…changed the majestic maps to better suit what the community wanted. Like did they originally have a different idea for them. To be big team maps possibly? I’m curious
I suspect they always had a “small” map pack in mind. No real proof but I highly doubt they’d make 9 new ginormous maps knowing that they’d need small ones at some point, yanno?
I would imagine it’s possible they did, but if they did, only little changes. I doubt they started out with a big map design only to shrink it for the community.
I think they pretty much have this all planned. Maybe a few tweaks here and there.
Maybe, but I think it was planned to be small maps. You can’t have three map packs with only Big Team maps. I’ll be interested to see what they do for the Castle Map Pack, though.
> I suspect they always had a “small” map pack in mind. No real proof but I highly doubt they’d make 9 new ginormous maps knowing that they’d need small ones at some point, yanno?
Yeah I see. I like what they did with landfall. In the concept art it showed it like a dark grey depressing map but now its almost like a sunset and it yellow. Imo it looks better than the concept
> Maybe, but I think it was planned to be small maps. You can’t have three map packs with only Big Team maps. I’ll be interested to see what they do for the Castle Map Pack, though.
Me to. I really want an all indoor map but judging from the concept for castle it doesnt seem like thats going to happen. But I shouldnt judge until I know for sure.
Seems to me like 343i wants each map pack to be centered around a specific size. Crimson was the Medium-sized Map Pack, Majestic will be the Small-sized one, and perhaps Castle will either include larger maps or a mix of the three.
If you look at the concept art for Castle, they all seem to be large and open maps. Perhaps heavier vehicles like the Scorpion, Wraith, and Banshee will spawn in these maps.
I think the map packs are outsourced to another team. I think Certain Afinity (or something like that) makes them. Im willing to bet that these maps were made before Halo 4 launched, but they waited a few months to help keep things fresh.
> Seems to me like 343i wants each map pack to be centered around a specific size. Crimson was the Medium-sized Map Pack, Majestic will be the Small-sized one, and perhaps Castle will either include larger maps or a mix of the three.
Possibly. I personally feel like the 3 map packs arent enough. Halo 3 had what like 5? And I want an all forge map pack or a bigger forge map.
> I suspect they always had a “small” map pack in mind. No real proof but I highly doubt they’d make 9 new ginormous maps knowing that they’d need small ones at some point, yanno?
I suspect that they were going to make 9 big maps - I’m sure the " hammering " they have had regarding this game forced them into small maps at this exact point in time with a view to saving the game.
That’s not too hard to figure out , yanno?
> > Seems to me like 343i wants each map pack to be centered around a specific size. Crimson was the Medium-sized Map Pack, Majestic will be the Small-sized one, and perhaps Castle will either include larger maps or a mix of the three.
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> Possibly. I personally feel like the 3 map packs arent enough. Halo 3 had what like 5? And I want an all forge map pack or a bigger forge map.
And one of Reach’s map packs had SIX maps.
Anyway, I’d honestly prefer if they focused more on making unique Spartan Ops missions for Season 2, and just update the Community-made maps every week.
Do you guys think there will be more than 3 map packs? Or more that 3 maps in the next one?
I think that they always had this planned and started development of the maps fairly early. I’m also sure that 343 intended for each map pack to consist of maps that are a certain size.
> Do you guys think there will be more than 3 map packs? Or more that 3 maps in the next one?
Please don’t go off-topic, but that is a good question.
I personally don’t think there will be more than 3 map packs. Of course, there’s always a possibility but I think that 343 would rather invest their time and resources into Halo 5. Reach, Halo 2, and Halo 3 only had 3 map packs and I think that this will also be the case for Halo 4.
I am hoping they will create a Forge Environment Map Pack or at least Update the textures… after Castle or before which would be better.
I Imagine they always had a plan to stay at Medium-Large size maps, seems this is what the development team likes… I do not think the lay out of the maps have changed to much though… just been down sized some perhaps.
> > Do you guys think there will be more than 3 map packs? Or more that 3 maps in the next one?
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> Please don’t go off-topic, but that is a good question.
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> I personally don’t think there will be more than 3 map packs. Of course, there’s always a possibility but I think that 343 would rather invest their time and resources into Halo 5. Reach, Halo 2, and Halo 3 only had 3 map packs and I think that this will also be the case for Halo 4.
Wrong. Halo 3 had 4 or 5.
> Seems to me like 343i wants each map pack to be centered around a specific size. Crimson was the Medium-sized Map Pack, Majestic will be the Small-sized one, and perhaps Castle will either include larger maps or a mix of the three.
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> If you look at the concept art for Castle, they all seem to be large and open maps. Perhaps heavier vehicles like the Scorpion, Wraith, and Banshee will spawn in these maps.
I wouldn’t mind seeing the stinger or falcon beng brought back.
> > > Do you guys think there will be more than 3 map packs? Or more that 3 maps in the next one?
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> > Please don’t go off-topic, but that is a good question.
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> > I personally don’t think there will be more than 3 map packs. Of course, there’s always a possibility but I think that 343 would rather invest their time and resources into Halo 5. Reach, Halo 2, and Halo 3 only had 3 map packs and I think that this will also be the case for Halo 4.
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> Wrong. Halo 3 had 4 or 5.
Heroic map pack, Legendary map pack, Mythic map pack (2). If you consider the Mythic Map Pack two different packs as it had 6 maps, then you have 4 map packs.
Cold Storage, the free map, doesn’t count as a map pack though.
> > > Do you guys think there will be more than 3 map packs? Or more that 3 maps in the next one?
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> > Please don’t go off-topic, but that is a good question.
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> > I personally don’t think there will be more than 3 map packs. Of course, there’s always a possibility but I think that 343 would rather invest their time and resources into Halo 5. Reach, Halo 2, and Halo 3 only had 3 map packs and I think that this will also be the case for Halo 4.
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> Wrong. Halo 3 had 4 or 5.
Halo 3 had 3 maps, mythical 1 and 2 are part of the same pack and that stand alone map doesn’t count as a map pack