Welcome to the Cog Arena

Download links at the bottom of thread.

Contents:
A. Thanks
B. The Cog Arena Details and Background
C. Guardian Ball Rules and Gameplay
D. Guardian Ball Images
E. Guardian Ball Stratagies
F. King Guardian Rules and Gameplay
G. King Guardian Images
H. King Guardian Stratagies
I. Extras
J. Download Links
K: Conclusion

A. Thanks
Let me get started by thanking all those who gave their feedback on the original thread of Guardian Ball. Let me say that all the comments were taken into consideration in the construction of The Cog Arena. You will find this map has more attension to detail, absoultely no floor bumps, and is even more entertaining than the previous.

B. The Cog Arena Details and Background:
The Cog Arena (First called G.B. Arena) originally started off from some friends and I pointlessly forging, with the use of some small blocks, man cannons, and some target practice, a one thousand candle watt lightbulb went off in my head. A night of forging later, I finally came up with the idea of the G.B. Arena, and Guardian Ball, While the original game was freakishly addicting to myself and friends, it was full of issues, being relatively sloppy, with a walking bump every couple of feet, and poorly constructed walls.

Over one month later, with no plans on making a 2.0 I released the G.B. Arena and Guardian Ball to the forgehub community as my first map and gametype. (I have ALOT of other maps before this, this was just my first public map) It was accepted rather well, and with the feedback from you guys, I decided to push myself and make The Cog Arena. (For those of you that don't know "Cog" isn't neccesarily a Gears of War term, a Cog is a mechanical peice, it basically looks like a gear.

During construction, if something wasn't perfect it wasn't good enough. I redid every aspect of the map multiple times until I had a result I was pleased with. And I hope you are pleased with it too. Now, Getting to the actual point of you viewing this thread.

C. Guardian Ball Rules and Gameplay:

The basic point of this map is a free for all oddball game (between 3 and 6 players) or team oddball (2v2 or 3v3 (2v2 recommended.)) Just like any other Odd Ball game, the objective is to hold the ball for the most amount of time. However, the guardians, those lovely lovely guardians, play a major roll in this game:

In four spots of the outer wall you'll see the haze from a man cannon shining through, out of those spots comes the lovely lovely Guardians, in the form of boxes. :) They have enough energy to push you, push other blocks or even splatter you.

General Rules:

Score to win: 200
Team Oddball: Enabled (You decide whether or not it is single-player teams or multi-player teams)
Team Scoring: Sum of Team
Carrying Points: 1
Ball Count: 1
Initial Ball Delay: 5 Seconds
Primary Weapon: Pistol (experiment with this, many other weapons are also fun!!)
Secondary Weapon: None
Weapons on map: Battle Riffles and Carbines (spawn late into game)
Equipment on map: Sticky, Spike, Flame Grenades, and a bubble shield (spawning late into game)
Vehicles on map: none
Custom Powerups: none
Number of rounds: one
Time limit: none
Respawn time: 5 seconds
Suicide Penalty: 5 seconds
Betrayal Penalty: 5 seconds
All other non-player based traits unchanged.

Base Player Traits:

No shield recharge
25% shield vampirism
200% damage multiplier
Grenade count: unchanged (2 frags)
Waypoint visible to allies

Ball Carrier Traits:

90% Damage Resistance
75% of normal speed
150% Gravity
Waypoint visible to everyone

D. Guardian Ball Images:

E. Guardian Ball Stratagies:
While some stratagies are obviously carried over from most standard Odd Ball games, however, with the ever-moving environment, new stratagies were formed:
You don't need to use these, but after many many games with friends, these were the most effective. Feel free to create your own stratagies as well, if you come with any good ones, I'd love to hear them!
1) The Bubble: Every two and a half minutes a bubble shield spawns in the middle of the map, this sets the ball carrier up for 30 seconds of protection if deployed in a good area. (i.e. Against a wall, between a bunch of blocks etc)
2) Ball Dropper: When you're in a tight situation, dropping the ball may be your best bet, drop it, kill your enemies, pick it up again. But be careful not to let it respawn to the centre of the arena.
3) The Launcher: A great (but risky) escape route is to actually jump into the man cannons, it will quickly launch you across the map to the other side. But beware, Boxes are twice as likely to splatter you with your added velocity. (Note: You literally have to jump into the man cannons, walking along the wall will not launch you)
4) Flamer: Flame grenades spawn in the center weapon holder every thirty seconds, but after alot of deaths, they're a pretty common pickup. Use these to your advantage, with no shield regeneration, flame grenades will usually be an instant kill!

