Edit: I took down the v2 pics and put up my v3 pics. This is the final version for now till I get some feedback.

Edit again: Ok I noticed something that bothered me so i had to fix it real quick. Very slightly updated version is now linked. Just moved 2 spawns, moved a rock about 1 unit or so, and used smaller 4x4 blocks on the bottom of each base.

Well getting this map in a condition to be file shared has been a real pain in the ass. Anyway, this is Ruination. My second forged map ever. When I was looking for a place to forge, the bluff over the cave in the canyon really appealed to me. Ruination is a semi-symmetrical mid-sized map. There are some slight differences around the bases due to the uneven geography but the bases themselves are almost perfect mirror images of each other.

Each base has four points of entry; the main ramp at the front door, the rock ramp near the cliff wall, the bridge that directly connects both bases near the cliff edge, and a teleporter that leads the back of both bases.

There is a single teleporter on the high edge of the map. This teleporter leads to the cave under the map. The cave is split into two completely separate rooms. The red cave and the blue cave. The teleporter in the red cave leads to the red base and vice versa. There are 2 one way shields at the entrance of each cave, so once you decide which base you're teleporting to you're stuck going there. I was afraid of possible camping in the cave (with rockets and shotgun it could be bad), hence the shield doors. I originally had soft kill areas in the cave so you could only spend 10 seconds down there. They had to go though because I found out that when you carry a bomb into the kill zones you automatically drop the bomb and it is reset (this doesn't happen with a flag though which makes me think that the bomb resetting is a glitch or being able to carry a flag in a kill area is a glitch). To make up for this, the teleporter that leads to the cave is a 2-way. So you can back out if someone is camping and plan for how to get them out.

I had to build this map 3 times. The pics I'm posting are of v2. I was unhappy with v1 because I had the bases offset from each other which created even more differences in symmetry than the geography itself did. Also the bases were disorganized and ugly. In v2 the bases are less claustrophobic and at an almost perfect 130 degree angle between them. I had to make a v3 though because I found out that I could not fileshare on my original gamertag. I made some nice modifications to v3 that I think improve it over v2. As soon as my screenshots appear on bungie.net I'll update the post with v3 pics.

I don't have many friends that play Halo so it is hard for me to test my maps myself (I have tested that soft kill areas are in the right places and the objectives work as designed). I am most unsure about the spawns since this is only my 2nd map ever and I'm just starting to figure out how they work. Any feedback given to me will be considered and I'll update this post after changes have been made.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy Ruination!

Weapons:
6x DMR
2x Sniper Rifle
2x Needle Rifle
2x Shotgun
2x Magnum
2X Plasma Pistol
2x Needler
1x Grenade Launcher
1x Rocket Launcher
7x Plasma Grenade pairs
4x Frag Grenade pairs

overview

overview 2

red lobby

sniper nest

outside teleporter

red cave

blue cave

red balcony

red snipe spawn

red side

blue flag