Ghost Town: Difference between revisions

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|image=[[File:H3_GhostTownOverhead.jpg|250px]]

|location=[[Mount Kilimanjaro Water Plant]], [[Africa]]<ref name="waypoint"/>

*[[Single Bomb|One Bomb]]

'''''Ghost Town''''' is a [[multiplayer]] map featured in [[Halo 3]] set in the same jungle near Voi as the campaign level ''[[Sierra 117]]''.<ref name="BWUGhostTown">[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13287 '''Bungie.net''': ''Ghost Town Revealed'']</ref> It was released as part of the [[Legendary Map Pack]] alongside [[Avalanche]] and [[Orbital]].

Ghost Town is set in the Mount Kilimanjaro Water Plant, just north-west of the [[A2 Hydroelectric Facility]]. The facility was a [[Global Water Campaign]] water purification facility built in the 24th century that has since fallen into ruins. Its main function was to take melted water from [[Mount Kilimanjaro]], purify it, then pump it to the rest of Africa through the [[GWC Trans-African Pipelines]] running alongside [[Tsavo Highway]].<ref name="BWUGhostTown"/> In the early 26th century, the Mount Kilimanjaro Water Plant was decommissioned and acquired by the [[UNSC]] in order to conduct classified military training exercises for ingress/egress operations and [[War Games]] simulations.<ref name="waypoint"/>

Starting from the [[M274 Mongoose|Mongoose]] in the upper left corner of the image (see overview image in the image section) is one of the two bases (the other is in the bottom right of the image). The “Atrium” area (the building in the upper right corner, indicated with a 3) is a long, lean and overgrown two-story hallway with a catwalk that connects to the Pump Station, a three story building with catwalks that exit to the Interior Base (again in the lower right corner) and second level walkways to the shotgun (where the [[Z-4190 bubble shield|bubble shield]] is located). From the shotgun spawn, if players head to the right after coming from the Pump Station, they’ll be able to stay on a path that feeds down to the [[overshield]] and there’s a second level walkway overhead housing the [[M41 SPNKR|rocket launcher]] and [[grenade]]s. Directly to the left and under the [[Type-1 plasma grenade|plasma grenades]] that spawn near the Rocket Launcher is a tunnel that curves behind and empties almost into the area where the number 2 camera was taken.

[[File:Overheadghost.jpg|thumb|250px|Layout of the map.]]

*Dual [[Type-25 Spiker|Spikers]] and [[Type-25 plasma rifle|plasma rifles]] work great on this map.

*Development on Ghost Town started in September [[2007 (real world)|2007]], with initial blockouts created for the level. The initial massout by designer [[Steve Cotton]] was basic and used cubes to represent buildings, with players in playtests coming to know it as "that ghost town map". Although some Bungie staff wished to call the map "Mortar", the map would go through production under the guise of "OK Corral", before being renamed at the last minute to the name the map shipped with.<ref name="BWUGhostTown"/><ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13824 '''Bungie.net''': ''Bungie Weekly Update 05/23/08''] - ''“These are the final names” is what some adults told me, but Ghost Town’s name changed at the last possible moment"''</ref> Overall, the map was in production for roughly 4–5 months, in which time the layout changed little aside from the addition of new areas. The map was first teased in January 2008.<ref name="BWU010408"/>

**Bungie staffers also jokingly called Ghost Town "that ''Counter-Strike'' map",<ref name="BWUGhostTown"/> referencing the popular PC shooter game, and specifically referencing the map "Italy," to which Ghost Town bears more than a passing resemblance.

*Some of the original artistic inspiration for Ghost Town included temples in Angkor Wat, but this shifted to a ruined facility when the Bungie team saw the models created for the [[Believe]] dioramas.<ref name="BWUGhostTown"/>

*A lot of excellent hiding places, such as the slab of collapsed concrete below the large building, and the collapsed brick room between the Atrium and Interior Base, have invisible walls to stop people from camping. These walls can still be bypassed using the [[Forge Turret Glitch]], and most of them can be safely walked around in without dying.

*There is a hidden room in one corner of the map that has a fractured ceiling with rebar and concrete sticking out as well as a hole in the brick wall. The [[Forge Turret Glitch]] can be used to easily enter the room, and with some effort, a Two-Way Node can also be placed inside.

*Under the Pump Station, beyond the concrete ramp, there is a fenced-off passageway leading to another part of the building. It seems to have been fenced off by [[Bungie]] for the final version of the map. This passageway is actually quite large, but resembles more of an abstract room. It can be accessed using the Forge Turret Glitch.

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