Legendary DLC Castlanche

Toxic Spade · 12-13-2008

Supported Gametypes

- One Flag
- One Bomb
- Territories.

Recommended Players

- Supports 4v4 games to 8v8 games.
-The more players, the better!

Map Description

Castlanche is an asymmetrical map that uses one side of avalanche. It's composed of 1 major castle base that houses the defenders ( for most of the time ) and 2 attacker sub-bases that feel like spawn shacks more than anything. Some may argue that the beauty of this map may be the castle, however those who have played it won't think twice about defining this map's game play as the real beauty. This map was intended to inspire people to play objective games, specifically: One Bomb, One flag, and Territories.

Construction / Modifications

Initially, I started this project over a month ago and as time went on it had developed into a much larger one. Although I want to discuss this map a bit more, I really do not want to bore you at the same time. If you would would like to read more about it's development please visit it's blog. Here

I will bring up the fact that I was not the original person to think up of where this castle should be placed on Avalanche. One of my good friends initially thought of the idea, but he simply could not be bothered with forging it. He openly admits he's a bad forger as well. He just joined forgehub his name is Chimerathe5th. He helped me several times with this map, and if I had to thank one person the most I'd thank him.

The construction of this map was definitely not an easy one and almost had me throwing my xbox a few times. Every item that is currently placed on the map has been placed there atleast twice. This includes, spawns, vehicles, weapons, structures to ensure the best gameplay could be maximized from the map itself. If your wondering how much time this took. Well... I'll be glad to say that before I even started this map, I decided that I was going to time myself with a stop watch. I was partially sick of people saying they spent months on their map, and then when you play them you think: "this map's gameplay is horrible" I am going to use a quote from my blog to show you how much time I spent on the map, but that blog was posted around two weeks ago so afterward I'll post the real time.

Testing

Well, by the hour scheme you can see that there was a ton of testing done on this map. Some could say I went a bit insane with the testing on this map.
There was a total of 25 complete (start to finish) that were played on this map.

I even had a couple testers tell me directly that I was crazy for taking their comments a bit too seriously. For example, someone mentioned a problem with spawns in the cave entrance and even before the next test session, I had completely rebuilt an entire area for which attackers could spawn and not be killed instantly with the tank. Look at picture Titled: Attacker Base 2.

When I was testing, I had made sure that the majority of the players in the lobby were unfamiliar with the map, so that I could see how people interacted with a map they had never played before.

Before I get onto the pics, I just wanted to thank a couple people in specific for helping test this map numerous times. Even though I have a list of over 50 different people that helped test, I would especially like thank Amercan Psycho, and ShaddoBlade for helping out in a fair number of tests.

Now onto the pictures!!

Pictures

Tactical Layout Of Castlanche - Only this side of the map is used.

Tactical Layout Of Castle - The Defenders start and spawn here throughout the game.

Hammering a Ghost - The ghost flies right off the cliff!

Attacker Base 2 - This base is equipped with a window!

Snipers Can Be Deadly - The flag in the background has been moved.

Bridge Above Rockets - The new flag spawn.

Useful Turrets - I had just ripped off a turret to see how far I could get.

The Most Epic Shot - Sniper tries to assassinate, but gets assassinated himself.

Lasered! - The warthog dominates until.....

He Almost Killed Me.

He Just Missed me!

Toxic Spade · 12-13-2008

Due to the fact that this map is so big, and I had done a ton of testing sessions on it, there are only so many pics I can post. I had to be very selective of which pictures I should add. If you notice I added several pics of gameplay to show you how fun the gameplay can be.

A Deadly Explosion - All from a rocket.

Some More Explosions - The tank can prove useful for attacker.

Territory Hiding - The attackers think they are hidden.

Quick Splatter - The guy quickly gets in the ghost to just splatter this guy.

Vehicle Jumping - He wanted the bigger vehicle.

Bomb Has Detonated! - The other team scores!

Tank Vs Sniper - Sniper Wins!

Within The Castle - An Epic Battle.

Yes That's Me. - I accidently boarded the tank while it was going over the hill.

Territories - Defenders trying to hold that flag, but gets killed instead.

A Distant View

xLMSxTRiLoGY · 12-13-2008

Sweet... Nice geo merging, not too many map on avalanche have geo merging, this map is smooth and gameplay looks good. I would actually need to play the map with some friends to see if the gameplay is good. So far I would rete this 5/5

BunN eeE · 12-13-2008

This is really impressive for an Avalanche Map. It seems that Capture the Flag would be amazing on it. And you didn't overpower the map either. This map is simply amazing.

5/5

Trifslap · 12-13-2008

I believe that sensation in my pants was one of the hugest forgegasms I have ever experienced.

This map looks so awesome I can't even describe it, this had better make it into matchmaking or else *shakes fist*

BatteryIncluded · 12-13-2008

this is friggin sweet! the detail and amount of creativity are AMAZING! This may deserve a feature! the CtF must be insane! Infection could rock too. amazing map...5/5

RaBBiiTTT · 12-13-2008

I'm so glad you finally posted this map. I am totally speechless right now. This is just too awesome.

The only thing that bothers me is that you did not include Slayer or TS on this map? Why? VM me.

The time you spent really paid off because this map has epic winsauce written all over it. The merging and layout is jaw-dropping. Excellent Job!!!

Toxic Spade · 12-13-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by I BlacKOu7 I

I'm so glad you finally posted this map. I am totally speechless right now. This is just too awesome.

The only thing that bothers me is that you did not include Slayer or TS on this map? Why? VM me.

The time you spent really paid off because this map has epic winsauce written all over it. The merging and layout is jaw-dropping. Excellent Job!!!

This map was intentionally done for one flag, so that people like myself who hate ctf can actually enjoy it. This map only uses half of avalanche the other side is not blocked off, which doesn't matter for objective games but does matter in team slayer.

This map was intended for objective matchmaking.

I will be putting out another map on Avalanche in January that will be strictly for team slayer only.

xLMSxTRiLoGY · 12-13-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by I BlacKOu7 I

I'm so glad you finally posted this map. I am totally speechless right now. This is just too awesome.

The only thing that bothers me is that you did not include Slayer or TS on this map? Why? VM me.

The time you spent really paid off because this map has epic winsauce written all over it. The merging and layout is jaw-dropping. Excellent Job!!!

I believe that the gametypes he listed are recommended gametypes for the map, he probably did set up spawns for slayer, Slayer should be possible for this map but not very good gameplay, since its it one side probably not the best for slayer..

Gun Down · 12-13-2008

Non-Foundry, Tank, Fort, and Huge. The perfect map. If you put a hornet in the map it would be the best map of all time. This looks epic and Is a DL to me. This is feature worthy (second map today that is great). Keep on forging.