I just shat simple primitives. Those bases look fantastic.

 

That's me all the time...

 

So I gave it a closer look and I hope you'll be able to flesh out the river like Viking. The vehicle blockers in the base could use an update, and I also prefer the SPNKR. Your clever use of glass to make the forerunner lights is amazing though.

 

The river effect I'm referring to is here.

I'm also talking about the trapezoid-ish blockers at the top opening and the bottom entrances as seen here. http://halo.bungie.org/halobulletins/20110921/ridgeline4.jpg

 

I looked at this map in forge the other night. I'm very impressed with what I see! It feels like the map from Reach.

It's amazing work. That said, there were a few things I noted from my runthrough that I would hope to see improved. From the top of each base looking at the other, there were some noticeable framerate issues. I believe a few other areas suffered from this as well. I also noticed that inside the bases the walls were almost pitch black, whereas the floor was very bright. The base looks great, but this was a little jarring to look at. I would also agree trying to give the rivesome water, though I'd suggest using the Decal Trick to get convincing flowing water.

Other concerns were that having the overshield substitute for a health pack so close to the rockets may give individual players too much power.

I really do want to get some gameplay on this sometime. If I do I'll let you know what I think of the gameplay!

 

Haven't looked at it yet, but I will chime in about the river on Viking. For the love of Halo, do not do that. It's a fake, well hated, thing that people find ok... It's horrible unless you use it as ice.

 

Haha, okay. I should've suggested the decal one.

 

Yeah the "frozen water" look on Viking through the grassy, rolling hills, makes me want to cry. So many better options, the remake is near perfect, but good god I hate that, lol!

 

Looking forward for this map to be fully completed.

When do you think it'll be? And once it is, will you be saving a new version or will you just update this current file?

 

If I were to check the hill elevation accuracy, would you prefer the original for reference or Reach?

 

I'm gonna load it up via backwards compatibility and use hill markers and crates as reference. Hill markers are your measuring friend, and when placed on flat surfaces, help you figure out how tall things should be relative to each other. Nokyard could give you the best advice on this. He's doing Avalanche.

Edit: So I compared the immediate outside area of Ridgeline to your map and found that your turret platforms are uneven to each other. The outer paths away from the bases (the one to the bridge for example) are too low, but the upper hills above those are okay. Keep in mind that the bases are sitting in a bowl-like area with short and tall hills around it.

 

Played FFA sniper with some friends this past weekend on this map. While the map does look pretty good we had constant framerate issues and the spawns would occasionally drop us mid-air. Was quite funny to see guys dropping in. I do agree the center river needs some work. Would love to see a real river there! And there is an issue with the brightness. Outside of one of the bases the warthogs are blinding. The vehicle blockers are kind of odd as well. Bases are good.

But my friend you so far have done a great job on this map. Does have that Timberland/Ridgeline. Would like to see a hidden Grunt Doll like we saw the hidden GRD Doll in Ridgeline. Just a after thought.