This is the exact post of Forge Halo just copied and pasted to this forum.
Bungie did not listen, Reach could have greatly improved from these ideas, but 343 has a chance to incoporate this into Halo 4 (or Reach) to immediately one-up Bungie.
Original thread: http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=52588945
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> (For the Simplified, Much Shorter summary, scroll down to the first reply by me.)
or click here.Okay, so Forge Halo is basically a result of several things. I wanted desert, snow and covenant themed areas of a Forge World all in one. Then, through several suggestions of many people and some poll data, I decided to come up with two ideas.
One is Forge Halo
The other is Forge Jungle
(For a quick summary of the main details, skip down lower, to the first reply. For the full detailed explanations and ideas, keep reading.)
> Forge Halo
The Layout: An endless desert with two areas next to a mountain ridge. One is just a flat, open area and the other is Sandtrap. On the other side of the desert from the mountains is a snow covered plain (Ice Fields remake) dropping off of a cliff and the Sidewinder area is next to it between the cliff and the mountain. Shortly off of the cliff is a glacier with a flat icy Forging area on top of it. An abyss separates the cliff from the Glacier and surrounds the island. The Largest mountain peek has a crater in it as it is a volcano with lava sitting deep in it. A Gaurdian remake will possibly float above the lava in the volcano. The mountain ridge will also separate the icy winds on one side with the dusty gusts on the other. A thin layer of clouds will lie just below the mountain peeks and separat the normal atmosphere from the low-gravity upper atmosphere. A Covenant Corvette Cruiser and a UNSC Frigate will hover just below the cloud layer with a sunset-esque upper atmosphere surrounding the tops of the two ships. Boarding action will be worked into this area and other areas can be forged inside the ships, being hollow, and can utilize the low-gravity area to recreate maps or make ones similar to ones in the game already. Currently thats 8 areas: Flat Desert, Sandtrap dunes, Sidewinder cliff-side, Ice Field canyon, Glacier, Corvette Cruiser, UNSC Frigate, Volcano. Another idea could be added where the Sidewinder and Sandtrap areas connect through a tunnel to an inner mountain room that is much like an ice(or stone)-themed Foundry/Crypt. That would add to be 9. You would also be able to forge in the low-gravity and normal gravity atmospheres floating…etc.
Details/Forgeable Items: Pieces would include a smaller variety in blocks (only the necesary) but in stone and Forerunner, as well as UNSC themed building pieces like foundry, but more military focused. A large set of unique covenant pieces for building would also be included. Few Buildings would be need and not many rocks (because of stone blocks) would be needed. However, it would be nice to include more aesthetic pieces to forge with, like radios, chairs… It would also be nice to forge two Elephants, as it is needed for sandtrap and have snow themed UNSC vehicles. Another idea is to have a small selection of walls and platforms and maybe just a blob of flood infection like in Halo 3 campaign. This could be used to remake Cold Storage or other unique maps. I know the flood wasn’t around for Reach, but with this being Bungie’s last Halo game, it would be cool for them to add something like this into forge. Thats about all I have for details/forgeable items.
> Forge Jungle
The Layout: I haven’t planned much out for this, but areas would include an open meadow, a swampy marsh, and a Jungle like area. Another area could be a Warlock remake, a Ghost Town remake and maybe a campaign level remade into a map.
Details/Forgeable Items: It would be cool to have a filter that added stuff to what you see like old timey, only made it look like rain. I think that the items should be stone and UNSC themed for things like Mayan Pyramids and maps like Warlock and Ghost Town.
> Special Thanks
topsecret221 (ideas)
A 3 Legged Goat (Forge City)
topsecret221 came up with the Volcano and Frigate parts.
A 3 Legged Goat has an awesome thread about Forge City which inspired me to do this after Bungie pinned his thread.
Ramen 6378 came up with an idea to combine these two, but I feel it might get too out of control.
JediPimp came up with bringing back destructible forge items.
beast53575 also came up with an idea of turning the desert into a beach, but I feel like there’s been so much water which should be Forge World’s MO. Forge Halo’s MO will be about the variety and stuff that’s not in Forge City or Forge World.
Thank you to everyone that contributed (even if your idea wasn’t added).Tell me what you think, your ideas for areas, suggestions, and definitely which you want more.ps: Cool Scarab Idea and Great Thread of Ideas
Check this out if you like my idea
Another plan:
> **Posted by:**wi1lywonka
> It should be like this:
> Huge Beach > Mountain Range > Ice Desert > Desert > Jungle with River (no trees, you place those)Microsoft Paint rough edit so that you can picture what I’m thinking.[Edited on 12.19.2010 12:45 PM PST]
