I think everything in that picture is deletable - just like foundry! I didn't read too much into it. Enjoy. EDIT: Secret thread names are secret. I fail once more.. delete this.
This is the translated map description: Sandbox: Perfect for vehicular combat and Forge creations. source My thoughts: This looks amazing. I love sandtrap and I think it's the 2nd best map on all of Halo 3 (gameplay wise). This looks crazy, I love that there aren't as much annoying slopes all over. The blocks with blue and red on them look kind of out of place, almost photoshoped or something, but it is supposedly a forging heaven so I think it was just added for looks. It kind of looks like coagulation and sandtrap put together. This will be epic. I don't like the mood though, it looks kind of gloomy with the sun rise/set. I wish it was brighter and maybe with some blue clouds or something. That's what really gets me, so stuff like foundry just makes me sad. i didn't like all the shadows and stuff. Overall: Looks like good gameplay, but unoriginal. Supposedly great to forge on. We'll see. Right now: 7/10
wait... r u guys srs? this has been posted like a million times in the sandbox discussion thread plz lock edit: try this http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=17091
Well, if you take the original size of the mongoose and, digitally of course, place it in scale next to a practical sized mongoose in sandtrap you can conclude the basic format is equivalent to each other and that the layout of each map is a little different, yet has the same geometrical values of what you could think of as a correctly functional map. : )
I agree. I look forward to deleting the sun, the sand, and the clouds. I plan for my map to be a void filled vacuum (oxymoron ftw) Inb4Lock. It seems like every single forum section has a Sandbox thread. It's like boxxy, but with less lulz and more articulation.