Fast paced map, I loved it. Played in Normal, Heroic and Legendary. If this is your very first level, I am genuinely surprised! This map is good and the balancing does not seem that off.
It can get a bit off hand in Legendary, but Legendary is Legendary.
Lovely map and mod overall.

played on heroic, very meh, understandable considering this is author's first level. But this is a good start for modding, keep going

Thanks for the detailed response, I will make sure to keep your criticisms in mind when I make my next map. I want to take a crack at creating my own geometry so hopefully the layout of my next map will be laid out better :)

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Fantastic level, I love the gameplay design similarity to the arena combat purity of Pillar of Autumn, and it felt great to me that this level focuses even more purely on gameplay. For context, I played on Legendary. Some of the arenas were a bit too open for my personal taste, and Elites in some of those environments had a bit too much room to manuever, creating a notable mobility imbalance that makes the encounter less fun. In such open environments it might be better to give them Needlers so there's less unavoidable damage, or spawn Hunters instead since Hunters work great as dodgeable open field enemies.

As for Jackals, I think it'd result in more engaging combat for them to either use the Plasma Rifle or Needler instead of their default Plasma Pistol, or to remove their Plasma Pistol overcharge function. On another note, I agree with your decision to not include power weapons, as the general roster works well for the combat purity nature and the balance of this mission.

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Checkpoints were superb for my experience, way better than how the base game does it. I was able to consistently replay my favorite encounters, mainly the pure Stealth Elite room (which btw is made more interesting by the Stealth Elites having shields due to the increased combat depth, as you can't easily circumvent their invisibility) , thanks to the checkpoint after finishing that room triggering later on after the player exits that room. They could be a bit more precisely placed, generally at transition points between encounters, but my experience with them in my first playthrough happened to be perfect.

Btw, something I learned recently is that it's best to not set a "Large Image" at all for maps in Excession; the one that shows up in the lobby before starting a map and also shows up in the pause menu. That can sometimes fail to load when pausing the game which causes the game to crash, so unfortunately leaving that image slot empty is the way to go.

Yeah you need to crouch jump :)

So I for the life of me could not get up those red and yellow barrels in the room with the camo Elites that leads to the floor above (don't know what I was doing wrong) and then the MCC crashed on me. :P

But I liked what I saw.

It's short, It's fun, It's Halo, It's Good!

But I hope it will get at least a bit longer and complex :P

fun

Pretty Tight. I like the Ghost encounter, but as mentioned before the weapon variety needs to switch up a bit. Some Needler enemies especially. Honestly putting a shotgun in a map so close quarters like this would be overkill but I think a Power Weapon like the Sniper would be funny to replace it with.

Levels aren't easy man, but keep practicing! I know you can make something cooler!

Halo wasn't built in a day.

Fair, I wanted to include other weapons but they would have been too powerful tbh.

That was pretty good. A bit rough but overall pretty good. I feel like there was too much AR ammo laying around. I'd push for the player to use more weapons than just the AR and Pistol.

Last part is incredibly funny, thank goodness the stealth elites drop nades.

Nice and quaint map!

Not incredibly happy with the way I implemented the checkpoints but thanks.

incredible little level, really liked it.
played through whole thing, never felt the need to save-quit.
thank you for having proper checkpoints!
going to replay in some time for a LASO test.

"IGN 8/10."

Not bad for your first custom level, keep making more!

Neat little arena. I'd say its well balanced. Hope to see more in the future like this.

Fair enough, I initially added the shields to make them a bit more of a threat, but I can see how that can damage the usefulness of that weapon.

Most of the weapon tags have a few slight changes so it might feel a bit different from the base game as well.

Surprisingly decent level, despite being made from prefab geometry. Lots of fun encounters. I don't want to gas you up too much, but the selection of enemies for that last room is inspired, really good combination to keep the player mobile once the fight starts. My only real complaint is that the Stealth Elites have shields, which limits the effectiveness of the Assault Rifle's cloak-countering utility.

the encounters here are pretty fun! i loved this mission, i think you nailed it, despite the mission name, a shotgun would've been overkill here for sure