Are there any other forgers here left on the forums that actually forges decent maps? It seems like most of the people here are talking about every game mode except forge, and even then if they are it’s normally people just stating something they don’t like about forge.
If you are a good forger please make your presence known to me, If you want any opinions for one of your maps I could take a look at it and try give constructive criticism. Please note that if your map was bad I would tell you the truth, I won’t just say your map’s ‘ok’ and nothing else. And if in a rare case your maps are absolutely terrible, then I will recommend just to try a new map instead of staying on that one map.
Now moving aside from that if you are a genuinely good forger have you gotten any of your maps featured on Youtube Channels or gotten your maps in Matchmaking? At the moment I have managed to get 4 features with 3 different maps on smaller channels and hopefully that number will go up within the next couple of months. I am also friends (or friends of friends) with most of the larger Youtubers with community features as well as being in quite a few of the videos helping play the map. And I haven’t gotten any of my maps into Matchmaking because all though I am ok in Competitive I am better with flood maps which aren’t meant for regular flood or hivemind, and I don’t have a mic meaning it’s much harder to get in contact with people.
I am also in the MK25 clan, which is one of the only forge/custom games clan in Halo 4 which has helped with the testing and creation of Hivemind and many of the maps going into Matchmaking. Also if you are a good forger and just don’t have the lobbies to test your maps on I highly suggest that you get in contact with me because if it wasn’t for this clan, I would be absolutely nowhere with all my maps and no one to test them. This clan also has a rather new Youtube channel so if you become a member of the clan you can get some of your maps well known.
So if you are a forger state wether you have gotten any of your maps featured somewhere or just what type of maps you forge wether it’s Slayer or Flood or Mini games.
I mainly do a mix of Slayer and flood as well as occasionally trying a mini-game (Which usually fails terribly).
Honestly at the moment I feel like there isn’t many good forgers left here. It’s like I’m the only one.
Anyway this is kind of a random rant I decided to make but yea, I’m not really sure how to end this so…
Well that was mildly egoistical. (Sorry, just came off as a little rude is all).
I consider myself a decent forger, although I haven’t had anything featured yet. That’s largely due to the fact that I’ve only completed three maps in Halo 4’s lifespan, none of which I’ve actually play tested a whole lot and none that I’ve even attempted to get featured as I’ve never had the time to do so.
I am currently working on a map that, once completed, I’ll likely submit for a feature on one of the various channels, but it’s still in the early stages of development at the moment.
As for map reviews, I’ve already got a thread based around that I’ve been running. However I do need more testers and if you’d be willing to help that’d be great. I would reccommend not tearing maps apart limb from limb, but rather starting out slowly with minor changes, pointing out some problems and building up from there as you go along.
Also, if you’re looking for good forgers I recommend Forge Cafe and Forge Hub both of which are populated by quite a few good forgers, many with map features and a couple with maps currently in matchmaking.
On another note, which maps of yours have been featured?
Dont have that many (about 4) and even posted in community creations.
I rarely have enough people to give feedback on my maps and thus havnt really tried to get my maps featured.
I consider myself a decent forger (atleast compared to people I know, who arent very active in building maps) and would like to improve or even be recognized by the community.
OP, your post gives off a really negative vibe. You should try being more friendly when trying to get people to send you maps. Your post could give people the wrong impression like “wow this guy sounds mean, I don’t know if I actually want to send my maps to this guy.”
Before you check out my maps, I have a question for you.
Do you forge? Or do you just judge forge maps?
Yea I realize I might have come off as a bit rude but I’m not really sure how to word it better. I’ll probably edit it to sound nicer. Also Enaemaehkiw I do forge a lot, I normally have a new forge map every 1 to 2 weeks so I’m a pretty active forger. Since halo Reach I have been more of a forger than an online Matchmaking player although I still play Matchmaking a couple times a week.
I think Detendez was just trying to differentiate between players who Forge for fun (low-quality or party maps) and players who Forge for realz (high-quality or Matchmaking-worthy maps).
Yes that’s right Vektor0. Here I’m trying to find the more professional forgers instead of the low quality forgers. I know there are a lot of forgers out there, It’s just the majority of them just forge for fun.
I hardly ever see any active good quality forgers here which is quite a shame. This post was really just to see all the other good quality forgers out there, but I do see I was initially rather rude although I have since then edited my post to sound nicer.
> Yes that’s right Vektor0. Here I’m trying to find the more professional forgers instead of the low quality forgers. I know there are a lot of forgers out there, It’s just the majority of them just forge for fun.
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> I hardly ever see any active good quality forgers here which is quite a shame. This post was really just to see all the other good quality forgers out there, but I do see I was initially rather rude although I have since then edited my post to sound nicer.
Most (if not all) of the other forgers (as in, bigger name forgers who do it quite frequently) are on the other sites I listed earlier. It’s just easier to go to those sites as there is no dedicated Cartographer/Forge section on Waypoint.
On another note, here are some images of my current project.
