HammerHead

Creator: smm2010

Racetrack Name: HammerHead

Map Name: Sandbox

Gametype: Battle Snipes, Battle Lasers

Description:
Welcome to HammerHead, my newest track created on Sandbox. Few of you may know the story behind this map. Vapour knuckles and I were going to create a racetrack together which would have consisted of multiple stunts. He was focusing on a stunt of his own, along with a couple jumps, and I was responsible for creating a backflip. I created the backflip, which I was not proud of because of its constant inconsistancy. I decided to push the envelope and try to go further and go for a double backflip. This idea was inspired by Taxxman24's "The Ecstasy of Gold." After adding more man cannons and creating the double backflip, I was still not satisfied because of its consistancy of doing two and a half backflips. Due to this problem and my thought of me not wanting to create a double backflip just like Taxxman24, I decided to go even further and go for a triple backflip. So, I added all eight man cannons this time, and the first time I tested it out, my mongoose and I did a perfect triple backflip! I became so excited that I unfortunately had to tell Vapour knuckles that I would be working on this triple backflip of mine on my own track, which I did.
After two and a half weeks of constructing this track and constantly tweaking the triple-backflip mechanism, this masterpiece is finally complete! I'm glad to say that this is the very first triple backflip ever to be made into a track.I created this map for Battle Tracks as well, since my idea of implementing this kind of stunt into a Battle Track just sounded so awesome to me and I don't think anything is better than getting a Laser kill or a Snipe shot to the head in mid-triple backflip! :P
I'm pretty sure you're tired of me talking, so I'll get down to the pictures of this masterpiece!
The Start

Entrance to the Start of the Track

Dark Area

Final SkyTrack Turn

Entrance to the Triple Backflip Mechanism

Triple Backflip!

Landing Pad

Different Angle

Action Shots

Overview

Q: What inspired you creation?

A: As I stated above, Vapour knuckles and I were going to create a racetrack together which would have consisted of multiple stunts. He was focusing on a stunt of his own, along with a couple jumps, and I was responsible for creating a backflip. I created the backflip, which I was not proud of because of its constant inconsistancy. I decided to push the envelope and try to go further and go for a double backflip. This idea was inspired by Taxxman24's "The Ecstasy of Gold." After adding more man cannons and creating the double backflip, I was still not satisfied because of its consistancy of doing two and a half backflips. Due to this problem and my thought of me not wanting to create a double backflip just like Taxxman24, I decided to go even further and go for a triple backflip. So, I added all eight man cannons this time, and the first time I tested it out, my mongoose and I did a perfect triple backflip! I became so excited that I unfortunately had to tell Vapour knuckles that I would be working on this triple backflip of mine on my own track, which I did.

Q: How long did it take you to make?

A: This track took me about 30+ hours of forging and constant testing within a two and a half week timeframe.

Q: What aspect took you the longest to get right?
A: As many would have guessed, it would be the triple backflip. I was extremely frustrated with constantly tweaking this to make it right. At one time I made it to work some of the time, but I wasn't satisfied with it. On the last day of my tweaking of the mechansim, luckily, x DREAM 76 x joined my game lobby and ended up fixing the mechansim for me, simply by moving a gravity lift. So, special thanks to x DREAM 76 x for making the final tweak on my triple backflip mechanism. :)

Final Note: This stunt is not 100% consistant, but then again not every stunt is. The only way you'll mess up on this is if you enter the mechanism at a weird angle or if you hit the man cannons at a weird angle.

This track has been updated. The final update on this track has been published on 5/23/10 due to multiple cheat problems, so if you don't have the latest version of HammerHead, please download it! :D

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