wow, i dom't even remember playing some of those, guess i only scratched the surface, once the servers are up again i'll keep an eye out
Come check out my final Halo 5 mega project! I think this might just be my best map yet, give it a play and share around I will send you a virtual high 5 Dawn of the Banshee: A spiritual successor to Night of the Mantis with a few surprises and secrets added in... https://www.forgehub.com/maps/dawn-of-the-banshee.8126/
Servers are up for the beta right now but we have a limited capacity of around 100K concurrent players and we are averaging between 2 and 4 times that amount. Because of that, wait times are usually 30-90 minutes depending on the time of day. Don't blame you if you don't want to wait. Just wanted to make sure you knew. You can see some picture's here though, if you wanted. ArtStation - Blaze Lightcap
Found some leaks today, have no clue where they are from. I had a suspicion Livefire was a forge map, and now I am almost certain it is. Some people argue it isn't because of how clean some parts are, but I think those parts are clean due to either advances in forge, or the clean lines being entire assets. The budget is already hype, but with proper terrain editing and lighting adjustments its amazing. Edit- the budget on the live fire screenshot is 0/2700, it kinda can't be a forge map. But still, he left the skybox which is cool. I see a banshee spawned in but 0 budget, so maybe they finally made gameplay objects take no budget?? Maybe it doesn't work yet and it still is a forge map?
I get what you're saying. I wouldn't ever post any story spoilers but this seemed like a fairly harmless leak that would promote discussion. Id assume the mods would axe the post if it's too much. I should clarify I have 0 clue where its from and that it was basically posted on discord then deleted. Edit- They are supposedly from waypoint, it glitched for a second so people grabbed them like wild Hyena's.
Ya Counter Strike was my first feeling but then Mombasa kinda lends itself to that. Like I mentioned, it also had a bit of an older COD vibe as well. I'm not hating on the map though, it's just that I wasn't hugely inspired by it. I would agree that these maps stand out far more to me than Halo 4 and 5's maps, but then they still feel more like 343 has outsourced maps to other Devs. They just don't scream Halo to me. I want 343 to kick me in the face with Halo. I want Halo to ooze from every map. WIth how long we've been holding on, I think we deserve that.
Live Fire a forge map? I believe it. In fact the btb map they showed off might as well be one too based on the terrain and environmental details, if, as I suspect, ‘forge’ is just going to be infinite’s ‘hammer’ from here on out
you deserve nothing for hanging onto this franchise except a Memento of your own making... ...a monument to all that could have been, and was not
those concrete pillars are perfect 6 sided primitives just like forge with a concrete texture on it, no bevels to complement the erosion on the seams or anything like that you would expect from a AAA map. Lots of details like that. It's actually good news for us if its a forge map: - Terrain sculpting confirmed, - multiple brushes and blending confirmed - the terrain is actually a nice resolution, you can add lots of noise and it doesn't look overly polygonish
This would mean that we can have 3D displacement effects in reaction to explosives, too, since those were present on Live Fire
I remember a screenshot of someone saying that a mud displacement looked like crap after a grenade was tossed, but I can't find it. Hopefully I'm not just stupid and it was not about something else lol
I wonder if global budget is different than the budget we usually see or if it just is pre-release and doesn't work right. If Livefire is a forge map it doesn't really make sense that the budget is 0/2700 Im going to assume that budget isn't working yet, because it feels like a forge map in a lot of ways.
I feel like they've been dragging their feet on a Forge reveal. They were going to do it a couple weeks before they pushed it all to 2021 and how much could the Forge itself have changed in that time. Not to say that they couldn't have thrown down some improvements but is it enough to not even have brought up when we'll finally get a showcase. It's August one year later for god sakes. The bloody game is supposed to be coming out soon, give us a Forge reveal already. It's about time we start getting to the meat and potatoes of this meal.
It almost feels surreal how we manage to have a beta test with 3 maps, 3 months before launch, yet we have 2 leaked screenshots of forge and that is it.
Probably because the forge release will be somewhere 2022. Maybe 2 months later like H5 I don't know. Anyone here played the reveal? I was only half aware about this insider stuff so I just registered, maybe for a next flight or something.
Forge getting delayed would be such a letdown. I can't speak for everyone but id rather have the whole game delayed than play a Halo launch with no forge. One of the most fun parts of a new Halo is to jump into forge with friends and do stupid ****, if I can't chuck a grid at my friends than what's even the point. Since it's free to play it isn't the end of the world, but it's still somewhat sad to think about.