Hey guys, I used to participate often in the forging community sites but have taken a break the last 2 months… In fact, I haven’t played much Halo at all till recently. I’ve noticed that the Forged maps that are currently in Matchmaking, were the same ones that we were playing back in June.
Does anybody know if there are any new forged maps going into matchmaking? If anybody has heard anything about this, please let me know, Thanks!
(And if there is a new place to submit maps for consideration, please comment on that too)
They need to. most of the ones now are just bad.
> They need to. most of the ones now are just bad.
Sad but true. There are so many really great maps made by the community, you really have to wonder why most of the ones we now have are such utter garbage.
I wouldn’t say the current maps are bad, just that we could use some different ones.
> I wouldn’t say the current maps are bad, just that we could use some different ones.
Maps where the loadout selection camera pops up at random places on Forge World, hard kill zones not recognisable as such until they kill you, spawning at the same spot in front of the same two opponents literally waiting for you multiple times in a row, and so on aren’t signs of bad maps? Really?
Ive given up with the whole “getting my map into matchmaking”
Two reasons for this;
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Sites like forge hub, forgeworks etc. They cater to ranked members first. If youre a low rank in those communitys the maps you display are not even looked at. These groups just like to have members that have maps published by bungie etc. Its kinda sad. I mean sure they get alot of entrys as well, to many to go through really- who has time to playtest 100+ new maps a day and still leave positive feedback. But its like, when a high ranked member puts his map up, the other high ranking members all get behind it. Like some messed up social club.
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Im not sure what the go is in terms of 343i adding things to matchmaking, playtesting new maps etc. Bungie had the cartogrophers etc. Dunno what 343 has.
Alterior motives maybe, my own map never went anywhere. Yet i get requests from friends every now and then to play it or show a friend of a friend it etc. For now im happy with that.
Its one thing to be judged online by someone who “hover balls” thru your hard work, just to call it poo.
And another, better thing to have mates that genuinely like, give feedback and help you make the map better.
> > I wouldn’t say the current maps are bad, just that we could use some different ones.
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> Maps where the loadout selection camera pops up at random places on Forge World, hard kill zones not recognisable as such until they kill you, spawning at the same spot in front of the same two opponents literally waiting for you multiple times in a row, and so on aren’t signs of bad maps? Really?
Really? I haven’t seen any of that stuff lately… when they first release a few of them, there was a couple issues, but I haven’t noticed that lately. But, then again, I just restarted playing Halo again, so you might be right.
I wouldn’t even want my map (made only one so far) to be in matchmaking. I forge maps for the joy of forging alone. Kind of like when I was a kid and built all sorts of stuff with Lego but didn’t play with the things I made because I had more fun building. ^^
> I wouldn’t even want my map (made only one so far) to be in matchmaking. I forge maps for the joy of forging alone. Kind of like when I was a kid and built all sorts of stuff with Lego but didn’t play with the things I made because I had more fun building. ^^
Likewise,
Avoid minecraft lol, so addictive to people like us.
This map in particular tho was originally made with matchmaking in mind.
Its very “last resort”, “zanzibar”
Theres alot of remakes of those maps with forged wheels etc.
I just took the basic layout and made it with what forgeworld had.
Just hurt to do alot of playtesting on it, balancing the finer things - weapon spawns, clip sizes, sniper spawn time etc.
Just to be told it sucked.
> > I wouldn’t even want my map (made only one so far) to be in matchmaking. I forge maps for the joy of forging alone. Kind of like when I was a kid and built all sorts of stuff with Lego but didn’t play with the things I made because I had more fun building. ^^
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> Likewise,
> Avoid minecraft lol, so addictive to people like us.
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> This map in particular tho was originally made with matchmaking in mind.
> Its very “last resort”, “zanzibar”
> Theres alot of remakes of those maps with forged wheels etc.
> I just took the basic layout and made it with what forgeworld had.
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> Just hurt to do alot of playtesting on it, balancing the finer things - weapon spawns, clip sizes, sniper spawn time etc.
> Just to be told it sucked.
I’m figthing the urge to get Minecraft day after day after day. =)
> 1. Sites like forge hub, forgeworks etc. They cater to ranked members first. If youre a low rank in those communitys the maps you display are not even looked at.
Not all Forge communities are like that…
May have been abit strong there.
But once a forge community gains momentum, members and renown. It tends to loose the ability to realise every map its members produce.
Its a case of too many chiefs not enough indians. Or reveresed
Sorry to bring this back up, but does anybody actually know when or if they’ll be replacing or adding any forged maps into matchmaking?
Thanks
> > 1. Sites like forge hub, forgeworks etc. They cater to ranked members first. If youre a low rank in those communitys the maps you display are not even looked at.
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> Not all Forge communities are like that…
Unfortunately, the popular ones are.