Forge of Honour - AvP2 Custom Map (Complete Playthrough)

Aliens vs Predator 2 singleplayer custom map titled "Forge of Honour".

Map author: Phil 'Windebieste' Wlodarczyk

Story:

"The Yautja's honour is all. Without it, he is worthless. He is nothing to his society; and pride is everything to the clan. Occasionally, a Predator may come to disagreement or cause grievous insult to another of his tribe; and honour must be protected and preserved. A test of Yautja pride is a fight to the death. To this end, the 'Trials of Pride' are conducted amidst the magma-heated background and sulphuric fumes of the great natural furnace arena known as the 'Forge of Honour'."

Map review:

This is a rather unique and interesting map. Forge of Honour is a predator-based skirmish map, in which the player fights off aliens to the death. The map layout is basically a gladiator style map based in hell due to to all the lava, spikes, etc. I should note that in my playthrough I lagged quite a bit, as this map doesn't run that great on my computer. The lightning strikes seem to cause short and sudden lag spikes which greatly interfered with my speargun shooting and crouch jumping.

Nevertheless, this map was still playable. I just made sure to quick-save where appropriate. I would also advise on quick-saving for this one, as the map is indeed a challenging one. While the map isn't a small map, navigating the tight cliffs, wooden planks and broken bridges over the lava pits can be pretty difficult when under alien attacks. Furthermore, you will have to navigate these paths if you intend to pickup the various predator pickups scattered across the map. In my playthrough I tried jumping on top of one of the cages (this cage is used to keep non-predator characters contained in the multiplayer version of the map) but to no avail.

As far as I could tell there is no "safe place" where the player can stand and not be attacked. So the strategy here is to keep moving and grab all the predator powerups/weapons, then challenge the queen by spawning her at the center of the map. The queen can be defeated (not shown in this video), but she takes a ton of damage before she goes down.

Forge of Honour is probably one of the best predator maps due to it just looking really cool and being challenging. Recommended.