I am not a 343 hater at all your doing a good job but your maps are very symmetrical as opposed to bungie maps you guys need to get a bit more flamboyant a bit more edgy stop playing it safe you don’t have to have mirror image maps all the time or is it just laziness you can design half a map then copy rotate and paste apologies for the insult
I prefer symmetrical over asymmetrical any day. 343 have done asymmetrical maps before, but I’d argue many prefer the symmetrical maps in competitive play as asymmetrical rewards whomever gets the good spawn, and even on some of these already symmetrical maps you see it.
I think they both made some good maps and some pretty poor maps. At the end of the day it all comes down to preference, I like stasis, many don’t. I also hate truth, empire and eden. 343 has released an acceptable number of good maps in almost anyones eyes I think.
Both companies have their ups and downs when it comes to map design, but considering that Halo 3 has my favorite roster of maps, I’ll go with Bungie.
I honestly hate most of halo 5 maps lol.
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Same. After playing since launch i can say that i hate all Arena maps …And noctus, scanctum only WZ maps i like playing
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ya I like all warzone maps but the only arena map I like is coliseum lol. I feel that’s the closest feel I felt to a bungie map.
Having played a lot of Destiny PvP, ugh, I think H5 has much better maps and PvP than that game. So as of right now I would say 343i is better than Bungie. However, I enjoyed lots of old Halo maps
Bungie, dont get me started on old halo maps 
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They both had the goods, the bads and the uglies. However I have a greater appreciation for the Halo 3 maps.
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> Having played a lot of Destiny PvP, ugh, I think H5 has much better maps and PvP than that game. So as of right now I would say 343i is better than Bungie. However, I enjoyed lots of old Halo maps
New Game v. New Game. Halo won
I really can’t think of a Halo 3 map that I didn’t like. The game was pure bliss.
I like Bungie’s maps way more. They had a lot more variety and diverse locations. Their maps also weren’t designed with any specific abilities in mind, just straight up fun and tense engagements, Reach being the exception with abilities.
343’s I feel suffer from being all the same, all symmetrical, and being built around every new ability they feel like adding to the game which, to me, kind of breaks the flow of gameplay.
I think BTB suffered a lot because Vehicular gameplay was shunned a lot in favor of infantry focus.
Arena suffers from the same small symmetrical/semi symmetrical designs with maps that honestly don’t wow me like Halo1-3’s maps did. I understand arena is fast paced action, and I love small maps (I’m a brawler type) but geez, a couple of bigger maps wouldn’t hurt that much (It’s why I kind of like Stasis and Torque(somewhat) because they are bigger. I have to spend a few seconds actually predicting and hunting the enemy team, which is a nice variety in pacing.
I prefer Bungie maps. 343 maps are good and all.
Most of my posts are rants right now I am not even going to lie. But I noticed the same thing the game is so bland. For some reason along with the numerous other issues I have addressed. They do not even take advantage of what the forgers have to offer. It really sucks. On top of that they do not have offline playability which is horrible and they should definitely work on fixing that so maybe the game will grow in popularity and maybe just maybe people will buy the game. There are so many people online making excuses and claims of defense for 343i and not enough people demanding what the game is supposed to offer. Sure forge is awesome but in all actuality with the user interface etc why would anyone want to even forge??? Sometimes I really do not even think they play this game or see what is really going on like what kind of content the players are creating etc…Doesn’t make much sense if you ask me. But they said they were going to stop making remix maps and push out some new studio maps created from scratch. I do not know though. The way 343i does things is just crazy in my opinion…It seems to be at a compromise in logic and common sense…Like how can you not notice the most important things in HALO…The maps do not have enough depth to them…and even in forge there are no ground poundable or breakable objects…The idea of “Arena” is nice…But what we really need is matchmaking? Although I think H5G is fun…There is no place to use these great spartan abilities. The maps are to small…They need to check out some of the places in Bungies past games campaign mode…There needs to be differing heights etc and depth to the maps…and places to use all of these abilities and weapons…and they should really take advantage of the fact that the game now has a 24 player limit? The canvases are so big why not 24 player custom games or company matches > Spartan company slayer > Spartan comany skirmish…Maybe something like invasion > Spartan company warzone…This game only seems to be wasted potiential to me…They could even do something to make the thing in the middle of ascension and the wheel on zanzibar to move with a rotation tool for scripting…I do not know why they do not do this stuff…Or make a custom game finder or server list maybe…shrugs…Like I said this game seems to be wasted potential…The need damn near an MMORPG esq update…Because unfortunately this game has horrible physics compared to previous Halo titles. A lot of things can be done to improve HALO 5 GUARDIANS…and one would to be to listen to SOME of what the fans say…Some of the things 343i chose to nerf were also very unnecessary. But that is all I have to say. To close.
343i doesn’t seem to make maps that are viable for many or all of the game types. They seem to make maps that are only useful for 1 specific or one other game type. Maps back in Halo 2 like Ivory Tower, Ascension, Lockout, Headlong, Coag, Burial Mounds, WaterWorks, and I could go on with maps that Bungie created that worked for Slayer, CTF, KoTH, Territories, Oddball, Snipers, and BTB. Now a map only plays well for Slayer, SWAT or FFA and is terrible for Objective game types. Or it plays well for an Objective like CTF or Strongholds but, Slayer is a train wreck. I like the direction they’re going with the game but, these maps aren’t as memorable to they used to be. I could never recall maps in Halo 4 and still have troubles remembering maps in say Breakout and even BTB. They need to go out of the studio to design their maps. And release a BETA early for the next game that includes ALL of the in game maps so the community can give feedback and not your “closed beta testers” who clearly don’t know jack about map or gameplay flow when it comes to FPS games.
I enjoyed bungie maps a little more. with exception to cold storage. I cant seem to figure that one out. Also I really miss the texture work of halo 3 on the maps. Halo 5 looks so…cartoony? I know that has to do with the power of the Xbox one and the 60fps taking over but still the textures of halo 5 are not designed or rendered well at all.
I must say Bungie maps had a lot more variety. 343 keeps copying pieces of other maps and shoving it together as one “new” map. It’s not hard to make new and interesting maps, as well as recreate old ones. 343 seems to be at a less creative level in my opinion, or it is just pure laziness.
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> I honestly hate most of halo 5 maps lol.
You are not alone. The maps are not as good as they used too. Overgrown though…one of the best maps ever made!!!