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WHY BOTH? 343 needs to fix this, and its been bothering me ever since Halo 3 forge. Let me explain. With just a budget in forge, you will be able to place all of the pieces you need ( Ex: walls ). There will be a price on the wall, but not a limitation to the # of walls you can place. So for example, let's say the budget for a map was $10,000 dollars, and each wall is $50 dollars ( This is currently the true prices in Halo 4 ). Then, you'd be able to place 200 walls total. Catch my drift? This would fix many problems ALL forge users deal with, like having to substitute walls with another piece, like a 4x4 building block or something. ------------------------------ With just a piece limit, it would be exactly the same as forge today, but without a budget, allowing you to fully deplete all of the objects. So please give me some feedback. Thanks!

Well the time has finally arrived, the Get A Clue Forge Contest results are in! As a Clue enthusiast, I was lucky enough to be handpicked by Master Debaytes as one of the contest judges, and i can tell you it was a hoot to participate. Playing submissions nightly in Clue lobbies, and genuinely having a great time in the process. Many fantastic clue maps were submitted, it became quite tough to decide an order near the end. So without further adieu, here are your results! - CORDUROYCHUCK First Place CHATEAU DE CLUE 2!! by FragsturBait It has everything you could want from a clue map. From a starting dock with plenty of secrets looming down below, to a dragon overlooking all the explosions and blood. As an innocent you've got plenty of places to go in an attempt to stay safe, but a killer could always be lurking in the trees above. Yes, in the trees. If you're smart you'll try and stay up high and watch with the dragon. If you're lazy, maybe you'll hide in a crate or have a seat in an impossible chair. As a killer, it's a playground. Remember those trees? Yeah. I can recall instances where i'd hop through them all Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon style. Finding cover after committing a violent act can be very easy, the map's got plenty of castle walls to hide behind or rooms to calmly have a seat in. Impossibly. Fire an incineration cannon, make the peasants think the dragon's burninating the countryside, or quietly lurk in the hidden rooms below, it's truly up to you on Chateau De Clue 2. - CORDUROYCHUCK This forum under construction.

"Conversion is an asymmetrical, progressive-objective based game mode. It has many similarities to modes such as Invasion and Territories in Halo: Reach alongside a balanced weapon setup and the smooth gameplay of Halo 4. It is a blend of some of the best features from the Halo series and it will fill the void many feel in the series after the removal of asymmetric game modes with Halo 4. While many people have tried to make similar modes to try to recapture Invasion in Halo 4, The Psycho duck and I decided we wanted to create a standardized mode and map type so that many people could become involved not just in playing Conversion, but in making their own maps for it. Because the mode is standardized and the maps designed around it, anyone who has played the game mode could potentially make their own Conversion map. There are 2 completed Conversion maps fully tested and ready to be played right now, both created by Duck and myself, but there are also many more in the works or in the planning stages by other members of the Halo community. The game type is not modded, so for those of you who prefer to shy away from modding this mode is completely legitimate." - Flyingshoe ILR "The first of those maps is Firebase, a medium sized Conversion map set on Ravine. Firebase uses Ravine's terrain in new and interesting ways in order to feel like a completely different place, yet still feel rooted in the Halo universe. Firebase features a Rocket Warthog for the attackers and plenty of power weapons for both teams. Gameplay is fast paced but strategic, and positions of power on the map are often as important to hold as the objective itself." - Flyingshoe ILR Firebase Map Variant Download Conversion Game Type Download <<<<<<<<<<o>>>>>>>>>> "The second map is Colony, a large scale Conversion map set on Impact. This map is much larger than Firebase and more vehicle heavy, with a Rocket Hog, Ghost, and Mantis roaming the map and more power weapons at the player's disposal. Colony flows very differently from Firebase but still follows the same formula, and teamwork and communication are still the keys to victory." - Flyinshoe ILR Colony Map Variant Download Conversion Game Type Download <<<<<<<<<<o>>>>>>>>>>

It appears the is a brand new game type that has been created and THFE (The Halo Forge Epidemic) has the inside scoop on it! Here is a recently released video that teases the view with a glimpse of some game play footage of this intriguing new game type. Take a look. View full article

