Highlands
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Highlands is one of three maps in the Defiant Map Pack designed for Halo: Reach.[1] The map is set in a UNSC SPARTAN-II training facility in the Military Wilderness Training Preserve within the Highland Mountains on Reach. Outside the playable space, Covenant battlecruisers can be seen glassing the surrounding environment.
Locations
The following are locations on the map that are so named on the player's heads-up display during gameplay:
- Operations
- Motor Pool
- Waterfall
- Communications
- Rock Arch
- Red Base
- Red Tower
- West Cave
- Underpass
- Pond
- Rappelling Towers
- Blue Base
- Blue Tower
- Big Horn River
- Radio Tower
- Crash Site
- East Cave
- Cliffs
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Trivia
- This is one of two maps to feature locations previously described in the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach, the other being Condemned.
- This level's design is similar to that of the Halo: Combat Evolved level Halo.
- The crashed Pelican was carrying Spartan-IIs in the midst of the Fall of Reach[2]
- If the player stands right by the crashed pelican's cockpit one can hear radio conversations.
Gallery
The east cave.
A battle on the map.
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A Spartan being assassinated on the red base.
A Spartan Laser shot destroying a Falcon
A Spartan destroying a Banshee
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