H a l l u c i n a t i o n

A long time ago, when Reach first came out, I saw a remake of Lockout. In the comment section Rusty Eagle said, "When you remake a map, if you want to make it as accurate as possible you should make all the weapon timers and spawn placements the same." Another comment by Rorak Kurudo said, "I agree with Rusty, plus if you want to make your remake stand out from the crowd you should add a unique element to your map."

These two comments are what inspired me to create Hallucination. Hallucination is the Narrows built upside down. In order to completely flip the layout, but keep the proportions the same without getting confused, I had to build the entire map upright then rebuild the entire map again upside down. This task took me a little over fourty hours.

I had to go back and forth between Halo 3 and Reach many times in order to keep the proportions the same and mimic the gun placements, gun spawn times, and respawn placements. It truly was a tedious task, but I loved every moment of it. The reason why I put off forging it for so long was due to my mind already being over saturated with map ideas and I can't forge them all at once.

So I first forged Unethical, then Hallucination; and I still have many more maps on the way in the near future.

The dynamic of my map that I am most proud of is the man cannons. Normal man cannons are not strong enough to launch a Spartan to the other side, but if you stick in a man cannon heavy, the results are fatal. So most forgers make their Narrows remakes smaller than the original and not to scale in order to make the cannons work. My map is to scale and the way I handled the cannons is I place them just the right distance apart so that when you are landing you barely skid the air waves of the opposing cannon. This allows your Spartan to slow down enought that he receives little to no damage, the damage varies each time, but is never more than a sliver of your shield.

Here are some pictures and a weapon list. Hopefully I can get a video made for it soon.

Weapons

Plasma Pistol: x2
DMR: x4
Pistol: x2
Plasma Repeater: x2
Rocket Launcher: x1
Shotgun: x2
Sniper: x2
Needler: x2
Needle Rifle: x2
Plasma Grenades: x8

Pictures

I hope you like it. I put a lot of hard work into it and any feed back would be great.