*Finally watches IGN forge video*
Holy fuck this is forge. This is all the same map.
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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo
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BigEvilTurtle
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Question for skilled Forgers:
How do you remake a map with accurate scale and dimension? Is there a method or is it more of whatever looks and feels right?
How do you remake a map with accurate scale and dimension? Is there a method or is it more of whatever looks and feels right?
TriStateTryHard
Member
You mean for a remake? Or just in general?
If you want to be really accurate, sometimes people go into the old game and measure distances with like a KoTH hill. Not sure though. I've never really made remakes.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
A remake! I've seen some remakes that were remarkably accurate.
Oh wow that's actually brilliant.
Probably hit a RAM/performance limit.
Most of the basic blocks are in units, which fits in with how big the player is. Plus you tend to jump in and out of a mapmas you built to scale things up.
TriStateTryHard
Member
What cluckino said, and also people use capture plates as a standard unit of measurement or even the range finder on the sniper scope.
This. I'm still really hopeful for what the next game will bring to the table. There is no reason we can't get what is here PLUS other improvements.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
This version of Forge make me say
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
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Sounds like what we've said about each game before it released. Don't set yourself up for disapointment and stop thinking about implications for Halo 5.
Trust me on that one.
EDIT:
Welp.. Halo's back.
After watching a little bit of the footage, I'm disappointed with the way they've handled buttons again. Used to be that things just happened when you pressed X or whatever prompt and you still had full control of your character. Now, and in H4, the game puts your weapon down and locks you into an animation that feels really jarring and uncomfortable. This was a recurring annoyance in H4, too. It should just be that the progress bar fills up as you hold X standing near the terminal...
Yes.
I want to see some of those Death Run modes where 1 player can trigger traps, while the others try to navigate the map.
Switches do add some interesting new options. Hopefully they have more doors than just the Zanzibar one.
I will get back to remaking Quake and Goldeneye maps!
I remember playing some rather difficult "Ninja Warrior" Forge maps from Reach era, but this sounds spectacular!
There are different kinds of button. They shoot one out in the video.
Just when Stinkles is banned.
Stinkles is feeling himself right now.
Right now.
Stinkles.
There are many extremely accurate methods to measure and place items, but due to the different movement speeds between games i found it best to use a stop watch (or saved film) and time how long it takes to walk between points. That's how i rebuilt Sidewinder , anyway.
It's also how i established the size of Grifball courts in Reach and H4, which is 9.5 seconds from goal to goal.
Soon, i will show how i plan do do remakes in H2A.
Hint, i now have 4 screens and 2 distribution amps at my disposal.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
I wonder if you can use territories as triggers for these switches... race tracks that appear and disappear as you drive over them, capture points that fortify automatically when you try to capture them, etc, etc
Hrmm...you might be able to change the team for the switch and have it change depending on who owns the capture point?
They have shoot buttons, so I wonder if we can drive over them like race markers to trigger stuff.
The Henery
Member
Good God that blew me away when he peeked over the canyon and Beaver Creek was humbly nestled in its own little pocket minding its own business. Forge geometry had coloured bands through them, excellent. Interactive elements, so good. It looks like the overall budget is significantly higher than what we've had before.
Forge has finally evolved in a meaningful way for the playable end product. Frankenstein custom game creations will be taken to the next level with this.
Forge has finally evolved in a meaningful way for the playable end product. Frankenstein custom game creations will be taken to the next level with this.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
There are many extremely accurate methods to measure and place items, but due to the different movement speeds between games i found it best to use a stop watch (or saved film) and time how long it takes to walk between points. That's how i rebuilt Sidewinder , anyway.
It's also how i established the size of Grifball courts in Reach and H4, which is 9.5 seconds from goal to goal.
Soon, i will show how i plan do do remakes in H2A.Hint, i now have 4 screens and 2 distribution amps at my disposal.
Ah that makes sense! Cool!
Forge is so awesome.TriStateTryHard
Member
In my experience with Megalo script in Halo 4, anything can be a trigger. A switch is just the easiest to understand. Entering a hill, getting in a vehicle, picking up a weapon, pretty much anything the game can detect can be the "switch". I have no idea if the system we will get will be that robust though.
Welfare
Member
And have my 360 go into meltdown mode and self-destruct? No thanks.
TriStateTryHard
Member
I see trees of green...
Totally a pipe dream I think, but now with the addition of Forge-able terrain, could we see decent remakes of racetracks (real life or from other games) for Mongoose/Ghost Racing?
My proposal: The Boonta Eve Classic from Star Wars Episode I: Racer
Oh how I could dream...
Edit: Less Extreme Idea--Laguna Seca Speedway
or even DK's Jungle Parkway
My proposal: The Boonta Eve Classic from Star Wars Episode I: Racer
Oh how I could dream...
Edit: Less Extreme Idea--Laguna Seca Speedway
or even DK's Jungle Parkway
Welfare
Member
Natural Green > Bland Gray
orichalcos
Member
I'm going in. HYPE.
What is your gamertag? I need a new Rival. Im playin now Library speed run. I hate.
What is your gamertag? I need a new Rival. Im playin now Library speed run. I hate.
PM'ing you now. Should be 3 of us online later if you want to get in on a private MP session? Assuming that'll work.
Thank you.
The last deal (free game + $50 gift card for XBL) was advertised as USA only but showed up if the items were placed in the Shopping Cart on the Canadian site. Unfortunately they "sold out" of consoles 3 days into the sale.
[edit]even pre-order consoles were marked "sold out".
Yeah. I got the current promotion which was $100 off towards Xbox One, and then they retroactively gave me the $50 off, saying it starts from Nov 2nd onwards so now I got the Sunset console bundle for $249+tax.
Long Drong
Member
Forge looks awesome but I wish they would have added the ability to put screenshots to the map, so you can see them when you choose/vote etc.
I'm terrible with map names.
I'm terrible with map names.
Do you mean submerged rooms/buildings a la Bioshock or simply Spartans "walking" underwater?
I feel like the latter would have physics/gunplay issues, lol. Harpoon guns?
orichalcos
Member
What is your gamertag? I need a new Rival. Im playin now Library speed run. I hate.
Library is underrated.
orichalcos
Member
Underrated? What do you mean?
Oh yeah. Halo Anniversary Legendary Achievement is sux. (No bandana skulls in Legendary Playlist )
Oh yeah. Halo Anniversary Legendary Achievement is sux. (No bandana skulls in Legendary Playlist
)They usually have a standard Forge Map image. In previous versions, you could take screenshots within the map and that would be the image. Not sure if that will be a thing now.
If you think the 360 couldn't handle that kind of Forge (object quantity and density aside) you must be kidding yourself. The additions to Forge in H2A weren't made possible because of the Xbox One. It's because 343/CA actually gave the feature a halfway decent amount of attention.