Shaman
By D4ni3l G

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Have some Funs.

Shaman. This map is my first race map, hell, my first competetive map on forgehub to be honest. i never really had the drive or skill to make a great race map, but when bungie brought out a rocket race gametype for reach, i had an idea. Over three weeks i designed a rocket race map. I wanted it to have a more fast paced and "interactive" element, rather than just checkpoint after checkpoint on a large open map. This is the sketchup I did when I was planning it, apologies if you can’t read my crappy scribbly writing but I wasn’t planning on uploading it and just needed to make sure that I could read it.

To do this I picked a nicely sized area on the Forgeworld Island, and set to work making it playable. I wanted a smaller, more compact playing area than usual, and i wanted two levels to play on, and keep the map fluid, like a slightly more complicated figure 8 so people did not have to stop and reverse every time the destination moved. I also incorporated an aesthetic piece, a stone shaman that shoots spells (namely fusion coils) around a destination, mixing up the gameplay and forcing players to have to strategically time the capture right. Two weeks of hard forging, testing and tweaking later, Shaman was finished, and I present it to you guys now:

Pictures

Overview of the whole map

Left half of the lower section of the map

The one way off-ramp from the upper level to the lower right section

The raised platform, showing the slightly more open upper section

The left half of the upper section, great for drifting around

Showing the destination under the shaman

The shamans head

Action Pictures

The map also plays well with Savage Tracks.

And that be all! Let me know what you think. Thanks to the people who helped me test it, as well as all the people who showed interest and gave me feedback from the preview. You helped make this map a lot better.

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