We need to talk about Forge and see if we can get some wrinkles ironed out.
First off, has anyone had any issues spawning into Forge when loading a map? So far, three out of the five maps I’ve been working on are no longer something I can edit since I always spawn dead as soon as the Forge loads. I can load two of these maps from the Custom Game menu and spawn normally. The third map is a hot mess that not only spawns me dead in Forge mode but will crash my console if I try to load it in Custom Games. Odd, no? All three of these maps have adequate spawns for each team (including neutral).
Customer support can only tell me to “Try saving multiple versions of your map”. This might be good advice except ALL six versions of the last map I made ended up corrupt for various reasons. One included the deletion of 60% of my placed items for no apparent reason. Additionally, it does nothing to retroactively fix the issue of me spawning dead in Forge mode. When this happens I am incapable of changing or editing anything, so these maps are essentially as good as lost.
A more concerning issue occurred in my most complete map. For some unknown reason my Red Spawns and anything with the color red on it seems to have “merged” into the Glacier map and are no longer functional as Forge pieces. Whenever my indicator hovers over an item with a red color or one of the red initial spawns, I experience a massive framerate drop. Furthermore, if I attempt to generate lighting or load this map in custom games, my console crashes HARD. We are talking all the way back to the boot screen as the console resets itself.
To preemptively answer questions, I am barely yellow in any of the percentage bars on all but one of these maps that I mentioned. I have not exceeded recommended item count or over taxed my lightmap on any of these. Two of them do involve a lot of “invisible light” items but again, the light map is not maxed out and I am experiencing the same spawn issues on all three of the Forge maps available and with multiple day/night settings.
As a result of these problems, I simply cannot finish a map. The last map I tried to do was laughably simple and used only 35% of any one percentage bar. Still, after completing, saving multiple iterations, and attempting to load back in, I experienced the issues mentioned above. What gives? Is anyone else experiencing issues?
I have gone through basic troubleshooting protocols and have exhausted anything else I can do from my end. I am, simply put, at a loss here. I have trepidations about continuing to use Forge (my favorite part of Halo) since I don’t know what is causing any of these issues. Again. I cannot explain why I spawn dead in my maps considering all the initial spawns and such are there and functional. I do not understand why I can spawn just fine in Custom Games without being able to do so in Forge.
Anyone have a clue?
