Now, i'm not an 'advanced' forger like all you lovely chaps (and chapettes if there are any reading this), however i'm not an absolute beginner either. I've been getting extremely frustrated with Soft Killzones. They worked perfectly fine in Reach, however I can't seem to get them to work properly in Halo 4 i.e. they behave as Hard Killzones without a countdown timer. Is there option somewhere that i'm missing? Or am I misusing them completely i.e. a Hard Killzone has to be present on a map for a Soft Killzone to work. Any and all help is appreciated. All jibes pertaining to me missing something potentially so damn obvious are probably deserved :embarassed:
If the soft killzones aren't working maybe try a soft safe zone? Or several if you need to work fine detail with killzones?
Soft kills work just fine in my experience. I've used them on my maps and I have played many other maps with them in place, without getting hard-killed. Do you perhaps have a hard safe zone on the map? If so, passing outside of that will kill you instantly, whether there's a soft kill there or not.
Most likely your problem is an overlapping hard killzone somewhere. If a soft and hard overlap, the hard will take priority. As a test, delete all hard kill zones (using the "delete all" function) and save a new variant of the map, then test it out.
Don't worry, I suck too... But anyways, I don't really see any problem with soft kill zones with me, but it could be if you have an overlapping zone (like those two up there said). If that doesn't work...I don't know.
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. I've got it all sorted now It was just as Nutduster stated, the hard safe zone was causing the problem.