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House of Pfhun

A small arena, and a large ammo room... most of the ammo is suspended (get good at elevators, or die), and watch the lava traps! A few neat tricks...

Mutiny is good...

A small, tight, King-of-the-Hill arena. Great flow. See how long you can stay on the hill... this map should have some of the lowest winning times around.

Aviary

A straightforward port of the M1 Arena.

Lord of the Sky

Conversion of an M1 map, Lord of the Pit. Don't fall off! (if you do, check out the bottom quickly...)

Stays pretty close in feel to the original. One major difference, though... getting that spanker is a bit more painful than it used to be. (Seems like there are more purple compilers than in the original, too... those circling green bolts in the carnage pit are a pretty eerie sight!) Update has some tweaks (better lighting, some sounds, movement to the lava).

Matt's Tool

The first modified M2 map, as far as I know... This is a modification of Flight of the Toolator, with the lava removed and weapons and aliens beefed up.

Wisp's Small Net Maps

A pair of small arenas. Nice flow, and no aliens (although the Bobs in Chess can be a hassle). The readme only covers the first map... Nice placement for the alien weapon on The Abyss. (You'll stumble on it...)

DMMC Archive v4

The Durandal Map Makers Club is a group of AOLers who get together to make M2 maps. They release an archive each week, comprised of all the M2 maps made by group members over the week. This is their fourth release, dated 12/31/95. This one's four maps. Seems to be a water theme... (Except for Spanker Island, which felt an awful lot to me like the M1 map Cylinder (available in one (or more, maybe) of the Suicide Maps). Pretty good quality, overall... I wasn't overly fond of Water World Arena (which is *nothing* like the Bungie map of similar name), but Pfhlange and Assault of the Bobs were ...

Durandal Mapmakers Club

January 11, 1996

Marathon2 Durandal

Net Maps

Egan-Rac

This one's big, bright, and has some pretty cool areas. Very liberal use of ambient sounds, and some fun waterfalls (although a couple of them are just annoying). This one would be good with 5-8 players...

Mars Revisited

This ain't Mars. Well, it has the same layout as Mars, and it's a pretty nice map in its own right, but it ain't Mars... The carnage pit is now a (very deep) pool, brightly lit. The upstairs is open to the air, with vistas... The compilers in the water are pretty cool, but it ain't Mars...

Pfhlood

The first M2 map done (well, sort of) by AFCYdnar, the creator of Pfhorever and Pfhactory. This map was never finished (it's not 68K clean-use Ignore Zero Divides on those machines), and was never meant to be released, but it has already been leaked by some of his friends, so... It's actually a pretty nice small (sewage-filled) arena. Dark, and the liquid keeps the death rate reasonable...

Water Sports

All weapons and ammo are suspended in midair, and the only way up is inside the 5 water columns of this small arena. Tricky... but a lot of fun once you get used to it.

Bear's Net Maps v3

This is now up to six maps (although two are just the same map with different net options...). One is unstable on 68K macs-use the Ignore Zero Divides program to get around this. A pretty nice mix... small, medium, and large arenas, some nice twisty areas, a bunch of enhancements to take advantage of the new M2 features. Bunch of tweaks (texture alignments, etc.) Now comes with three physics models which make the alien weapon a bit more deadly...

Pfhactory v2.2CS

The CS stands for Chapter Screen. This map is identical to the above version of Pfhactory, except that it has a great chapter screen at the beginning of it... I'll leave 'em both up, because the first one contains films and an M1 version of the map that this one doesn't have. Only change in this version is that the 8-bit version of the chapter screen is now in color.

PG Mars Needs Women v2.0

A modification of a modification. This one started with Mars Needs Women, above, and then went on to make a few tweaks. Includes the map he started with (so if you haven't already gotten it, you can get it here), and a list of changes made. This version fixes a small bug that kept the skull from showing up in Kill the Guy...

The Ares Project

A loving renovation of Mars Needs Women. This one's better than the original, I think... the only criticism I have (and it's really minor) is that the upstairs may not be dark enough any more. Other than that, though... This is gorgeous.

DMMC Archive v2

The second release from the DMMC (12/17/95). This one consists of 10 maps. Two are already on this page (Cruiseman Maps). All the rest were done by the group's president. They are all pretty high quality, small arenas with a nice eye to alien and weapon placement.

Durandal Mapmakers Club

January 7, 1996

Marathon2 Durandal

Net Maps

Ignore Zero Divides

If you play on a 68K machine, GET THIS! It's tiny, and it only does one thing, but it might just be the most useful utility out there for non-PPC owners. The biggest cause of crashes is the presence of zero-length lines in a map. This leads the cpu to attempt to divide by zero, which makes it crash... Bungie seems to have fixed the problem for the PowerPC code, but 040 and 030 owners were out of luck, before now... This little baby simply instructs your cpu to ignore any divide-by-zero operations. Run it just before you play Marathon, and you'll be free of those pesky Type 4 errors forever!