Others may have noticed, but I haven’t seen anyone comment on it yet. If you watch this H2A demonstration, the map callout name is shown above the motion tracker for wherever you are on the map. Hopefully (in my opinion, anyway), this will be the standard from 343i going forward.
I hope so too. It was first implemented by Bungie in Halo: Reach.
The Shrine callouts are both short and descriptive, which is very important, or else players will just come up with their own callouts.
Yeah I like that indicator a lot, hope they keep it in.
I just wish they were actually useful callouts. Like, when you spot a player over by where the sniper spawns on Sanctuary, you’re not going to call “Overgrown Temple!” or anything, you’d probably say “Red Sniper!”. If you see someone go into the Mausoleum, you’re going to call out “Mid!”.
Its nice to see this comeback, hopefully 343 will put an option in forge to add callouts to custom maps.
If callouts are making it into Halo 5 then I’d love to see a Forge object for them.
A zone that you could name that works the same was as a hill or trait zone would be cool.
Or perhaps callouts can be a standard option in all zone type objects. So for example if you’re in the hill while playing KOTH you can set it so that the player’s callout message will read hill, objective or something else.
Or if if you’re in a trait zone that gives you super speed you can set the call out to read speed or something.
Ok, my ideas for it are pretty boring but I can imagine this being used in very interesting ways by community members smarter than I.
It’d also give 343 the option to change the callouts on matchmaking maps post launch if better, more efficient one’s begin to be used instead.
It’d also be a neat way of putting secret messages on your maps. Imagine creating a scavenger hunt on forge world that would give you clues as you go from area to area.
> Its nice to see this comeback, hopefully 343 will put an option in forge to add callouts to custom maps.
Oh yes. OH YES.
“Alex, meet me at the… the… ‘Cupcake Rock’? Uhhh… where you at? Huh? THE ‘VERY STINKY VALLEY’?! Wha-- buh… WHO MADE THIS?!”
Digging everything in this thread. kudos.
> > Its nice to see this comeback, hopefully 343 will put an option in forge to add callouts to custom maps.
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> Oh yes. OH YES.
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> “Alex, meet me at the… the… ‘Cupcake Rock’? Uhhh… where you at? Huh? THE ‘VERY STINKY VALLEY’?! Wha-- buh… WHO MADE THIS?!”
“One shot in the Crack.”
I hope they add this feature to forge so we can “name” areas of our map with zoning.