The trailer said there will be seven multiplayer maps added to Reach. Setting aside any disappointment we may have with the game itself, what maps are you hoping we get?
There are 2 officially confirmed, Damnation and Battle Creek. Both will be excellent additions to Reach’s rotation, smaller maps is where matchmaking falls short right now. We also saw Hang Em High in the trailer. We MAY have seen Timberland as well, that would be awesome if some Halo PC stuff was brought over.
So what are you hoping for to fill the last four slots? My picks are Danger Canyon, Timberland, Prisoner, and Chill Out (because you can never have too many covie environments, and I shudder to think what kind of visual mastery they could accomplish on that map).
Chill Out… I don’t know, it might have been. It has a covie theme just like Damnation so it’d be easy to miss with the new graphics and relative unfamiliarity with them.
Since we all know the one new Firefight map is gonna be staged in a Halo CE environment from the campaign, I just wonder if that Firefight map would be played against the Flood! I was just hoping that 343 industries could at least add a firefight map with Flood in it you know? That would be wicked cool! I can see that concept to be very fun to play with.
Infinity, Timber Land, Boarding Action, Danger Canyon, Death Island, and the REAL Gephyrophobia, not the Halo 3 remake size.
They have remakes of Blood Gulch, Side Winder, Chill Out, and Hang’em’High, so I’m not too worried if those maps get in or not, but they really need to remake all of the PC only maps and some of the Halo CE’s classic maps.
I don’t know if Infinity was a PC only map or not, but when I heard Reach had the race game type, I was hoping Bungie and/or 343 would be nice enough to remake Infinity, that map was the best race stock map I’ve ever played, I was sad to not see it remade.
Well I think it has been confirmed that the maps would be the best in the series, not just CE. You can already see this with the Halo 2 map thats in CEA. I think they are going to have 2 maps from every Halo game (main trilogy) to equal the 6 ones planned.
> Well I think it has been confirmed that the maps would be the best in the series, not just CE. You can already see this with the Halo 2 map thats in CEA. I think they are going to have 2 maps from every Halo game (main trilogy) to equal the 6 ones planned.
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> Halo CE - Blood Gulch (proper), Hang em’ High.
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> Halo 2 - Zanzibar, Beaver Creek.
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> Halo 3- The Pit, Guardian (maybe) or Sandtrap.
I think the map you’re thinking of is Hang 'em High. It’s a CE map, but it was re-made in Halo 2. So, there was no Halo 2 map in the trailer.
Anyway, 7 greatest MP maps of all time. I honestly don’t think CE had 7 great maps, so I’d hope some H2 maps made it in there. Headlong/Terminal FTW!
This post is more brainstorming and spitballing than an official suggestion, so bear with me.
I hate the monochrome of Forge World. I very much appreciate what it allows us to do, but I despise how every single map is the same sea of gray, with some occasional blue sky and green grass thrown in.
Select forge maps currently in the matchmaking rotation should be chosen by the community and re-skinned. Hemorrhage is an obvious candidate. Mac xL’s Lockout is another. There’s a deadly accurate Citadel remake out there as well, the author escapes me. Original community maps like Android, Kingdom, and Wayont. I’d love to see some of these with a shiny new covie or frigate theme, or maybe taking place in a desert instead.
343i’s already shown that they’re willing to do a mass skin job for an entire campaign. Why not give a few measly FW maps some love in the meantime to help separate them better from the rest of the crowded FW material? Hopefully avoiding DLC restrictions. What do you guys think of this idea?
They said a firefight map that has never been done before. Incidenttally they will be remastering a game famous for the introduction of the Flood. See where I’m going with this. Discuss and be happy.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting the video, but why would this anniversary edition ship with only 7 multiplayer maps? The original Halo included 12, plus an additional 6 for Halo PC. So why wouldn’t this remake include all of the maps (or at least all of the ones from the original Halo CE)?
> I don’t no, but it’s a hell of a lot more than I was expecting (3). Maybe all of them couldn’t work with Reach’s current gameplay?
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> Still, 7 is good compared to most others.
7 is alright, but I’d expect a remake like this to have all the original maps. And just to clarify, is this going to be like ODST where one disk is campaign and the other is multiplayer using Reach’s multiplayer? Or is it a different multiplayer using Reach’s engine?
Just a refresher incase some of you have forgotten all of them:
Multiplayer maps in Halo: Combat Evolved include: Battle Creek
Sidewinder
Damnation
Rat Race
Prisoner
Hang Em’ High
Chill Out
Derelict
Boarding Action
Chiron TL-34
Blood Gulch
Wizard
Longest
The 6 additional Halo PC Maps:
Death Island
Danger Canyon
Infinity
Timberland
Ice Fields
Gephyrophobia