Cold Storage

As I said in the past, nobody should make remakes except you.

I love the level of detail you added as well into this, you're obviously aware of your craft though and the fact that you've mastered the art of forging.

This will win the contest, unless your Ghost Town remake somehow surpasses it.

 

If you figure out whats doing it tell me as well, because I'm having the same problems with my map and I can't figure out what pieces are causing it either. Its somewhat probable that whats causing it on your map is the same as whats causing it on my map. You will come to find that when more than 1 person is in the area where there is FRL it will climb exponentially the more people are in that location. It happens on my map so it most probably will on yours. I'd love to playtest it to see if this is indeed the case. Send me a Friend Request on Live if your interested.

Also from what I see in the screenshots this is a very accurate remake with a very nice aesthetic. I'll download it tomorrow and have a better look though. Well done and good luck!

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Tycho, get of your high horse. I have seen many good remakes, that are just as good as his. It is also true that I have seen many bad remakes as well but I whole heartedly disagree with your comment about nobody should make remakes but him.

Don't get me wrong here, his remakes are very good. Though, drawing conclusions such as this gets us nowhere. This level of quality should be the standard, but it doesn't mean to say that NOBODY can make a remake as good as this. Most of your comments on peoples remakes on ForgeHub have been either extremely vague or just downright unfounded.

You are entitled to your opinion, but you need to think about what you say before you say it sometimes. A lot of your comments involve criticizing something without thinking for a second why it is that way; or you make generalizations without really informing your opinion / thoughts.

 

In what rooms are you experiencing framerate. From what I can see, it could possibly just be your overabundant use of glass and other miscellaneous objects. I can check it out with you later today, if you'd like. As for the remake, it looks exceptional. Despite it's meager size, I loved Cold Storage back in Halo 3.

Very well said.

 

Yeah, I'm experiencing the exact same problem. I made a copy of my map and started deleting so much of the map and it still lags. Its driving me crazy. Dynamic Lighting works so that's not to problem. Does anyone know what causes this lag?

Yeah, I'm tired of people like Tycho. Its just so two-faced. About 75% of his comments are not at all helpful and are just a waste of time to read. Like his stupid comment calling my friends remake, "a poop remake." It is neither constructive nor had any basis behind it. I'd like to see him make a remake as good as it.

 

This looks like a really solid remake. I especially love what you did with the server room.

As far as your sig pictures being re-sized, the max sig dimensions are 600x140 and the Turf and Hostage ones are both 144px tall. If you just crop them by 4 pixels you'll be fine. Word of wisdom, if you scale your screenshots to 700px wide then they won't be re-sized either.

 

I really envy your work, great job. I find myself looking closely trying to figure out what combinations of pieces you used to pull off certain looks. Very impressive. Just wish they had "light trait zones" where you could change the lighting so the map didn't look like a closet (lighting wise). The lights in the game don't have the area of effect like they did in Halo 3. We need some lighting trait zones where the center of the trait zone is the light and the bigger the trait zone, the brighter the light. All shadows would be cast from the center of the trait zone.

 

Wow great map! I really like how you did the orange room and the teleporters with blue Dominion shields instead of green ones like everyone els. Good job

 

I believe the Dominion Shields and the Station Cores perhaps are causing a bit of the frame rate issues you are experiencing, I have been on a few maps that have had that problem and they all used Dominion Shields :/.

The map looks great however and I am excited to play on it soon, you do not happen to have any over lapping glass do you?

 

First off, wow...and damn you

I remade this back in Reach and have been working on it in H4. I'm remaking mine on Ravine though because Impact lighting is annoying to me for making interior maps. Everything just looks too dark and players stand out because the dynamic lighting doesn't affect them. Of course Ravine isn't that different in terms of making interior maps, but I've decided to leave the middle room ceiling open to let the light in. But back to your map...

I love the look of the map more than anything. Aesthetics are really good even if some things don't look exactly like the original (i.e.: lack of flood). I'm having the same problem with the teleports. It is usually the one in the same room (sometimes others...stupid H4 bugs). It looks like you may have some Z-fighting issues in the hallway to the blue room (sixth picture). That platform looks highly suspect. Also is the tactical jump from bottom to top yellow room there?

And the only other thing I would change aesthetically (based on the screenshots you have here) is the ledges with the rockets. The columns that support them are too wide. I'd also adjust the look of the ledges themselves (but that's just me because I noticed how off mine looked in my Reach remake of this). I’ve also made those little shallow alcoves at the backs of the ledges in my H4 remake I’m working on. These provided some cover for gunfire coming from the blue room in H3. I’m not sure how easy it would be for you to change this, but in the end, if it doesn’t bother you, it doesn’t matter. Below is a picture of what I’m talking about with the ledges.


You did a great job of incorporating Impact objects to forge this one. The "Flood Examination Room" (obviously you have no flood, but that’s what I called it in H3) looks very well done. The yellow room looks great with the double windows. The teleports are more reminiscent of Chill Out rather than Cold Storage, but I like what you've done. FRL is always a side effect of maps that look this good aesthetically, so the fact that there isn't much (according to what you've said) is pretty impressive. You've inspired me to halt production of my map. This one just looks too good. I look forward to downloading this one...damn you.​

 

I actually worked on mine some more yesterday. I still really like yours, but since I've already spent the time on it, I might as well finish. I might have to make some adjustments though.

As for the tactical jump I found this screenshot online, but the guy who took the screenshot put a little ledge jutting out to land on. Apparently this guy couldn't make the jump without it (so sad). Anyways, you can make the jump without altering anything. If you still got it I would suggest throwing your H3 game in and look at the jump yourself to get the feel. It involves crouch-jumping, so it’s not as simple as hopping from ledge to ledge. But it was a useful jump to surprise players roaming that hallway. A well timed jump up with the shotgun was very effective in my experience.


As for the ledges, it’s your map and you can do what you want. It looks good and I would play the map regardless. The alcoves did provide little to no cover, I just thought for accuracy sake I would put it into my own remake seeing how I overlooked it in my Reach remake. But again, great job!​

 

I mentioned in your Turf thread that I was looking forward to your Cold Storage remake, and you haven't disappointed.

It appears you have made a scale-accurate remake once again, as well as making it look aesthetically pleasing. The fact that you can make a remake so accurately and still have enough pieces to make it look nice is beyond me.

Good job, and I'll try and get a game or two on this and give you feedback on the framerate lag.