Halo 5 Forge Wishlist

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Hey guys, what do you want to see in H5’s Forge? We all know H4’s Forge was a little disappointing, but it did bring in some nice new features along with new gametypes. Presuming H5 retains all this, what old stuff would you like back and what new features do you want to see? Remember, H5 will be on the next Xbox, so it’s going to be a big jump - go wild!

Firefight.

Yes, a lot of us would love to see Firefight return. But imagine playing on custom Forge maps? A lot of people have made some very beautiful setpieces and it’d be great to fend off the Covies (or even Promethians and Flood) in these arenas.

Spartan Ops.

Just because we want Firefight doesn’t mean we should lose SpOps. I love SpOps personally, but imagine if we could Forge our own? Minus the narration and all that, but if we had the flexibility to spawn and de-spawn objects and enemies and set objective points, it’d be amazing. Even a little objective section in the HUD like in Campaign and SpOps.

Forge pieces.

Reach saw nothing but drab grey Forerunner pieces. Now we only have black and white UNSC pieces. What about Covie crates and barriers? What about some cool Forerunner tech? It would be great if we had some more aesthetic items like these.

Skins.

As above, we only have UNSC pieces right now. But what if I wanted to make a battlefield with one half Covie and one half UNSC but have them symmetrical? Rather than having strictly UNSC or Covie pieces, why not have a majority of the pieces have skins for UNSC, Covie and Forerunner? This would be a great addition in my opinion.

Grouping.

Magnets are cool and so is duplicate objects. But what if we could get about 10 objects stuck together and group them together? That way, if you needed to replicate that on another part of the map, you could just duplicate it! Maybe even make custom forge pieces out of them.

Custom Magnets.

I like magnets, I really do, but they are no substitute for fine editing. Some of the magnets don’t work as intended and some pieces don’t have them where we want them. Since they are there to make things easier, why not allow us to add extras? Or remove magnets that aren’t needed from a piece to avoid it bouncing around all the time when moving it? Just keep what’s needed. You could even save custom definitions of these on a piece by piece basis and just pull them up whenever.

These are my ideas, what do you guys think about them and what do you want in H5 forge? :smiley:

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WEATHER!!!

make it rain, snow, stormy, sunny, dark, etc etc

decent forge maps, like forge world, even if we just have forge world but we can change weather, make forge pieces differant colours, halo 3 had the best pieces you could tell a wall from each other but on reach and H4 you cant they all look the same :confused:

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I want to see something better than Far Cry 3’s PC map editor.

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Terrain and forge environments that are actually useful and flexible.

Weather effects.

Increased budget.

Dynamic Lighting, as long as it doesn’t break as easily and the cap is raised.

Mammoths/Elephants (Probably won’t happen).

Terrain/water level editing.

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Very good ideas so far, weather is a good one, hopefully this will play into the game more. Also, one thing I thought of is having layes to the objects. For example, have you ever wanted a space corridor on impact but without the glass? I know I have. It’d be good if you would delete this layer, or change it using skins if you wanted to cover the window.

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I would like for an option to switch between Forerunner, UNSC, and Covenant themed pieces. Or at least 3 different maps with each different theme’s pieces.

Also, bulk-select and associated copy/paste features. I would like to be able to select my entire map and move it somewhere else if I found out I didn’t like that location.

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I think the biggest disappointment for me was the lack of new pieces in H4. While I enjoy the category that is level specific (Erosion, Impact, Ravine) I think new pieces in the decorations, especially the building section, as well as scenery. Why not let us put trees around the map? Something I think that would be useful in creating symmetrical maps would be a mirror function. For instance some of the stair or towers in the incline section. If you are trying to make a symmetrical map, you can’t really use these unless they are facing certain direction.

I agree that a group selection would be amazing. I’ve had a few maps extend farther than I had planned and a wall or rock shown through.