Ridgeline
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| “ | Overlooking one of Halo’s impressive relay complexes, this idyllic cliffside once served as a UNSC staging area. | ” |
Ridgeline is a multiplayer map included in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and the Anniversary Map Pack for Halo: Reach. It is a remake of Timberland from the PC port of Halo: Combat Evolved, with several alterations to map layout.
Universe and lore
The map is set in a former UNSC staging area on a cliff overlooking an enormous Forerunner relay complex. Toward the end of the conflict on Installation 04, the Marine resistance in the area was wiped out by Covenant forces.[1][2]
Overview
Layout
Ridgeline Map.
An overhead view of the map.
Callouts
The following are locations on the map that are so named on the player's heads-up display during gameplay:
- Upper Red Base
- Lower Red Base
- Outer Red Base
- Red Foothill
- Overlook
- Red Encampment
- South Ridge
- River
- Upper Blue Base
- Lower Blue Base
- Outer Blue Base
- Blue Foothill
- Waterfall Path
- Blue Encampment
- North Ridge
Trivia
- Ridgeline is the first map in the Halo franchise to include trees as a Forge item.[3] The forgable trees for this map are called "Tree, Dead"
- Despite being set on Installation 04, the planet in the map's sky appears to be an earthlike world with visible continents and oceans, as opposed to the gas giant Threshold.
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Concept art of the map.
Concept art of the map.
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