Sword Base
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Sword Base is a multiplayer map appearing in Halo: Reach.[4]
Universe and lore[edit]
The map is set in the Office of Naval Intelligence's SWORD Base, situated along the Babd Catha Ice Shelf of the Eposz super-continent on the Human Inner Colony world of Reach. The base was attacked by the Covenant early in the Fall of Reach,[5] and was destroyed somewhat during Operation: WHITE GLOVE much later.[6]
Prior to this though, the atrium boasted a minor collection of recovered artifacts and materiel from elsewhere, including those that were recovered in Operation: GUARDIAN LANCE on Jericho VII.[7]
Overview[edit]
Layout[edit]
The map is described as "the stepson of Prisoner and Boarding Action". It is a small, asymmetrical slayer map with three gravity lifts and a series of bridges and walkways leading over a central atrium.[2][8] It features many external and internal stairways and rooms, making it an appealing map for Infection games as there are many strategically controllable areas and vantage points.
Sword Base Map.
Callouts[edit]
The following are locations on the map that are so named on the player's HUD during gameplay:
- Meeting Room
- Atrium
- Processing
- Lobby
- Elbow
- Low Bridge
- Medium Bridge
- High Bridge
- Reception
- Low Vent
- Corner Vent
- Break room
- Attic
- Control Center
- Laboratory
- Collider
- F.S
- High Hall
- Operations
- Operations Hall
- Security
Production notes[edit]
Sword Base was featured in the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta. Sword Base has changed very much from its Beta iteration; the walls around the facility have been destroyed and burnt, with large amount of debris on the ground. The Gravity Lift in the center has also been weakened.[citation needed]
Trivia[edit]
Using the Forge turret glitch, one can get behind the large door found on the ground level, and out of the map.
Gallery[edit]
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Concept art[edit]
Concept art of the level.
Concept art for a mobile control console in the base.
Concept art of one of the Covenant devices on display in the base.
Development images[edit]
Atrium.
Security.
Operations.
Research.
An overhead view of Atrium.
Two Spartans approaching skulls during a Headhunter match.
A Spartan losing skulls during a Headhunter match.
A Spartan using armor lock.
A Spartan during a battle in the Atrium.
A Spartan firing at another during a Stockpile match.
Spartans defending the base during a Stockpile match.
A Spartan assassinating another.
Screenshots[edit]
The Sword Base exterior panorama.
A Covenant Gravity lift recovered in the operation.
A Covenant artifact recovered in the operation.
A game of Infection in Sword Base.
Sources[edit]
- ^ Halo: Reach Editing Kit, game file
HREK\tags\levels\multi\20_sword_slayer\20_sword_slayer.scenario - ^ a b Bungie.net: Bungie Weekly Update: 04.09.10
- ^ Bungie.net: Sword Base Preview
- ^ ShackNews: Screenshots from Halo: Reach
- ^ Halo: Reach, campaign level ONI: Sword Base
- ^ Halo: Reach, campaign level The Package
- ^ Plaque on the map
- ^ IGN: Halo: Reach -- The Beta Maps
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