What have you done!
Listen to this post, very carefully, unless you want to see thousands walk away from the halo franchise.
FORGE IS ONE OF THE MAIN DRAWS FOR THE HALO COMMUNITY!!!
The three forge maps are to small and rescictive, they are strangled by the boundaries!
Where has fine tuning gone?
Where are the large blank landmasses?
How are we supposed to create large vehicle based maps?
Why are there less rock pieces than in reach?
The list goes on…
The forge tools and forge world from reach were almost perfect, this needed to be added to, not dilluted! How could you possibly think what you have done is a valid replacement? You should be asshamed of yourselves, sure it caters for begginer forgers, but for veterans, this is a major blow. If you want Halo 4 to last until Halo 5, you need to consider the existing community. Some incredible things were achieved in reach forge because of its sheer freedom of choice. Sort youselves out and suprise us, not make us depressed about what should be a standard inclusion.
Not gonna lie, this is EXACTLY the way that I feel. I spent numerous hours on Forge mode in Reach; me and my roommate both did. It was definitely one of the major draws to the game, and a custom map that I made is the most played map among my friends.
Not only are the new Forge options much more limited, they really failed to add anything significant to the original formula. I really expected to see numerous new pieces. The main thing that I don’t get is having map-specific Forge pieces. Why can’t I use them elsewhere? I’d love to have pipes in outer space, or some of the space station pieces in Erosion.
I’d also love some extra options, like purely decorative pieces. How many maps have bland backgrounds with nothing in them? It would be cool to have pieces that aren’t even made to look good up close, but look decent from a distance and are extremely cheap to buy/use. I have an idea to create a skyscraper map, but I can’t afford enough walls to make the thing look large enough; I usually just run out of pieces I can use. You’re only supposed to fight on the ground floor, but I really want a nice view when you look up, and I can’t achieve that.
I’d also love to see an even larger wall than the coliseum one, something that could create both a large ground covering and a large ceiling covering.
In fact, the most amazing thing that could be added is scaleability of objects. Being able to create a wall by modifying the width and heights to the best measurements would be amazing. Most of their pieces have random holes in the edges, too, which makes connecting them a pain because it shows places I never meant to be seen.
Finally, while I’m on my rant, I really wanted to see either stairs going the opposite direction or a mirror option for existing pieces. I hate that making symmetrical maps is nearly impossible because many of the pieces only go one way (stairs always start from the bottom left and end on the top right, for instance). I would be thrilled if they’d have given us the option to change that up.
Sorry for the lengthy rant, but these are my major disappointments to Forge mode in Halo 4.