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F. King Guardian Rules and Gameplay:

General Rules

Number of Rounds: 5
Score to win round: 10
Team KotH: Disabled
Respawn Time: 3 seconds
Uncontested Control Points: 1
On Hill / Off Hill Points: 0
Kill Points: 0
No hill movement

On Hill Traits:

10% Damage Resistance
0% Damage Modifier
2x Overshield
-10% Shield decay
25% Shield Vampirism
Grenade Regeneration: On
Infinite Ammo: On
Weapon Pickup: On
Movement: 110%
Active Camo: Good Camo

Base Player Traits:

Damage Resistance: 100% (Normal)
2x Overshield
Shield Recharge 200%
25% Shield Vampirism
300% Damage Modifier
Primary Weapon: Gravity Hammer
Secondary Weapon: None
Grenade Count: None
Grenade Regeneration: Off
Weapon Pickup: Disabled
Movement: 110%
Active Camo: Off

What all this means, when you're in the hill, you can't do damage, but you can die easily, (i.e. splattered by guardians easily) When you're out of the hill you kill easily, grenades thrown in, hammering on the edge of the hill etc.

G. King Guardian Images:

NOTE: In the event that you fly out of the map, simply walk over to the nearest fusion coils, and kill yourself, this isn't a glitch, this is just an unexpected occurance. This is meant to happen occasionally. It's kind of a reward (or curse depending on what side of the stick you're on...) (note there are no objects (other than fusion coils) outside of the arena, don't bother looking.) If someone doesn't feel like killing themself once they're out, they'll just lose that round, it's their choice.

H. King Guardian Stratagies
Again, most King of the Hill Stratagies still work, but with the added crate splatters, things change...
1) Grenade Chucker: Dealing damage while you're outside of the hill is a very beneficial thing, if there's say two or three people battling it out in the hill, throw in a grenade, get a double or triple kill, claim some points for yourself. Remember, any damage you deal out side of the hill is usually an instant kill. Also note that you have to enter the hill, and get your grenade regeneration going before you have grenades.
2) Volley Ball: In the event someone gets launched high up in the air, keep them there! They're outside of the hill floating above, while you're racking in the points! Just watch out for falling grenades, remember, they're outside and can kill you.
3) Anti-jumping: The Catches (outer weapon holders) fling the boxes into the air, if you're jumping, you're more likely to get splattered. Try to keep your feet planted firmly on the ground.
4) Flamer: If you're outside the hill, throw in a flame grenade, that's basically a ten-second-instant-kill for anyone who comes close to it. Clean up!

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I. Extras:
So far, of the hours of time my friends and I have spent playing the two of these maps this has happened only twice, getting a splatter medal. I'm not exactly sure of the stipulations of how it happens, but when it does, it is hilarious. You would think that inflicting damage upon someone whom is blasted by a passing crate would get you the medal, but it doesn't. Like I said, i'm not exactly sure of the exact stipulations in getting this medal. Let me know if you do get one, and feel accomplished about it.
Another difficult medal to get is a killing spree or above, If you can get these, I congratulate you!

J: Download links:
Sorry to keep you waiting, you knew they were down here, if you didn't want to read all that, you didn't have to, don't be mad at me! Here are the links:

The Cog Arena
Guardian Ball

K: Conclusion
That sums up this minigame thread! PLEASE give me your feedback! Thank you, and enjoy!
~Noxiw.

P.S. Look at the old version!!