Arca
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Halo: Arca anniversary.

You might have heard of this map before, and you might have seen it before. If you have, it is probably because you at some point encountered Levvi's version from the early days of Reach.

It is based on a design made by the eminent map designer (=]) and former forger NeXn, who let my pal Levvi adopt it.

Basically, this old one just looked pretty dirty, was sort of cluttered with different forge pieces and there were loads of holes in walls and floors. =S

That's not because Levvi is a bad forger, though. He really isn't. He's way more creative and has got much more original structure and layouts than me, but anyway, the old Arca simply doesn't look good because all of the modern forging techniques and tricks hadn't been discovered at the time it was made.
For its time though, it was really good.

However, as I felt it was outdated and didn't meet the aesthetic standards of modern forging, I decided I'd try to remaster it myself. I believe myself to have a decent grasp at how to make stuff look nice, but I'd still say the new one is pretty generic in terms of objects palette and usage, but I don't really care. My initial goal, and my only goal with the entire project, was simply to make Arca cleaner, and that's what I've done. I know it's self complimenting, but it doesn't matter. It is cleaner and I'm happy. Period.

Right here, I've actually opened up another hole in the wall because I felt it plays better.

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Weapon and powerup list:
Sniper - 58 sec. 0 spare clips.
Gl 1 - 73 sec. o spare clips.
Gl 2 - 88 sec. 1 spare clip.
OS - 75 sec.

and some DMRs and stuff.

That'll be all.

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