Halcyon
A Transforgers map

Designed and forged by Fritzster

DOWNLOAD

The Halcyon project is a map series within itself and I am wholeheartedly glad that the map has a full release version – through alpha concept, constant streamlining of design, and the many, many games played on the beta from the past two weeks until today’s release. Halcyon map project was started back in April 2009 when the Transforgers level design team was at its peak of production spawning three maps in the same project. Halcyon was always the number one spot in the complete lineup of 7 transforgers maps, five of which are released today. We became very enthusiastic on designing halo maps, spending massive amounts of effort. Time was also spent at the beginning of the production of halcyon working side by side with strong mlg-guidance connections. Most of which completely diminished over the months. I’ve taken up the challenge and have carried Halcyon all the way ‘til an mlg finished map. Quite easily my most worked on map I consider halcyon my forge showcase. Showing off the gameplay that can come from user generated content, and it is amazing gameplay.

Halcyon plays all MLG gametypes, however, king of the hill and team slayer are the map’s best. The three hills are all located all around the central horseshoe-mid level. The sequences of hills are diamonds, red lobby, diamonds, blue lobby, diamonds, etc. Defending the hills becomes a nice learning curve of knowing the spawns and movement of the map. No matter where you are in the hill you constantly need to be watching your six, nine, three and the like. The map somewhat resembles a symmetrical damnation in which you’ll spawn out of hot spots with weapons of the base level, and lead to fight your way to higher ground to make the most use of the snipers, rocket, and the custom OS that spawns two minutes in. The hot spots for fighting are the bottom player space ring and the outer upper mid horseshoe-lobbies. Spawning in the gardens, basement, and back lower base compliment the contrast of negative centralized geometry in which the map features. Every gametype has your starting spawn’s back base corners, a map style very unique to the mlg forging scene.

CONCEPT WORK

YouTube- Halcyon Preview

HALCYON SNAPSHOTS

CALLOUTS

GAMETYPES

MLG King (featured)
MLG TS (featured)
MLG Ball
MLG CTF 5Flag
MLG FFA

WEAPONS
MLG standardized weapon set

Sniper Rifle x2
Rockets x1
Custom Powerup x1
Plasma Pistol X1
Battle Rifle x6
Plasma Grenade x8

Thanks for the support with testing and feedback with this map. You know who you are. I now give it back to play many games to come on this released version of Halcyon.

DOWNLOAD HALCYON
MLG GAMETYPES