Hello, HFE; glad to finally be able to join in on submitting here In any case, i have actually been practicing up in forge since i found your show. I was intrigued by the amount of detail people could squeeze in with the limited budget, and it made me look a little down upon what i had made at the time (At that point, i would simply place buildings if i recall correctly, maybe a bridge here and there). Been studying up since before halo 4 was released after feeling inspired and wanting to make something of that caliber myself; and since I couldn't submit maps anyway that is just what I did. Practiced with aesthetics, made maps inspired by maps featured to see how well i could compare to try to learn from them, and have aimed to master map design... but, i digress. This is my first actually submitted map even online. Quite frankly looking back, it may have been the only one truly good enough to anyway to truly let the community enjoy what i can do. In a sense, i guess you could call it my first real map. With this map, i wanted to not just form a play surface inconspicuously constructed in the wilderness with no apparent original purpose; i wanted to make something that seemed like a real structure (even gave it a nifty backstory description).... and, knowing firsthand that all people play differently, i wanted to allow breathing room for all play-styles to find some place welcoming. But i overall aimed to keep the map balanced at the same time. I also aimed to encourage map movement, and allow it to function suitably as a hybrid outdoor and indoor map. I also wanted it to look aesthetically pleasing... not to do so while dumping a huge load of dirt on playability, but enough to seem fairly pleasing from wthin a gameplay environment and compliment the intended feel. The map is (and how many aren't) an asymmetrical map that adopts a base shape that could be described as a vertical triangle. It is nothing so crude, however. The map is split about half-and-half between an indoor and outdoor environment. The outdoor area comes equipped with a trench network which one team calls home base, and 6 initial ordnance drops (if i recall correctly... may have had the full 8. Would need to check that.); meanwhile, the indoor area is home to the opposing team, who spawns in the rear hallway of the lower floor. Near them is a weapons room, which contains a similarly balanced weapon set to the other team's ordnance. The outdoor area has battlements accessible by the lower level as well as two entrances. Within the base is a pentagonal-esque room with a sniper nest overlooking the area, and the exits leading further into the base and the battlements. The first floor hallway is just a curve around the exit from there (Within that curve is also allocated our weapon room.). It is a linear, bridge-like area suspended above a damaged area of the building (which is really just where the terrain clipped in an un concealable manner, but that is a working explanation) with a few barricades to take cover behind. A grav lift down the hall acts as the next floor elevator, and within this hall is access to the aforementioned indoor sniper nest. Corners are the primary source of cover here, and in itself (due to budget primarily) the hallway woud be barren without them in combination with the sniper nest. The final flight of stairs leads up onto the rooftop area, where about 3 minutes into the gameplay, a banshee will spawn, and a shade turret is allocated just in the center of the area. Ventilation shafts allow you to "drop in" on players on the level just below, and the plentiful placement of bunkers and cover allow this to act just as applicable of a battlefield as the areas before it. Ordnance drops are pre-organized to run off of a very luck-based system as it were. Both the outdoor area and rooftop area have them to keep the players moving around the map should something good drop, and each is allocated 3. One of the bunch having primarily good drops, but high randomness to them, while the other two have a chance of dropping less-beneficial pickups, but also have odds to drop a game-changing weapon. With no shortage of cover for the "campers", no shortage of vantage points for the "snipers", and no shortage of close corners for the "charge-n-targe" type, this map is designed to cater to all types, while also keeping a little bit of challenge to gameplay by means of the risk and reward system (no sniping post is less than 1 1/2 sprints from the weapon room or so (and with the best being on the roof during the early phases of the game (before going into the 2:30 mark or so), you might as well have a "please stab me" sign taped to your back if you think you are 100% safe), and you may have to sprint all the way upstairs to get that pretty little fuel rod cannon that so beckons you to touch it.). It also is a large and open map, occupying roughly half of the forging canvas it is built upon; while still encouraging map movement with weapon spawns, and progressively encroaching spawn points for the teams that keep both teams on their toes; this way ensuring most of the time, this map space is taken into full advantage. And the overall means by which the map is composed means that no game will ever be the same... that is not even in the most simple definition of, say, a tactic being different; this is to say that depending on team choices, you could get the other team in your base 1/2 way through, or you could get them in the first 25 seconds. You could win, you could loose, and a stalemate is certainly not impossible. The weapon spawns in the ordnance could be game-changing, or they could be next to worthless. It is a highly dynamic map in this sense. This is, at least the way it was designed. You see, i have not quite been able to gather a group to test it. And the one opportunity i had to ask someone locally they denied the offer. As a result it remains untested and all of this is simply based on how it was intended. And this is my first true map, so i may be doing something wrong (admittedly, i can't help but think i am missing something... and it isn't just the gravity volumes i had to cut out of the plan on account of budget that would have added to the space environment feel). In any scenario, if it looks good to you, i will leave this at the note that i would be honored to have you test run this map and, indeed, my first map in general. No screenies because i forgot to take those, but simply searching "Vigil" SHOULD bring it up. How many people use that word, honestly? And if there is more than one, look for the one based on "Impact" with a description that seems like one found in the stock game maps in nature. It should be noted that, again, i felt something missing from this, and i will indeed continue to make more, potentially higher complexity, maps until i am satisfied and potentially beyond that. This is the first step in what could be a great forging career, and knowing that the first is always the biggest but never the grandest, it holds to the logic i will do much better next time. I would also like to hear what you think on the map so i know just WHAT to make better next time, so any feedback is welcomed. I am also getting into gametypes, but for now, this map may be effectively enjoyed on any gametype that involves teams, doesn't require more be added in forge beyond basic gameplay items (no dominion, sadly), and allows untampered ordnance drops and weapon pickup. Thank you for your time, ~Destroyer Of The North

The happy Popularity Halo 4 brings is already incredible, but yet fantastic at the same time. As many say the word, "unbelievable", Halo 4 this year will change the concepts of making new game modes, and amazing maps. I am glad to be a part of the 343 industries forum to discuss yet another very important topic that later in the future will make the "average gamer", and the "Ordinary Halo Player" laugh and enjoy their time playing Halo 4, and this is called Halo 4 Forge. Thanks for checking this thread out, and with all respect, feel free to express your own personal opinions of the all new Halo 4 Forge. 1) Creating simple but yet strong and effective maps throughout the "halo community". With Halo 4 coming out in literally less than a day, we all need to be prepared of how strong Halo's new forge system will work. With all new techniques and strategical planning this year's forge will create thousands of new popular game modes and maps without a doubt. As the "Ordinary Halo Player" may not be the "best" at creating custom maps, Halo 4 and behalf of 343 industries, will be able to change the whole concept so the "Ordinary Halo Player" will be able to partake and become what the "best" halo players experience throughout forge mode. I personally am excited and am excited to have such a great company (343 industries) take charge in the all new Halo series. For more information about the all new forge system, please take a look at the link below. (right click and select "open link in new tab") for better use. Thank you, LTD Velocity

Halo 4 Forge This is the forum to discuss the exciting and new world forge in Halo 4. You can create and post any and all ideas about Halo 4's forging capabilities, items and features. Along with our new and expanded Forge World where you can post maps in a wide variety of categories, THFE's Map Submission forums and various forge contests you will never want for a better or more expansive forge environment.