Aperture

"No exit, no hope. 2-4 players"

Backstory

What do you get when you have three different ideas and mash them up into one diverse asymm? Well, you get Aperture of course. It's a funny story really. One day I was sitting around looking at some drawings of some map ideas, as I am one to do, and I figured I could knock out three of them at once; that was a year ago. As the end of Halo: Reach approached, I decided that this project would be my last. I tried something different for once. No, not doing something other than a small asymm. I wanted to try improvising a map. Of course, if this was going to be my last map, I wasn't going to squander it on something I have very little experience on. So I carefully picked three of my most promising designs and come up with the connections as I go. After what I thought was a finished map, I submitted to 1v1 tournament, only to find problems. Since then, the map has gone through many changes. Every part of this map wasn't left untouched.

Description

Aperture has the distinction of being three ideas that weren't big enough to be their own map. So there is some "iffy" movement that it simply inherent's. The map itself consists of an off-set atrium, a very small hub, high room that provides most of the movement options, the CPU atrium, and an alcove that completes the circuit. Let's talk about the crowning jewel, the atrium. With the most room, combat tends to start and end here. If it weren't for the other rooms, combat would be pretty brief. However, my favorite thing about this room are the long, albeit useful, lines of sight. One for the CPU platform which makes teleporting safer, a very nice LoS cutting through the 3-way ramp(aka "the hub"), and of course the one peeking into the top room making for narrow escapes. Speaking of the top room, it's responsible for most of the movement being the map's pivot. It bleeds into red alcove and main atrium with a teleporter going to CPU atrium; it esstentionaly goes everywhere. On some maps, you would call that overpowered, but this isn't just one map. Where the main atrium is the crowning jewel, the CPU atrium is the circlet(get it, because it's a circle... I-I'll stop now). This atrium makes the rest of the map what it is now. It's always interesting to have a battle start somewhere else, and end it fighting on top of these small planks. Platform-to-platform combat has always been an interest to me and it would only make sense to include it in my last Halo: Reach map. Now this description is running to long for my liking, so red alcove and "the hub" will be combined into one. A lot of movement ends up here, and for good reason. It's the bottom of this odd spiral and a good way to wrap up the map as a whole. Since it was the bottom, there's a 3-way ramp that pretty much functions as a hub and the quintessential center of the map. It's not necessarily a bad place to start and takeover. Being adjacent to the top room, it's a good strategic point. I think that covers up the map well enough. With a further ado, Aperture!

Weapons

3x DMRs
1x Needler
1x Plasma Pistol
1x CPU
1x Sniper Rifle (Drop-Spawn)
1x Grenade Launcher (Drop-Spawn)
2x Frag Grenades
2x Plasma Grenades

Pictures

LoS I was talking about, ain't it grand.

An unwanted, but necessary, digression going into CPU atrium.

The stage for blue spawn. Platform holding the invaluable sniper and teleporter to CPU.

As you can see by now, main atrium has a lot interaction with most parts of the map as a main atrium should.

Not much of anything, just thought it would be important.

Teleporter becomes that much more predictable with LoS's like these heightening the risk vs. reward.

Speaking of Teleporter.

There's also a lift for easy access anywhere in CPU atrium, which isn't much to begin with.

And now we arrive to red alcove.

Red spawn and a grenade launcher, good deal.

"The Hub"

The highest room but not the highest point.(BTW. this teleporter is a two-way).

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