Please, please, 343i can you stop passing off recycled (“re-imagined”) maps as new content? I am normally the last person to get on the flame train, but really. This is not what anyone expected when we were told that there would be “dozens of free new maps and content” post-launch – or at least only the cynical expected it.
I like the launch maps. Really, I do (not the forge maps though. Pegasus is uninteresting and ugly; Orion was so bad and broken it had to be pulled). But Eden and Empire are already so similar to one another … they use almost all the same art assets, just squished together and arranged differently. Truth and Regret are also extremely similar to one another. Then we get Overgrowth as a Plaza remake; same assets, with a few hallways and massively unbalanced team spawns. Now we’re getting a remake of Fathom. I simply can’t wait for the free remake of The Rig! New and improved, with more plant life!
Seriously though, I would love to see some genuinely new amd interesting spaces to play in instead of remakes and reimaginings. I just hope that the mext few content “updates” will not be so disappointing. The cynical part of me thinks that we’ll just get remakes of maps from Halos past … but even that would be better than H5 remakes of H5 maps.