sec. repsawn.
x1 Plasma Rifle; 30 sec. repsawn.
x1 Needler; 90 sec. respawn, 2 clips.
x4 Carbine; 30 sec. respawn, 2 clips.
x1 Beam Rifle; 150 sec. respawn.
x1 Flamerthrower; 180 sec. respawn.
x2 Mongoose; 60 sec. respawn.
x3 Frag Grenade; 45 sec. respawn.
x3 Spiker Grenade; 45 sec. respawn.
x1 Bubble Shield; 120 sec. respawn.
x1 Power Drainer; 120 sec. respawn.
x1 Overshields; 150 sec. respawn.

Top 7 Recommended Gametypes.

Team Slayer; 3v3 - 4v4
1-Flag; 3v3 - 4v4
Team King; 3v3 - 4v4
1-Bomb; 3v3 - 4v4
Territories; 3v3 - 4v4
Multi-Flag; 3v3 - 4v4
Assault; 3v3 - 4v4

*NOTE: For Oddball, VIP, Juggernaut, and Infection don't have respawn area's/starting points/set objectives, so it's best not to play those.

Ok, at this time I would like the thank some people.

xX5w33ny70ddXx; for spending countless hours with me in Forge just messing around on this map, testing it, giving me some ideas, oh, and of course for making the promo-shot. :D

Chipsinaboxes, J A Y, & Linubidix; for helping with spawns, and various tests, and having fun with the outdated weapon system. :D

Vicious Vice; For giving me good advice for tweaking the current spawns.

buddhacrane; For failing to break my map in a way where it'd be possible in actual gameplay without the help of others. (That one you did with the mongoose and random grenade doesn't count!! >:P) --oh and for filling in as a screenshot person.

chrstphrbrnnn; For making an very competitive weapon layout for me and helping test out some bad spawns.

BL00D F1R3; For the video. :)

All the other people who helped test this map; I could've wrote all of your names (if I remembered them all) but I really just keep it simple and just thank everyone else who helped test this map, with out you it wouldn't be as great as it is now.

So, with all of that out of the way, I now bring you a small little treat. Within the map I have hidden something and to help you find it I have come up with a riddle. :D So here's the riddle...

With loyality in hand,
Go to where the silence sits.
From there you can see me resting on a buddha's belly.
If you think you have found me then PM what it is I am to Vorpal Saint, and he'll tell you if you're right or not.

...So yeah... good luck with that. :D --And here's another Download link just in case you missed it at the top.

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