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I know a lot of you have played this in custom games or in it's previous version. After 6 months, too many playtests, and too many versions (nearly 40 different playable versions) it's finally done!

Basic Info

Summit plays Bungie Invasion, that meaning, the first and second phases are two hill territories, and the third phase is Core. The concept in starting Summit was to get a reverse Spire map, where the core is down in a hole, rather than up in a tower. With many iterations the concept has tweaked and twisted into the map you see today.

Some pictures for you that are unfamilliar with Summit.

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Phase One

Gameplay
Phase one takes place on the bridge between Montana and Alaska. And yes, I know, EVERYONE made an Invasion map in the same, exact, location that I did, but those all suck. My map is good, and that sounds arrogant, but, sadly, its true. I don't think I've ever played a good Invasion map, not crafted by my golden hands. Enough sucking of my own dick. The map plays just like a Bungie Invasion map, but I would say if I had to pick an Invasion map to relate it to most closely, it would be Breakpoint. Where defending teams can win the first phase, but it takes an extraordinary team to accomplish this. The two hills are only separated by a thin pane of glass, but it takes upwards of seven seconds to get from hill to hill, which is how Invasion maps play best, when hills are areas of the map that have to be controlled and owned by the opposing team. That's enough description that I'm sure no one read, and you all are just interested in Pictures, so I included a lot of information inside of the pictures, and be sure to mouse-over pictures that are labeled with more info in a mouseover.

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Mouseover to view basic Info

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Mouseover to view more detailed info

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It's hard to capture both sides of a wall in a single picture, mousover for a simpler view of phase one's hills

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/8553/rocks2f.jpg
Just to show that I put time and effort into every aspect of the game, mousover to see the reasoning for every rock I placed in the first phase

Loadouts
Offense (Elites)

Warrior
Plasma Repeater
Plasma Pistol
Evade
2x Plasma

Deceiver
Needler
[no secondary]
Active Camo
2x Plasma

Defense (Spartans)

Scout
Assault Rifle
Magnum
Sprint
2x Frag

ProTips
This section seperates the men from the boys. These are crucial tips that a winning team will use.

Offense

Invisibility loadout
The invisibility loadout is crucial to the team. Some of its many benefits include; the needler, jamming the opponents radar, and sneaking past opponents in front of their faces. There are several nooks in the walls where invisibility has opportunities to recharge. But be careful because if you try to respawn on an invisibile teammate the opponents can see a red arrow on the person you're trying to respawn on. And another thing, if you have too many people using the invisibility loadout you wont get enough elites on the front lines to make use of the jammed radars.

Spartan Weapons
Self explanatory, UNSC weapons are just flat out better. But I have found out that many people DRASTICALLY underestimate the Plasma Repeater and Plasma Pistol.

Defense

Standing in the hill
When a defender is standing in a hill, no time can be taken away from the hill. So if there are only two seconds left in the hill and six Elites all staring you down, dont try to be a hero, just cock block the timer.

Nading
people are forced to stand in a hill, nades kick ass.

Phase Two

Gameplay

Phase two can be won by the defenders, although not impossible to do, it can be a very reasonable task. Phase two happens like this, theres a building with two arms extending from it, and on each arm is a hill, standing in the hill is a great vantage point, but watch for grenades (covered later in the phase two section). There are several ways to attack the hills, from behind, from the sides, from underneath. Phase two has the steepest learning curve and most extraordinary players will stand out here.

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Here's some picture info...
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There's not too much to provide about phase two that isn't covered in the protips, so I'll show you that I did my absolute best to reduce framerate in Phase one in Phase two by despawning certain objects until the phase needs them, and this happens in all phases and in both gamemodes to reduce framerate lag on every aspect of the gigantic map.
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/766/phasetwoimpostering.jpg

Loadouts
Offense (Elites)

Zealot
Needle Rifle
Plasma Repeater
Evade
2x Plasma

Saboteur
Needle Rifle
Needler
Active Camo
2x Plasma

Defense (Spartans)

Marksman
DMR
Assault Rifle
Sprint
2x Frag

Spec Ops
DMR
Magnum
Hologram
2x Frag

ProTips

Brace Large Backboard
Have those pesky campers got you down by camping inside the closer arm's hill? Give them some payback by using the big brace large that is right next to themas a backboard for your Plasma Grenades.
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Invis Wrap-around
The walkway next to the rock walkway is a fantastic spot to sneak up on the spartans that can't tell where you are with the invis radar jam. And you can even watch them all jump straight over you!
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After Phase two is said and done, these are the paths that open up in the phase change between two and three. (mouseover)http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6789/phasetwotothreetransiti.jpg

Phase Three

Gameplay
Phase three is some crazy shit, you've got half of the map separated off by a drop that can easily kill anyone, vehicles, swords, shotguns, concussion rifles, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, plasma launchers, and so much more. The basic Gameplay element that I was going for here was an "inverted spire" where the attackers jump down instead of climbing up. and I think most of the map turned out really well in this area, I'll cover all of the different ways down later in the section, but heres the basics.

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Overview

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a simple overview, showing some broad structures

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blah blah

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Core building

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Closer look...

Loadouts
Offense (Elites)

Royal Zealot
Needle Rifle
Needler
Evade
2x Plasma

Ranger
Needle Rifle
Plasma Pistol
Jet Pack
2x Plasma

Assassin
Concussion Rifle
Needle Rifle
Active Camo
2x Plasma

Gladiator
Needle Rifle
Energy Sword
Hologram
2x Plasma

Defense (Spartans)

Sharpshooter
DMR
Assault Rifle
Sprint
2x Frag

Air Assault
DMR
Magnum
Jet Pack
2x Frag

Operator
Shotgun
DMR
Armor Lock
2x Frag

Grenadier
Grenade Launcher
DMR
Hologram
2x Frag

The Diving board
this is a rather hefty part of the map, and the more knowledge I get out there about the diving board the better. The point of the diving board is to safely transition you to the bottom of the map one of two ways, diving onto the one way sheild doors that slow you down, or by giving you access to the tower that you can jump down.

pictures
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Diving
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/851/reach22830629full.jpg/

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And if you dont feel like diving...

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try the other way down, (The other way down gives you full control of where you land and you can even drop without any fall damage if you jump on the pyramids at the end)
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There are also several other ways down
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Impostering
Since this map is so huge, I deleted objects in phase 3 that are not necessary to aesthetics that are only making the map flicker and lag, here's all of the lag I reduced.
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5964/phase3impostering2.jpg

Invasion Slayer

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Overview

More map?
Invasion Slayer needs both sides to be equal, and, lets face it, red side has it waaay better, so, several objects appear only in invasion slayer, and several do not appear from the phases one and two, to reduce lag.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/invasionslayeraddedbuil.jpg/

Man that took forever to type...

Special thanks
Rorak Kuroda
Nibbles
p Nondual q
Organite
I'm not good at names, so if I forgot to put on here, just tell me.

Downloads
Summit
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Invasion
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Spartan Skirmish
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