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Cardiac Falls is a mid-sized competitive map that merges design ideas from several different sources. You may recognize a bit of Countdown, Construct (from H3), Reflection, and others in the mix. Ultimately though the map is an original work and has proven in multiple tests to be consistently fun to play. It supports basically all standard gametypes but is meant primarily as a 4v4 slayer map. The forging is simple and clean, with good use of lights and natural scenery to help with player orientation and providing an immersive atmosphere. The layout is single-axis symmetrical.

It uses about 7500 in budget and in all playtests has run buttery smooth without framerate problems. I've even run it successfully in 2 player splitscreen, but it's really meant for full.

EDIT 5/15/11 - The map had to be updated due to a problem I found with spawn zones in FFA (basically there shouldn't be any zones at all, but there was one causing everyone to spawn in the same room... whoops!). Please re-download, thanks! EDIT AGAIN 5/16/11 - Lousy Reach file system didn't save my map properly last night so I fixed it AGAIN and re-uploaded it AGAIN. Sorry.

Weapons and equipment
- 1 sniper rifle (2 minute respawn)
- 1 grenade launcher (2 minute respawn)
- 1 sword (3 minute respawn)
- 1 shotgun (3 minute respawn)
- assorted DMRs, pistols, needle rifles
- 2 plasma pistols
- 1 needler
- 2 plasma rifles
- 3 health stations

Video
YouTube - Cardiac Falls (Halo: Reach multiplayer map)

Screenshots