Metrion Aristan

Description
Here\'s an an update to Metrion Aristan, a foresty-jungly-ruiny map, from a_speck_of_dust.

Nothing beats the feeling of hopping in a ship, taking off from an awesome landing pad, and flying through a thickly forested jungle. Pulling up, and crashing through the branches and leaves so thick you can hardly tell which way is up, and then bursting out of them into the open air above the forest. Oh, then you can dogfight up there, and chase the other craft back down into the foliage. Then strafe the enemy infantry line, taking out their tanks. And then, exploding in a fiery ball always being half the fun, a lucky shot from the main cannon on a AAT shooting you down.

Flying not your thing? What about being a normal grunt, and trudging through an awesome forest to the first Command Post along with the rest of the army? Soon after taking it, bunches of droids show up, and, taking cover behind any of the numerous ruins the map is full of, with explosions littering the ground in front of you, let some blasts from your rifle go, killing a droid.

What about jumping in a bike and speeding through the enemy, shooting a few, too fast to be shot back at? Or riding in a tank, decimating their forces?

I never played the first version of this map, and boy, do I think I missed out. The map is incredible, the battle is great, and I love the skins for the Republic. I, personally, think that it\'s what all the shipped maps should have been. I have few complaints.

The problem with the fliers going to fast and crashing has been over-compensated for. At their slowest, they\'re almost stationary, and you can pretty much sit in the air and camp their entire army. The battle itself seems a tad weighted towards the rebels\\CIS, as they can almost always grab a majority of the cps quickly. Also, while this is an unavoidable side-effect to having so much detail and atmosphere to the map, it slows down (unless you have a sorta high-end computer, I\'m guessing) if you try to turn your view distance to max.

This, while being a fairly heavy download, is staying on my hard drive. It should stay on yours, too.

.Rikino