Combat on a Whole New Level

Most of you that are somewhat familiar with me know that the overwhelming majority of what I make is for core play. 4v4 is my lover but after nearly 20 maps in the genre, I thought it would be healthy for me to take a tiny break from dedicated core stuff and have a little fun. Enter Frenzy Arena. This Mt Dew fueled monster is the test tube baby of Hugeass and Vehicle Fiesta. I play in the customs browser a decent amount and these two maps always grab people's attention but I wanted to find a way to remedy the glaring issues with those two while combining the positives from both. And so, the Frenzy began.

Stay on Your Toes

Frenzy Arena is supposed to deliver a fast paced, high energy experience each time it is played. The battle takes place in a large circular arena with a completely fleshed out and diverse landscape. Each part of the arena is unique and offers key advantages if players can dedicate the man power to control them. This becomes extremely critical in the custom strongholds mode for the map, Landgrab. Effective play will be measured by a teams capacity to operate as, well, a team.

Learning From The Past

Like mentioned above, Frenzy Arena is inspired by both Hugeass and Vehicle Fiesta. However, when building Frenzy Arena I wanted to impliment things that would have greatly benefited the two while adopting factors that worked well before all while applying my understanding of balance and core elements.

From Hugeass, the primary adaptation was simple. There is just something intrinsically cool about letting 16 players go to town in a big arena with a metric ton of vehicles at their disposal. It is so Halo that it hurts. The two major flaws with Huge ass though were that the arena play space was extremely bland and that the dedicated team hangars could be accessed by enemies in addition to there being no alternative way out of the base.

In Frenzy Arena, I created a diverse and interesting landscape for players to enjoy all while maintaining map balance and flow. I also made sure that enemies could not enter the one's base and there are teleporters that can deliver players across their team side in a spread.

From Vehicle Fiesta the major take away was the arena based vehicle combat. For me, that map and mode's biggest downfall is how unfair it is to be given a random vehicle in such a kill dependent mode. It is not fun at all to challenge a Hannibal Tank with a Mongoose.

In Vehicle Frenzy, each team hangar gives all players access to an assortment of vehicle, weapons and power-ups so that players are much more in control of their own fates.

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