"Sgt. E.Travis, Journal entry 67; Date, July 10th, 2552

We got past the flood army all thanks to the master chief, but now with him gone only four of us remain. Most of this facility is strange, from the looks of exploring these halls it seems to be facilities meant to contain the flood. Seems like the covanant let loose these monsters without realize what their messing with. All we can hope for is that the cheif we come back soon, its been 17 hours and no sign of him. Hopefully though, we'll last out inside these halls. I don't mean to bitch, but I am not gonna let some mutated creatures or alien race determine my fate. I gonna feed them every bullet I got left until my last breath."

Hello halo reach community, I welcome you to one of AoH's most highly inticapated map packs, FATE. This map pack has been in the works for some time now and while it was hard to go through tediuous work to rid the maps of framerate, I beleive this map pack to be one of our most accomplished works. Some of the maps were already being built before the ENDGAME release, and thanks to the 30-40 somewhat testers (which names I'll mention later on).

First map of unvail is the MLG style map, Immortality. Now you must be wondering why it has the name it does, if you have an imagination you will see the centerpiece is suppose to represent the fountain of youth. I thought to myself I couldn't call the map "fountain of youth", so I went for the next best thing. Immortality was a design challenge, after the ENDGAME map pack I had learned much about player flow / traffic as well as hieght variation. I learned that in having great height differences you must counter balance it with an additional height variartion to equalize the gameplay.

That on top of getting th aesthetics just right was an unprecidented challenge, and after 2 concept drawings and 3 days of work this map was the result of those trials. I also learned much of gametypes, for territories was my greatest enemy. I could not figure out why for the longest time even while going back and forth to see if it worked. thanks to fellow members on forgehub I was able to get territories working (although I found it bizzare that it was the spawn sequence). Here is an overview:

Red team spawn

Blue team spawn

Rocket spawn (180 sec at no clips, team only)

Sniper spawn (150 sec at 1 clip, team only)

Evade (120 sec, team only) and cloak spawn (120 sec, FFA only)

Cross map view

Entrance from base (blue side)

Dmr spawns are default spawn time as well as needle rifles. plasma pistols are at 75 sec right of red spawn and left of blue spawn. The map suites best for 2v2 to 3v3. MLG style play is recommended, the map also suites FFA well with 4-8 people. there is also 2 frag grenades at each team spawn and 4 neutral plasma grenades in sets of 2: one set under the bridge another set on the highest platform with all the times running at 60 secs.

Our next map in the map pack is a map that everyone is familiar with. Underworld, not just a remake but a revolutionary version of lockout. Lockout has been remade hundreds of times, but what I have noticed about every single remake is that it lacked a fundamental piece of a map, Aesthetics and flexibility. None of the remakes had the flexibility that the original map actually had. So I took the liberty to revamp the map for a more reach friendly standards, by adding a ramp from bottom to top mid and adding several tactical jumps along the way. There are the original jumps and even jumps that weren't in the original. For balancing issues I had not put the sword on this map, as it has been replaced by the plasma pistol. here is an overview:

Red team spawn (Elbow):

Blue team spawn (Triple room):

Sniper tower (120 sec at 1 clip, team only) and cloak spawn (180 sec, FFA only):

Shotgun spawn (120 sec at 1 clip, team only) and spiker spawn (120 sec at 1 clip, FFA only)

From lift room

Bottom lift, Plasma grenade spawn (60 secs x 2)

S3

Hazards are on the map but they don't spawn until 45 secs after everyone has spawned making the gameplay fair but exciting at the same time. There are plasma nades located in the triple room closest to the birdge that extends to top mid. there are 4 DMR and 4 Needle rifle with default spawn time and 2 plasma pistols at 75 sec. Plays extremely well for 1v1 and 2v2. As for 3v3 and 4v4 it can feel a little crowded but balance should be fine.

Our next map of the bunch is mortality, A map not created by me but by one of the fellow members of AoH, Facemelterkitty. His skill in aesthetics really showed in this creation and some help from me we created a simple yet clean map for 2-8 players. It features aesthetics which make it feel somewhat like a power plant with a mixture of caves and natural rock. While I worked out the base design he created the centerpiece of the map. In here there are a few tactical jumps which create more access for players to top mid. Here is an overview of the map:

Red base:

Blue base:

Sniper spawn (150 sec at 1 clip)

Cloak spawn (120 sec), bottom tunnel

Bottom tunnel lift / ladder

grenade launcher spawn (165 at 4 clips)

To make things easier for myself and everyone reading this post, dmr and needle rifle placement stays realitively at 4 each unless the the map is larger than 2-8 players. There is also 2 plasma pistols set at 75 sec on all these maps, that I can 100% garuentee.

On to our next map, a joint project with Me, shadowspreez, facemelterkitty and Mr h1dden. Fatality, a competitive map built similar to the pit from halo 3. Originally the map was meant to look like a shopping mall. it turned out to be more like an underground mining facility. While the original drawing was totally off from what the map became, the map played very well and the blend of natural rock within the level really brought out a well rounded out map. Shadowspreez is a stubborn person when it comes to forging but when he gathers his patience he can create great maps and since he started working with Mr h1dden and facemelterkitty they had started the foundation of the map. I assisted with the respawns and weapon placement along with the help of mr h1dden, and created the base design on each side. While there is little Framerate on single player splitscreen seems to be hectic, so i would not recommend playing with splitscreen. I felt that if I tried too much to rid the map of framerate it would destroy the map. here is and overview of the layout:

red team spawn

blue team spawn

sniper spawn (150 sec at 1 clip, team only)

sword spawn (180, team only and spawns after 3 mins)

Grenade launcher spawn (150 sec at 2 clips, team only) and spiker spawn (120 sec at 1 slip, FFA only)

overview of center, Plasma pistols located at each lift and cloak located at center near grass pad (150 sec)

Neutral Healthpack with 2 plasma nades

ramp to GL, needler located on ramp (120 sec @ 1 clip)

Drop-down hole for each base

the map suites well for 2-8 players, several tests show that spawn killing is very VERY rare on this map so I hope this map is enjoyable to the crowd as it has been with me and my crew.

Alrighty, since I have such an unnatural amount of pictures in this post I will have to do this in two posts. Lol I I seriously need a freaken life.