Pic 1 (I apologise for those semi-circles, they’re there because of the item bump that happens when you load a new map and I hate resetting them every time I start up)
Nice pics. One thing though- I would imagine it being tough to identify where you are, if the map is symmetrical. ( you didn’t mention this, right?) Colors would help. Still, cool concept. Reminds me of a CE mp, that I have forgotten…
> Nice pics. One thing though- I would imagine it being tough to identify where you are, if the map is symmetrical. ( you didn’t mention this, right?) Colors would help. Still, cool concept. Reminds me of a CE mp, that I have forgotten…
I wouldn’t say it’d be necessarily difficult. I mean, the lift is on one side and there’s a giant glass window on the other side, shouldn’t be too hard to identify everything.
That said, I will be adding red and blue to their respective bases to help with that.
As for the CE map… Drawing a blank here. Derelict perhaps? Or Chill out…
Well you know I forge from time to time when I get inspired lol and they usually come out very well. I wish nI had the passion some forgers do, but I tend to take months working on a map because I take breaks in between but like I said because of this they come out pretty well so testing does not take as long which is good because testing maps can be time consuming. I am a perfectionist so if I dont like playing on the map its getting scrapped and here comes attempt #2. I am not a know forger because if never tried to get my maps featured but I would like to some day
I prefer forging for the fun of it, rather than for the competitive community. Sorry mate, I’m not your “type”. However, I have been on YouTube a few times, and have even had my own glitch featured on ForgeWorldMaps (Turretless Warthog Glitch using the Race gametype), and have even been told I can compete for the Map of the Week/Epic Maps on the Team Epiphany channel. Just so you know, the world isn’t just about making a map for competition. There is such a thing as having fun. I have no intentions of being rude, like yourself, however it seems you praise competition forgers over us who forge and play for the fun of it. It’s kind of racist, from a gamer’s perspective.
Considering I don’t often play Halo, I never really get the time to forge much but I have made a map or two, never had them tested because forge hub are way too damn particular about everything and they never get attention on there.
It’s meant to be a Flood map that’s to be played with a gametype by the same name. I wanted to have 11 Flood and 5 Spartans at the start due to the backstory of the map, but I can’t do that so I’m stuck with 8 Flood, 5 Spartans with Armor Abilities and 3 Human “Security Guards” with Magnums which is what you start out with, and each of the Armor Abilities are meant to give each of the 5 Spartans that spawn in the pods a role in the squad and the other 3 are basically just there so I can maintain the “Delta Team (The squad in the pods at the start) is a 5-man team”.
> I prefer forging for the fun of it, rather than for the competitive community. Sorry mate, I’m not your “type”. However, I have been on YouTube a few times, and have even had my own glitch featured on ForgeWorldMaps (Turretless Warthog Glitch using the Race gametype), and have even been told I can compete for the Map of the Week/Epic Maps on the Team Epiphany channel. Just so you know, the world isn’t just about making a map for competition. There is such a thing as having fun. I have no intentions of being rude, like yourself, however it seems you praise competition forgers over us who forge and play for the fun of it. It’s kind of racist, from a gamer’s perspective.
Ok first of all congrats on getting your glitch on forge world maps, I saw that and it looked pretty cool and secondly I am absolutely fine with forgers just making maps for fun and I don’t mean to be ‘racist’ at all to any of you. I don’t even build maps for competitions, I always just try to build a good map to impress people, it’s a good challenge trying to make ‘the best map’ although I never do it’s still fun for me and if the map I build happens to the same map you can submit to a contest then thats just an added bonus.
‘Pa1n7 1t black’ I took a look at your maps and honestly I wouldn’t classify you as a ‘high quality forger’ but your maps could still be fun to play on with a couple of your friends.
‘AnonomissX’ I checked your maps and they did look quite cool and interesting, but the main problem I saw with your maps were with all the Base shields you were using the frame rate is VERY bad, if you can get rid of the base shields though your maps looked very good.
‘Terry 369’ and ‘DamienJaller’ I will look at your maps soon and I can probably give you some feedback within 48 hours roughly.
Also please note I am not actually play testing maps but rather looking at them in forge. If your maps is exceptionally good then I could play test and give you proper game-play feedback and if you wanted you could get an invitation to the forge clan so you always have enough people to play your maps on.
I can only make aesthetics
But the maps I made were for me and a couple of my friends and my bro. I forged so much that I can’t play Reach. The disk is cracked, a lot. The bad thing was that I couldn’t upload to fileshare so it was to stay between me and my friends. Now in Halo 4 I still can’t upload to fileshare thanks to my lack of hard drive. But I will admit the games were just mini games or infection, or slayer, just my competitive maps had severe gameplay flaws. I can’t play Halo 4 for now thanks to my Open Tray Error, PS any tips on fixing it without open/repairing it. But I can make aesthetics and was plotting an elephant based map using either the forklift *** from the thfe -Yoink!- my goose, or just make it a territory, or ctf game. My dreams once again crushed by a problem with my xbox. If anyone actually rips this idea off of this comment, at least give my profile props. The idea is up for grabs. If so try to get this featured please on any popular halo channel, and Mr Pokephile.
