Now this is a good looking remake if I've ever saw one. Visually striking, standing out from the crowd in my mind. Each part wall or pillar has an organic aesthetic feel which most forgers rarely do. Lighting at red area feels a little over the top though, I would think to reduce the fog on those lights so it doesn't look so faked.

Never been a fan of the weapon placement on this map, as such I would rethink the weapon placement like keeping the power weapons on the lower parts as the top areas will automatically have traffic because of height advantage and lines of sight. I would also tone down the power weapons / power-ups down to 3 so the map doesn't become power weapon happy.

I would also contrast your floor as covenant floors are actually either a light orange or dark brown. This will help with depth perception and create aesthetic flow. The triple bridge would be the only exception of course. Also consider trimming some floors if you have the piece count just for the sake of making your walls possibly more interesting.


Overall, well done as it does look really well done. One word of advice though, try to go for your own layout design and really make something with this level of polished aesthetics as I can see you really making some amazing things.

Keep on forging!

Xdemption

 

For the trim idea, if your maxed budget I wont pressure you. As for the weapon placement you could ditch the shotgun and the cloak as those I feel can impact the gameplay negatively. However, you could choose to have the cloak if you put it in the super exposed area of the triple bridge. This way it has a huge risk to get with high reward Instead of going with the overshield.

 

Best Damnation make I have seen, love the aesthetics!

Very clean forging.

 

NIIIIIIIIIICE!!!! I love it! Thank you for making this one. Pennance from Reach was on my remake list, but this is pretty dang close enough.

 

This is hands down the best Damnation remake I've seen so far. With a Forge this powerful, I had wondered why no one had attempted to recreate it to look more like Penance, and was about to attempt it myself. The map's only real flaw I can see is the monotony in terms of color (which I see you've already made attempts to fix). I know the budget is maxed, but changing some more colors could go a long way to make it look better. In addition to the purple walls and grey floors, Penance had some teal and gold colored accents around the map.

 

I just want to point out that if someone is expecting a 1:1 remake of Damnation, that's not what this map is. It takes a lot of liberties with the scaling. The lines of sight from Red side to Green side are much different than the original.

It's nothing against the map at all. I agree with everyone's comments about the maps appearance. It looks great and it's well forged.

 

Played this map with you twice today and enjoyed it both times!

It has the original Damnation feel, but feels modified to play well with Halo 5. And it looks so damn beautiful!

Great job!

 

Nice remake ! Good looking, good aesthetic, a really good job which simply gave me the feeling that each element is merged to the others...

Nice ! My own regret is that the environment outside doesn't really marry to the atmosphere you created on the map. But it's not really important !

 

Maybe you could create a darker atmosphere outside ? 'cause in the structure, there is really a dark ambient, and the outside looks sunny and beautiful. This is just my opinion and I'm the only one who think about the outside of the map, I guess, so... But the idea of a cave is great and could work for sure ! Maybe also put a green light of water on the water an underground lake, to create the feel that these green liquid in the map flood the lake !

 

Yeah, some areas are a little big for classic settings. In that case, if you don't mind, I might actually give remaking the Reach version a shot using inspiration from your map. I want to see how crazy I can get with the Covenant theme and how close I can get it to 1:1.

 

I figured I'd go the Penance route to contrast it a bit more with your map. The reason I'd prefer to have a version built around classic settings is because I feel like a lot of the variety is taken out of the encounters that made the classic maps so great, thanks to the new mobility mechanics. (Truth vs Midship is a good example of this)