2 Player Co op Challenge - The Great Escape

The Great Escape - a 2 Player Co op Challenge

All good maps need a back-story, so here's mine:

In the year 2762, the Covenant have built what they consider an escape proof POW camp where they plan to house all the problem POWs, i.e. those that have made multiple escape attempts in the past. What the Covenant don't realize is that they've put all the best escape minds in one location. After a string of unspeakable incidents in the prison showers involving soap being dropped, prison authorities have decided to equip each detainee with the Armor Lock armor ability so that prisoners may protect themselves from such unpleasant acts of sodomy. Beginning your mission equipped only with the ability of armor lock, you (Spartan Steve McQueen) and your cell mate must now take advantage of this new ability to orchestrate your great escape from Stalag Forge XIII, the most secure prison ever build. After escaping the compound you are then tasked with capturing the Covenant flag which is the key to securing victory in the ongoing CTF wars between Covenant and human forces. In doing so you and your cell mate must make your way to an intergalactic portal which sits atop the prison structure and will allow you to delivery the flag direcly back to your home world.

Map Last Updated 16 December 2010: I've now added a checkpoint about halfway through the map in additional to adding quite a few more puzzles. If you have any trouble finding the checkpoint, it is just below the killball (pretty easy to find because there's only one kill ball. I have also improved the game type so when you die it no longer ends the round although if you are the surviving team mate you might need to go back for your buddy. You can now also play on the same or on opposing team, doesn't really matter but auto aim can be a pain if you do choose opposite teams. Apart from using my Great Escape gametype there aren't any rules you need to follow so anything goes in getting to the end. Double jumping, etc is definitely allowed. You will also need to learn the not so ancient art of "jetpack jumping" in one section. It's a bit like double jumping but with a jetpack, i think you get the picture. The game does not support playing as an Elite as you will not be able to crawl out of the initial spawn section where I have constructed an Elite trap to prevent people cheating. It was necessary to make this change as playing as an Elite makes this map much less challenging.

The objective of the game is basic - 2 players must escape the fortress and carry the flag to the end of the map negotiating various obstacles. Once you capture the flag you have completed the puzzle and it will prompt the game to end. This game is designed to support only 2 players who have to work together every step of the way to succeed. One final note on this map is that the objectives required to complete the game are all in plain site, so don't go looking for hidden portals, etc. There is no glitching required in this map, for example a lot of maps require you to suicide to progress or to make use of fixed weapons, whereas I have tried to make my map intuitive and more about team work than exploiting some random glitch. Good luck and let me know if you finish the map or break it. Any feedback on improvements would be much appreciated.

I'll give one clue for passing the first room because it's probably the hardest stage to figure out. You need to use armor lock and have your team mate use you as a ramp to get the hog over the barrier. I'll let you guys figure out the rest.

I have uploaded a more challenging version of the map called "The Great Escape - Advanced" to my fileshare in which I have made a few of the jumps a bit higher and more challenging, but if you know how to double jump then it wont be so hard.

If you like this map, please recommend it to you friends. Good luck