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Sword Base is a multiplayer map appearing in Halo: Reach.[2]
Universe and lore
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,[3] and was destroyed somewhat during Operation: WHITE GLOVE much later.[4]
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.[5]
Overview
Layout
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.[1][6] 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
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
It was featured in the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta.
Sword base has changed very much from the Beta version, the walls around the facility having 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
Using the Forge Turret Glitch, one can get behind the large door found on the ground level, and out of the map.
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Concept art of the level.
The "Control Center".
An overhead view of the main atrium.
Stockpile being played on Swordbase.
The Sword Base exterior panorama.
A Covenant Gravity lift recovered in the operation.
A Covenant artifact recovered in the operation.
Concept art of one of the Covenant devices on display in the base.
Concept art for a mobile control console in the base.
Sources
- ^ a b Bungie.net: Bungie Weekly Update: 04.09.10
- ^ 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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