Welcome friends, to Epitel. < Download.
(note: if you've subscribed to get notifications of when I release a map and are curious why you didn't recieve one, I put this up really late at night and I wanted to go to bed. I'm sending out notifications tomorrow)

Alrighity peepz, Epitel has finally arrived.
Months of testing and tweaking has finally brought us to this point!
And it was well worth it, let me tell you that.

If you were a fan of epivolc, you will sure love the improvements brought about by the "sequel" to it.

Cinematic Trailer
YouTube- Epitel Cinematic Trailer.wmv
Note: I am not sure why Youtube scrunched the size of my video, I am truly sad you guys won't be able to see it in all it's HD Glory. :( If anyone knows why this happened, please let me know. Thanks.

Gameplay Trailer
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In the first round I accidentally switched the camera to another player, sorry about that and the annoying non-local-camera-glitchy-ness

While epivolc and Epitel have some very obvious similarities:

"D" Shaped base design set in the tall dune of Sandbox
One-sided objective game bias
and effectively using only half of sandbox's mid-level are only a few.

More notably, the differences, while epivolc paved the way for this map, Epitel certainly stands out in a different sense.
epivolc (unfortunetely) did not use any OLN items. That's right, you read that correctly, NONE!
That being said, I was able to fit, lets just say, $352 more on this map. You know what that means? Bigger, Better, More-Baddassary.
Epitel now supports ALL gametypes. (Some gametypes are NOT reccommended however, (Oddball COUGH COUGH, don't play oddball on here unless you have a party that will obey honor rules)
Epitel's blue base has been significantly improved upon. The attackers will now find themselves protected from above nearly the entire length of the base.

For those of you that like maps with a background, or story, here you go:

"What was once an ancient Forerunner structure, has been buried in the sand and forgotten, until now. It's believed that the Forerunners were first apparent here while attempting to re-create similar installations around the galaxy. But until we know more, lets just fight on it."

Now that I've probably killed you with word fluff, lets get down to the actual design, and gameplay of Epitel. Shall we? Yeah? Alright.

Now, as you can see, this map is primarily based in the tall dune of Sandbox's middle level, half of Sandbox's middle level.
Before you start gripping about the "fact" that people will simply walk far away from the playable area and camp with a sniper rifle, realize, there is no sniper rifle.
Not one game have I played where someone is dumb enough to go for the long walk,
if someone does decide to go out there, they'll quickly meet four BR bursts to their dome.

Also for the "nay-sayers" about building on the tall dune, I have went to EXTREME mesures to make sure you are able to walk where you think you can walk. All of the slipperly slopes have been built over. :)

Battle Rifle x4 - 10 second respawn
Shotgun x2 - 90 second respawn
Needler x1 - 120 second respawn
Brute Shot x2 - 60 second respawn
SPNKr x1 - 150 second respawn
Energy Sword x1 - 120 second respawn
Covenant Carbine x4 - 20 second respawn
Sentinel Beam x1 - 120 second respawn
Machine Gun Turret (only detachable) x2 - 120 second respawn

Sticky Grenade x8 - 10 second respawn
Power Drain x2 - 120 second respawn
Regenerator x2 - 150 seocnd respawn

Map Notes:
The Teleporter leads you right under the main area, right in front of rockets.
The dune itself will act as a backboard for your grenades, throw as many up there as you can.

Info-photos

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Special thanks: Brendon/Scobra, AceOfSpades, OneNondual and his awesome-O customs, all the people that play in his customs (you know who you are) and all the supports of the original map! Thanks again guys! :)

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