Silly.Mikey
Banned
Changing colors is a next gen only feature apparently.
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Halo 4: Forge in Spaaaaaace Reveal
- Thread starter Vire
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Changing colors is a next gen only feature apparently.
TUROK
Member
I honestly think they don't implement it because then very few people would buy map packs.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
This looks awesome to me, can't wait to make some maps.
I cannot understand why they can't give us a few new textures to work with. Seeing the same grey texture pasted over every surface just looks terrible and destroys the entire art of the game
People seem to forget this. RTCW had the server feature too. I don't understand why MS got rid of some of these features.
Foxy Fox 39
Banned
Where's my grass/rock/sand/snow floor Forge piece?
And my ability to change object colors.
one and done.
Naked Lunch
Member
Clogging matchmaking with [ugly] custom forge maps is the worst thing to ever happen to Halo. Its lazy on the devs part - even more so that I hear theres only 9 maps or so at launch.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
10 maps including just 1 remake, plus 3 Forge maps. After launch, 3 map packs each containing 3 maps are scheduled.
Seems like a decent amount to me.
They are lazy because they have introduced map editor in their game ?
Isn't it something that community always wants ?
DR3AM
Dreams of a world where inflated review scores save studios
This all looks great but what's the point of Forge when the mpas won't show up in matchmaking and you can't do a custom search. Reach had 3 maps forge maps from the start and they were some of the best competetive maps out there. Will Halo 4 have custom forge maps in the playlist from day one? Halo 4 only has 10 maps but most people like 4v4 maps
specialguy
Banned
damn that looks hot.
except the plasticky looking rocks, which seems to be a problem in videogames. maybe next gen right?
kinda reminds me of probably my all time fave mp map of all time visually, ut's "facing worlds".
except the plasticky looking rocks, which seems to be a problem in videogames. maybe next gen right?
kinda reminds me of probably my all time fave mp map of all time visually, ut's "facing worlds".
buddha0991
Member
....Someone remake this map please
Foxy Fox 39
Banned
Well how much processing power is it to apply a simple color overlay - or instead of an overlay literally just changing its hex number.
I think a few appeared in Reach but most did not get the scale right and getting the ramp up and down in the middle was hard with clunky Forge pieces.
Most of my early maps were Quake 1 and 3 maps.
Naked Lunch
Member
Its lazy because you spend 99% of the time playing shitty custom maps instead of polished ones made by the devs themselves. Its the classic "oh, we'll have the community make the maps". How often have you played Reach? I see nothing but super garbage custom maps - especially in BTB.
Ive hated custom maps since the beginnings of online FPSs. So many shitty Team Fortress/Counter-Strike maps ive suffered thru - now its spread to the consoles.
343 thinks they're developing for an NES confirmed.
It's like they never learned from Sandbox and Forge World. Doesn't matter how much creativity you have in structure, eventually the aesthetics get boring as fuck and every map looks the same, with map makers trying desperately to use whatever scraps of gadgets they can differentiate their maps. I absolutely cannot understand why this is still an issue, and I'm not willing to believe that their adamancy or ignorance in preserving some sort of aesthetic/art consistency is justifying stifling the creativity of map makers. Yes, colors are that serious of business.
So don't include a map maker because the lowest common denominator might have access to it? Terrible argument, especially when playlists are moderated by devs unlike PC and there's no custom games browser.
If people can make amazing shit like in Trials Evolution's map maker, I don't see why Halo's dedicated community couldn't craft great custom maps using something more than a really polished object placer.
YES! It would have been a good opportunity for 343 to do that Bungie was so afraid of doing.
Matchmaking population goes down, so what? Make the map packs more appealing to forgers and custom goers and you'll still get sales.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Cause that would make forge too "deep" and thus, would make dlc less important.
Its sooo obvious why they keep Forge in this crippled state, they wanna sell DLC, not have users make free maps from scratch that are often just as good. Plain and simple. Anything else they say is bullshit.
If Farcry can have a deep map maker on consoles then so can Halo. Problem is, FC doesn't make the money that Halo does on DLC. So instead, we get Forge.
I hope you all like grey again. Forge to me is easily the most disappointing part of Halo4, not because its bad but because they purposely dont give it a real make over simply cause they have to sell DLC.