I wasn't sure what sub-forum to put this in, so I thought casual was maybe the most suitable.

This is a tutorial map of sorts, for the Invasion game type. Though it can be played with the standard Invasion game type, it's purpose is to present all of the elements that make an Invasion map in a (hopefully!) easy way that aids learning.

I made this map while I was learning to make Invasion maps, I hope it illustrates well the concept of fireteams, phases, and spawn areas. The advantages of using this map for learning the components of an Invasion map are:

Spawn locations for phases and fireteams are illustrated and labelled.

The map is small (it is the indoor area on forgeworld) so that a forger can inspect all the elements quickly without having to travel around existing Bungie Invasion maps.

Every Invasion component is included, from fireteam spawn areas, to gated and phased objects.

I tried my best to create labels in the map, but I'm sure you can appreciate this is a time consuming task limited by object counts when forging.

A little on Fireteams

The concept of a fireteam was one that I could find little information about, maybe from my lack of knowledge of other fps games, or maybe it is Bungie terminology. But basically a fireteam in the Invasion game type is a group of two players. As Invasion has six-man teams, there are three fireteams in a team. The two players in a fireteam use eachother to respawn during the game. Spawn locations can be set for each of the three fireteams on a team, and for each phase (of which there are three in Invasion, the three objective stages). This allows alot of flexibility when choosing spawn locations in the Invasion game type. I hope this map illustrates how to create spawn locations for different fire teams in different phases.

I hope this map is of help, I enjoyed making it, and it helped me learn the components of an Invasion map so I can begin designing one. If you find any problems with it, in particular if I have set any of the attributes for spawn points incorrectly, or have any suggestions, I would love to hear from you.

pabs

the map now has spartans attacking and elites defending according to default behaviour, fireteams now correctly labelled 0,1,2 (instead of 1,2,3), removed the blue shields that illuminated the words in the map (may lead to confusion for the red side of the map). Many thanks to firedrone8 for pointing out the errors.