Looks nice but is it worth getting an xbox one for?

This was actually my doing. I changed his username from "lllTyrantlll" to just "TYRANT". Now I changed it from "TYRANT" to "purely fat". Lets see if he gets even more confused by this...

Also, is it just me or do forge pieces have a pink tinge to them???

That's one thing I forgot to mention, but yeah, the new skins are arguably the worst. The H4 ones were generally the best in terms of being more monochromatic and thus easier to work with. The skins in Reach had a lot of battling textures but were all similar in color; I was surprised actually to go back to Reach the other day, start poking around on old custom maps I made, and notice how some of them were actually pretty attractive.

The screenshots of the objects here make it really hard to imagine maps being visually appealing at all if you start merging a lot of structure pieces, or using them in ways other than the obvious and intended ones. Once again you have different textures, different colors, lights and darks side by side, color striping in inconvenient places... gives me a headache just thinking about it.

I really think Bungie was poised to do something awesome with Forge, if they had kept the series and made a game or two past Reach. 343i has some good ideas and perhaps good intentions, but they cut too many corners, and too much of the recent Forge updates have consisted of thinly-disguised copy and paste.

Yeaa, definitely have a pinky look :/

The pink is meh. I think it'll get way too noisy quickly too.

I like the textures from the first reveal, though.

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I'm looking at it this way....
I don't own a Xbox One. I am laying high odds that with the release of Halo 5, there will be a console edition of Halo 5, and that is when I am going to buy the Xbox One.

But....

That isn't stopping me from buying a copy of the MCC - in fact I have to go out in the nasty weather we are having right now to run an errand, and I will be swinging by the store ( on the way home ) to pick up my MCC pre-order ( and when I get home it's going on the shelf ). That being said, seeing the capability of the HA2 forge last week, made me sit down and seriously think about going ahead and getting a XbOne now ( I'm still going to wait for H5 to get one ).

There is this thought about the reuse of the old shapes. They already had the shapes on file, by using them them they saved programing time that was likely used improve other aspects of forge.

I still don't understand why they decided to round out the corners of the forge blocks

Wuh?????

This palette is the best palette I have seen since sandbox in terms of creating immersive experiences.

I would take it over the deep contrasting scribbling lines that run all over the faces of the blocks in H4. And I would take it over the ubiquitous dark grays of Reach.


You need to know how to use the textures to create immersive architecture, or ya your map will look like a pile of noisy blocks i guess.

Aye, definitely my favorite palette by far... Shame they mucked up the bridges and ramps so bad though. We're back to Reach style forging with avoiding object/polygon density. :/

These reactions were from before the game was out. There some pictures that looked absolutely terrible. They didn't show a lot of the blocks. So, maybe you should read the post date before you go Wuh?????
I agree though besides the terrible frame drops this is the best palette.

Ive still yet to see any good maps aesthetically. All remakes look worse, the stone effect looks dull, and quite frankly, last gen. Pieces dont seem to mesh together, the constant pinkness on all maps, water effects that look like a 6 year old coloured them in.

The only real advantage to the blocks is how clean they are. This may allow you to do some interesting structural things, but having started a map that tried to do this. I ran out of blocks and got frame drops. It really kind of sucks.

eh, this palette makes for a great ruins aesthetic.