This map is based from the spartan 2 training ground from the novels. It’s also where Red team’s pelican crashed.
Both teams have equal access to push to the spartan laser, which is needed to control the middle area of the map as the waterfall area provides a great overview for a large part of the map without being too dominating. This forces the opposing team to take their vehicles through the underpass or motor pool, to prevent being lasered. If you’re on red team, you can use the waterfall to take out any blue team enemies on the energy lift tower, and blue team can do the same from the motor pool. They both provide good sightlines on the enemy base.
The two way teleporter link between the waterfall and the motor pool allows quick access for one team to cross to the other side of the map. There are different entrances so that you can’t have one person camping outside the teleporter waiting for anyone to come and kill them. There’s a constant fight to dominate both buildings, and they offer clear sightlines to each other while having cover with rocks and crates.
Red team can use the roof of operations to flank blue base from the side, killing anyone who crosses operations and through the crash site. Blue team can do the same from communcations. Both red and blue team have teleporters to quickly fight against the other team who tries to do this, and there are different entrances/levels to both buildings, so as to prevent camping with the shotgun.
Both bases have enough room for vehicle manuvering, and having a sniper means you can look down the middle of the map, and a bit onto the motor pool and waterfall areas. Most people just stay with the sniper on the energy lift towers because of convenience, but taking the sniper rifle on the buildings depending on your team as I’ve discussed can be more beneficial.
One negative about this map is because of the sightlines from the bases and the middle towers, its almost never worth going down directly in the middle where the river is. There are also a lot of anti vehicle weapons, but because the plasma launcher and grenade launcher aren’t in halo 5, perhaps this may counter this negative.
This map provides a lot of choices on map control and can result in different games with different methods used by teams. Its considered the best reach map by the community for these reasons, and I think it’ll make an excellent addition to halo 5.
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> What? Where do you get this?
The Sprint season 3 episode 3 on the halo channel near the end of the video
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> The Sprint season 3 episode 3 on the halo channel near the end of the video
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> > What? Where do you get this?
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> The Sprint season 3 episode 3 on the halo channel near the end of the video
After reading this, I checked it out. I am stunned, saddened, and extremely pissed off. I understand/understood the ‘dedicated’ Arena maps, but having BTB 100% Forge is unacceptable. Where are the dedicated BTB (8v8) maps, why can’t we have 100% unique BTB maps? The answer is 343 wants to kiss the behind of ‘competitive’ players to make them relevant again, and (pardon my language) screw over anyone else who likes something more than 4v4 spawn trap maps or the unbalanced mess of warzone.
On topic: I loved to play on Highlands in Reach, a remake would be nice. If not, I will settle for a backwards compatible Reach with DLC focused playlists.
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> > > > all BTB maps will be forge so just make it…
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> > > > freaking lazy over there at 343…
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> > > What? Where do you get this?
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> > The Sprint season 3 episode 3 on the halo channel near the end of the video
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> After reading this, I checked it out. I am stunned, saddened, and extremely pissed off. I understand/understood the ‘dedicated’ Arena maps, but having BTB 100% Forge is unacceptable. Where are the dedicated BTB (8v8) maps, why can’t we have 100% unique BTB maps? The answer is 343 wants to kiss the behind of ‘competitive’ players to make them relevant again, and (pardon my language) screw over anyone else who likes something more than 4v4 spawn trap maps or the unbalanced mess of warzone.
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> On topic: I loved to play on Highlands in Reach, a remake would be nice. If not, I will settle for a backwards compatible Reach with DLC focused playlists.
For real, it sucks that there’s basically no way to play the dlc maps in reach. They were the best maps in the game.
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> I’m sad I missed out on this map. I bought it towards the end of Reach’s lifespan. So few people had DLC and I never got to play it
> Looked so cool.
I hope they add it back in as a dedicated dlc playlist when backward compatibilty comes to xbox one
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> I’m sad I missed out on this map. I bought it towards the end of Reach’s lifespan. So few people had DLC and I never got to play it
> Looked so cool.
It’s funny how 343 themselves developed and created Highlands in Halo Reach. And that’s when I thought trusted them with lore integrated multilayer maps. It’s disappointing all BTB maps might be Forge only but hey, it’s still all fine and dandy.
I just find it funny that the 343 DLC maps in Reach were soo amazing, better than Bungles copy and pasted maps. The Defiant and Anniversary maps were stunning, I wonder what happened now…?
In fact, this was going to be my first build when Forge releases. But everyone seems so negative that I don’t know if I even want to do it anymore. But hey? Someone’s bound to play it, right?
But yes OP, I loved this map. I was lucky to have gotten it early and play the playlist dedicated to it. I got a bunch of Highland matches in.
I loved this map and was actually thinking about forging a remake, funny enough there was a couple ledges on that map that were just too high to jump to that made me think “hopefully in future halos they let you climb up ledges like this”
