Sandbox Ascension

this looks great, finally a map where i can play T.O.P with my friends.
the walk way looks pretty good but the round a bout part looks out of porportion. also the turret looks kind of wierd to me, i dont know why. im actually gonna dl this and i hope you get a feature.

 

Nice. Looks like a pretty good re-make.

Some concerns though:
- You did not take a picture of the famous small sniper tower.
- You could have put some long wedges in the bottom level to prevent falling, because there actually were some borders in that section in the original.
- Rocket place does not appeal to me for some reason.
- Round about is very clean and well done.
- The big building is very nice.

Can't wait to play it.

 

I don't care whether this is a good remake or not, the map looks amazing. It looks much different than other remakes and the aesthetics are much better. I wish I had more space to download this but I unfortunately don't. Nice work (however the Roundabout looks a bit sloppy

 

well i think you did pretty good. the only problem i think you have is that you tried too hard on certain points, that heart other points, like the round about is real nice, but the fork tower area and the rocket spawn look like they could use a little work. id rather not use an example, but take blockout, everything is JUST so accurate that he had enought to finesh, which is what the former attempt at a lockout remake didnt have. be very scarce when placing things, and remember how big asention needs to be. i know if you remade this with this solid in mind, then this map would be freaking amazing.

 

Q'd for DL. I'll give you what I can tell from the pictures now and If there's anything else I feel needs to be said after a forgethru and playthru then I will comment here again.

First let me just state that this map is likely to never play quite the same as the original. Th reason being that the skybubble is much larger than the soft-walled area in H2. Because of this, a Banshee in trouble could easily fly off to the edge of the map where he is less likely to die. Also, the rockets no longer seek vehicles like they once did. Therefor the only way to have the same function of taking down a banshee would be to have a missle pod on the map. So unfortunately things will never be quite the same it seems. Unless Bungie's doing some work on a remake (fingers crossed?).

A question I have is whether or not the three center pillars are climbable. I know that perhaps it's an odd thing but I think that even though they were a dangerous place to stand, that they should be climbable here as well. You're pictures are rather small so I'm not sure but is it possible to crouch-walk under one of those ramps? If so I also think that's something that might need a quick fix. Even if it were just a tiny little thing to keep people from going under there. Finally I would like it if there were a few more 'guardrails' on some of the sides. I'd have to run through H2 to see how close you got but some of it seems a bit riskier than it used to be. Keep in mind that I do know that there are budget and item limitations here that you can't do much to control.

On to the good. I'm really happy that you made the turret tower so tall. Hopefully the banshee still can't land there, right? Also the maps looks beautiful as far has I'm concerned. I think you've done a fantastic job with the layout and I'm not too worried about it generally. You seem to have made something pretty faithful to the original. Above all I hope that it plays as similarly to the original as possible. If that's the case than this will definitely be staying on my hard drive for a long time. Nice work.

 

Seems quite good, its not as accurate as pixie's remake, but it looks amazing anyway.
The gameplay may be better!

I will download to check it out.

BTW, I would prefer a missile pod than a rocket. I think it fits the map better.
Or you can put both, missile pod on the rockets' place and the rockets on the mid. I really think a power weapon or power up on the mid would help the gameplay.

 

As a map on its own, it plays fairly well. As a remake, its not as good as it could be. It looks very crunched together and not as well spaced as it should be. Not as good as it could be, but works as a standalone, not a remake. 3/5

 

U forgot to put the super Jump... any ways nice recreation.

Was this entered in the Forgotten Treasures Contest? Im assuming you did... anyways its really nice and ill give you 4/5

 

Skull dice, your post had nothing to do with his map. Please refrain from doing so in the furture. Only post on topics relevant to the OP.

On Topic: The big building looks a bit... iffy. It looks like the wall is a jumbled mess of items. If the original ascension looked like that then alright. (I never played Ascension.) Also, it's a missile pod for a reason. Rockets in halo 3 don't track.

 

for me the pic with the banshee to the roundabout that walkway looks like it goes straight to it , in halo 2 the walkway went down and angled to the tower. also not sure i like the turret tower its very closed in and doesnt look like u can get out unless u jump out , roundabout to big also but it is well forged .. map looks pretty close 3/5 for me

 

Scop when I saw you make the big part of the map I didn't think you could pull the rest of it off. You proved me wrong boi. Now remake that other map I told you to ;D.

 

finally i was waiting for a remake of this map.

everything looks well forged and the map looks like the original

i might be wrong on this but i think i remember a small platform sticking out of the map for the banshee. but i dont know i havent played halo 2 in a long time.

great job

 

not bad i wish you could have done better on main level three and also made it not all one height level. also rising the map wouldnt hurt. rocket is a little weak. over all 3/5
ps. i had the same problem whit making my map not high enough. check it out.

 

I downloaded it and did a forgethrough. I didn't like it enough to play a game on it, but from a technical aspect I can give you some criticisms.

The map is too flat. Ascension had lots of height variation, and it seems you kept the build of this map within the size of a double block. I would seriously recommend that you rebuild this and utilize the massive amount of vertical space available to you.

You also chose to go with using walls as floors, and as a result the running is extremely bumpy and gives the map a very sloppy look on closer inspection. Here I'd recommend using other items in place of the walls, and just stick to walls being walls.

Allow me to iterate that if I thought this map was complete garbage, I wouldn't have bothered posting. There's potential here, but as it stands this version isn't fully living up to it.

 

no deff not i thought 4/5 looking at the pictures i looked at the map then i have it a 3/5 everything is clean but when i look at the map i dont go. hey bungie just made us another halo 2 map yay. you know? making the map higher and not using walls as floor as much would help a ton! i hope this could help you out. like i said check out my Ascension or any other Ascension (not the crappy ones) and see how the hieght changes throughout the map. im sure if you were to do that your map could get a 5/5 EASY

 

nice i like that attiude. i really do! we need more people like you on FH!