- blacbastud
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Posted by: braveshart95
I started a short thread with this exact idea a couple of months ago, but it never took off like this one. I personally had the idea of just one map for this DLC, and I dubbed it SANDSTORM for obvious reasons. Rather than everyone attacking the pit of the area, I had the idea of increasing the boundaries a little bit but opening up the inside of the Forerunner structures, as well as taking the Forerunner areas apart and giving us a strong Forerunner stone palette.
Opening up the area would allow for the first Tier of Invasion to take place in one of the structures, and then the remaining two Tiers take place in the full of the map with an Elephant (Just one for the Spartans, because the Elites would not be using an Elephant) and a Spectre (This is a smaller version of the Elephan but it is Covenant; Bungie could easily make it originally larger for the Elites to spawn in) as spawn points in Tiers 2 and 3. the Tier 2 could be territory control, and Tier 3 could be an Assault to one of 2 places (the plant time would have to be very long so that the planters would really have to have control of the area to destroy it).
And Bungie could reuse a couple of their Forge pieces from Sandbox as well as create a couple new ones to match the old Sandtrap. Armor Abilities would work perfectly on this map:
Jet Packs would be great for scaling the Forerunner buildings
Sprint would be helpful in racing to Vehicles or simply across the map
Armor Lock would be epic for destroying Vehicles
Active Camo would be awesome for Sniping from the peaks of the pits and taking down an Elephant
Drop Shield would be ABSOLUTELY PERFECT for setting up checkpoints in the open sand
Evade would be fun as always, especially when dodging vehicles
Sandtrap seems like it was built for Invasion, especially with the spawn places like the crashed Covie ship, UNSC station-like place, and the various Forerunner structures. Of course, Invasion-Sandstorm would have to have a longer time limit than the other Invasion maps, probably around 15 minutes with 4 minutes for Tier 1, 5 minutes for Tier 2, and 6 minutes for Tier 3.
Sandstorm would be the most amazing map. It would please H3 lovers, Heavy Forgers, Invasion-addicts, BTB junkies, and pretty much everyone else as well. Sandstorm would be amazing for BTB Snipers, BTB, Invasion, DEFINITELY Invasion Slayer, Race, Assault, and maybe even 8 vs. 8 Grifball on a large empty sandy pit.
Blacbastud, I applaud you for being able to get such a perfect idea to take off so well, and will definitely send you a present if such a map is ever implemented. I know I would pay a crap-load of MS Points to have this in H:R, but I know Bungie loves us enough to not rip us off for it.
great examples for the AA usages.
i will add to OP suggestion section tonight.