Styx
By Flying Shoe ILR

If you're like me (or most of the other people on forge hub) you probably aren't the biggest fan of Headhunter. I truly hate it in many maps, being forced to run skulls halfway across the map and only winning by a lucky cleanup. Overall, most maps don't work for Headhunter.

Styx is not most maps. Styx is a 2-4 player map designed to make Headhunter much more fun by fixing many of its frustrating issues, and by implementing some interesting changes to normal map structure.

Styx is a very small symmetrical map with a "bottomless pit" running through the middle. There are 3 bridges across this pit as well as many tac jumps over it. The pit plays into Slayer but becomes the focal point in Headhunter when the pit becomes the score point, forcing players to score either in a dangerous crossing of the center bridge, a jump across the pit using either sprint or a tac jump, or with a tactical suicide (Flamingo's favorite move.)

As the hill is so big, you are never far from scoring, helping to remove the system of getting a skull and then finding the hill too far away to survive to. The sloped surface on either side of the pit also makes cleanup kills more difficult, as skulls must be caught before they roll in. Finally, the hill moves every so often, making it disappear for 3 seconds before coming back, which is something to pay attention to when suicide scoring.

Here are my wonderful pictures. Was that sarcasm?

Overview of everything besides bases.

Overview of bases.

The Pit and central concussion rifle bridge.

Looking towards Plasma rifle and base.

Looking into base and ghostly cover piece.

Back corner and Soul Slasher's awesome hands.

Back area from hands with spiker and lift.

Styx's aesthetics are heavily based on the shadow temple from Ocarina of time (Soul Slasher and I started our Zelda themed maps around the same time.) The bridges look like the Lens of Truth from the opposite side, and the pit idea was based on the point where the ship sinks near the final boss room. If you haven't played it yet, do yourself a favor and buy it on virtual console or 3DS, it's well worth it.

Weapon List:
1-Conc Rifle-0 spare clips
2-Plasma Rifle-N/A
2-Spiker-0 spare clips
4-DMR-1 spare clip
2-NR-1 spare clip
2-Magnum-2 spare clip
2-Plasma Grenades
2-Frag Grenades
4-Healthpacks

Lastly, this is a very CQC oriented map, so either DMR starts or AR starts will be fine; it's really up to which play style you prefer. Most gametypes are on a dynamic spawn, so don't be confused if you spawn in the opposite base at some point, a static spawn would have just been too predictable. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy it!

Thanks to-
Soul Slasher X- For the awesome hands and other piece across from them
Confused Flamingo- Help with testing/ strong feedback
The Psycho Duck- Probably did something
Th3 Equin0x- Testing
Many other testers from forge hub whose names currently escape me

-Flying Shoe ILR