I’m going to be honest here. While I think that Orion is very well polished for a forge map, I don’t think that it is up to standards for use in matchmaking. Here are some points that lead me to my opinion:
- I feel like i get stuck on the terrain a LOT. Especially on the rocks on sniper side.
- I feel like the sniper side is very clumsy. Getting to the sniper rifle is very hard and usually results in me jumping like an idiot until someone kills me before I even make it up to the ledge.
- The fights on this map usually degrade to the top red side firing pistols at the blue side with the grav lift. Just not fun.
- The location of the railgun is not fair at match beginning (even with blue grav lift).
- The damage buff is way too risky to grab, which usually leads to it just sitting there the whole game.
The overall ebb and flow of the map just doesnt sit well with me. I think this map should either be taken out of the rotation, or replaced with a better forge map. Maybe the ones that were in beta!!
What do you guys think?
100% agree, that map has not played well imo. How that map made it into Team Slayer playlist over Truth is beyond me
Ya. It is by far the worst map in H5.
It’s horrible.
I like the map, but it does need some polishing for sure. I’d love to have heatmaps back in HaloWaypoint.com for everybody to look at matches and see where the real choke points etc are. We had some great online data for Halo 2, they can definitely do it with Halo 5.
Yeah, I’m no fan of this map either, pain in the backside
I like the layout and look, and don’t mind it. But I do think it could use a couple changes. Particularly the damage buff being moved. But I like how there are standoffs across the map and a couple spots are good places for your team to try and control. I do think Truth should be in the playlist, but Orion should stay for variety’s sake.
Lol so true about that sniper ledge. Me and an ally were both struggling to best each other up there and after like…20 seconds he just left.
I could not agree more with you. It definitely need to be removed and replaced with Eden or one of the other maps. I unfortunately played that map yesterday 4 times in a row. BLAMIN! FOUR TIMES! The map sucks.
Edit: it’s really easy to spawn camp in that map too, especially when playing SWAT. I am spawned killed on that map so much.
I enjoy it, but I agree that is has some significant balance issues; the rail gun being the most prominent. The map does not achieve asymmetrical balance is was intended.
I agree on the terrain. Once I was pinned behind an outcropping in the Cove taking fire from Sniper spawn and tried to throw grenades around the rocks, only to have my first one seemingly strike the air next to the rock and bounce off. Figured maybe my aim was off so I carefully adjusted my reticule until I knew it was clear of the rock, but sure enough my second grenade hit thin air and bounced.
it works as a good v1. No doubt it has it’s flaws and will most likely be better balanced later on once the community get’s their hands on it.
Couldn’t agree with you more. Every time this map pops up in rotation I back out, because i know I’m just not going to have any fun playing it…
Would love to see what the forge community could do to it, though
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> Couldn’t agree with you more. Every time this map pops up in rotation I back out, because i know I’m just not going to have any fun playing it…
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> Would love to see what the forge community could do to it, though
Did you not read the latest blog. It has been removed. Form ALL playlist