I did enjoy this map. It plays out great for team games, and weapon placements are great. There's not a single bump, nudge, or bad looking piece sticking out of in your map, and is atheticcally bueitufull. I felt that Slayer Pro you should lower the rocket ammunition, 6 rockets was making the map unbalanced for the teams. Overall I enjoyed the map's design, good job.
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you how spectacular this map is. But I will anyway. The weapon placements are phenomenal, the maps flow is very natural (no camp spots to speak of), and the aesthetics are stunning (you hardly feel like you're on Forge World) and the tree in the center was a nice touch, also, as simple as it is, the grated light was great too. Can't wait to see what else you destroy our cerebrums with.
Very nice looking map but it seems to me like red team has a distinct advantage. And maybe I missed something but is there a power weapon that's placed so it's biased toward blue? I mean, the sword is close to the middle but clearly favors red.
There isn't a rocket launcher on the map. Does the plasma launcher change to rockets in Pro? I don't play pro or even like it all that much so I didn't set my map up for Slayer Pro. correct! Blue team can reach the plasma launcher easier than red team. Red team has a bottom path directly to the Sword. Its pretty balanced. I never had any problems with one team owning the map with power weapons.
Oh crap, looks like I'm going to have to warm up my xbox before going to bed! This looks insanely awesome and I can't wait to play on it! It kind of reminds me of my map, or rather my friend Jenkin's map Paradise Plaza with the trees in the middle. Thanks for giving more amazing content to the community! Two thumbs up!
I haven't played it yet, but I did do a forge through. Awesome layout, but you should remove the lights, they cause lag, especially the one in the middle near the tree.
After i downloaded this map, i tested it and made some tweeks (nudged the tripple lifts a little so you would't land on the railng and added a ramp inside the snipe spawn cover) i will upload it to my file share next time i fire up my box. If you like the tweeks maybe you can include them in a future v1.1 or a v2.0. and thanks for an awsome map
I really liked the trees. They have inspired me to make a map of my own with some trees in it. I never would have thought they would look so nice.
I'm glad you decided to make your own improvements. But if you upload it to your fileshare, make sure you give it a completely different name so it won't split the download count in any way
Came here to post this. Just like Shad0w's map Titan, Looking cross-map turns into a slideshow. Removal of the lights helps a lot in your map's case, but there's still so much going on that there's still a bit of framerate reduction. Forge World is turning out to be way less awesome than I was hoping. Love the layout, though. Hope to get some games on here soon and will give some proper feedback.
Gunnergrunt does it again! Brilliant. I wish everyone who posted here understood map flow, weapon balance and placement, and line of sight like you. Please keep them coming.
Instant Classic I'm familiar with your work so when I saw your name on the post I was sure it was going to be a quality map. You completely blew away my expectations. Spectacular concept, look, gameplay. Spawns are tight and it plays really well. My customs group couldn't put it down on saturday night. There was one thing I changed however and I hope you don't mind. I felt and atrium with trees needed a little sunlight so I switched out the two colliseum walls that roof the map and replaced them with sloped colliseum windows. You can barely tell unless you look straight up. I'm stupid OCD like that. For me it's all about the details. BTW the globe light with angled teleporters is pretty freakin amazing. Stellar map man. MRX
You can download a version of Vanilla without that white light in the middle. It reduces the frame-rate lag by about 50% (There isn't much to begin with, but it helps). Its in the fine print under the download link at the bottom.
This map is absolutely fantastic. Aesthetics, gameplay, everything. The only problem is the frame rate freaks out. It sucks because that is beyond your control, but I might recommend removing any unnecessary merges so the system can keep up with the maps awesomeness.
I don't want to rag on a well designed map, but yours is among the worst offenders in framerate lag of anything I've played. It's an unavoidable reality of Bungie's game, but this map is not innocent of such issues. The lifts in particular drop you to a couple frames per second. Hopefully Bungie can do something about all the framerate issues with a Title Update or DLC forge worlds because the issue is going to restrict what maps are possible.
Just from seeing a few of the pictures, I knew this would be a must-download. And after doing a forgethrough... Is stunning the right word? This is simply the best map that has come out of Forgeworld thus far- brilliant aesthetics, unparalleled flow, and great gameplay. I give this a near perfect score.
If you wish to reduce the frame rate lag, download the optional version in which I removed the white lighting in the middle. Its decreases the lag pretty well. I'm sure all of you pro guys will like that version more. Wouldn't want to throw off your DMR!
This map seems like what would happen if Ivory Tower and Construct had a baby. I wasn't sold on the map just from the writeup, but after seeing the video, I'll definately give it a try. I still don't get why you included a plasma rifle, though....