I've been thinking about this map for quite a while now... about one year to be exact. I actually made an unreleased version of this map back on Standoff, which happened to fail miserably. It only had about 3 seconds of free fall time, and was too crude in my opinion. So after that miserable take on the idea, I decided to wait for the perfect situation. And then I found Sandbox. I remembered seeing a map, which allowed players to leave the sky bubble’s boundaries, and I almost automatically thought of that same free falling map I made about a year ago. So after about two weeks, here I am. It’s here, and it’s better than ever.

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Skydive
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By ER1C0

"Mid-air fighting at it's very best"

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Random Fact: This is my first Sandbox map!

Base: Sandbox

Supported Gametypes:

Custom Gametype(s)

Forging 101:

[ YES ] __Floating Objects
[ YES ] __Effective Spawn Placement
[ YES ] __Interlocking Objects

Please keep in mind; I wanted this map to be glitch free, so I decided to cut down on the aesthetics, seeing as Sandbox already has amazing aesthetical features. However, you won't be disappointed, heck, you haven't even seen the pictures!

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The idea involves, "sky diving", as you may have guessed. This map is about fighting in mid-air. Yeah, I know, you probably just fell off your seat from that crazy description, so to follow protocol, here’s the, “long version” as some might say it.
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~~The Long Ver~~...The Official Description~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Map ~ Players start off on top of the entire map. That means on the top of the sky bubble. They fall slowly, due to the enablement of high gravity used in the gametype, and fall about 8 ½ seconds before hitting teleporters at the bottom of the middle ground (I would have made the teleporters at the bottom of the crypt… if it were possible). And so they teleport back to the top of the map. Here is where it gets kind of technical (at least for you inexperienced forgers). Bungie made it so that if you hit the teleporter at high speeds, you exit the teleporter at high speeds. However, you have to face the teleporter a certain way in order to angle the player at an appropriate position. So I placed 8 receiver nodes facing up towards a wall. Thus causing the player to hit the wall and go back to falling at normal speed. There’s also a way to gain speed on the opponent, but I’ll explain that later. Also, the laser guardians will shoot you (and will very occasionally kill you) when you hit the top of the middle ground’s barrier (did that make sense?). This is where it gets a little more technical (again, only for you inexperienced forgers). I made another wall, which prevents players from getting hit by the laser. This wall is about one double block’s length tall. I made the wall where the majority of players would die from the guardian laser. On the opposite side of the wall, I created a large blockade… thing so that you can’t hide behind the wall. So initially players can’t do anything besides fall, kill and die… Okay, well just comment or pm me if you have any questions.

The Game ~ This won't be as long... It's a free for all Slayer match up to 15 kills. So, each player has one sword and low gravity. There are three magical orbs... also known as powerups.

Active Camo. - Respawns in 180 seconds

Overshield - Respawns in 180 seconds

Custom Powerup (please read!) - Created to force respawn, which makes this powerup respawn right away. This nifty little orb (when used with the gametype) makes the player heavier. So when someone picks this up, they will fall faster and hopefully "sneak up" and kill someone. Anybody can pick it up at any time (unless somehow two people fall sided by side and both land on the powerup at the same exact time... which is rather unlikely, seeing as the objective is to KILL the enemy). This effect lasts 30 seconds.

So there isn't much more to it than that. Again, just reply or pm me if you have any questions.

Moving on…

This map includes:

Interlocking
3 magical orbs (1 active camo, 1 overshield and 1 custom powerup)
8 1/2 seconds of mid-air madness!!!

It's really hard to explain... ~~I'd recommend that you go straight to the visuals from here~~... oh wait, the visuals are next!

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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnbEtKiWjZo
This is a very serious and amazing video. It took about a daysworth of setting up and capturing (thanks to B.nets new handy dandy ~~notebook~~ capturing mechanism). So really, check it out.

..And now...
Pictures!
(they're from the video, so it's either you see these or watch the video... WHICH includes video clips and music may I add)

Map Overview
There isn't a tank in the map. It's just used to show distance.

Again, the tank isn't there, it's just used in these pictures to show distance.

The top of the map

You can see the three powerups here

You can see the wall in this picture. You will die if you don't make it into one of those teleporters... :)

Mid-air Madness!!!

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Download~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Download Skydive (the map)
Download Mid-air Swords (the gametype)

Thanks for takin' a look!

EDIT 1:
The reason I made only one gametype is because swords was the best and one of the only gametypes that could be used for this map. See, when you fall, you can't look directly down, instead your player looks at about a 10° angle. So players can't shoot directly down, and it's not much fun when all you can do is shoot someone who's right next to you... However, I figured swords were better because they were made for close combat.

Also, sometimes your player's feet get in the way when looking downwards.. So I'll say this now, It's best to play as a Spartan. The Spartan's feet are smaller and don't take up as much room as the Elite's feet do. It's kind of like SWAT, where the Elite is a bit better to use than the Spartan is (because of it's low head)... This time it's the Spartans that are better (I know, woot woot for us Spartan people!)...

ER1C0 out.