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[Twilight Gap]

The CCs were at 343 for a week, but with travel time they only had 4 days and change to build the maps. December's right around the corner so any issues with the BTB maps will be patched by the original authors.

Holy fuck the bloom

Nightmare stuff

Worst thing Bungie's ever done and they recently put it back into Destiny, SMH

 

[NOKYARD]

Around 6 days. Monday night to Sunday Noon.

Much less for me since my map was decimated three times and i had to basically start from scratch or from the previous day's build.

 

[Jessie.Bristol]

6 days.

Is Forge coming in 6 days or just a more in-depth look at it?

Edit: I see my error now, forget what I asked.

 

[Twilight Gap]

6 days.

Correcting me? I blame Warholic then

 

[NOKYARD]

I guess if you took into account the fact that we had to branch off test builds each afternoon for an evening test the actual build time would equal around 4 days. So WARHOLIC's estimate of 4 days is not inaccurate.

 

[Raide]

Saw the bump, thought we have Forge info! Damn!

 

[Karl2177]

When they talk about improvements to the world grid, they're just talking about the coordinates grid, right?

 

[belushy]

Hey Nokyard, quick question...

Can you "weld" spawn points to a vehicle or an object that is either normal physics and moving around, or an object that is being scripted? For example, making an Elephant like vehicle that holds spawn points.

 

[Shrennin]

Only thing that bums me out about Forge is that unless you have at least 7 friends who play regularly, it's pretty much closed off to you. Sure, they'll eventually do a best-of playlist, but other than that it's just making unusable maps for the fun of it.

This is why 343 needs to embrace community maps/playlists. It's the one huge thing that can set them widely apart from the console shooter competition. Halo can embrace its competitive AND party gameplay roots. Maybe make social completely community created aside from perhaps one consistent 343 playlist? I mean, it is called social after all. One playlist could be maps adopted officially by 343 (ones that are tested by the community and approved) and the other could be a beta test playlist of sorts where it's total randomness. You could play a very bad, unbalanced map and gametype or you could play the best ones ever. After those games, there could be a simple vote (yes for good, no for bad, or a needs improvement but on the right track option). The ones that get voted on in there, get added to the "official" one.

 

[NOKYARD]

Hey Nokyard, quick question...

Can you "weld" spawn points to a vehicle or an object that is either normal physics and moving around, or an object that is being scripted? For example, making an Elephant like vehicle that holds spawn points.

Welding items to vehicles was not working while i was there but they were trying to solve it. I just hope you can weld vehicles to other vehicles. I really, really want a triple decker Scorpion attached to a Banshee so it can fly.

 

[Glass]

Ducains uploaded a break down of the pieces used on the Valhalla reimagining. We've all played the game, but it's great to see all the pieces and sheer size of some of them examined. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fz4lLucYwY

 

[Raide]

Ducains uploaded a break down of the pieces used on the Valhalla reimagining. We've all played the game, but it's great to see all the pieces and sheer size of some of them examined. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fz4lLucYwY

Thanks for posting!

 

[BraXzy]

Random thought that just occurred to me.. Will the ship hangar/dock type thing that Breakout maps are set in be a forge-able canvas?

Surely it'd make sense to provide it for other Breakout maps, and at the same time, it could be an interesting backdrop to... dare I say it... UNSC themed maps.

 

[NOKYARD]

Yes, it's a great canvas to forge in and it's bigger than it looks. The lighting is wonderful!

 

[belushy]

(Week of) December 15th release date!

Forge is almost here

 

[op_ivy]

Probably more appropriate to discuss this here rather than the OT.

With forge incoming and my inability to sleep, I came up with a potentially cool and unique game type. But before I begin to invest further in the development of my ideas and what could prove to be a difficult design process, I have a question that can make or break this before I even begin --- can you forge and script an entire moving map?

 

[R3cki]

forge 15th
ark early access 16th
damn!

 

[NOKYARD]

I have a question that can make or break this before I even begin --- can you forge and script an entire moving map?

I believe so but i can't answer that with any certainty either way.

The entire map would have to be grouped as a single item so there could be no Normal or Fixed Physics items on the map. I don't know how collisions would work either since you can usually be easily killed by moving objects. Certainly worth a test though.

 

[Stevey]

Will the pieces have textures on them or will it be like the BTB maps?

 

[belushy]

Will the pieces have textures on them or will it be like the BTB maps?

Well BTB maps are made with forge, so you can find that answer yourself probably.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Will the pieces have textures on them or will it be like the BTB maps?

Fea not, the forge team is going to provide updates. So i expect textures, items, and all around enhancements every month after its release.

We will ultimately find out next week what forge has.

 

[Glass]

We will ultimately find out next week what forge has.

Or tomorrow even, stream hype!

 

[Stevey]

Cool, don't get me wrong, I'm really looking forward to it, but BTB is a bit jarring to start with.

 

[nillapuddin]

ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ raise your brace, largesヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

343 Forge Intro
https://youtu.be/FLJk5RCvovs?t=58m2s

Gamespot Forge Flythrough - not necessary if you watch the first link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1BN4K4i9i8&feature=youtu.be

Antifreeze (New BTB map) Flythrough
http://www.gamespot.com/videos/behind-the-scenes-of-halo-5s-new-map-antifreeze/2300-6428592/

 

[BraXzy]

I wonder if we will get a proper Forge VidDoc soon.

 

[Raide]

ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ raise your brace, largesヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

343 Forge Intro
https://youtu.be/FLJk5RCvovs?t=58m2s

Gamespot Forge Flythrough
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1BN4K4i9i8&feature=youtu.be

Antifreeze (New BTB map) Flythrough
http://www.gamespot.com/videos/behind-the-scenes-of-halo-5s-new-map-antifreeze/2300-6428592/

Super pumped for Forge. Supposed to be 15th?

 

[Strider]

Super pumped for Forge. Supposed to be 15th?

"Week of the 15th" so no exact date given just yet but it'll be next week for sure. It's possible it comes Tuesday but I think they avoid giving an exact date just in case everything doesn't go as planned...

The last major update was released on Wednesday of the given week so if that happens again it'll hit the 16th.