Alternate universe on the planet Requiem… :
"In an ongoing conflict against the Flood outbreak, Spartan Green Teams One and Two lose control of their respective, heavily armed fire-bases after being overrun by the infection.
Now with no one to defend them, the scientists that were conducting research, weapons analysis and other individual tasks had to fall back and evacuate the area via pelican, only for one of the artillery cannon shots to blow out one of the engines and crash land into the waters of this expansive, desolate bay. Luckily for the engineers, they survived the landing by parachuting out of the soon-to-be derelict evac bird and landing on the smallest island within the bay.
There’s only one problem.
This area is used as a firing range for ALL of the heavy artillery stationed within the bay. Unarmed and within a plethora of danger, the scientists make a call to the UNSC Infinity to bring in two Longsword Fighterbombers to carpet the opposing Flood forces with a massive airstrike, taking out the guns and securing the safety of the stranded survivors. Like almost everything in life, however, there is a catch. The ETA for the bombing is three minutes. Three minutes of potential blood shed for the 'eggheads.'
Armed with a useless green flare gun and requisitioned regeneration fields and hard light shields, the scientists must hold out for these three eternity-like minutes until the carpet bombing annihilates the Flood into oblivion."
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Now that you know the whole story with what is going on for this map, explanations and visual demonstrations are in order. Obviously, the gametype will be Flood, appropriately named after the Battlefield 3 map, “Operation: Firestorm.” The Human side will be facing a wide array of armaments so vast in number that the Flood could still smell the fear hundreds of meters away even within their respective vehicles.
Here’s where the Alpha Flood will partake in the shelling of the hapless eggheads:
Seeing as how the shot is extremely far away, I upped the damage of the tanks to do 200% damage to simulate the idea that these are actually heavy artillery guns. Warning: DO NOT turn around and shoot the walls next to you. You will commit suicide in one shot and you will no longer have access to the tanks, spawning where the converted Flood will spawn.
This is the Human base, designed in a simple manner to have an open field.
There will be places around this area for you to hide behind and take cover, but I do not advise you to stay in the same place for long. Seeing as how the tanks are very far away, I turned on the waypoints for all the players to avoid gameplay that consisted of random shooting and gaining lucky kills out of nowhere.
(Note that at the time this next shot was taken, the Humans still had shotguns, and I did not switch their loadouts to have plasma pistols [flare guns for story purposes] until recently.)
The Last Man Standing will gain an overshield and a boost in walking speed to help the player dodge the Hellish amount of fire raining down on him/her.
The converted Flood spawn here:
Now, I know what you’re thinking. SIX ROCKET HOGS AND TWO GAUSS CANNONS?! D: DATS OP, MANE! I realize that, so I reduced the overall damage of the vehicles here to 25% damage via trait zone, and you cannot drive them either, only being allowed to use the gunner seats thanks to the “Gunner Only” setting within the trait zone. All of the Flood also cannot jump to prevent unnecessary suicides and possible exploitation of the level. Many of the places are set with kill volumes anyway to prevent this, but I still didn’t want people accidentally falling off the platforms, and you won’t be jumping much anyway since you’re occupied with your warthog.
As you can probably tell, this will be quite the experience for the Humans as they try to survive this nightmare. The thing is, though, I want to do a full scale test to see if the settings I have on now are balanced for every player. With the amount of vehicles on the map being eleven, that means this level will be for twelve players maximum to count in the Last Man Standing. This is where you beautiful people come into play.
If you’re interested in helping me test this level out, let me know here in this thread. I will hold a session for testing tonight at 9:00pm EST.
Thank you all 