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First off, I’ll start by saying thank you 343 for these additions being Free Updates and not DLC. I work with making my own little stupid Halo videos using Forge and I’m pretty sure there are a few hundred or even thousands of others that do it as well. The addition of various green screen sizes is very useful and will provide help with adding that little extra bit to some stuff. And while I admit that the controls for forge are a little odd at first but after taking some time to getting them figured out it’s no problem using them now, so i suggest people take an bit and just explore what every button and option does before trying to create anything seriously before they start complaining about controls. - Secondly, I will say that while I am disappointed with some things and would like more, I appreciate the fact that they still went through and put effort into these forge maps. I know there isn’t much room to complain and since these updates they provide are free normally it’d be wrong to “want more” of them and I know they can’t just whip something out without time and energy being put into it. I have worked on 3d maps from scratch, concept art, 3d modeling, and a bit of cgi though i failed on that. So I do indeed understand how much it takes to make things like this - Lastly, I already know that I am going to get a number of idiots and trolls on this, if anyone sees a reply that looks like just that please ignore it, do not feed them.
on that note, I am not calling those who disagree with me trolls or idiots as long as you are smart about it and provide a constructive argument not just a “hurrdurr ur rong i h8 you thoughts, go kll urslf” type of comment
I would also like to apologize if this post is at all cluttered, but i hope i do get my word/opinion/2cents across
thank you for all of your timeNow with all that being said the spoiler below contains what I would like to discuss.
this following spoiler is about Forge:
One thing I am a little disappointed with on Forge is space, or lack thereof. All three of the Forge maps are pretty small and you can’t do much on them. Lets take Alpine for example, this area is only good for small to medium maps. there is not exactly much flat land and after the disappointment of “forge Island” in Halo 4 I was really hoping that the new forge world(s) for Halo 5 would compete with the true “Forge Island” of Halo: Reach. Halo: Reach’s Forge Island was great, it had many different types of land masses including a smaller island with a mountain, a hanger, a body of water, and a valley and even small cave/tunnel systems. However Alpine, for what it is, is great on it’s own. Despite being small it does have a decent variety of land types and the map effects add a good touch to it. But I really hope that in the future you (343) will eventually make something equivalent to Halo: Reach’s forge island in size and variety.
Since you did add green screens it would be nice to see a bit of a cinematic control scheme for forge games/custom games. I’ve seen people mention being able to lower your weapon, this would actually be pretty useful especially when people start making their own custom gametypes or videos that call for such an action BUT even though this one would be nice it’s not absolutely necessary to have in the game.
One of the things I did notice however, is the lack of prebuilt structures. but I may not be looking in the right places, if there are then please let me know what menu the any prebuilt structures are in.
The fact that it requires Gold is ridiculous. A LOT of your community vocalized its dislike for requiring gold on Forge before it was released. I’m sure you have some reason to force Gold on your community with Forge but a lot of people including me enjoyed being able to play forge offline and alone to be able to concentrate on creating maps without the need for internet. That however, is no longer possible with you (343) forcing it down our throats.
Content-wise however Forge is pretty good on and I would like to thank you 343 for that.
aside from that I’m pretty sure that despite lack of size that this community will come out with some incredible maps. (to be honest i was hoping for a decent map so i could re-create Zanzibar, though i could still somewhat do it)
On the Note of Forge I’ve come across a bug. if you delete all of the respawn points and die you can no longer respawn period. I even saved and re loaded the map and it wouldn’t let me spawn or even open the forge menu forcing me to delete all of my progress and restart. It is incredibly frustrating and you may want to look into this bug. back in the other forge modes when deleting spawns you would just spawn in a random location but you would still be able to work on things.