Competitive Futomaki Gardens

[Tenstone]

Futomaki Gardens (version 1.0) - BTB map Inspired by Rat's Nest.

Futomaki Gardens is a large Big Team Battle map. It has been built with Rat's Nest in mind. Rat's Nest, for those who don't know, was a DLC map for halo 3. It features two symmetrical bases with an outer track. On one side the map has a deadly cliff edge, and the other side has the higher ground.
Futomaki Gardens is NOT a remake of Rat's Nest but is merely inspired by it's layout.

Vehicles
Gauss Hog (per base)
Warthog (per base)
Mongoose (per base)
Ghost

Weapons
Sniper...

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[The7thSeal]

Any chance of screenshots?

 

[Tenstone]

Any chance of screenshots?

Yes, lots! I tried to embed an imgur album but it didn't work so I've linked to it for now. I'll edit soon with the images embedded into the post.

 

[The7thSeal]

Map looks nice, though the centre seems a bit too open.

 

[Tenstone]

Map looks nice, though the centre seems a bit too open.

It's like that by design. In a large game of capture the flag it would be all too easy to ignore the outskirts of the map and simply run the flag on the shortest route directly through the centre. However, due to the lack of cover, the centre is the most dangerous place to be, and players are encouraged to take the flag around the edge or through the tunnels, where the lines of sight are much more broken up.

 

[General Sarbina]

this looks really cool! gonna download it in case i get a big lobby

 

[ShockBolt21]

Played this at FCCGN. Great map for large team combat, and the vehicles worked well also. The gauss was fun to use.

 

[Fuzzle]

a map that is designed for a lot of vehicle combat and driveways is always fun i love the rocket spawn, looks promising downloaded

 

[ShockBolt21]

As I mentioned in my review, the gameplay does drag a bit for players on foot in Slayer. I recommend adding a few more low-damaging power weapons that the foot spartans can use to counter the vehicles, like the sticky detonator, railgun, or saw. Guns like these would also be fun to use while riding on the back of a mongoose, and overall, they are much better weapons to have on you than precision weapons, which aren't to fun to use on this map (at least in Infinity Slayer). However, don't add extremely powerful guns, like rocket launchers or incineration cannons, as it would kill the game for the warthogs- the infantry could always take them out quickly and easily from cover.

 

[Tenstone]

Tenstone updated Futomaki Gardens with a new update entry:

Significant Improvements

- Smaller blocks replaced with fewer larger blocks to save budget
- Added central bridge providing extra cover in the centre arena
- Altered layout of lower tunnels slightly to fix item merging issues, opening up safe spawn areas.
- Overshield moved into tunnel beneath ghost
- expensive scenery replaced with cheaper alternatives
- gravity hammer replaced by Incineration Cannon to aid vehicle destruction
- Added decorations and more object colours.

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[Zandril]

This map looks stellar. I only wish I was there during the FCCGN so I could've play-tested this.