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I always tried making a map with an idea like this but I could never get it to turn out right. I love how it is enclosed all the way around and has land and trees in it. great map.

 

This map looks Hella kewl! really like the idea of putting a mountain inside of a box
DLing this fo sho!
the one thing that i would have to question.. based on the pictures.. is that i spy a ghost in there and that might possibly maybe screw up gameplay a little. But i wont know until i play it! nice job!

 

i dont think the ghost will harm gameplay, it will probably function similar to the ghost on isolation, it will be a power weapon but with the close quarters and the platforms from whch people can ambush it it will be very difficult to use....

 

I like the area you chose to build in, as well as the quality of the screenshots, but the map design itself, especially your object choice, is still ineffective and sloppy. If I were you, I'd go study other, more professional maps that use natural terrain to see what they're doing right compared to yours. This just looks like another rushed map of yours. Put more effort into making your maps and I might finally have an opinion that isn't so negative.

 

Again with the ignoring feedback, only going with the positive. You haven't changed.

If you don't wish for this poorly designed map to improve, don't look at what I have to say. Look at something by Noxiw or Draw The Line if you want to see just a few examples of "professional" maps.

And you say that I should have to download it and looked at it...What, did you use different objects in the downloadable version? I think not. The object choice is present in the screenshots and the actual file. I only keep truly great maps in my HDD, not maps that are garbage in almost every way. The saddest thing is that I can already tell from the screenshots. With that being said, my controller no longer works, so even if I did decide to play this map, I still couldn't.

Learn to take feedback in the future and you might not continue making some of the worst maps in Forgehub. I'll leave this thread now since I know you're just going to make another ignorant comment defending your map. Goodbye.

 

I like the look of this map. I've always found the walled in synthetic environment aesthetic appealing. Its very pretty and natural but still feels foreboding and dangerous. You've captured that feeling perfectly. The map looks clean and neat and ultimately very well put together. Nothing really stands out as being a big problem gameplay wise, but I haven't actually run a full game on it. Perhaps I will add gameplay feedback to this post when some friends get online. Until then, congratulations on a cool map.

 

I want to quickly address your points that you've made.

1) Your map is sloppy, as are the overwhelming majority of halo maps. It's hard to find a good map that isn't your average forgeworld map. As for telling you what objects could be edited, that's uneeded because that's up to you to come up with. I personally am not going to design your whole map for you by telling you what to do with all of it. I will give you advice because that is what you wish for, just hold on.

2) The people that don't make forge maps are probably the best people to critique your map, because they aren't biased towards what you can and can't do. Sure, people that make forge maps can praise something different and new about your map that is difficult or innovative to do. However, somebody that doesn't know the workings of forge views a map for what it is. If to the player it looks sloppy and unstructured, who cares if they know how to make a map? The average player will look at it the same.

3) Saying only positive things about maps seems to be normal here for forgehub. But to be honest, lots of the maps that are released here need some serious changes. I'll start out with the positive, because that's all people seem to want to hear.

Positive:
Your support columns look like nice aesthetic structures (pic 5).

Negative:
Your bridges that are made out of the large inclines don't look nice. Sure they might be there so that you can walk under them, but I think you can do better and should use something else to achieve the same effect.

Get rid of coliseum walls. The maps that use them as boundaries are ugly. They really are. IF you want to use them as boundaries, camoflauge them. You can do this by adding other structures to the walls to make it look like they aren't barren. You can do better.

Your structures do lack creativity. They are all boxy and your bridges in one of your pictures dont even look like they line up properly. (top right of pic 4) I can't help you with this one, you have to figure out how to make your map look nicer.

You have a medium sized map, for BTB. That can sometimes work out for you, and sometimes it cant.

It looks like you can only get up to those side structures/catwalks with a teleporter? If this is true, I'd change it. You don't want to have teleporter-only accessible areas. Especially when they allow a height advantage.

Way too many power weapons. Eight power weapons/ vehicles? That's overdoing it.

You're probably young, so I won't be too harsh, but try to work on your grammar and spelling.


If you can't take the truth about your map, then I feel bad for you. If you want to advance to making better maps, you have to listen to what people say, instead of "nice map! I love how it's enclosed but also has trees in it!" Those kind of comments are honestly spam, and don't help anything but your self-esteem.

Best of luck on future maps.

 

Wow, this is a really great idea the maps looks really fun, and i have not seen anything like this before, i've never thought of something this way great job

 

I love the natural landscape paired with the enclosed room feel. Kinda reminds me of a Spartan training facility or something.

 

This map loks pretty epic, looks nice that you brought out the color of green in this map. Did you use filters?

One problem would be high-groung-advantage. People way low might not have a chance if they were to get team DMR'ed.

The map looks pretty good though nice job.

 

Great looking Map ya have here. Reminds me a little of my old map, Final Fronteir...

Interesting concept... Great idea in making use of familiar terrain in an unfimiliar way. Reminds me nothing of Paridiso and i like that.

Honestly this would be nice for a change in BTB (if i still had my Xbox... sigh...)

 

Wow, this map looks really nice. i like how there are some really tall buildings, it seems like the map would play really nice with 4v4 or in a big team battle. i think it was smart to build on the colosseum walls too, the walkways are awesome.