NEW MAP LAYOUT MONTAGE!

Gamertag: Vorked Manback

This can be found on my Fileshare and my File Bookmarks as "Mirage."

Hello, everyone. Mirage is a map that EnoughLemon and I have worked on for a long while now. Mirage is a Big Team Battle map based on Infantry and a lone, yet powerful, Ghost.

Mirage is a map that pits players in a war-torn UNSC mining and construction facility that has since been ravaged by time.

Mirage has gone through rigorous and gruelling tests from many groups and players. Just recently, it had made its way to some of the CCs and their testing groups, allowing me to get some of the most helpful feedback received to date.

The map has been completely overhauled in the center, flags have been moved, spawns are now behind the flag and assault location, power weapons have been changed, many weapons were removed, new route choices have been added, and so on.

Basically, you must see the changes for yourself, and in the newest set of images of the map (The fourth series of screenshots), you'll see just how robust these changes are.

Pathways are no longer something you must stick to without change. Each path, especially mid, have new ways to move around, allowing for fast lane changing. No more getting stuck dead in a lane that has you outgunned. Now you can finally fight to run away.

Basically, this overhaul is to help limit turtling in objective gamemodes while also giving a huge array of new mobility options. A rework of spawns should allow gamemodes to be better suited for this map, especially Capture the Flag. It's currently the favorite of the old Mirage.

WEAPONS ON THE MAP:

Each Base:
--Needler
--DMR
--BR
--Plasma Pistol
--Overshield

Middle:
--2 Storm Rifles
--Hydra
--2 SMG
--5 Splinter Grenades
--6 M9 Grenades
--6 Plasma Grenades

Power Weapons:
--Sniper Rifle - 160s
--Rocket Launcher - 180s

Here is the current changelog from "2" (should be 1.5, at most) to version "3" (should be version 2, to be honest).

Mirage Changelist

Mirage V4.5 Changelist"

Improper lighting fixed at the column in Pit

Sniper ammo reduced to 1 extra magazine

Jump-up platforms added at bottom of Sniper

Extended red team entrance to large cave

Added cover near red team entrance to large cave

Moved back red team cave pillar cover and nearby weapons

New door and spawn locations in each base

Minor visual changes to the base designs

Textures changed on all surfaces that allow it

Larger cover put in center entrance of large cave

Lowered rocks separating Mid and Red Yard

Easier to use jump ups put in red/blue yard to red/blue bend

Removed unsightly pillars from each base. No more breakout pieces.

Teams no longer spawn near objective locations

Added rocky areas for cover in blue/red nest

New locations for Stronghold terminals

Improved clamber locations from blue/red yard to mid

Mirage V4 Changelist"

Replaced DMRs with Recon DMR variants

Fixed most terrain lighting issues

New stone column added for cover in red cave entrance

Extended red cave entrance size

New spawn zones and new spawn locations

Reduced Stronghold count to 3

Strongholds no longer sunken into ground

New lighting put into darker sections of the map

Weapon spawns put to correct length

Overshields changed to 2 minute respawn

Ghost changed to 1:30 respawn

New minor visual changes to rocks

Added small pieces of cover in spawn

Fixed clipping issues with base pieces and rocks

Removed rocks that had all rock textures at once (???)

New intro camera pans a wide-shot of the map

Raised Power weapon platforms from ground

New Cameras for intro

Mirage V3 Changelist"

Removed CE Pistol

Removed Shotgun

Removed Gauss Turret

Removed Halo 2 Battle Rifle

Removed grenade at mid/ODST pod

Lowered rocks in mid greatly

Lowered rocks in Red/Blue bends greatly for new paths

New Named Locations: Red and Blue Yard (Between base and Mid)

Pit Clamber Rocks no longer are removed for CTF

Cargo rock walls lowered to be clamber points for higher-level gameplay and flanking

Cargo/Cave walls moved inward to allow

Flag and Assault pads moved to closer to the ouside of the base

Needler moved to old Flag/Assault pad locations

New rock and splitter added to Pit. Adds more cover and higher ground in pit

New rock splitter has Splinter grenade to help cut off upper entrances

Added Hydra to rock in front of Cargo/crashed Pelican, near old Shotgun spawn

SPNKR replaces the SAW in Pit

Carbines moved against rock cover in Red/Blue Cave

Neutral spawns outside of the bases are now team spawns

New Catwalks between Mid and Nest

Storm Rifle added to each of the Red and Blue Catwalks