Map Name: ROMEO Station
File Share Gamertag: FuN Fortress
Canvas Map: Impact… WINpact…? Yeah…
Tags: CONTESTFFA
Supported Game Types: Slayer (Infinity and base), KoTH (Infinity and base), Oddball (Infinity and base)
Best Game Types: Slayer (of any type, plays well on Team Slayer)
Intended Team Sizes(s): 4-man/woman teams
Initial Ordnance: Energy Sword (dead center on the map)
Random Ordnance: Overshield, Speed+Damage boost (dead center), Concussion Rifle+Sticky detonator (by either ramp that leads up to the Dish area, on the ground floor), Plasma+Frag grenades (inside of either Bunker, above the Station Consoles), Rocket+Fuel Rod+Incineration Cannon (center bridge, above the center of the map)
Weapons on Map: 2x Light Rifle (either side of the tubes that lead to the Dish)
2x DMR (laying against opposite Struts that lie between the ramps that connect the mid floor to the ground floor),
Battle Rifle (only one, located behind the smallest silo near the center of the map)
2x Pulse Grenades (located on top of the Struts where the DMRs lie against, one per Strut)
2x Needler (on the small antennae next to the ground-floor Station Consoles)
Armor Abilities/Powerups on map: None available for pickup
Supported Vehicles: None (Banshee lies in an instant-kill barrier outside of the map, behind glass, as decoration)
Budget: 7955/10000 used
Screenshots: In my Fileshare
Video Flythrough/Overview Link: Two available in my fileshare; one details the various areas on the map, the other handles the killzones and ‘trouble’ spots.
Map Description: ROMEO Station is a three-month-long effort to make an ‘arena’ setting that would be both fun and fast-paced. ROMEO itself was designed to be a sort of ‘shipping’ area, or cargo loading bay, using a zero-gravity environment to its advantage in the loading of dangerous or delicate fuels and materials. Lo’ and behold, there’s an accident. Something goes ‘boom’, and now the entire back-end of the station has been blown out. Seizing upon the opportunity to get some use out of the now-defunct facility, ROMEO has been requisitioned for use as a training arena.
ROMEO is sized for a game as large as eight players, and small enough for decisive two-on-two showdowns. Free-for-all is of course supported, and a tight selection of random weapons is intended to provide a balance between a consistent and fun experience. Geared more for casual players, ROMEO Station has spacious areas and hallways fit for long-range combat, tight corners for close range engagements, and unique areas intended to control the map from, but are simple enough to just walk or jump into. Movement is simple in that the hardest two jumps simply involve crouching during the jump, and multiple ways to access the upper levels are afforded to players who simply wish to walk.
I’m hoping that you all will have an experience on this map, good or bad, that can help all of us here see either what to do or what not to do with designing a map. Good hunting!
