Cubicado Retreat

high above the claimed alaskan plateau I placed an ideal piece that complemets forgeworld in every angle without question. Inspired by Santa Fe city's art work and buildings, I wanted to create something that I to would love to own in reality but unfortunately can not afford.

Cubicado retreat was originally designed smaller as well as inclosed untill the final touch ups i realized that there was more potential lacking there of, so I opened it.

Gazing out into the vast beautifully designed world of Halo, ideas were popping up into my head faster than spam emails. I struggled to keep up with them at first, I just had to keep the same consistent pattern of contemporary art, thus the project progressed.

Next, I needed a little more aesthetics, something that would be very complementary and used as art placed throughout the layout so that players can enjoy all the diverse aspects of halo.

what better way than to use inclines as abstracts? haha i know many of you out there use them, I love them myself! this is what i came up with.

Out of all the time spent creating this piece, there was one thing that I completely forgot about! GAMEPLAY! OOHH $#@! It was looking far to beautiful to restart, I had to come up with something. I invited a few friends to join in so that I could get some opinions. It was not easy, not even for the ones who spend all of their time in MLG. Even now, it is still in question if this map is worthy, but there are weapons, healthstations, and 2 pairs of armor abilities (2 sprint, 2 evade) 1 in each corner.

The weapons are of the following with their intiial for placement locations:

Assault Rifle: A.R 4-default settings
DMR: 2-default settings
Pistol: P 2-default settings
Plasma Pistol: P.P 2-default settings
Needler: N 1-60 second spawn time, 2 clips
Sniper: S 2-120 second spawn time, as is (no additional clips)
weapon locations:

Health station locations:

armor locations:

the sundries are located as depicted in the pictures above.

that just about sums it up! hope you enjoy my latest art work, please comment. I need all the input I can get inorder to improve :) thnx!