Damn

 

Its just simply beautiful, I haven't had time to play it, but from the pictures, its simply stunning

 

It looks really good man. I'll have to give this one some games and see how it plays to comment further, but I like your visuals so far.

 

I haven't gotten to play this but it is up there on the top of the list! Also, did you decide to go through with that lockout remake? I'd love to see it with a similar aesthetic to this with the overgrown trees!

 

Ok; I also take a keen interest in it because I'd like to see it in the remakes playlist that I know 343 plans on putting out =D

 

Visually, the map looks very nice. If it was intended to be purely an aesthetic map, I'd be giving it a high rating.

As a playable level (Disclaimer: I haven't played on the map) I'd say it's far below average. It's closer to being an octagon than an actual multiplayer map. There is some height variation and cover on the map, but the layout is overly simplistic (a circle with an open center and a pathway around the exterior). I feel like you could've made something much more interesting without sacrificing visuals very much.

I personally think you'd have been better off if you'd either gone all out on aesthetics and not even bothered making it playable, or focused on creating a solid design and then pushing the aesthetics as far as you could without sacrificing design elements. Making it playable with a mediocre design hurts it, imo.

 

That looks great! Honestly, I don't mean to be too much of a fanboy here, and of course its your map so its up to you, but I think you should totally stop all other projects and get that one finished. There are many Lockout remakes out there and I have played on several that have very accurate-to-the-original gameplay, but I have not seen one that looks that good. I feel that if we remake a map now in Halo 5, we have a responsibility to not only remake it, but to enhance it and make it look better/more interesting, since Halo 5 forge has given us so many artistic options. I know I'm kind of pressuring you to do a map and you might have other projects going on, but I have not seen any forger pull it off as well as you and I think you could be the one to give 343 that Lockout remake that I know they're going to put in their remake playlist.

 

We need more original and great forge maps like this, it's beautiful... adding to my collection

 

The 2nd pic looks real O______0

 

Basically what Chunk said. Amazing aesthetics but mediocre gameplay. The map's basically a boring donut and I honestly didn't have much fun playing it because of the overly simple layout.

I'd be interested to see what you can do if you dedicated everything to making a full-blown aesthetic map though. And I absolutely love the lighting in this. Looks great shining down on the player as he looks around the map.