As we all know halo 5 is possible the most anticipated halo game ever. Running at 60 FPS (Frames Per Second) and fully using the power of cloud technology which brings me to a very interesting question. What is going to happen to forge?
Being an experienced forger I will know what I am talking about. I am going to start off with a list of things that should not be in the forge.
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Terra forming. Now most of you are probably saying. “MAYFT WHAT THE F*&£ IS WRONG WITH YOU?!” Now hold a moment cowboy and let me explain. Putting a terrain editor would kill halo for two reasons. 1.If there was terraforming in forge. There would be no need to make forge world 2.0 and we need to get our inspiration from somewhere. 2. It would crush memory in your console. Think of it this way, in halo reach saving a map takes up not a lot of space, in halo 5 terraforming would most likely kill your memory, fast.
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AI Placement (To an extent) Yet again you are screaming what I wrote above. Does anyone have any idea how hard that would be to put in? Talk a guess of 1 to 100000000000000000000…x Infinity. That would be hard and also having to set a path for AI would be hard to. However AI turrets like in dominion or an object that has an AI that can be placed for a reason would work.
Here are some things that could be improved.
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The lighting System. I truly believe that when I say this I speak for every forger. Fix it. It takes 20 years to render a map nowadays and whilst the concept is cool it just needs work, also whilst I am on this topic you should be able to place lighting. How dark/bright an area is and where the light is coming from, no idea how this would be done but it is here to read.
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Object Colours. Since halo reach we have been able to customise the colours of pieces but nothing really that says. “Oh hey look at me I’m red!” The colours just don’t stand out and it needs improving to be more recognisable.
3.Budget. This is self explanatory but I will explain it for anyone who does not understand. More Budget = More Things. More Things = More Creativity. More Creativity = More Fun"
Finally here are some things that could be added.
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Precision editing. This is a top priority on the list. The amount or angry people in the world because of that is just unreal. If nudge, zoom and slow moving camera come back the I am a happy bunny.
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Weather/Time of day effects. This is something that has been wanted for ages by many people because it would bring a whole different atmosphere to a map, an example is in the day you can be loud and shoot many peeps, but at night/foggy/raining you can be a little more stealthy than usual and pick up an assassination to.
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Map Thumbnails. I dont see why this isn’t in halo yet. Basically take a picture of your map and use it as the thumbnail. This would be a very nice touch and make the map seem a little more professional and unique.
4.MORE OBJECTS! We would love more things to use/play with. More specific natural and scenery items.
- Player Activated Objects. We have been waiting for this since halo 3 and my god the possibility if this were to be added would be amazing. A remake of highground, glitch jumps, invasion mechanics, clan maps, player driven events e.c.t.
That is it for the list let me know what you think and if we all work hard enough we could get 343s attention. Thanks for reading!