Submit Your 4v4 Maps For Matchmaking!

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by WAR, Jun 20, 2016.

By WAR on Jun 20, 2016 at 6:02 PM
  1. WAR

    WAR Cartographer
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    The Community Cartographers are collecting 4v4 maps to be considered for Halo 5's Arena and Team Slayer matchmaking playlists. While we don't have specific dates to share yet, we want this announcement to encourage you to start creating or refining your designs.

    Our search for 4v4 maps is two fold, we are accepting both original designs and remakes of classic Halo maps. Please note, our intention is not to cross pollinate originals and remakes together in a single playlist. We wish to create a separate playlist revolved around the remake maps that will use Halo 2 BR starts. We recommend that you submit your 4v4 maps to as many website platforms as possible to ensure that your map receives the recognition and attention it deserves.

    WHERE DO I SUBMIT MY MAP?

    As you may have seen in the past during our collection of infection maps, we have implemented a new map submission system on Halo Waypoint acting as a repository for all 3rd party community websites such as this one. We just finished creating all of the appropriate submission threads on Halo Waypoint for all map gathering needs.

    Halo Waypoint: Official Map Submission Thread

    When your 4v4 map is complete and you are submitting it on Halo Waypoint, please follow the proper format when submitting your maps. Simply copy and paste the provided structure verbatim into your post. Failure to include the required portions of your submission may result in your map not being reviewed.
    • Map Name:
    • Author(s):
    • Gametypes: (Slayer, Strongholds, Assault, Capture the Flag, Oddball)
    • Map Description: (at most 1-2 sentences)
    • Screenshot: (XboxDVR or image link)
    • (Optional) Video: (XboxDVR or YouTube link)
    • Map Name: Twice Forsaken
    • Author: Secret Schnitzel
    • Gametype: Strongholds, Slayer
    • Map Description: An asymmetric forerunner themed map built in a snowy mountain cliff
    Screenshot:
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    Please use this thread for questions relating to submission guidlines or gametype information only. If you have difficulty posting your submissions to waypoint due to a ban or otherwise, you can use this thread as an alternative submission thread. Just let us know about your circumstance in the comments when posting.

    4v4 ARENA DETAILS

    - All existing Arena game modes are available to use such as Slayer, Strongholds, Capture the Flag and Assault. While we encourage you to set up as many gametypes as possible, not all gametypes are required to function on a single map. Please set up game modes that you feel best suite the space, player experience and symmetry.
    - Symmetrical maps are best suited for Slayer, Capture the Flag, Assault and Strongholds.
    - Asymmetrical maps are best suited for Slayer and Strongholds.
    - Remake maps will be using Halo 2 BR starts while utilizing Halo 5 standard movement mechanics.


    BE AVAILABLE FOR FEEDBACK

    After your 4v4 map is submitted, it will be reviewed by the Community Cartographers. They will be meticulous in looking for any map issues that will impact gameplay: player containment, incorrect spawn points, misplaced kill barriers, unruly geometry, etc.

    If any revisions are required, the Cartographers will contact the map’s creator with feedback. Maps that are not properly contained with kill boundaries or suffer from performance issues won’t be considered for matchmaking.

    As always, 343 Industries has the final say in everything that goes into matchmaking and when the playlist is updated. The Community Cartographers will make recommendations, but 343 Industries will make the final call.

    Finally, if your map is not complete or does not make this first round of matchmaking implementation, please complete it and submit it at your convenience so we may consider it for a future playlist update.
     
    #1 WAR, Jun 20, 2016
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Discussion in 'Announcements' started by WAR, Jun 20, 2016.

    1. Anarchy Kane
      Anarchy Kane
      What is this 8 months later when I don't care about this game?

      :(
      Given To Fly and iParanormal like this.
    2. Yekkou
      Yekkou
      ):
    3. SaltyKoala
      SaltyKoala
      Well done War and the same goes for the rest of the cartographers! You boys finnaly twisted 343is arm. This is the right way to handle the submission and now you won't have to listen to endless complaints of ppl left out of the loop.
    4. The Grim Dealer
      The Grim Dealer
      Will there be a deadline for submissions?
    5. WAR
      WAR
      We don't have a submission deadline for the 4v4 maps. We will be inspecting all submissions as they come in and will do our best to create a playlist around them. Our operational timeline depends on how much content is readily available. I'd like to put a collection of 8 maps together for each playlist.

