Big things in reach were only possible because forgeworld had prefab terrain out the ass. Working within the confines of a pre-existing map is constricting, but it does save parts. The cliffs served as walls, the hills as cover, and the caves as rooms. In Forge Island, the prefab serves no purposes other than being a floor. It's less constricting, but it also leaves us needing more objects to create those features ourselves. Overall, Forge Island simply has less options than impact. It doesn't matter how creative you are, as you can do the same stuff in impact at a lower cost, with more options. All I'm trying to say is that forge island is essentially wasted potential.
I'm going to make a forest... and call it... 'Forest'. I heard you get a feature when a map has a tree in it. So I'm going to have 50 trees.
You forget a major problem with Impact... the Terrain. Neither asteroid is big enough for a BTB map unless you want to build more than half of it out of coliseum wall flooring, which just sucks. The small asteroid's terrain goes on a slant...which really sucks. The bigger asteroid has that building in the middle which prevents you from doing whatever you want to do and takes up half the room, and the room wasn't big enough as it is. With Forge Island, you can make a nice BTB map on the big Island. You can't do that in any of the other 3 forge maps... which I blame Certain Affinity for and I will never forgive them.. and quite frankly, I can't stand em'. Anyway, you can make BTB proper now... even though the big island should be even bigger, it's a step in the right direction. What I'm pissed about is the fact that the gadget lights have been nerfed completely to the point where they are almost useless. Those lights were crucial for indoor forge maps in Halo 4 where dynamic lighting isn't applied. Why did they take the lighting effect off of them? Stupid decision. But.... we got trees and rocks as well as a nice "classic" natural atmosphere and it's good enough to have fun with and make something great. As well as do things you cannot do on the other forge maps.
That building is extremely dumb. I haven't seen one map so far that actually uses it. i did but that map was soooooooo bad i felt it was a discrace to the human race sooo i put it on an old memory card and shot it full of 45 ACP... althoth the first shot was more than enuff
Forge Island is kind of underwhelming, especially when you consider how painfully obvious giving forgers a truly flat terrain really is. But you can't beat FREE, and for that I do appreciate 343's effort to keep Halo 4 afloat. The new items, though few, are a welcome addition and I am excited to see what the community can now create. After spending just a short time on Forge Island, I am surprised by how simplistic the environment is; the textures, the skybox, the lack of any real obstructions. And, if I'm not mistaken, I believe some of the items have been slightly re-textured as well. If all this is true, than perhaps Forge Island is a concerted effort to dramatically reduce some of the performance related problems that have plagued other maps, making it the ideal forge space for future submissions to matchmaking. Like I mentioned, I haven't invested much time on the Island so for all I know frame-rate issues and other bugs may be even worse. What do you guys think?
the fact that the colluseum window now costs 150 budget is an indication they were trying to tweek things a little for framerate. Creating walls as barriers to the cliff edge so players don't walk off is an obvious need, so I think people would have instantly jumped to the c-windows because they still let the beautiful background and light into the level. but testers probably soon realized that was problematic when viewing several windows at once. with the budget change, that is less likely to happen due to the monetary incentive not to.
Does that mean you had to redownload your profile and everything you had ever downloaded? Like a downloaded game?
yes it removes all data from the xbox. you can copy files,save games and profiles etc to a USB for ease of moving back. off all the things support suggested wiping was the quickest and easiest for me.