Twilight Gap
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Really hope so. Will help sell Covenant designs and they've been absent for two games now.
Also, i don't think minus links work anymore.
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Halo 5 Forge
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Really hope so. Will help sell Covenant designs and they've been absent for two games now.
Also, i don't think minus links work anymore.
was that confirmed? i must have missed it. but yeah, that'd be amazing.
Remember the Pipes from Erosion. Like that, only with wires, similar to suspension bridge wires . Also, they have Pipes!
We had retail boxes so we could reference maps from previous titles and access our file shares to view our own maps. I mostly used it to play JengaOn closer inspection, I'm pretty sure that's Halo 2
I got way too excited.
no i didn't
User 73706
Banned
1. weld a bunch of wires to a soccer ball
2. weld fusion coils and landmines to other ends of the wires
3. set runtime min-maxes to the same value at instant respawn
4. set all object physics to normal
5. weld mancannons on both "poles" of the soccerball to cause it to constantly remain in motion
6. set scripting forcing wires to move downward, preventing wiry medusa boom death machine from flying off into the sun
7. script light volumes onto every single fusion coil so properties change when the object is created and destroyed
8. ??????
9. SUPER MEDUSA SEIZURE DEATH BALL SIEGEWORKS ENGINE
2. weld fusion coils and landmines to other ends of the wires
3. set runtime min-maxes to the same value at instant respawn
4. set all object physics to normal
5. weld mancannons on both "poles" of the soccerball to cause it to constantly remain in motion
6. set scripting forcing wires to move downward, preventing wiry medusa boom death machine from flying off into the sun
7. script light volumes onto every single fusion coil so properties change when the object is created and destroyed
8. ??????
9. SUPER MEDUSA SEIZURE DEATH BALL SIEGEWORKS ENGINE
Can you talk about File Sharing? or is that a different topic?
WTF's up with that? Might be set to Private.
screw that i just want to dive into a ball pit of space whales
No info on that. Sorry.
draughn101
Member
Get 'em, Sprinkles. I've got your back. Don't want these boys bustin their nut in the first week. They can go play COD's 3 hour campaign and 5 multiplayer maps if they don't like it!
Gabotron ES
Member
BRAVO! really loving everything I'm seeing, I spy a headlong recreation in the vid
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Good catch.
No info on final shipping decorative objects but they did say something about grabbing assets from the Campaign. Not sure what they meant by that.
Speaking of Invisible Barriers...
There are many very large pieces of most structural items like Floor pieces, the largest of which is around the size of the Halo 4 Grid (there is no Grid in halo 5 that i saw).
Back in the early days of Halo 4 i built a Grifball Court for Matchmaking called Hangar 101.
The original version of the map featured a unique "force field" utilizing sideways Gravity Volumes and bouncy One-Way Barrier floor outside the court to keep players and the ball within bounds. When the map went live in the playlist the force field had been removed and replaced with invisible wall of 5x5 Flats by someone at 343i. (It's in my Halo 4 File Share, go check it out GT=runNOKYARDrun.)
News of this miracle wall spread throughout the Forge community and became a staple in many Halo 5 wish lists. Well, the 343i Forge team were indeed listening to our feedback because there are now Invisible Barriers in the inventory, sized from a very small 2x2 (i believe) all the way up to around half the Grid size. These will contain players, vehicles, and objectives but will allow Grenades to pass through
I will use the above Hangar 101 map to illustrate how much larger items are by comparing the pieces required to build the basic structure of the Halo 4 version, to a theoretical Halo 5 version of the same court.
Halo 4:
Ramp Circular Small 36
Floor 20
Endzone Walls 16
Ceiling 12
UNSC Emblem (assuming 2 sides) 26
Invisiwall 5x5 Flats 17
Total pieces = 127
Halo 5
Cylinder 12
Floor 2
Endzone Walls 4
Ceiling 3
UNSC Emblem 2
Invisiwall 4 Invisible Barriers
Total pieces = 27
That's 100 fewer pieces to build the same basic court.
Not sure if this is something you can share or not, but any word on the way the gravity hammer behaves in Halo 5? I felt it lost a lot of its gravity bending charm, especially with Griffball, in the later games.
Jessie.Bristol
Member
Wow, just got done watching the video and reading the Halo Waypoint article. Sounds fantastic, sucks that it is coming in December though. I have never been a Forger
, but this may get me into it.
(Cartographer)
KiboSenshi
Neo Member
Wow everything looks so good. Really glad 343 reached out to the forge community to make this the most robust forge ever. Really hoping they have a good file share/browser system to launch alongside it.
Same, I've never been into forge but the ease of use will be the main thing which would get me into it. Looking forward to trying it out.
I wish there was some more color and different lighting. I hate the golden haze. That all said, I can't wait to see what the community can achieve. I do think it should've been there at launch, but I'd rather have something that works and is great, than something that is half-baked.
How will they integrate it? I wonder if they'll introduce new methods of file sharing as well. Since the game is 60fps locked for all modes, I wonder how strict they'll be with map performance before putting any community creations out.
The Henery
Member
Awesome that forgers will be able to get into the minutiae of previously take-what-you're-given objects like these. Action Sack will be interesting with the new scripting options.
VincentMatts
Member
I like them bringing community members to get their feedback on this like they did arena. Thats the best way to do it. They brought in pro players for arena and brought in pros for forge. Good move. December doesn't bother me.
Its a great thing. Forgers used to have to use extra objects like shield doors and additional gravlifts to launch people exactly were they needed to go. What used to take 4-5 objects is now in one with the options to change it.
Twilight Gap
Member
bring back blueprint pl0x
Twilight Gap
Member
bruh. who's the biggest forge nerd you know
Never too soon to give credit where it's due
I wish there was some more color and different lighting. I hate the golden haze. That all said, I can't wait to see what the community can achieve.
There is other lighting though.
RedSparrows
Member
Middle ground? Naaaaaah
nillapuddin
Member
Nillapuddin and nok, but they already post here
Actually godlyperfection.
Im down for a Blueprint revival, instead of being a free spirited college student I can join in the conversation about mortgages and life crushing workloads
I also do not know who zoba is
The Real Napsta
Member
Seriously?
Like Frankie posted a few months ago, i too have seen a Hammer, but can't comment beyond that. Sorry.
Each Canvas features 3 different versions. Alpine has (i forget the actual names) one set at noon, at sunset, and an overcast variant. The sunset map has much improved from the Beta version.
There will be more upcoming features but i have no specifics.
The forgers got to play with/against the pros on their maps, and on the Breakout maps the Pros made. Also, the Forge team kicked the dev team's asses (not the pros) on the first night's test.
It's something we talked about extensively during our visit but we have no information to share.
A 3 Legged Goat
Twilight Gap
Member
Nillapuddin and nok, but they already post here
Actually godlyperfection.
I wonder if this will bring GP back to Halo
PetulantChild
Banned
Such a thing is unthinkable in a Halo thread.
Anyways, do we know if Groupings will be able to be scripted? Would love to be able to put a bunch of different shaped towers that spawn and despawn along with a capture point for KOTH or Zombies.
gaming_noob
Member
Amazing.
Woaaaah what
Someone explain
BleedOrange
Banned
I'm amazed that a Win 10 Forge App was not announced. It seems like such a no brainer. I still think it's coming after Forge launch at some point.
Well known bnet poster/community member
Dude made tons of forge maps with us in CC. Several in MM. Jackal Creek was goaty
Edit: where is GP these days? Making games I presume