Gold Rush

Backstory
A large gold deposit has been discovered on an ancient Forerunner world. Because it is shiny and golden, spartans now fight to the death for control of this obsolete mineral.

Hello, and welcome to my very first Halo: Reach map, Gold Rush. Since I first heard about Reach, I have wanted to make a map in it. I knew that Forge would be ten times better, and much easier to manipulate, allowing an amateur forger like myself to create awesome maps.

Beginnings
The idea first came to me when I was lounging around my house. I pulled out a piece of scratch paper and sketched out a crude draft, which really only gave the general flavor of the map. I knew I wanted a symmetrical map that had a fight-tastic center area. A couple minutes later, I had launched up forge and was whizzing on over to the cliff.

Construction
Construction and testing of this map only took around 4 days, but I will definitely be editing and changing based on reviews and ideas, so expect a version 2. The map is almost perfectly symmetrical-the only changes are the types of cover I used on both sides, but even those are in the same general areas on each side.

Later on in construction, I realized that I needed to make this map unique. It was just too bland for my taste, so I stuck a huge rock in the middle to block sight lines and create an interesting centerpiece. I eventually swapped out the solid rock for the arch, and added smaller rocks to allow both sides to jump to the top of it. Still not satisfied, I flipped through the menus until I discovered lights. I decided to stick a yellow light in the rock, giving it a gold tint, which is where the name of the map comes from.

The final part of construction was the sign on the rock face. It started out as simple letters on the rock, then evolved into the colorful and perfectly even stunt-ramp fueled sign that you see now (don't worry, it's a soft kill zone so people can't camp there).

Gametypes
Gold Rush supports only team games of Red vs. Blue. Recommended gametypes are CTF, Neutral CTF (The flag spawns on the middle rock for some extra scrambling fun), Stockpile, Team Slayer, and Assault.

Weapon List
Weapon/Spare Clips/Respawn time
Rocket Launcher / 0/ 180
Sniper Rifle x2 / 1 / 150
Plasma Pistol x2 / 2/ 60
Magnum x2 / 2 / 30
DMR x6 / 2 / 45
Plasma Repeater x2 / 2 / 45
Frag x4 / -- / 15
Plasma Grenade x2 / -- / 15
Health Pack x2 (in main bases) / -- / 35
Health Pack x2 (in side bases) / -- / 15

Screenshots

Overview

Rocket Spawn

Oooh...golden!

Sniper Spawn (Flag spawns to the right of it on the top level, while the stockpile zone is on the lower level)

Action Shots

2v2 Action

DYN-O-MITE!

Off by just a little

Snipers: beware of exposed positions

Rockets are extremely deadly against the towers

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