Sandbox could be endless for all we know. You Can make a huge map with the skybubble and the ground have one side in the sky bubble fighting up top and one side on the ground, and there could be a teleporter they both go through to have head to head battles, on an intermediate altitude. :haha:
Lol, he made Interrobang. I hope they give us the full weapon pallet here, I never realized that Avalanche didn't have plasma rifles on the map. That's just wrong.
yes i realized that a few seconds ago. I get debo67, Draw the line, and buddh crane confused a lot. No snap on thing you say. That is a relief it would make forging to easy and thus not as satisfying. I have seen many good ideas spring up in this thread and i hope there will be more to come. The big question for me right now is.......... Will there be a third environment. Flat surface-Sky box-?????????????? (Hence the pancake theory)
If anyone here pre orders Halo Wars, be sure to post some good pics of Sandbox for me (I have C&C 3 for the PC and it makes Halo Wars look like a toddler game. Seriously, don't spend 60 bucks for Halo Wars. I love Halo, but Command and Conquer is just SO much better).
Actually, my favorite feature is the new lighting. I was always jealous of Narrows, how they had the cool blue lighting on one side, and the yellow on the other. Its my favorite feature.
Agreed. Well that and all of the new objects (which there seem to be a TON of). It'll be very easy to create unique maps now. Foundry has sort of become a melting pot of everyone's originality, so it'll be nice to get a fresh pallet to mix things up a bit.
That really doesn't make logical sense. Make forging too easy? The only reason I can think anyone would not want it to be easier is because they have an inferiority complex. Or rather they don't want to be contested. Thats ludicrous. Really you should want forge to be easy because if you can confidently make maps and they stand apart from the masses you know they truly are good. Anyhow, I'd say pretty much all the main points in Sandbox have been covered. I'm sure there are a few perks here and there we haven't been informed of but I'm content with tiered, death balls and of course.... banshees. Shee n00bs, at arms!
They announced it in the weekly update. I agree with the weapons. Weapons like the Missie Pod could have worked well on Foundry. It could have been anti vehicle, tactile, or maybe for a mini-game. More Weapons = More Possibilities
Yea I'm pretty excited for the lights too. On foundry you had to use the stupid power ups for callouts. Now we have pretty new orbs that have an epic glow, and we have plenty of filters to apply to the map. Bungie, I've been losing respect for you over the past year, but you just gained some of it back. I <3 forge!
I think it's awesome how Bungie caters to their fans. They always give us what we want.. as long as it's possible. Sandbox is a perfect example of that. I'm sure Sandbox alone could keep Halo 3 alive for a long time.
If anything Bungie may be one of the most loving, caring and community based developers ever. In all time. The fact they made an entire map dedicated to those who made forge its own is awesome.
urk, have I mentioned that I want to kiss you? And then we can go to iHop together. Just for clarification, I think I remember reading this, but the top and bottom will be accessible in the same game, right? So I can stick a teleporter up top and another on the bottom and people can access the top and bottom in one game, and shoot between them? I am 80% sure this is true but.
Ya, but Foundry could have been better... Oh.. you're talking about Sandbox? Yea.. I can see great moments ahead.. =) It's a shame Bungie can't cater quicker.. I lost all interest in gaming until this... mindless.. nonsense.. that I adore.
If there is a third tier, which I would like but don't necessarily need at the moment, it would most likely be a cave-style place underneath default Sandbox with defined, solid walls, a ceiling, and a floor. It would round out the trio of possible map creations; you would have your open-ended sky bubble maps, your open-sky default level maps, and your closed in cave-style maps a la Foundry. That's just speculation though, but pancakes do usually come in threes.
You know how they say you get more out of your map if you don't delete the default objects? What about saving materials for sky-bases? I hope the barrier isn't blocked or Bungie ****ed up big time. I think they got it though, I just don't want to have to drag every object up there..