The pieces look really well textured to fit in the forge map. They said there are a combination of pieces of the other forge maps and some new ones just for Forge Islands. That really sounds good. Even if those new pieces are just a forklift and a barrel I would be happy. I'm hoping its something else though. I think the menu includes new rocks, to fit in the new map, and I'm hoping there are some tree's, new scenery.. Maybe even forerunner pieces. Really looking forward to see the new items, and I already have a BTB map in mind. I'm sure a lot of people do. This will make Forgehub a lot more lively again, I'm sure of that too.
They said you could connect them together. They didn't say you'd have any budget left after doing so.
I'm really looking forward to the 11th, I already have a ton of ideas floating around in my head. Hopefully there will be some terrain pieces in the new pallete, which I suspect that there will be considering the mention of a Blood gulch remake. It would be pretty nice if there were a rock wall piece just smaller than a Colosseum wall, that would be useful really for cliff faces and the like.
Definitely a good idea for certain purposes, but for a general use map I can't see it working well. Having teles as the only passage between areas leaves a map very open to exploitation. See: Chiron. That said, any map physically connecting them probably wouldn't be very usable for anything close to competitive play anyway, so I guess it's a pretty viable solution.
I just realized that nearly on in the walkthrough video, Bravo states that everyone who forges will have noticed that "those are new pieces". However, they're all Ravine specific forge blocks. I really hope that by "new pieces" they don't mean "new compared to Reach", in other words: Ravine stuff again. Because I highly dislike those pieces.
I think they mean things like Erosion specific pipes or ravine specific buildings and catwalks. I did see what looks like reskinned ravine catwalks in that hang-em high remake breifly. Not sure where.
In the bridges. They look awesome. Really clean, I'm sure they'll become very useful in the future, especially if the design of the braces large / brace larges hasn't changed.
To let you know, someone in the video said something like this. "We have a combination of pieces of the other forge maps, and some new ones JUST for Forge Island." Sounds good to me.
I don't think it is too far fetched to expect new rocks, or tree pieces. We had tree objects in reach... but for real, a bush or a shrub piece would be so simple good looking! totally possible and easy to make too. Fingers crossed.
It would be awesome if they gave it for download early to owners of the War Games Map pass. Even though it isn't part of it.
In that video youl notice that ravine bridge has a new skin on it and the dimensions are slightly different so I think that's one of them. But I don't think it'l be anything too drastic... Who else is pissed off at them not adding in a big ass waterfall somehow? I think for competitive maps with a theme that would be priceless. The amount of maps on ravine that incorporated that tiny waterfall was ridiculous. Imagine a waterfall on a larger scale... ohh well