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Subject: Forge Update - you like?

Someone get the ghost. I call warthog driver. We need someone to get the laser before the other team does. I need a gunner. . . . . No wait- . . . . I NEED A GUNNER . . . . oh . . never mind. I'll just splatter people. <"SPLATTER SPREE">

Every vehicle on every map. Why can't we get a scorpian tank on Foundry?

  • 07.23.2008 1:16 PM PDT

We're building a better world...all of them, better worlds.

I think it's pretty apparent to them we want more from the Forge function, but I doubt they will do anything with it. The vast majority of Halo 3's playership are not avid Forgers and really don't care about it. Maps are something everyone enjoys, so that is going to be their focus.

Can you imagine the outcry if they brought us a Forge update without new maps?

In that vein, you forgot them most important update of all: a bigger, more customizable map than Foundry. I could also stand to see adjustable invisible walls and ceilings. Furthermore, why does Foundry even have an invisible ceiling?

  • 07.23.2008 1:27 PM PDT
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I'd pay.

  • 07.23.2008 1:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: Rhea
Canada isn't that important that it needs two of the same threads on page one.

This is an awesome idea. I heart you. lol

  • 07.23.2008 1:34 PM PDT
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Many of your suggestions have been asked for many times. Some of the ideas are plain brilliant and I would think completely possible. Here's my own version of your list.

Ideas I liked and thought would be very possible for them to do, not necessarily easy, but not completely absurd.

- 90 degree snap button
- An Undo button (don't you hate when you delete something on accident?)
- Openable and closable doors/gates (like the ones on standoff, but closable)
- Destructable Walls (like a wall from foundry, but it would crack and eventually break when damaged like a barrier)
- Trees
- Shade Turrets
- Troop Warthogs
- Jackal Sniper Towers
- Choice of color for containers on maps like Avalanche, Blackout, Rats Nest...
- Red and Blue banners for marking the red and blue sides of maps
- More signs than just A and B
- Breakable glass windows (remember the ones on good old fashioned Zanzibar?)
- Floors/larger walls
- Roads for racing maps

The following I though were good ideas and would be kinda fun, but I don't think they would work

- Gaurdians (spawn them and size them like a koth hill or a respawn area)(two complex of a system to add in at this point)

- A "Delete All Items" button(they release canvases already)

- Dead characters such as marines, elites, brutes, etc.(too much effort for something so pointless)

- Wrecked Pelicans and Phantoms (maybe like 1 per map)(very complex forge object that would only work on a very large map in certain places)

- The ability to change the time of day (an object very similar to a filter)(getting a little to complex to program at this point i think)

- Ladders(this is not halo:ce. they would also have to do a lot of programming just for the movement and physics of going up a ladder)

- AA Wraiths(probably too late to add in a new drivable vehicle)

- Choice of skin on vehicles (iced or normal)(again, too complex for a feature added in a forge update)

- Choice of color for containers on maps like Avalanche, Blackout, Rats Nest...(same as above)

- A second custom powerup (edit it seperatly from the main yellow one)(they would have to completely change the game customization options with a new power up)

- Sizable Filters(*sigh*)


- A "Position Lock" button which would allow you to make sure an object could not move
- "Forge Glue"(you can't screw with the in game physics)

- A button making objects float (instead of glitching stuff to float)(you can't screw with the in game physics)

need i say anything on the last two?
- Snowmen on snow covered maps for laughs (not default placed, just forgable)
- Some sort of weather modifier (again, an object similar to a filter)


so i voted yes, because some of the ideas would be amazing, but others i don't think bungie would even consider.



  • 07.23.2008 1:41 PM PDT
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I'm really liking this idea, but I definitely wouldn't pay 800MS points for it. Most of us already dished out 1600MS points for 2 map packs, one that didn't really satisfy me, so why pay 800 more for something that should've been included at Halo 3's launch in 07?

  • 07.23.2008 1:44 PM PDT

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Posted by: M274 ULATV
doors that characters cannot pass but all forms of ammunition can!


It's called a fenced wall, rockets aren't ammo, there explosives.

  • 07.23.2008 3:00 PM PDT

Do you see the tigers too?!?!?

This would be pretty sweet...but it would be damn near impossible to put in

  • 07.23.2008 3:05 PM PDT
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This would make forge almost perfect.

  • 07.23.2008 3:08 PM PDT
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i'd pay for it, we def need some new forge stuff to make it a little bit interesting and some of the thigns listed would help a lot and would help people make some pretty creative maps

  • 07.23.2008 3:10 PM PDT

LIST UPDATED... w/ one item.

  • 07.23.2008 6:37 PM PDT
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I would easily pay 800 ms points.

  • 07.23.2008 6:41 PM PDT
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Not a bad idea but seriously $10 for this? NOwhere near worth it. BUt great ideas

  • 07.23.2008 6:44 PM PDT

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I have to say the ideas you gave were fantastic. I would gladly pay 800.

  • 07.23.2008 6:46 PM PDT
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Ignorance is not an excuse, EVER!

cheezball is after my halo heart.................um what?

lol, this would take a lot of work but be worth the 800 MS points and the time spent.

  • 07.23.2008 6:48 PM PDT

I would pay it.

  • 07.23.2008 6:49 PM PDT
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Hell yeah i would pay for that! Forge is pretty lame at the moment :(

  • 07.23.2008 6:52 PM PDT
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eh maybe


[Edited on 07.23.2008 6:54 PM PDT]

  • 07.23.2008 6:54 PM PDT
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The more the merrier... if they can afford to do it and get their cut for it.... I say it should happen.

  • 07.23.2008 6:55 PM PDT

Definitely!
i dig the *delete all* option.. for sure something that needs to be included!

  • 07.23.2008 6:57 PM PDT
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id pay more than 800 for that!

  • 07.23.2008 6:58 PM PDT

Question everything.

I would pay that much for a delete all button.

  • 07.23.2008 7:01 PM PDT
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These are phenomenal ideas that most of us would have at one time or another thought of and wished we had them. However, this means that Bungie would obviously have to somehow modify the maximum number of objects allowed on a map/the forge budget to allow for a massive addition of these new objects. Not to mention how with so many new objects games could become potentially more and more laggy. The memory alloted for each map would have to be increased, as well as the memory allowed on players' file shares, as increased memory means a decreased amount of available space.

  • 07.23.2008 7:04 PM PDT

WHY CAN'T YOU FIX THE BR SPREAD IN FORGE!!!!!!! ARRRR NERD RAGE!!!!

The names Eric, but you can call me Rice.

Yeah you are definitely onto something.

I've always wanted a 90 degree snap lock funtion and i'm getting tired of having to do the float glitch to get things in the air... THE UNDO FUNCTION WOULD BE SO SWEET!

Basically... You had me at forge :P

  • 07.23.2008 7:16 PM PDT