Hi there, new to the forums and just started forging in Reach properly. Forged a few maps on Halo 3 but found Halo 3 forged maps too ugly looking...
Not sure if its the same for Reach but in Halo 3 you would create an object (a crate or whatever), place the weapon on top then delete the object...
The 2 second discrepancy is for drop spawn weapons only (sniper and rockets). It takes two seconds for a dropped weapon's timer to become active....