Somniphobia V2

Somniphobia V2
By: Ladnil, AKA Vodka Fountain
V2 posted 4/07/09

Somniphobia: Fear of sleep. I was really tired when I named it, don't judge me.

Recommended players:4-8
Recommended gametypes: CTF, King of the Hill, Slayer
Other supported gametypes: Oddball
KOTH works with Lone wolves and team doubles gametypes as well as standard 4v4, but CTF is only good with 4v4. Slayer is fun with any sized teams.

History

This map was built over the course of about a month and a half, with the final three weeks pure testing and tweaking. I went through three different base layouts before deciding to settle on a Beaver Creek style base structure. What's that mean? One entrance in the front, one from each side, and a drop down from the roof.

The whole idea of the map began with the "wings" which you'll see shortly, and those were literally the only thing that I kept from the original mental picture that I had of the map.

For V2 I reexamined my spawn system, corrected a mistake where the maulers were not on the same respawn time, and the most noticible difference was adding a top mid with rockets. No spare clips, 120s respawn time. I redid new rounds of testing to make sure the spawns were working better than before, and the rockets were not overpowering and the tests went wonderfully.

Weapons:

Weapons:
AR: 1
BR: 8
SMG: 4
Plasma Rifle: 4
Needler: 2
Carbine: 2
Brute Shot: 1
Sniper Rifle: 1, one spare clip.
Mauler: 2, 0 spare clips.
Shotgun: 1, 0 spare clips.
Rockets: 1, 0 spare clips.
Plasma Pistol: 2
Frag Grenades: 4
Plasma Grenades: 6
Regenerator: 1
Overshield: 1

Lets be honest, you're just here for the pics amirite?

The new overview shot, plus an elite raining pink death from above.

From A tower towards OS. Opening battle for the center hill. Whoever reaches that OS alive wins their team some nice opening hill time.

3 reds storm the A hill.

Some pink death on the red base hill.

I fire back with some hot sticky death at the blue base hill.

GTFO the A hill bitch!

Brute Shot vs Rockets at close range... This will not end well.

Just a heads up, I added red/blue base indicators and put the rocket on a weapon holder for more visiblility, but those are not reflected in the pictures.

Once again, a DL link:
Somniphobia V2!
MLG Somniphobia V2 coming soon...

Original map post in spoiler tags, if anyone cares. There are more pics inside.
Somniphobia

Somniphobia: Fear of sleep. I was really tired when I named it, don't judge me.

Recommended players:4-8
Recommended gametypes: CTF, King of the Hill, MLG King, MLG CTF
Other supported gametypes: Oddball, Assault, and obviously Slayer/MLG Slayer.

This map was built over the course of about a month and a half, with the final three weeks pure testing and tweaking. I went through three different base layouts before deciding to settle on a Beaver Creek style base structure. What's that mean? One entrance in the front, one from each side, and a drop down from the roof.

The whole idea of the map began with the "wings" which you'll see shortly, and those were literally the only thing that I kept from the original mental picture that I had of the map.

Testing found that FFA Slayer and King of the Hill were a whole lot of fun, and Team CTF works damn well too.

Weapons:
AR: 1
BR: 6
SMG: 4
Plasma Rifle: 4
Needler: 2
Carbine: 2
Brute Shot: 1
Sniper Rifle: 1, one spare clip.
Mauler: 2, 0 spare clips. MLG only one Mauler
Shotgun: 1, 0 spare clips.
Plasma Pistol: 2
Frag Grenades: 4
Plasma Grenades: 6
Regenerator: 1
Overshield: 1 MLG it's a custom.

On MLG settings, sniper and mauler are drop spawn, non-MLG weapons removed, Custom 120s respawn.

Oh I guess you guys probably want pix

Here's a view of the top of the base, from the back alley. You can see me dropping in through the hole, and the B door. BRs behind the vertical walls there. One hill is on top of each base. Frag grenades are between the hole and the wall.

Here's the base with the roof taken off. Yes I know, don't take pics in forge mode, but I had to delete the roof. You can see that the front corner wall is geomerged to make a grenade window. There's a plasma pistol inside by the A sign and you can see the plasma rifles on the left.

Here's a view from the same location as the first pic, just turned to look toward the other base. This is what I call the back alley. Overshield and mauler are visible, plasma grenades are below the OS, and a needler is on the "diving board" between the vertical wall and the double box. Mauler isn't there in MLG settings, and the Custom Overshield is swapped with the stickies. In King, a hill spawns under that walkway from OS to the boxes. The walk from the wall to the bridge is perfectly smooth, don't worry about the screenshot

Here's a view from the overshield to the A tower. Shotty spawns up top there between the A signs. A carbine is up on top of each wing. Brute shot is visible at the base of the wings. SMGs are visible between the stairs and the window panels.

A closer look at that A tower, showing the snipe spawn and the step up. In King, one of the hills is the top of that A tower.

View from A tower toward OS. You can see that the back alley is mostly blocked from LOS of the A tower, so a sniper is gonna have to do more than camp A. Carbine at my feet in this pic, an AR just for ammo is visible by the geomerged single box, a regenerator spawns just out of sight by that AR. MLG settings the mauler replaces that AR, and obviously the regenerator is gone.

Me using the grenade window, and a better view of the front of the base.

Stairs. Plasma rifles are visible at the base, plasma grenades spawn under the corner wall I'm standing on.

I wanna thank all of my testers and the testers guild as a whole in no particular order:

Ell3ment
Bartoge
HALOSTAR317
IamAdistraction
aDeAdHeRo875
ChuckNorrisMan
Oberlin27
Whats A Scope
Mr Crazy 56
My various guests playing splitscreen/LAN
Anyone else who I forgot?

Now here's the download links:
Somniphobia v1
Somniphobia MLG v1