Reach Forging 101 Ep. 1: "Invasion"

Wait, so can vehicles be objectives?

(sorry, didn't play the Beta so I'm kinda in the dark)

EDIT:

OH, very nice video, by the way.

I really appreciate it; I've been scouring youtube all day looking for FORGE WORLD info and the video sheds a lot of light on it.

Good stuff.

 

Is it possible to have to destroy an objective / object in an invasion gametype?

 

Yes, I believe so. You could throw flags off Narrows to effectively destroy them and they would just reset. So I assume it would work similarly in Reach.

 

THANK



YOU!

Here is a question: Can you spawn walls/objects and weapons based on phases? ex: A building didn't exist in phase 1 but suddenly appears in phase 2 because you set it to "2". Also related, can you despawn objects? ex: When you go to phase 3 that building disappears.

Spawnable on Phase = SOP if you want to use the term.

 

A few things:

Oo! Grids don't disappear when in Custom Games!
Oo! We actually get a core! I thought it would just be a flag!
Oo! Thats a lot of gametype options!

Now hurry up post man, I want my game!

 

You CAN set it to timed, but i dont know about that specific option...

 

How do I set a teleporter to be SOP? I want a teleporter to spawn in the third phase, tried different approaches but it didn't work :<

 

Create a small room with only the teleporter and use a shield door set for phase three open.

 

Great guide, I didn't realize we could do this on forge world. I will be making a map tomorrow and thursday and friday and however long it takes for invasion Thanks Brah, gonna make cool switches with it

 

Posting on phone; sorry for incoherence.

A few questions:

I can't seem to spawn the core consistently; what would usually be overlooked? I have set the flag stand to inv_obj_flag and have a hill marker with matching spawn phases, but nothing comes out and it's kinda frustrating.

Also, what does setting a vehicle to an objective actually do? It tells me to go to the car, but nothing happens when I get on.

Also, spawn at the beginning of the round = false doesn't seem to do what I think it should be doing (the objects are spawned at the beginning anyway).

Thanks for help on advanced.

 

I wish I would have watched this before I experimented too, haha. Anyway, do you know what inv_platform does and what inv_mancannon does? I tried a bunch of things with the platform, thinking I could spawn an object during a certain sequence, but it never worked.

Try setting the objects to all red team. The only exception I had was making the final return point--I set that to blue team (red is defense). I don't know if you have to do it this way, but I know it works with this set up.

I don't know on your second question, I haven't experimented yet.

Do you have the spawn timer at like 1 second or something? I am also kind of havign problems with this. I am still trying to figure out how to spawn objects after sequences....

 

I have it set to 1 second, but I'm under the impression that it shouldn't matter since it should be spawning in during a later sequence...

But I'm not sure...

Anyway, yeah, a lot of the options are kinda confusing and I'm still not certain what they actually do.

(at one point, I set a mongoose to INV_OBJ_FLAG and then a core spawned on it and I was like "WTF")

 

Thank you for the basics tutorial, i'd already figured it out.

i have a piece of the label puzzle, which I shall share, but i'd like to about spawn-on-phasing, if it's possible. Or if i just need to gate the object off.


when inv_mancannon is attached to a mancannon and spawn selection is set to 1/2/3 it will spawn in phase 1/2/3. wether it works for other objects I do not know.

 

Just make the spawn time for an object the same length as the first phase of invasion, 2nd phase, etc.

Make sense?

 

Not really, as i think u can only goto 180 seconds (3 minutes).

Standard first phase is 4 minutes.

 

Aw, crap, you're right. I guess that wouldn't work then....

 

We just need to figure out what the fudge inv_platform does...

 

You know how you can choose where to spawn in Invasion on like Boneyard ("The Garage", The Amory", etc.), how do you do this in Forge World? I can make multiple spawn locations, I just am having a hard time choosing which one I spawn at--it puts me at one at random.