Design Philosophy and Goals:

Decommissioned's Core design philosophy for me was a hard thing to pinpoint into words, initially it was just the feeling of a fun map I was going for, but overtime it evolved into the interactable elements of the map (shown above) of a rocket launching, long but contained sightlines that players can intertwine between fluidly, and seperating vehicles from main player paths, without making them feel disconnected.  

Interactable Elements:

Yes! Interactable Elements! A core design principle of Decommissioned was to throw some lively interactive elements into the conventional player sandbox of Halo Infinite. The map's main interactive element/hazard is the rocket in the center of the map, which will launch and kill any players within the rocket's exhaust shaft after roughly 2 minutes of in-game time.  The way the rocket gets to continue to do this after launching is a new saber will rechamber from a hatch in the floor, hinting at a more expansive base and allowing the map to continue to have it's main attraction.  

Line of Sight Control:

Decommissioned plays with long lines of sight a lot, with this being a focal point, something I wanted to focus on as well was making sure a player was never in a "Can't-Do-Anything" scenario, to do this there are some complexities on the map I implemented, while watching both vertical and intricate areas of the map to make sure they don't stray into an area of unreadability or frustration for newer players.