All Reach Forge-gasm should be had here. For those of you who haven't seen the live stream, some major stuff was announced. Outside of Blood Gulch is a giant forge world with water, islands, the chess map and more. You can forge anywhere out here. There are now customizable death barriers and return to play fields Ghost merging is now an option, physics can be changed between regular, fixed and phased There are tons of items, from blocks to full bases. Certain items have color change abilities, from red to blue to yellow to green Lighting options include nighttime Forged teleporters have an area affect status and vehicles can be teleported. You can hover 360 degrees around objects without moving it so 2 controllers won't be needed for ghosting There is a reset to original position button You can change items to specific angles such as 30 and 45 Items have counts based on categories. So instead of 40 blocks, you now have a category limit it appears SUPER REACH ITEMS Gamespot Forge Demo IGN Article
Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God. Just checked the youtube channel. I'll edit this with my thoughts. ****ING FORGE ViDOC!!!! YouTube - Halo: Reach ViDoc - Forge World I honestly can not think of words to say. That entire video was every damn thing we have asked, and more. Bungie has really outdone themselves and Forge has been upgraded to something totally spectacular. I'm definitely replaying this a bunch of times to totally comprehend all the new features. Merging on command, floating on command, Warthog king of the hill, altering camera angles, changing colors. Definitely an orgasm for any Halo fan. **** YEAH BUNGIE! Here's my analysis after the initial orgasm. I'll post all little things that stand out to me. -0:39 in the video budget is $9570. So yeah, we have a shitload to work with. -0:44 Mongoose's accelerating with no driver? Probably a glitch or they used camo. Plus new mongoose looks sweet. -1:06 totally epic jumps now. Either some sort of improved man cannon, but you can just see how far that jump started by the small mongoose all the way in the back catching air. -1:25 a nice view of all the objects. Placeable grids, rocks, and a whole bunch of awesome forerunner architecture. -2:28 Demonstration of how easy it is to rotate something horizontally without having to move the camera angle. -3:11-3:36 showing off 'Normal, Fixed, Phased' options. Totally awesome. -3:42 OMG snap to 90 degree. ****ing sweet. -3:48 really complex options allowing you to edit coordinates. -4:01 'Fine editing mode'. -4:12 'Mass item selection', making canvases will take seconds now. -4:16 New spawn points -4:23 Custom color editing -4:43 New camera angle manipulation. I'm still confused on what really this entails, but is still awesome. -4:51 KOTH on a warthog -5:06 confirmation of shipped Forge maps with the game. Most likely will include the lockout, ascension, and sanctuary remake along with most of the other custom maps made by Bungie shown in the video. -5:24 On the file share, in the left a list of alot of map names. That's all I picked up. I'm speechless. The new variety available is ridiculous. I can't even speculate what we'll experience once the game is released. Great job Bungie, great job indeed.
I seem to have misplaced my pants at some point during that ViDoc, if someone finds them let me know. Thanks. Also, can we all just agree to not complain that "anyone will be able to make a good map now, Forging won't take skill any more" like we've done when Sandbox came out, when ghost merging came out, and when people were speculating about features they'd like in Reach forge? That argument has been had too many times to allow it to clog what should be a thread dedicated to picking over every minute detail of Forge and getting excited for it.
Float should be Fixed. Unless I'm very mistaken, that's the mode where you can orbit around the object without moving it.
Yeah, expept their distortion map appeared to have actual gravity changes. If you look closely he walks strait down, then goes and walks at 90 degrees to that, then walks on a wall continuing that pattern. This is something impossible to do unless gravity is changed, which means the sexy anti-gravity room may have a whole new feel to it. BTW, group forging just got about 1000000000 times easier. And i cant even imagine the puzzle maps we will get!!!!!!!! Im so super happy!
Wha...What do we build now??? If everyone can build everything easily, what now? --- He might have been in a piece being rotated.
THey showed off Dream's racetrack (forgot the name) and they remade Distortion before buddha even had the chance to! God, i screamed so loud i almost dropped my laptop.
I sat down to watch the video with a soda in my hand. About 20 seconds into the video I jumped up and screamed OH MY GOD at the top of my lungs and the soda spilled all over the floor.
In Halo 3's forge, bungie gave us some simple objects and said "go to town". With Reach's forge, bungie is telling us to make our own games. I honestly just don't know what else to say. I'm not even going to make a joke about me ejaculating. To me it would seem to ruin the moment.
Railing that trails off underground in the bottom left corner likely confirms we won't be able to customize shapes.., or maybe not.. Big showing of all.. or maybe most..some, whatever number of forge objects available in forge world.
I'm sorry, but 1) there is no compass in that image and 2) it is a horizontal view, so there is no 'southwest corner'. However, if I am correct, I would say that you meant the bottom left corner?