I like Adrift. Not my favorite of the group, but it's cool. More my playstyle. Abandon look strange and out of place, but amazing at the same time.
well, i am a fan of CQB chaos. it reminds me of condemned and countdown which are a couple of my favorites. holy crap, that new map Abandon is sexy. reminds me of backwash!!!
yeah, he mentioned that in the video. really looks like it should be fun for good ole TS as well though. i wonder how far out off the cliff we can go, that area off the side where he glanced was really cool looking
Abandon certainly has an odd layout. It's not something we've really seen before, so I'm kind of interested in how it ends up playing.
Sweet, this is the kind of 4 v 4 I enjoy! The atmosphere on the map is great and overall it looks like a fun Asymm.
Abandon follows a theme of organic flood infested geometry that I typically don't like (isolation, Solace) but this looks awesome. I always wanted to see a map like this in Halo, it will fit well. I feel like each game regardless of the mode will be sort of like static KotH, which i find an enjoyable thought.
I almost, almost super like it. Little sketchy with how long those side paths are and I really like the open area at one end, but I wish the other other was a little more open. Looks cool and pretty unique though for sure.
Reminds me of Powerhouse and one of AceOfSpades more recent maps that may or may not have been released yet. I think it'll be sweet. Can't wait to watch the other 9 videos!
Abandon looks pretty cool. Aesthetically it reminds me a little of Guardian as well as Backwash. The only thing that bugs me about it so far are all the trees. Trees and pillars can be really annoying for gameplay. People tend to just dance around them in stupid little battles. Its been something I've tried to avoid in my map designs. Just a personal annoyance though I suppose. Who knows it may work for this map.
nice to see more footage of the thrusters in use. is it just me, or do the thrusters seem "boosted" in flood mode? i seem to remember some earlier footage where they did not provide a cross-map boost. if we have the ability to tweak that in customs, that could be pretty epic
Yea they were significantly tuned for Flood, which leads me to believe well be able to tune them in customs. Also, I'm so digging the music and sound FX. I'm feeling challenged to make a Flood map that looks and feels like a Flood map, and plays good too of course. I think these audio tracks will really encourage forgers to make creepy flood/infection maps, which have always been my favorite.
zero gravity uber thruster powered sword arena battles, here we come! i foresee a lot of bad ones, and one really great one.
He said that they have been able to tweak it, so we don't know for sure if we'll be able to tweak it in the game settings. They way they've been limiting the settings so far (not being able toggle on/off flag dropping...) seems to indicated that they don't really want to give us a lot of options.
well, the i way i take that is that they want to force us to give the new ctf a chance instead of us all automatically refusing and going to customs and classic settings. when enough people complain, the patch will come, imo.