New Forge Sandboxes?

[TrashnSuicide]

Hello, 

 

I have finally got a chance to play the new Spartan Ops mission and they are amazing. With that said I have clocked an insane amount of hours in forge and I feel the current forge maps are lacking a ton of aspect which the community has thoroughly covered so I'm not going to repeat them. But I did notice more than a few of the Spartan Ops maps would make amazing sandboxes for forge. Visually they trump the current forge maps both in background and foreground content. I figure now that 343's Majestic Map Pack is out and making them money maybe they would consider a free update for the forge community. I can live with the same tired forge objects even though I have seen a ton of potential new forge objects aka Forerunner pieces. But I feel there has been enough feedback about the current forge maps that 2-3 new forge maps would be feasible. The best part is the maps are already built and being used as sandboxes by 343 in Spartan Ops.  Now I don't know if the coding processes for forge are easily transferred to new maps not built around the forge coding processes, but I think this Idea should be considered.  I feel a move like this would revitalize the hurt forge community that was crippled by the Waypoint sharing issues and the semi disappointing maps. 

 

I would love to hear from the community on this subject and any suggestions to which maps from Spartan Ops we would like to see. 

 

My 3 choices would be:

 

The Cauldron

 

Control

 

Apex

[haloman 2]

i only played like two minutes of spartans ops episode one with two friends and haven't played anymore maps from that. anyways i do like the idea

[BaconShelf]

Specifically the Apex area from ep 10 where you fight the Lich.

 

The main area of Warrens would be nice

 

And possibly some of the Infinity maps. They are quite nice, though maybe less suited to forge.

 

I think some of Reaches firefight maps should be reskinned and released. I hate firefight but live the maps, especially the Defiant DLC one.

 

Thank you for adding me as an option.

[Pbrabbit]

Hello, 

 

I have finally got a chance to play the new Spartan Ops mission and they are amazing. With that said I have clocked an insane amount of hours in forge and I feel the current forge maps are lacking a ton of aspect which the community has thoroughly covered so I'm not going to repeat them. But I did notice more than a few of the Spartan Ops maps would make amazing sandboxes for forge. Visually they trump the current forge maps both in background and foreground content. I figure now that 343's Majestic Map Pack is out and making them money maybe they would consider a free update for the forge community. I can live with the same tired forge objects even though I have seen a ton of potential new forge objects aka Forerunner pieces. But I feel there has been enough feedback about the current forge maps that 2-3 new forge maps would be feasible. The best part is the maps are already built and being used as sandboxes by 343 in Spartan Ops.  Now I don't know if the coding processes for forge are easily transferred to new maps not built around the forge coding processes, but I think this Idea should be considered.  I feel a move like this would revitalize the hurt forge community that was crippled by the Waypoint sharing issues and the semi disappointing maps. 

 

I would love to hear from the community on this subject and any suggestions to which maps from Spartan Ops we would like to see. 

 

My 3 choices would be:

 

The Cauldron

 

Control

 

Apex

I agree I would love to see some of these spartan ops maps as sandbox maps. Nice post!

[BearClawsKiller]

I would definitly like to see some beautiful maps come to Forge. But we know 343 isn't gonna do that. They wouldn't add maps like that to Forge, unless it had some Multiplayer purpose.

[Trifle10]

lol 3rd choice. anyways it would be nice but highly unlikely it wont happen

[Banehalo]

it would be cool but impossble at the smae time there not meant to be for forge 

[TrashnSuicide]

 I would agree 343 is most likely never going to implement this concept but it would be a nice gesture to the fans. I do believe with very minimal work they could be forge ready you just need to define boundaries and use the versions of the maps before edited for Sparta Ops, The terrain is model separately from set pieces (ammo crates, boxes, etc..) and character generation. They have the plain versions of the maps that's just a fact. But sadly I think this will remain a dream.  Bane nice use of a png signature, man I miss my Adobe Masters Suite.            

 

Also Glad to see other forgers/players like this idea. 

Take care.

[Sadly Just AL]

It should come with the castle map pack or just one on its own.

[BaconShelf]

Should it happen, I hope it's free like cold storage. Though I would gladly pay 800MSP for a forge map pack

[GryffinGuy007]

I was literally talking about this with some Forgers the other day.

Overall, its plausable. The maps are perfectly suited for Forge, and the maps are already there, its just a case of whether or not 343i has been snooping around to find advice like this, and whether they will comply.

I really do hope this happens.

[Taux]

Bacon.

 

..I'm sorry.

[Squally DaBeanz]

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/25935-new-environments-the-easy-way/

[TrashnSuicide]

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/25935-new-environments-the-easy-way/

Big fan of your forge style BTW, I read your thread and posted on it.

 

I'll be releasing a map pack soon, 3 BTB maps  2-3  4v4 maps. good for all game types minus griftball.

They will need testing But hopefully minor tweaking. here's a preview of 4 of them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoping to get these released by the end of the week. But also have 4 other maps I'm working on as well.