"Time has not decayed this training facility, and yet it still remains a ghost town. 2-8 Players. Supports THROWDOWN."

Hello Forgehubbers, I am here to present Departed, my latest competetive map. Taking a heavy influence from Ghost Town, Departed acts not only as a spiritual successor, but as a strong 2v2 and FFA map that stands apart from the map that inspired it.

With Departed, I looked at my first real Forgehub creation, Askar District. This was a post-Ghost Merging attempt at a Ghost Town map. It wasn't great, but one thing always stuck in my mind. Askar District opened up many ways to travel around the map, and provided players with more chances to invade a portion of the map.

This is something I wanted to recreate in Reach. I went straight to the drawing board, and soon created a layout with many references to Ghost Town. A Greenhouse, a ramped central structure. However, this time I opted for a more circular design of the central structure. Soon. Departed began to develop its own geometry and, after finding the right place in Forge World, I started work on it.

This map has been built for Throwdown, and so only supports slayer variants. The next version of the map will have a far larger degree of compatibility.

As mentioned before, I put a lot of consideration into how players moved around Departed. With Ghost Town, I found myself jumping around rather than walking. Departed builds on this. For every strong position of the map, there are multiple pathways leading to it, and many structures can be accessed by a series of tactical jumps, which are simple to master.

With Throwdown not using Armor Abilities as default, I thought it was important that a skilled player be able to escape without the use of Sprintng or Evading. With Departed, you can give your opponents the slip with ease once you are familiar with the map.

I have had great fun testing this map, and the feedback has given me a chance to improve the map in ways I wouldn't have usually done.

TL;DR

It's like Ghost Town, but not.
A lot of player movement.
I have an egocentric method of naming maps.

Anyway, PICS!

The Loadout screen. Red team spawn behind his picture.

Just left of the Loadout screen. Greenhouse on left, Main building to the right.

Grenade Launcher Spawn leading into central building.

Blue Base, leading into central building.

The Greenhouse. A little nod to Ghost Town there ;)

Green Mancannon and Rock Garden. Cannon takes you to blue/main bridge.

Ledges between Greenhouse and Main building, which can be used for easy traversing.

Overview

Thanks for Viewing! :)