Has anyone played around with Forging maps for the Extraction gametype? Seeing what's possible and what tricks can be pulled off with it? I ran a quick custom Extraction game by myself to see what the play mechanics were, and I feel like the way new Extraction points show up as the game progressed could be used to our advantage somehow and could make for some interesting ideas. For example, I've been trying to think of ways to re-create Invasion-style gameplay because I found that gametype and those maps to be pretty fun and creative in Reach, and was disappointed to see the gametype absent in Halo 4. So has anyone figured out ways to perhaps manipulate the Extraction gametype or objects in interesting ways (even if not for Invasion-style gameplay)?
I've tried this with multiple pieces and tested a bunch of things, ran into some major issues.. buildings will spawn, but not despawn, and randomly I've had objects not spawn, then I restart it and they spawn and then the others might not.. its really confusing, and some objects just don't spawn with the extraction_target object. I just wish we got invasion again..
Same... Oh well, maybe/hopefully if enough people keep complaining to them they'll figure out a way to re-implement some of the missing gametypes.
Yeah, you can only hope so, with the way customs and forge are right now.. its just a big mess, in which I'm disappointed in. It feels like reach in reverse.. reach I was disappointed in the game itself, but not forge and customs.. now I'm disappointed in forge and customs in Halo 4, and not the game itself.. lol
So in Extraction, do you have to extract right on top of the decal? Or can you do it anywhere within the ext-site radius? Im a little confused on the roles these two (site and decal) play together. Why are they both necessary?
I don't know. I haven't attempted to Forge anything Extraction myself yet. If I had to guess I'd say the Site is the actual location where you go to begin extracting, and the Decals are the objects/blocks that are tied to the Site. Those are just guesses on my part, though...
The extraction game type is a bit broken anyway I think. If you have 5 over all extraction points and one team captures X amount and the other team captures the rest, as in one team did not capture all the points, then the game continues until time runs out. So unless your team is just so bad ass that they completely overrun the other team the game will go for the full time limit every time.