Observation

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Description:

Observation is a medium sized, symmetrical map that is built for symmetrical gametypes (duhh...) and territories. the basic layout of the map is:
each team spawns in the back area of foundry at the beginning of the game, there is no way to access the other side through the back corridor, and there is nothing in the back corridor or the small room connected to it.

in the small back area of the main foundry room there is a small structure that houses a brute shot or needler and two tunnels. one tunnel simply curves around the spine of foundry and leads round to the other base, it holds two smg's and a power drain. the other tunnel contains a carbine and leads to a man cannon which propels you up to the "observation area", this is basically just a small room the size of a double box with windows overlooking the open area of foundry and a fence wall dividing it in half so that the two teams can shoot each other but no melee is involved there is a BR on each side. you can access the top of the tunnel by walking across the two sideways bridges which are connected to the default elevated area.

on each side of the main area there is a small barrier "room" which is based on the column catwalks from lightsout's battle mound level, i loved the idea so i tried to incorporate it into my map, there is a BR in each one. on top of the tunnel that curves around the spine there are three open double boxes and six sets of stairs leading down to the ground. in one of the double boxes there is a mauler, and just out side each of the other two there is an smg.
the bridge here leads to the central tower which contains a second mauler and is connected to the two sniper hills. the sniper hills are each two boxes high, they have sniper (obviously) on each one with a high respawn time and only one extra clip, there is a single small barrier up the top and you can easily jump to the main structure via jumping on the in ground boxes that house the plasma rifles. there are three ways to get up to the sniper tower

1. simply walk up the stairs near the wall and along the bridge (under these bridges there is a power-up) and up the ramp into the sniper tower

2. jump on the in-ground box then up on to the bridge and run up the ramp.

3. use the central bridge to get across and then run up the ramp.

the top area is easily grenadable so as to avoid camping and in extreme cases you can use a grenade/buddy jump to get up there without using the ramp.

that is the basic layout of the map, it'll all make sense once you see the screenshots which are....

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Screenshots

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..... here!

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the central structure that is based around the spine of foundry on top is the observation are

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on the left is one of the sniper tower/hills, there is one directly opposite this and just beneath it is a power up

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this shows the small column structure and some of the back area.

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just the part under the bridge, on the left is the stairs up to the sniper hill, you can also clearly see the in-ground double boxes

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so as you can see i have spent a considerable amount of time on this map so please rate and download, here is another link

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