The Deadpool

This ancient alien sacrificial altar dedicated to long since forgotten Gods was re-purposed with the addition of an orbital platform by the UNSC and now serves as an ODSS (Orbital Drop Shock Spartan) training facility.

Hi, this is both my second attempt at Forge mapmaking and my second attempt at Forgehub ...and with a little luck it may prove somewhat more successful than my first. This level was built on the basis of 4 way Team-Slayer, although it also supports most other gametypes. It's focal points are the two drop pods, situated in the tower that serves as the center of the level, which lead to the rocket launcher and water based Revenants situated in the sea below the sub-orbital platform. Oh, and yes, this map is Elite friendly.

Weapons & Items (standard ammo count unless listed otherwise)

Rocket Launcher x 1 (180 sec respawn + 1 spare clip)
Energy Sword x 1 (180 sec respawn)
Sniper x 2 (180 sec respawn)
Grenade Launcher x 1 (150 sec respawn + 4 spare clips)
Shotgun x 2 (150 sec respawn)
DMR x 6 (90 sec respawn)
Needle Rifle x 2 (90 sec respawn)
Assault Rifle x 4 (45 sec respawn)
Plasma rifle x 2 (45 sec respawn)
Needler x 2 (90 sec respawn)
Magnum x 4 (30sec respawn + 3 spare clips)
Plasma Pistol x 4 (30 sec respawn)

Frag Grenade x 8 (45 sec respawn)
Plasma Grenade x 6 (45 sec respawn)

Mounted Machine Gun x 2 (120 sec respawn)

Overshield x 2 (1 sec respawn ...the overshields hold up and release the drop pods so they needed to be on a pretty much instantaneous respawn in order to ensure they were there and ready when the pod respawns, but it worked out to be quite well balanced since it also ensures that anyone who goes down the correct way via the drop pods, rather than via jetpack, will have the benefit of an overshield with which to face the Rocket Launcher/Revenants/Jetpackers down there)

Cloak x 1 (120 sec respawn)

Jetpack x 2 (60 sec respawn)
Evade x 2 (60 sec respawn)

Health Pack x 4 (60 sec respawn ...1 in the lower level of each base)

Vehicles

Revenant x 2 (180 sec respawn)

1 of the 2 Drop Pods (took me absolutely AGES to convince them both to spawn bang on like this every time btw ;) ...oh, and the sword is just above here next to a jump pad which, when combined with both the sword and the cloak it jumps you up through, provides the perfect counter to anyone teleporting back up to the top of the tower with the rocket launcher.

The Deadpool.

The Rocket Launcher rests upon the rock altar at the center of the pool, the Needle Rifles are leaning against the standing rocks/spires on the side islands and the Teleporters both take you back up to the top of the central tower (although they each feature 2 potential receiver nodes).

Yowzers, that's one heck of a drop! (but no need to worry, so long as you have your Overshield when you splashdown you'll be just fine, although if you manage to drop without either an Overshield or Jetpack it'd be a pretty good idea to put your head between your legs and kiss your armored a*s goodbye because you're gonna be making splatdown upon it in a few moments.

With the exception of the DMR's on the roofs the 4 main bases only hold default weapons, the snipers, shotguns and mounted guns are all in the corner towers and everything else, with the exception of the weapons down below, is situated in and around the central tower.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... We have launch, the Drop Pod is a go!

The rocks forming the surrounding wall on the pool are fully navigable, although please don't try camping/cowering on the outer edges, that was taken into consideration and the rock wall is completely surrounded by a soft kill boundary (the sea outside the radius of the pool, plus any land outside the radius of the platform is an instant kill zone anyways, the safe zone reaches just beyond the outer edges of the platform and the flooring beneath the water is bordered by the rocks).

Red Base Corridor (leads to and from central tower, plus provides a pretty good view of both the Rocket Launcher and whatever else may be going on down below) ...all 4 bases are completely symmetrical btw, or at least as symmetrical as was possible to achieve by hand.

My Speedboat/Revenant.

Red Base front view

The orbital platform as seen from down below, *standing directly beneath those Drop Pod chutes is a VERY bad idea btw* ;)

...ahh, Drop Pods, *even more fun when they land on an unwary opponent's head and net me a Drop Pod Splatterkill.*