Click Here for Team Slayer Pathwinder Game Type (Above Link is Slayer FFA Pathwinder Game Type)

*NOTE: There are only 8 Neutral Initial Spawn Points & 5 Red/5 Blue Initial Spawn Points on the map for FFA games, so the Max Player count should be 8 for FFA games and 10 for Team Games

While this may be my first submission to this site, this isn't my first map in Forge. I've made about 3-4 maps solo and 2-3 maps with a friend, but this map is the first one that I actually made with the intention of sharing with people other than my friends.

Pathwinder is a map made with gameplay in mind over aesthetics, featuring three different levels, all with their own style. The bottom level is the most enclosed, simply leading a player from end to end. The middle level is more open, featuring no walls for protection and a slit in the middle of the flooring, allowing for drop downs from level two to level one. The top level isn't really a level, but more of a set of walkways that wrap around the mid-section of this map. There is another part of the map below the first level that is semi-underwater, but the only thing that you will find down there is a mancannon that will launch you to the second level.

Both the Blue and Red sides have their own styles of traversing from level to level. The red side has a makeshift elevator made of man cannons that will launch the player from level one to level two, where the player can either walk around freely or go to the opposite side of the 'elevator' shaft and take another set of man cannons that will bring them to level three. On the blue side there are bridge inclines and a set of teleporters and brace staircases that will bring the player from level to level.

This map has the intentions of mixing up close-long range combat depending on the area you are in, and thus has a limited set of weapons. If you download the custom gametypes, you will get a Slayer and Team Slayer game that gives Spartans the starting weapons of Assault Rifle and Magnum with 2x Frag Grenades, and the Elites will start off with Spikers and Plasma Pistols with 2x Plasma Grenades. You will be given one set depending on what your preferred species is in the game. Both sides have the same loadouts: Jet Pack, Sprint, Drop Shield, Active Camo, and Hologram.

Items on the map are:

DMR x6 - starts on the map; respawns every 30 seconds; 2 extra clips per weapon
Needle Rifle x6 - same as DMR
Rocket Launcher x1 - spawns at 90 seconds; 1 extra clip
Shotgun x2 - spawns at 60 seconds; 1 extra clip each
Sniper Rifle x2 - starts on the map; respawns every 45 seconds; 1 extra clip each
Grenade Launcher x1 - starts on the map; respawns every 60 seconds; 2 extra clips
Concussion Rifle x1 - starts on the map; respawns every 30 seconds; 2 extra clips
Plasma Launcher x1 - see Concussion Rifle
Plasma Grenades x6 - respawns at 45 seconds
Frag Grenades x10 - respawns at 30 seconds
Health Stations x7 - respawns at 45 seconds
Overshield x1 - spawns at 30 seconds in same location as Rocket Launcher

Custom Power Up x2 - spawns at 30 seconds and lasts for 30 seconds; traits are as follows:

Lasts 30 Seconds
Good Camo
Motion Tracker Off
90% Player Speed
90% Damage Resistance
75% Shield Recharge Rate
90% Health Recharge Rate
Equipment Usage Disabled

Here are a boatload of pictures to show you what the map looks like and where some of the more powerful weapons are located.

View of the map from the outside

Overview of the map

View from Red Spawn

View from Blue Spawn

First Level entrance to the man cannon elevator

View of the second exit of the man cannon elevator with Plasma Launcher

Mancannon located in the semi-underwater level. Beware: there is a soft kill zone for this section

Lift in a Triple Room that brings the player to the Sniper on Blue side

Sniper - Blue Side

There are one of these pathways on both sides of the Red Side (the other one has a shotgun). A player falling through the hole will either slide to safety on the semi-underwater level or go straight into the water

Rocket Spawn. Beware: Running right for the Rocket Launcher without being careful will lead to explosive results

Tunnels with a teleporter are on both sides of the Rocket Spawn. These teleporters send you to one of several receiver nodes placed on the map, so your destintation will be random. Note - the teleporter on Red Side with the lift is on a different channel and has only one set course

View of the Blue Side Sniper tower. The concussion rifle can be found on top of the middle room in the triple room. Note - the underwater mancannon will land you at the foot of the bridge incline in this picture.

View of Blue Side Level Three. Note the Shotgun on the left down-ramp in the picture.

Going down this lift will either send you through a teleporter or onto a small ramp to break your fall. Beware - if you dont go through the teleporter you only have 10 seconds to escape through the mancannon outside the structure before the soft killzone gets you. Note - the DMR has been moved on top of the lift

Where the Grenade Launcher spawns and where the teleporter from the lift structure on red side will land you

One of the paths on the map, with some protection

View of the second level from Blue Side

View of Red Side Sniper and Level Three walkways

Not the best looking or best map ever, but I had fun making it and have had fun playing on it with friends, so hopefully at least one person can say they had fun on the map.

EDIT: I do know that the alignment for things is a bit off, especially the Blue Side spawn area. I didnt notice until I was over 3/4 of the way done with the map and didnt have the time to really go back and fix it.