Rikuo Falls - Working on cleaning it up now!
Created by ST RIOT

Supported Gametypes:
Compatible with everything but territories

Map Description
This is a relatively small symmetrical map, with a base along opposite walls and a waterfall/pool running down the center. It is laid out in an oval, with a 'pool' in the middle. The majority of the ground floor is relatively open, with ' palm trees' (complete with coconuts) and the pool ridge for cover. A sniper perch can be scaled from the ground floor, across from the waterfall that feeds the pool. Each base is a small cave at the top of their respective walls, with two ramps/entrances and an escape chute.

The trees create a dynamic cover element, but might also prove to get in the way too much. While the center pool is somewhat vulnerable to the surrounding walls, it should be easily defensible by ducking underwater, and the ridge around it provides a circular rampart cover system.

The base access is designed with objectives in mind, providing relatively equal distance paths and opportunities for team work. The bases are neither easy to camp in nor easy to reach, so I hope they work. Mind the gap.

A spanker or fuel rod will occasionally come down the waterfall and rest briefly in the pool, hopefully not sinking into the depths, and once in a while spawning at very close intervals. Frag grenades fall out of some of the trees! The sniper rifle is slightly biased towards one side to balance the hammer biased to the other side (the hammer by necessity, I couldn't get it to stick out of the center of the waterfall). I might center the sniper rifle. The overshield in this map is exactly the same as Beaver Creek - I don't recall if other people cried about it, but I always liked heading back to it every sixty seconds, and it's accessibility meant it was easy to get but easy to die trying. So yeah, it's recreated perfectly in this map, the only powerup available.

Weapon list:
4x Battle Rifle
2x Carbine
2x Brute Shot with emphasized respawns
2x SMG
1x Sniper Rifle
1x Gravity Hammer (recommended for comprehensive deforestation)
1x Rocket Launcher on delayed spawn
1x Fuel Rod on super delayed spawn, no reloads
6x Frag Grenade
2x Plasma Grenade
2x Spike Grenade
1x Overshield

Overview

Waterfall

Atop the waterfall

Atop the sniper perch

A fallen coconut!

Defending the pool (as viewed from inside)

This is a beta form of the map. There are some uneven edges and tiny symmetrical differences, but it is far from unplayable. It is the first time I have used interlocking heavily, and I did not have the patience to do it perfectly - especially when I had to copy one side to the other. It has not been balance tested at all, but if anyone likes it and if I can get feedback/test time in on it, I intend to fix it up. Some objective objects (mostly spawn areas and points) may not work due to the object limit (and I do not like to glitch anything, other than Flamethrowers!). Some ugly things are by design (it's a jungle!), some are necessity, some are laziness. Anyway, I appreciate any input!

Also, the name is completely arbitrary. It was going to be called Oasis Sunset, but the 'sunset' created by Juicy FX makes things too dark IMO.

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