I was wondering about that too after I saw the screenshots. It looks neat, but at the same time you did merge into the ground. I think I'll be "borrowing" this technique in the future. This map is pretty good. It looks really nice, espcially since you have that flower. I like the idea of the curved flag spawn as well. I haven't looked at the map in forge, so I'm not sure if you can place anymore cover on it or anything, however I think it could be better if you had put some more objects on it, some of the open parts just look like blank Foundry, which I don't like. Also, you mentioned it in your post, but the map only works well with really small parties, which usually isn't good, especially since there are so many small competitive maps now. I think I'll probably keep this one saved for a while though. Whenever I'm waiting for people to join, I can just load up a 2 v 2 game here, which seems to work the best. I can tell you did put a lot of effort into making the map look and play good, I posted on the bungie forum as well.
That last pic is of me and Neverless, isn't it? I think that was my own trip mine... I'm so embarrassed.
Looks very cool judging from the pictures. I can't download it since my 360 is in the repair but I guess I can give a few opinions judging from the screens. +Very Nice job using interlocking +Interesting Design +Good Placement of Shield doors -Looks like the open areas are death traps -The unused areas (the corners) make the map seem too big (Not much you can do about though) -I didn't see that many weapons in the pictures Sorry if I'm wrong about some of those things but they are just some things that stood out to me.
Furious, your craftsmanship is unrivaled. I'm always looking forward to playing your maps. Send me an invite some time when you're playing customs.
Once again furious, amazing job. It looks like this one took along time. I think that getting the blinking light just right was kinda annoying right? Well anyways owesome and great work!
this is the forge god at his best, i dont no how u do it, but this is wonderful, as meantioned before, a lil more cover would be nice but other than that i dont know how it can improve. great job and it looks like it took a lot of patience and effort to make the round peice with the flag.
O my god! O my god! This is teh kool! Maybe the best map on forgehub.com. Incredible, it really seems like an official map. I downloaded. This is one of those maps that will go on bungie favorites and maybe get recon. (Getting recon is close to impossible.) - Brute Captain HEY, forgehub staff. PUT THIS MAP ON THE FRONT PAGE NOW PLEASE! IT WOULD ONLY BE SADDENING NOT TO PUT THIS MAP ON THE FRONT PAGE!
I'll check it out at some point, but the large amounts of blank space aren't very appealing to me. If you were to expand this into more of a hang-em high style map with more of a vertical feel I would probably wet myself.
the flower? looks... cool, i guess. rather pointless and definitely too pointless to take the time to make it 10 secs left in an intense CTF game: "Guy with the flag is hurt, BR him!" "hold up, theres a sweet little flower over here" "OMG its so cute!" not gonna happen. not to me.
Napster, are you completely immune to romance? That's the most beautiful (if not functional) part of any map I've seen.
Wowz0rz. Looks great, I love 1 flag ctf maps. I cannot wait to play this. I will try to get back to you.
Wow, I go to work for 8 hours and this thread explodes. I guess that's a good thing. Thanks for the comments and support everyone. Now let me address some of the concerns. The scarcity of cover is intentional and serves the size and style of this map. There should only be two, or maybe three, enemies to seek cover from. You don't need stuff everywhere to hide behind. Also, I absolutely hate CTF games where an enemy just camps next to the flag with a mauler or shotgun and kills you after you've spent 30-60 seconds hiking there (Highground, anyone?). It's so annoying. So on this map there is very little cover near the flag. Anyone camping there for too long will find a grenade in their face and some bullets close behind. The center was left open to create a risk associated with a power weapon. For those of you who don't know, the sentinel beam will beat a BR any day. But if you want the sentinel beam, you have to risk going out in the center. But you should be communicating with your teammate who should be covering you. You won't get far on this map without teamwork. Also, remember that I also gave you guys a "build" version. If you want more cover, load it up and put it in there. But don't blame me if people start camping that flag with the shotgun, lol. If there is one thing that I'll defend as definitely my idea, it's the floating shield door thing. I first used this technique in my Pyramid map, made two months ago. I then built an entire map out of the idea with Shield Ball. I don't know if you were serious about that, and maybe you came up with it on your own too, but that is a Furious original idea right there. That is one idea that is not my own. It was first posted by Scribner here. Yes, that was yours. I told Brotha S, "leave it there, it's right on the flag." Not 20 seconds later you guys blew yourselves up. You have no idea. I went through about 4 different designs. It's still not perfect, but I decided to leave it alone. I spent a couple hours on it, easily. Well this map is a great battle map. Once I had some of the final geometry placed like the curved platform, the skylight building, and the open building, I tested the map a few times. I knew that the layout was good and that the games would be fun and competitive, so I went to work on finishing it and making it look nice. I told everyone, "I want to make sure the map works before I spend another 5 hours on it making it look nice." These days, there are a ton of good maps. The great ones have that little extra polish to stand out. That "pointless" flower is now a signature of this map. It's something that people will remember, because all the other Foundry maps are boxes and fences. And it tells this community that they will be downloading a good map. No one will spend an hour on one little aesthetic item if the rest of the map is crap. Anyway, thanks again to everyone for the support and feedback.
And why... exactly... didn't you make Guilder?? **edit** ok.... never mind. man... are my words that powerful? Well I for one prefer the more open maps. I'm clausterphobic in Halo, and there are so many cramped maps out lately.
Lol, I don't know. But I'll be applying again soon. My application was actually my first post at Forge Hub, so they probably didn't know what they were in for. But here we are, 800+ posts later. My bro is the same way. He hates Foundry because of it.