Well, this is officially my first post on Forgehub. I will admit, whenever I sit down to forge a map, I always end up relying on some gimmick or underlying theme for each of my levels. I've never been good at creating a purely competitive, well-playable map. This particular map's gimmick is that of the concept of dual worlds, or parallelism.

In this map, there are two rooms, each fairly small (but that could change), and each exactly identical to each other. They are also each completely enclosed, with no way of getting outside or across to the other room. What is the point of this? I have placed three teleporter fields in each room, directly linked to each other, in pairs. For example, the one under the triangular arc in the middle of the rooms leads to it's pair in the opposite room. It works the same for each one. The cool thing about it is that the fields are invisible. More honestly, the teleporters themselves are under the floor, and their fields extend directly upwards through the floor, thus rendering the area they encompass imperceptible.

The only difference to the rooms are in the colors of the structures, and the sounds in each room. The colors obviously are not much of an indicator as to which room you are in, since all they are are just a bunch of little inconspicuous glowing lights stuck inside some of the buildings. But what I did do was in one room, place a cannon vehicle underneath the floor of one room, and some fusion coils underneath the other. If you know your Forging, you know that the sound effects that these two objects make when in proximity to you is very obvious and familiar. The interesting thing about it is that they only sound very faint while you are in the room, but when you first enter one of the rooms, the sound flares up loudly for a few seconds before becoming quiet again.

The only other difference between the rooms is that of weapon placement. In one room, there is a Focus Rifle instead of a Sniper Rifle. In another, there is a plasma launcher instead of a Rocket Launcher. Things like that.
So, the real meat of the game comes down to when you actually get into the thick of it. With six different people all running around in two identical rooms that they don't know which is which, the chaos quickly becomes overwhelming. You'll often find yourself using the dimensional barriers as cover from enemy fire, waiting just beyond one of the borders, completely out of range. But make sure you watch the other gateways too. A popular technique me and my friends use is grabbing the shotgun, evading through the middle gateway, blasting anyone near, and then evading right back through.

The map supports Slayer and Team Slayer, but only with Blue and Orange teams. I tried to get Capture the Flag to work, but I cannot for the LIFE of me find a way to make it work on any map I make. Slayer is still fun, though.

Weapons: Sniper Rifle, Focus Rifle, Rocket Launcher, Plasma Launcher, Gravity Hammer, Energy Sword, Needler, Shotgun, DMR, Needle Rifle. One of each.

The new combat techniques and possibilities that open up because of this new physical dynamic are wide and varied indeed. So have fun and don't get confused!

Also, feedback would be appreciated. My main concern with the level is that the rooms are two small and cramped. The reason I didn't make them any bigger was because of time constraints and the fact that it's really difficult to make two rooms COMPLETELY identical. But, if it is or isn't a problem, let me know.

SCREENSHOTS:

The first room:

The other room:

The first Gateway, right through the triangle:

The second gateway, through the cramped little mini-tunnel:

And the third gateway, just over the hill:

Some hidden treats:

ACTION SHOTS:

The shotgun corner:

Gate Sniping:

Hilltop Stalker:

Can't.............reach it!!!!:

Quick, get to the portal!!!:

YOU DIDN'T PAY THE TOLL, YOU BAD BOY!!!: