Halo 5: Cartographer's Gift - FORGE, New Warzone + Arena maps, new REQs and more
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Those BTB maps are for arena Big Team, not Warzone. If they meant Warzone, they'd say Warzone.
Bornstellar
Member
More forge maps for BTB?
FML.
FML.
Twilight Gap
Member
I wonder where the resources went into this game for it to not only launch in such a barebones state, but to also depend on both community content and remixed content thereafter. It's especially confusing because it had a full beta a year before release. The Campaign team does one thing, the Forge team is tiny and they did another. What was the Multiplayer team doing that they were unable to at least produce those gametypes?
Jack The Nipper
Banned
I agree with you guys and I have ever let it go for the most part. I just felt maybe after lower than.expected sales and player drops that they would have bigger changes. Maybe they do have that and it won't be here til atleast mid next year. So I really consider dropping the game. Asking for a refund and coming back if there are major changes.
I use to believe they would have actual maps but for the time being it looks unlikely based on everything they have did.
I use to believe they would have actual maps but for the time being it looks unlikely based on everything they have did.
How do /you/ know that REQ money isn't all going to funding?
REQ money doesn't ALL go to the HCS stuff. We already know the added revenue goes to free maps and shit like that, what makes it so that game modes aren't included with that as well?
Sell it, stop thinking about it, and if in the future they fix it up to your liking and you happen to stumble across the news, then buy it again. Now that's efficient. And you're not stirring up pots while doing so, even more efficient!
Jack The Nipper
Banned
Yeah, I'll just keep a small eye on updates. No reason to expectations changes imo
I may see how forge is before I actually get rid of it. It it's as if expect no reason to talk about it anymore.
Who says people are MORE interested in one or the other?
I'm glad there is an enticing prize pool. Hopefully that leads to some entertaining competitive matches between really good players. Should be fun to watch.
I also hope that the old game modes come sooner than later. They are sorely missed. And should have been in long ago. When/if they arrive, I'll certainly view it as a delayed part of my $60 purchase, and not something made possible by Reqs
Twilight Gap
Member
Basin looks like an upres of Halo 3's Valhalla so we can at least make some good looking maps in Forge. Hopefully if they do continue to depend on community content for BTB, they add some good maps from the community.
Emphasis on good. The community BTB maps in Reach were awful.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
I might buy the game if they added firefight. Reach is coming to backwards compatibility so I have that I guess...
Calling Eden, Regret remixes are doing them a disservice. They play nothing alike.
A true remix would be changing the time of day and a few power weapon or placement of items and calling it day.
I hope you're planning on making some maps and running some customs on them with gaf
War zone firefight is needed in a big way
Do we have confirmations that the Burial Mounds map is also a Forge map?
I'm guessing it's a remake of The old Burial Mounds, but moved to space (as shown in the teaser trailer last month), but I'd really like to see some dev made BTB maps...
That's looking like a long shot at this point huh? Forge maps are not Req money well spent... IMO. It's like charging for something that has always been free.
I'm guessing it's a remake of The old Burial Mounds, but moved to space (as shown in the teaser trailer last month), but I'd really like to see some dev made BTB maps...
That's looking like a long shot at this point huh? Forge maps are not Req money well spent... IMO. It's like charging for something that has always been free.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
More content is awesome and the love is getting spread around the modes too.
Now can we get the flag carrier changed back to a One Hit Kill please
thx
Also I wonder why we don't see BTB on the actual Warzone maps, seems like it would have been easy content to repurpose.
Now can we get the flag carrier changed back to a One Hit Kill please
thxAlso I wonder why we don't see BTB on the actual Warzone maps, seems like it would have been easy content to repurpose.
MightyHedgehog
Member
When in December? Getting tired of the same small number of maps in rotation, especially when they repeat. Can we get a team objective playlist already? Tired of Slayer showing up in Team Arena when it has its own playlist.
Twilight Gap
Member
Yea i'll be forging but don't know how much time i'll be investing in it just yet.
The burial mounds successor was made by Ducain on the space canvas.
Looking like week of the 14th.
timetokill
Banned
I can't wait for Forge to return... I miss it!
The games been out for a little over a month. Certainly not enough to time react to the games sales and adjust their design philosophies in time for a December content drop.
Not that they would anyway
Ninja Sharingan
Banned
Holy crap. All this can't be free? It's 2015. Where is the season pass?
Some people are upset with the content? Each to their own I guess
Some people are upset with the content? Each to their own I guess
Ok is Burial Mounds just a working title then. Strange that it's the only one that hasn't seen a name tweak.
Emperor Bohe
Member
burial mounds? hell yes! loved playing one bomb assault on that map back in Halo 2.
