Alright Ima throw in my personal opinion of each map in because it's been a while since I had a little read number popped up in my notifications box

Dispelled: I'm not a big fan of this map, and I hated it during testing before it went in, however I gave it a chance when it came up in MM yesterday and- I didn't hate it as much. Idk, I'm still mulling it over

Estuary: The rock placement still feels messy as hell, and I HATE the out of place green tidal grass, but I ended up having a lot of fun in slayer. I'm not an expert with spawns, but I didn't have too many issues- I think. Congrats Kyle.

Traffic Jam: Haven't gotten it in MM yet, but got really sweaty on it in testing, and really enjoyed the some of the pathing. The random little death pits that can be found across the map in areas that look as though pieces should be there was an interesting and creative decision.

Unearthed: I actually had a lot of fun on Unearthed- once again, if I was getting bad spawns I wouldn't have really noticed because I suck in general.

Altar: TBD

Boulevard: Love the aesthetic update, I think this is one of the most solid maps in the playlist.

Entombed: nope

Deadlock: stop getting worse with every update.

Basin: If youre gonna be bad, might as well go all the way

Fracture: I'm so excited that the rocks aren't blue anymore. One of the few maps I get really sweaty on. I have fun with it, especially on CTF

Guillotine: Yes. but wtf is up with the neon purple road block accents, get it together duck

Scavenger: no, lazy 343 at it again with letting these dumplings slide into the playlist

Recurve: no, sorry Squals but they'res just too much bad blood, I just hate the map for what it is at its core- it's layout is like a fractured traffic jam that has been unearthed whilst scavenging for some entombed idiot who was killed by way of guillotine.

Eagle Square: I've never liked this map personally, I know some people enjoy CTF on here, but the geometry has always just felt very clunky and unorthadox to me, and I find the layout to be rather basic.

Antifreeze: A map the seems to get a lot of controversy, but one I find however to be one of the more solid maps in the playlist, as it can play a mean CTF- sometimes a little too mean, but mean non the less. However, it does show up in the playlist a lot, probably because it plays all 3 gametypes. Imagine that guys, a map that plays every gametype in H5! all 3...

Valhalla: This update made it better, what with the extra cover and some of the exaggerated rock cover, however this is the map that should have been forced to change to tidal terrain, not Better Basin *cough* I mean Echoes. Not only does tidal terrain look more Valhalla, but you could properly do the river bed due to Tidal's nifty sand texture trick. I also think this should be moved to the Tidal canvas entirely, to give beach side an actual beach, and to have a much nicer looking sky, as the current sky has extremely awkward clouds that follow your recital around if you look up at them, at the very least turn the near fog scale down to 10-30 range, lower the thickness and bring up the brightness, most likely with the soft pattern should do.

Anyways, those are my light thoughts on the playlist, if there are any further questions, please feel free to contact me during my office hours, my assistant Preacher will be sure to alert me as soon as possible if you have any further inquires.


























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I only made cosmetic and containment changes, plus beefed up the vehicles to Woodland/Sword variants. Not sure who added the Wasp, and changed the spawns to Dynamic, but it wasn't me.

As someone who believed that was the best BTB map in H5 prior, I think I speak for all of us when I say,
The map looks awful. It is so over-the-top.
That sounds harsh, but the map needs a complete overhaul.
I would actually love to dress the map up, and tweak a few things, I think it could be the best one again.

I agree, it's awful in many ways, including how it looks. That's the point.

With the tidal trick you possibly could make it more of desert (granted the origional was a savannah)

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On a side note, I would like to point out that the majority of the Forerunner BTB maps are based on traditional Forerunner aesthetics.

Maybe 343 should take notice of that

Yeah, and that's not an attack on you Nok, the map has just felt as if it's gone down in quality since its original version, plus the removal of the enhanced filter is missed, considering that and the sunset sky box were the only things that made it stand out visually from being 'just another alpine map'

Feedback so far:

We do not need stronger ghosts than the default ones. Also, If we have one or two maps leaning towards Heavies so be it, but please no more.

Entombed looks like it recently came out of a butthole. Too much texture on top of too much texture on top of green and brown. Oh and it's shiny too! Also, I'm actually into the idea of this being a ruin because the map has always looked like a pile of blocks, but--now that it is actually a pile of blocks--the railings and bars and support struts really, really look out of place. I like the use of sand vs grass. i don't actually hate playing this map. You're welcome.

Deadlock has airplanes. I have cancer.

Viking is fine. Not a fan of all the vehicles (gauss hogs + wraiths) or the rocket turrets. Should have replaced Basin.

Antifreeze is dark and grey. The lighting makes orientation harder. I'd like if the light bars/shield generators were more chromatic and if each teams bridge was tinged the team color. Right now one side is light blue and the other is light tan. I'd prefer if it was blatantly red and blue. I also enjoyed the opening rush for camo more when it was on the catwalk, but nbd. Not a fan of strongholds on this map.

Guillotine has a plasma caster at rocket spawn and I strangely don't hate it. Though I am not a fan of the saw at snipe. But whatever, still a top map in the playlist.

Fracture is enjoyable. Rocket hogs was an interesting choice that I don't mind.

Scavenger is all positive.

Boulevard is all positive.

Recurve is obviously improved but I sorta liked that gauss hog chilling bottom mid.

Eagle Square is better, but I still mostly hate it and wouldn't be sad to see it go. If it's only in for flag and nothing else I guess i can tolerate it.

Altar: haven't played it.

Dispelled feels very large. I like the way it looks like CE but I think I'll get tired of the map soon. The spawns feel weird in this map. I often feel as though I'm facing the wrong direction when I spawn. I guess its nice to have scorpions in matchmaking? The map doesn't play in an especially unique way, which would warrant its inclusion.

Estuary was fun and unique. It reminded me of the rocky Battlefront map in the Beta. I don't have a good sense of how the map flows and connects yet, but the engagements I had were great.

Unearthed I played with friends and just continuously circled on a warthog roadtrip. I honestly can't give any critique because I was just goofing off. I imagine I'll get frustrated with this map eventually though.

Traffic Jam: I'm starting to doubt this map actually exists.

The cosmetic changes reflect how i feel about the game play changes which were not made by me. Originally, my long-term plan was to make subtle changes with each upgrade to dress up the Blue (UNSC) base, and make Red (Rebel) base look run down as if designed by the UNSC propaganda machine, but instead i pushed each to the extreme. I love the Forge/MM team to death but they keep trying to make Deadlock something it's not. It's supposed to be a playground for wheeled vehicle/infantry interaction.

I don't get it. Are you saying you intentionally made it look ridiculous because you think it matches the play style?

No, Please don't take what i said above as me being vengeful or spiteful. It means i didn't use my usual good judgement and restraint filters and built exactly what i believe they wanted based on my observations of the changes they made. I put myself in their shoes and tried to match their view of what the map should be.

Also, some of the changes made were based on direct feedback. I don't know if i can post that list here since it was from a private chat.

Is traffic Jam really in the playlist?

I really want to see your zanzibar remake lol

lol it may be a while. I'm only working on it when i feel like it. I'm done forcing myself to get stuff done according to deadlines