That was my first impression, until I began to see some of the things people were creating with it. I am very impressed with the possibilities. They are in directions I would not have imagined. The point is that Forge Island has opened up new directions of forging/ideas and I am pleasantly surprised thus far. I cannot forge on Forge Island the map I am putting together on Impact due to the lack of the circular piece that is custom to Impact. But this is not to say that it doesn't have possibilities in a host of other ways. I am already starting to put together a Zeus map, and I am loving the rocks. I am actually thinking of making a "dream" map, where things don't seem at all real, but like you are dreaming. e.g., the rocks are simply floating above the ground as you run for cover. The trees are making for great soft cover to hide in for the Zeus map. That in itself makes a Zeus map very interesting as well as the possibility of extreme altitude. What I did find was that the binary rifle's scope tracer has a limited range. To make it touch the ground from above (so you see these red lines coming down around you), the binary rifle cannot be above 70 units in altitude. I don't know if this is too low for the scoped shot, especially for the binary rifle. I think sprint may help offset the aiming ability at that altitude. The highest altitude is 330 units, which is about a mile high.
So me and 3 friends spent about 3 hours yesterday reliving what we could do in forgeworld. This included a giant aerial drop into a ramp to launch us across the entire map, dropping from the top to the bottom inside a container open (with pallets and golf balls flying around us), teleporter launching (although it didn't work the same way) and grid launching. Absolutely nothing productive was done that day... oh yeah and it was a great way to finish my xbl gold which Im not renewing for quite some time.
i wish that they had a ground editor like on simcity 4 or let us have a classic peice menu with stuff like the zanzibar wheel terminal train exc.
I would have been thrilled with just beaches and a sand bar connecting the islands... But I know what you mean...
It's.. so.. flat... haha i used all my rock 5s and need to make the map feel less flat while still making it feel natural.. any ideas?
its just gotta have the feel that its a natural map that has unsc structure built in cliffside... haha think high ground! i csan show ya soon!