They're not going to add something that probably requires as many resources and as much time as Firefight post-launch. Seriously, I love Firefight, but as best we could maybe expect more AI in Warzone later, but even then, it seems the way it's scripted to work, it would be tough to make a proper firefight as it would just be weird throwing in enemies at heroic level and saying just defeat them with these bases etc.
Anything big like that will only be saved for Halo 6.
Jessie.Bristol
Member
Yes. Roy bought like 13 of them. You can get a Magnum and Assault Rifle 343i Skins in those packs as well. You get a lot of Legendary items in the HCS Packs.
jfoul
Member
He did, but I'm too lazy to dig up the post.
Team Klimt
Member
Remixes go through just as much design iteration and environmental art as the non-remixes. I like that the remixes play with your expectations and make you adapt to your reflexes from playing the other version of the map.
"All new" maps are coming too.
"All new" maps are coming too.
DeadOnions
Member
The Warzone map was shown in a multiplayer trailer before launch. Maybe the map wasn't finished but right now it seems some content was held back to drip feed the playerbase.
This game's biggest issue is the lack of gametypes for me though. Still no Oddball or KOTH is ridiculous.
This game's biggest issue is the lack of gametypes for me though. Still no Oddball or KOTH is ridiculous.
I'm not too worried about their map design, I'm sure the pro team and MP team have been designing and playing on these maps for months, but do you know if game types are on the menu? I mean beyond just Slayer, CTF, Strongholds for these maps would do wonders. KotH, Oddball, Bomb/Assault, even Ricochet or something.
Warm Machine
Member
The reason at they didn't just barf out all this content on day 1 is because the population would have split up and they couldn't count on filling and establishing Warzone as a new pillar mode to the game so they 50/50d Arena and Warzone.
Warzone effectively makes money through REQ packs. Arena doesn't. As the months go by more standards will likely be added. Be happy Warzone is there as it should help fund the extra content across the whole game as time goes by.
If all 6 Warzone maps were out right now the population of the game would have played them all and would be asking for more anyway.
Warzone effectively makes money through REQ packs. Arena doesn't. As the months go by more standards will likely be added. Be happy Warzone is there as it should help fund the extra content across the whole game as time goes by.
If all 6 Warzone maps were out right now the population of the game would have played them all and would be asking for more anyway.
I agree and that's exactly what it feels like and I don't get it. They are going to keep trickling out content and modes that should have been in the game at launch.
Team Klimt
Member
Or because, you know, they are still building it. It's not sitting in a can somewhere - lots of work actively happening on H5.
You assume incorrectly.
Welfare
Member
This is malarkey when 5 years ago Bungie's last Halo game launched with much more content than this game. What have they been doing for 3 years, because the barebones launch doesn't instill much confidence when it seems like we are being drip fed content that should have been in the game at launch.
I'm glad we are getting this stuff for free and all that, but come on.
This is what I'm most worried about. If support actually does end in June
which lines up with E3 and thus would be the perfect time to announce more content,
Twilight Gap
Member
Warm Machine
Member
I'm sure they are still building, I never said they weren't.
The Sum of Zero
Member
Simmer down, junior. Bungie will never come back to Halo so you might as well get used to it or move on.
Or go play Destiny.
Team Klimt
Member
Wrong.
Reach had 13 maps across all modes at launch- some of which were also part of campaign levels. H5 has more - plus Warzone and the REQ content (175 armors, etc).
Not to mention there will be monthly drops of more free maps and other goodies.
Stop making up "facts" plz. K thx
Caayn
Member
Will this update finally fix the horrible connection issues this game has rendering it unplayable?
At least now we know how they promised us those "free maps" after launch. Just make more Forge maps. For fucks sake 343i.
Got to use money on more important things like: Giving it away to one person while fucking 99.9999% of the community.
At least now we know how they promised us those "free maps" after launch. Just make more Forge maps. For fucks sake 343i.
Kibbles
Member
Yeah I knew it was too good to be true.
This is awesome. More hyped for this than any announcement last night. Halo 5 has been my go-to shooter for when I just fancy a few rounds of multiplayer on a night. Even playing on my own, I've been having great fun.
343 have been doing an awesome job with support so far. They deserve alot of credit for the level free support in a shooter world dominated by £40 season passes.
I would like to see a few more breakout maps though...
343 have been doing an awesome job with support so far. They deserve alot of credit for the level free support in a shooter world dominated by £40 season passes.
I would like to see a few more breakout maps though...
Warm Machine
Member
It also takes them way more man power to build these levels. Plaza as an example is insanely detailed. Warzone maps are pretty massive, likely eclipsing a Reach Firefight location.
WickedLaharl
Member
Yeah it fucking sucks so much but damn the gameplay is fantastic in halo 5. I'll get used to ugly as shit rehashes eventually but i really hope 343i is working on all new maps that are not created in forge for BTB.