> Referred to as the ‘Great Anvils’ by UNSC personnel deployed to the southwestern peninsula of Requiem’s smallest continent, these massive sentinels tower high above the shield world’s warm tropical ocean. The geologic data acquired from these islands has offered incredible fodder for Infinity Science’s Forge group, providing diverse and modifiable terrain for the War Games combat simulations.
Forge Islands are on the LIVE marketplace temporarily, so I thought I’d check it out.
There’s a particular part of the description I’d like to draw attention to:
> <mark>providing diverse and modifiable terrain</mark>
Interesting. I’m not sure if they just mean via Forge Blocks by this. I’m thinking there may be actual terrain pieces, such as hills and caves to place on the map.
Not sure of course, but that would be very nice.
What do you guys think? Anyone downloaded yet, or is it doing what Majestic did?
Don’t get me wrong it’s a very good map, but that description is just for show, and giving it a canon based reason to be in the “simulation.” There are a bunch of new rock pieces that you could use as hills though, so it’s possible.
> Well that’s what they always do with their descriptions. Heck, that’s what bungie did with their descriptions.
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> As for these new rock pieces, I’ll have to go look that up on youtube.
> > Well that’s what they always do with their descriptions. Heck, that’s what bungie did with their descriptions.
> >
> > As for these new rock pieces, I’ll have to go look that up on youtube.
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> The rocks are HUGE
I don’t think there will be any videos up of Forge Island this soon, your best bet is to just download it and check it out yourself. Also most of the new rock pieces aren’t in the “Natural Section,” most are so big as to qualify them for some of the other sub-menu’s.
> > > Well that’s what they always do with their descriptions. Heck, that’s what bungie did with their descriptions.
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> > > As for these new rock pieces, I’ll have to go look that up on youtube.
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> > The rocks are HUGE
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> … what’d I miss here?
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> Sources? Anybody?
> > > > Well that’s what they always do with their descriptions. Heck, that’s what bungie did with their descriptions.
> > > >
> > > > As for these new rock pieces, I’ll have to go look that up on youtube.
> > >
> > > The rocks are HUGE
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> > … what’d I miss here?
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> > Sources? Anybody?
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> bs angel posted a pic in this thread. All I can do for now
> > > > > Well that’s what they always do with their descriptions. Heck, that’s what bungie did with their descriptions.
> > > > >
> > > > > As for these new rock pieces, I’ll have to go look that up on youtube.
> > > >
> > > > The rocks are HUGE
> > >
> > > … what’d I miss here?
> > >
> > > Sources? Anybody?
> >
> > bs angel posted a pic in this thread. All I can do for now
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> Thanks! And good good…
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> Very good infact.
Their are rocks in the buildings section that are probably 2 times as wide and tall. You can place 20 of them. As I was browsing through the pieces I’ve noticed some interesting things. I’m sure their will be some great things created from this. I expect to see some amazing forge creations by the time I wake up.
> There are gigantic rocks and many trees. Best thing, the really big rocks are a part of the buildings section. Small rocks and trees in natural.
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> So a natural map with big rocks combined with little rocks and trees is possible without destroying the object limit fast.
I can definitely see myself making use of that.
I’ve always loved natural rock maps, but they’ve always been next to impossible to create.
Heck, I’ve got ideas running through my head already.
> Their are rocks in the buildings section that are probably 2 times as wide and tall. You can place 20 of them. As I was browsing through the pieces I’ve noticed some interesting things. I’m sure their will be some great things created from this. I expect to see some amazing forge creations by the time I wake up.
Wait, so you can download and play it already? Cool.
That’s really interesting, and will be very, very helpful for creating full rock maps. I’ve already got several in mind that I’ll be building in about an hour.