Zandril

Thanks dude. I hope to hear your thoughts on the map soon. Maybe we can 1v1?

A lot of the ramps appear to be too steep/long.

I don't see any open areas. I don't know where you're getting at. Then again, we're just looking at screenshots.

Well... I guess we all have different mindsets then.

Lucky. I could use a break from college... Anyway, want my advice? Slow the posting down. I suggest posting the map here once the map has been thoroughly tested and is more or less in its final version. That way, your maps here will have the highest possible quality giving Psychoduck a good first impression. Just a thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJpzrPQvMGo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2hh5tOyg4A zid, this is why we need a new contest on Forge Cafe.

No worries. Even if Halo 4's Matchmaking has gone to ****, the customs and forging community is very much alive. I myself only play Halo 4 because of all the customs. So even if the playlists are dwindling, there will always be enough people to play custom maps with. Although I don't think the people who left are coming back anytime soon. They're probably waiting for Halo 5. P.S. Halo 3 is the best shooter ever made. Not Halo 4.

Damn dude, you make maps fast. Although I must say that I agree with BrokeBackHill. I don't mind the thinner water paths as they can be fun to walk on (Particularly the thin water path on the left of that overview) but the wide and open ones seem a bit tacky to me. I think it's because the water on Forge Island doesn't feel like water. Not like the water in Reach's Forge World that actually looked and felt like water. Regardless, this map looks incredibly unique especially with the "circular" structures. The dam-like structure also looks very good. Hope to play on this map soon. You should bring it to next week's FCCGN.

Major Update - Made some changes to Gold. Added an extra route from Blue tunnel to Gold. - Changed the walls of Green. - Spawning has been refined...again. - Map is no longer meant for 4v4. Praelium is now for 1v1 and 2v2 games. This is because the map is under-scaled for 4v4 creating a lot of spawning issues. - Because the map is now for 1v1/2v2, weapons have been replaced. The power weapons are now a Railgun and a Sniper. - A lot of aesthetic changes.

Shhh. Don't tell him.

Managed to give this map a look. For the most part, it's a very decent map with neat aesthetics but I did notice some issues. Unnecessary pieces: There are plenty of areas in the map that felt too tight and confined because of unnecessary pieces. An example would be the pillars at Red spawn. I don't think that either of the pillars are needed at all and they just end up making that are too tight. But plenty of these unnecessary pieces are crates. They're everywhere. Even in areas they're not supposed to be in. I can't point where exactly these unnecessary crates are since the entire map is yellow which leads me to the next issue I wanted to point out. Coloring: It's not always a bad idea to color your map one color. Sometimes it can work well for the map. But that would only work well if there are distinguishable structures in the map that players can use for callouts. This map doesn't have that. So I suggest coloring certain areas of the map with different colors. Because this is a competitive map, callouts are important. And this map, in its current state, isn't very friendly toward callouts. Low ceiling: Some of your tunnels have low ceilings. A forger should always try to avoid having low ceilings in his map. You never want players hitting their heads when they jump. Those were the problems I noticed right out the bat. If I was to give anymore feedback, I'll have to get a game on the map.

Well, I like being in pretty maps. So I'll give this a download and come back with some feedback for ya'

Your maps are always so pretty. Was this map inspired? I think I remember you making a map that looks very much like this one.

Join or die, guys.

I really like this map Chron. Out of all your maps, this one looks different. Not because it's not on Forge Island but because it doesn't look like a Chronmeister map. Look at Sever and Infernal. They're like twins. Even your co-forge with Squeak looked so much like your previous maps. This one looks very different. I'm not sure how I feel about it on 4v4 but I think 6v6 would play best here. There aren't many good squad maps out there so it's nice that this map exists. There was an area that I wasn't very fond of. I don't remember where it is exactly but I think it's an area that went too deep. It was a crater in the terrain itself.

Story of my life...

Miley Cyrus's "We Can't Stop" Kill me now.

For those who might not get this, before the American revolution Ben Franklin made a political comment with a snake that was cut into 13 pieces and each was labeled with one of the colonies. Underneath the picture it said Join or Die alluding to the myth that if a snake was cut into pieces it could reattach those pieces and come to life (sorta like a Frankenstein-snake) so basically, pyro wants all the Halo communities to join together so Halo doesn't die. Pretty deep.

13. Going through the mancanon in Adrift.