mudslide skirmish part one

This is the first of what I hope to be many playthrough video/reviews of various single player halo maps I find.
The first map I'll be reviewing is split into three video files because I was playing for about half an hour and YouTube only allows 15.00 min videos as we all know.
First things first, if you like the UI I use it's a UI just called orange UI

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1762

There's a download link for it

Now then the map itself is called mudslide skirmish made by Onotix
Here's a link

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4903

The map is an ODST themed firefight map and overall I think it's great. The custom weapons and bipeds are very good, and all the animations just work perfectly. This map has a huge replay value, its one I always keep in my map manager when loading the game.
There's also a feature I didn't show in this video, a background music changer on the options screen, this is a really useful and handy feature, I didn't use it because I was recording it and wanted to put halo themed music to the video.

There are one or two things about this map that do bug me though.
1) If you die you have to start from the beginning
2) (not really an issue but) most of the weapon icons on the HUD are wrong for the weapon on the floor, for example the plasma pistol as a rocket launcher, the assault rifle as a flamethrower etc.
3) Your ODST allies really aren't very good, they don't last long and there are no reinforcements
4) Like most if not all maps I've played that use a halo 3 assault rifle, I find the weapon to be too under powered, I mean it works fine against lesser infantry like grunts and jackals but when it takes 2 -- 3 full mags of assault rifle to kill an elite or a brute then you know there's a problem, more often than not in the mods that put a halo 3 assault rifle in there's also an smg that's a reskinned halo CE assault rifle that is more powerful and just better all round.
5) The health machine only has a limited number of uses over the course of the whole time that you play.
6) Similar to problem 2, I can recall a few times while playing when I pick up ammo for various guns it would tell me something ridicules on the HUD. For example picking up ammo for the battle rifle becomes "picked up a brute plasma rifle". Like before it's not really a big deal and it doesn't distract from the awesome gameplay of this map.
All negative points aside, this is a really great map, it has a nice ODST First person HUD, a varied weapon set and hours of replay value.
I'm going to give it 8.5/10
I recommend this one, please download it
If the author of this map ever sees this video I'd like to request a V2 of this map that fixes a few if not all of the problems with this map, And please Onotix, give us checkpoints at the end of every set then I'd give it a 10/10.

The music in this video is not owned by me, but it is halo music so I put it in. The tracks I used:

Track 5 of the Halo 3 ODST soundtrack: the menagerie

Track 19 of the halo wars soundtrack: De facto the matter

Track 3 of the halo CE soundtrack: Brothers in arms

Track 3 of halo 2 volume 1: peril

And part of track 3 of the halo reach soundtrack: ONI sword base

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Halo
• custom
• edition
• map
• Onotix
• mudslide
• skirmish
• ODST
• firefight