PLASMACORE_v0.4

Close-range 3-tiered Slayer arena.
Deadly Plasma Core centerpiece

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I stumbled across your site a couple of days ago and thought I'd share a little map I've been working on. It was designed primarily as a Slayer arena but I had some friends bugging me so I added support for a few other modes too, although I feel it plays best as it was intended.

The map is a simple layout spread over 3 tiers -

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Ground floor - Exposed area, access to upper floors via Gravity Lifts and Man Cannons.

Weapons:

Energy Sword
Shotgun
Fuel Rod
Grenade x2

1st Floor - A U-shaped perimeter walkway encloses the Core at one end, while the main Core monitoring platform dominates the other.

Weapons:
DMR
Needle Rifle
Plasma Pistol x2
Sniper Rifle
Plasma Grenade x2

2nd Floor - Another U-shaped perimeter walkway that has a Man Cannon in place to launch players over the Plasma Core to the upper Core monitoring platform.

Weapons:
Gravity Hammer
Rocket Launcher
Needler
Plasma Rifle
Plasma Grenade x2

Gameplay:

The arena promotes a good mix of close/medium and long ranged combat with a lot of verticality that results in some awesome scrambles around the viewing platforms. The Man Cannon over the Core has provided some entertaining highlights but I am yet to achieve the flying Hammer kill it was intended for (I have suffered at the hands of that move though!). Without a jetpack the ground floor provides the only routes to the upper floors (the 1st and 2nd floors aren't connected so you must return to the ground in order to bounce back up).

I have been testing this quite a bit with friends, it has fairly fast weapon spawns that I hope stike a good balance for anywhere between 2 and 8 players. I'd recommend having at least 4 players, but it isn't huge so a 2 player duel works pretty well.