[COLOR=#bfbfbf]Map Author: Thrillerkillers[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#bfbfbf]Download link: Motoko's Palace[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#bfbfbf]Youtube link: Video[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#bfbfbf]*apologies for the broken image links, they are not visible when I edit the post*[/COLOR]

Summary: My intentions with this map was to try and bring back a more classic feel of multiplayer. Instead of all the verticality that is emphasized in halo 5 maps, I wanted to make lines of sight the mode through which most engagements occur.
This map was submitted for the Ghost in a Shell competition, but I did not create it within the lawless zone. Instead I made it within a beautiful Oriental style hotel that has a beautiful ancient style garden, and it is in the middle of a night time city (outside Eden). My reference material was taken from a few shots within the trailer that is within a hotel (since i did not do the Lawless zone I was obviously disqualified).
Additionally there is a Spider Tank crawling down over the top of the hotel. I spent a lot of time trying to make the aesthetics look nice, so there are one or two places that have a small amount of frame rate issue (but what maps don't any more?)

[COLOR=#00b300]Design: [/COLOR]People have told me it has a slight Haven feel to it, but is designed a bit different. Instead of being circular map with multiple levels stacked on top of each other, it is more of a square grid with one platform that is raised in the middle and lower around the edges.
It is almost 100% symmetrical, except that the room inside the hotel on red spawn is slightly bigger and has a table in the middle of it. I have herd no complaints as to how this effects slayer game-play.
The goal of this map was to emphasize lines of sight rather than vertacility, but there are still a few places that allow for the all too satisfying ground pound. The way in which I accomplished this was by connecting each Section of the map either through a bridge or a hallway. The only section that this does not occur in is where the "pit" meets the "garden;" in this place there is a drop and a lift (very similar to the ledge by the sniper in Coliseum).

Gameplay: [COLOR=#bfbfbf]There is currently only Slayer supported on this map, but I will soon update it to contain more. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=#bfbfbf]This map seems to play a little more competitively with 3v3, but is still very fun with 4v4.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#bfbfbf]Both teams start off looking at the middle gardens and each other where two [COLOR=#ffffff]sticky grenades (which are very useful in the narrow corridors) and a scatter shot are located. If unprepared, it is possible to be exterminated from the start of the game. At the spawns there is a bridge that has a bit of a hump so it is not a straight body shot from the start. Additionally, halo 2 BR's are at the spawn location of each team. [/COLOR][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#bfbfbf]To the right and left of the spawn each team can choose to go towards the Garden's or inside the hotel. Inside the hotel there are an [COLOR=#ffffff]SMG on each side, and the hallway that connects the two contains an invis power-up. In the Garden's there is a sniper rifle within the pit that is in between blue and red spawn. [/COLOR][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#bfbfbf]Spawns are placed around the exterior and corners of the map, not in the center or the pit. [/COLOR]

*Special Thanks to V Atlantis for letting me use his Spider Tank.