Rainbow City

Halo Reach Map Preview: Rainbow City v4 - YouTube

New video walk through thanks to SuperCoolHerb. Thanks a lot man. Let me know what you guys think. I'd gladly like to test the map with anyone interested

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This is my first attempt at forging since back in the Halo 3 days, so I decided to look through a lot of the current maps here on Forgehub to get up to date on forging styles nowadays. What I found was that almost all the maps I looked at lacked color. So my goal was to create a map based on that. Turned out a little more difficult than I had originally planned though considering there are only a few forge pieces with enough color to really stand out. But I still went with it and hopefully it turned out pretty well. It's a small to medium-sized 2v2 map, with my two main inspirations from this map being Guardian and squidhand's map Crown of Flies, by far my favorite ever Halo 3 map.

I need testers and people to give criticism because I really want this map to be the best it can. I don't have any screenshots due to the whole fileshare being down thing but if need be I could put up some shitty camera phone pictures. Anyway let me know if you would like to help test or just check it out.

I've never been too good at weapon placement but for this map I wanted to bring a really diverse mix of power weapons to the table. As of now the power weapons are sniper, grenade launcher, focus rifle, and spartan laser. I know that it sounds like a lot, but I feel that if the placement and spawn times are balanced right, then it doesnt take away from the competitiveness, instead it just changes the competitive style of the map. Now having said that, I know it can still be taken way too far in terms of power weapons so that's another thing I want to really work on.

Also, quick side note, since I built this map from a sort of Halo 3 standpoint I didn't think about how the map will handle jetpacks. I worked with the death barriers but it still feels awkward being able to fly over some of the walls that were intended to restrict players from going otherwise. Any help with this would greatly help as well.

So yeah, my gametag is itsDaxx, send me a Friend Request if you're interestered or hit me up on here.

Shitty iPhone vid- http://s1059.photobucket.com/albums/t425/itsDax1/?action=view&current=IMG_1422.mp4

 

I ended up not having every piece colored, mainly because of what you mentioned - it started to become just too many just random colors. So I ended up sticking with about 5 or 6 set pieces with a rainbow-esque theme (hence the name of the map).

Hopefully I can upload an iPhone video of the map later tonight. It won't be the best quality but it's better than nothing right? Unless somebody would be nice enough to capture it! Eh??

 

Thanks herb. Hopefully I can get a 2v2 game on this today and I'll put it up on my fileshare. If you want to help with the test that's cool too.

But for now here's a quick Iphone video I made last night so you can get a general feel. Keep in mind it's still in its early stages of development. I mainly just wanted to get the layout and the main aesthetic ideas I had in mind down. Let me know what you guys think.

IMG_1422.mp4 video by itsDax1 - Photobucket

 

Let me know whenever you get online so we can.

I've been working a bit to clean up some of the aesthetics. I also fixed a few issues to create a better flow throughout the map after going back and watching a few test games. However I still haven't actually gotten a game on the map myself D: If anyone is interested in more testing you'd be more than welcome.

Here are a few updated pics of part of the map I've been working on:

 

Thanks again Herb! You da best.

Let me know what you guys think of the changes