      These map submission threads are here to stay and will act as a permanent repository for all of the community maps we're considering. So feel free to share your maps whenever you feel comfortable with the quality of the experience.
    6. N3gat1veZer0
      N3gat1veZer0
      any hints on when the first playlist will go in? A week? A month? Fall season?
      SkyMan EvoLV3d likes this.
    7. Duke of Mearl
      Duke of Mearl
      As a reminder to everyone: the Alliance Testong Network is open as a source to help provide feedback on your maps. To submit your map for us to test please contact myself, Max Extra, or Xdemption and we will put it in our testing queue. With this announcement we will work even harder to test all maps submitted on a timely basis.

      Also be on the lookout for some ATN related news and updates in the coming days
    8. WAR
      WAR
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    9. Anarchy Kane
      Anarchy Kane
      Is this going to take another 5 months to be made into a playlist? I dont think its going to be enough to sway people from battlefield 1.
      MultiLockOn likes this.
    10. iParanormal
      iParanormal
      For real, i feel like maps that get picked will piss me off just as much as Pegasus and Orion has

      I hope they dont, but I expect to be let down. Thanks obama
    11. Black Racher
      Black Racher
      I'll play to Battlefield 1 but man... I will not play to BF1 for the same reason I play to Halo or Titanfall or Rainbow Six Siege... I love all these games and that's not because sometimes I leave Halo 5 to play as a Stormtrooper on Battlefront that I will not return to Halo 5 later the same day or a few days later.

      I'd like to submit maps but I don't have the patience anymore to do something, to draw a map, then Forge it, try it to make a fluent gameplay with new abilities, then reforge etc...

      Why didn't you make a Halo Remake playlist with High Citadel, The Pit, Sword Base... There are some maps here which are really well forged and work with Halo 5 gameplay and ALSO have a really nice and well worked aesthetic (High Citadel is a good example).

      Also, there are a lot of mini-games really really fun, and we still not have an Action Sack playlist. I think you could add more content by using some things already created. Add Action Sack would be a good thing to make some Halo fans comeback on the game. We saw everytime in livestream a mini-game like the pancake mini-game, the war of gondola, the monster that bring players to hell etc...
    12. Given To Fly
      Given To Fly
      I wouldn't expect anything for a little while. The soonest maps would be in mm would be over a month, that is if 343 is serious about these additions.
      Aschur, K a n t a l o p e and WAR like this.
    13. WAR
      WAR
      In case you are unaware, Pegasus was designed by Adrian and Orion was designed by Guss, both of those individuals were hired by 343 and those maps were in matchmaking before Forge was released. While they are both competent level designers, those maps are not the strongest representations of what we can offer with Forge. This time, the community will have the chance to supply new maps to the playlist and I have faith in them.
    14. MultiLockOn
      MultiLockOn
      If twice forsaken doesn't make it in I will personally post so many porn links on this website that you won't be able to awkwardly explain to your friends that forgehub isn't pornhub because at that point they'll be the same thing.
      Blaze, Dunco, CANADIAN ECHO and 3 others like this.
    15. Soldat Du Christ
      Soldat Du Christ
      Yes! Colonial will make it in for sure, A+ Design FTW
    16. iParanormal
      iParanormal
      I posted this months ago.... why does it say I posted this today?
    17. Black Racher
      Black Racher
      I played it 2 days ago and it played very well... All new abilities of Halo 5 are cool in the map, and I had no problem to climb somewhere or to not climb where it could be problematic. The map is awesome by its aesthetic AND by the way it plays. Really, I don't think there's something to change here...

      I don't know about Contract 'cause I didn't download it... But there's a lot of remakes which could work in Halo 5. And I don't speak about a BR start playlist.
    18. fame28
      fame28
      I am currently working on the correct geometry and aesthetics of the Halo 2 Midship. Yes we have similiar maps like it in the playlist's already, but who doesn't love the originals that hooked us on Halo in the first place?
    19. patriot of FOTU
      patriot of FOTU
      How am I supposed to do this if I'm perms banned from waypoint can I do it on here

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