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Halo 4 Forge Thread

So I've been watching Breaking Bad on Netflix a lot, and frankly while the show is awesome theres a lot of down time where it's just talking and such. Which is cool, but it doesn't necessitate your eyes being completely glued to the screen to appreciate. So, while doing that, I've been fiddling around in Forge mode, and I think I've come up with a decent competitive map that employs a lot of the theory behind making successful Halo maps. So without further ado, here's a video (5min) showing off the level. Sorry cell phone quality is the best I could have and that the white balance is a little washed out, but it's still very good quality and you can see what's going on in the map just fine.


Anyone else on here like to forge? Or at least watch/play competitive Halo 4? This has been a really fun time suck to keep my mind a little more engaged while listening to the visually uninteresting parts of Breaking Bad.
 

Syknis

King of the Kiddie Pool
Halo is my main game. Mk is my second. I wouldn't mind testing this map out with my team/friends.
 
Halo is my main game. Mk is my second. I wouldn't mind testing this map out with my team/friends.
Cool. I have absolutely no idea how spawning works so I just threw spawn points down haphazardly. what forums can I post this on to get some solid feedback on how to improve it?
 
Sick I love screwing around in forge. One of the best features in any game today
Add me on XBL if you ever want play halo/mk/screw around in forge drunk one night.

Anyway, imo Forge is so lacking in this game though... limit on building blocks is too low, dynamic shadow system is too aggressive (every map is dark, hard to get sunlight anywhere), magnets and fine adjust are not on the same x,y,z plane, not enough objects, maximum of 4 light sources for the whole map, and a host of other things. There's so much more room for improvement, but this is still probably the best forge mode so far so I guess I can't complain too much.
 

Syknis

King of the Kiddie Pool
Cool. I have absolutely no idea how spawning works so I just threw spawn points down haphazardly. what forums can I post this on to get some solid feedback on how to improve it?
Go to The Halo Council. They will give you feedback. And i'll add you man.
 

ryublaze

Noob
I used to forge the crap out of Halo 3 but then I stopped in Reach and Halo 4. It's a really fun feature, but takes soooo long to make maps.
 

Cibernetico

Kombatant
I used to forge the crap out of Halo 3 but then I stopped in Reach and Halo 4. It's a really fun feature, but takes soooo long to make maps.
Thank god for people whoa re dedicated to nothing but Forge right? Hell, some Forge maps have actually made it into the permanent playlists of Halo 4. Very cool to see.