Daybreak - Via The Castle Map Pack

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#1 Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:49
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Daybreak - Via The Castle Map Pack

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Yep.  We need more big maps.  One of the designers mentions that this map scored very high on their focus groups.  I'd really love to know who gets included in those.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:55
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Dixon_Tufar wrote:

 I'd really love to know who gets included in those.

Gotta be people like me because they keep making more and more of what I like. :)

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:21 (Reply to #2)
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DEEP_NNN wrote:

Dixon_Tufar wrote:

 I'd really love to know who gets included in those.

Gotta be people like me because they keep making more and more of what I like. :)

 

That's the rub: you'll like anything Halo.

 

Out of curiosity, can you rank the maps for me?  I'm wondering what you consider to be good and bad. here in Halo 4.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:26 (Reply to #3)
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Dixon_Tufar wrote:

DEEP_NNN wrote:

Dixon_Tufar wrote:

 I'd really love to know who gets included in those.

Gotta be people like me because they keep making more and more of what I like. :)

 

That's the rub: you'll like anything Halo.

 

Out of curiosity, can you rank the maps for me?  I'm wondering what you consider to be good and bad. here in Halo 4.

Be assured, I don't like 'anything Halo. I do like the games and I like the Halo universe crafted under the auspices of 343i. I can't accurately rank the maps yet. I've/we've hardly played on some of the disk maps let alone the DLC. Good maps are the ones you have fun on. I have the least amount of fun on maps where I don't know my location/orientation. I never have fun if my friends aren't having fun.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 21:19 (Reply to #4)
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DEEP_NNN wrote:

Dixon_Tufar wrote:

DEEP_NNN wrote:

Dixon_Tufar wrote:

 I'd really love to know who gets included in those.

Gotta be people like me because they keep making more and more of what I like. :)

 

That's the rub: you'll like anything Halo.

 

Out of curiosity, can you rank the maps for me?  I'm wondering what you consider to be good and bad. here in Halo 4.

Be assured, I don't like 'anything Halo. I do like the games and I like the Halo universe crafted under the auspices of 343i. I can't accurately rank the maps yet. I've/we've hardly played on some of the disk maps let alone the DLC. Good maps are the ones you have fun on. I have the least amount of fun on maps where I don't know my location/orientation. I never have fun if my friends aren't having fun.

 

So, can you rank the ones you have played on?  I know you're not a huge online warrior, but you've clearly played some of them.  Hell, I'd even be interested to hear your rankings in previous titles (minus Reach, because I can't relate to you on any of those maps at all).

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Yeah this map looks nice. I welcome the big maps. I'm considering doing the math, I'm pretty sure 90% of my BTB game play time has been spent in Exile, Ragnorok and Longbow so far...

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Bah! Map rankings are dumb. It's so personal and we've done this a million times. Player 1 like map A, player 2 hates map A. There's enough hating going on as it is around here. Maybe tomorrow.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:15 (Reply to #7)
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DEEP_NNN wrote:

Bah! Map rankings are dumb. It's so personal and we've done this a million times. Player 1 like map A, player 2 hates map A. There's enough hating going on as it is around here. Maybe tomorrow.

 

I'm curious to see where, if at all, our lines intersect.  We have to have at least a few maps that we both adore and a few maps that we despise in common.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 06:17 (Reply to #8)
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Dixon_Tufar wrote:

DEEP_NNN wrote:

Bah! Map rankings are dumb. It's so personal and we've done this a million times. Player 1 like map A, player 2 hates map A. There's enough hating going on as it is around here. Maybe tomorrow.

 

I'm curious to see where, if at all, our lines intersect.  We have to have at least a few maps that we both adore and a few maps that we despise in common.

It was midnight and I was tired. We do have some common likes. Haven, I like it a lot. It has very interesting jump options. I'm not up to snuff on it but I think I could like the map even more once it imprinted in my brain. Ragnarok and any map like it. Two main bases, linear travel, location and orientation are easy and the map is pretty.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 07:51
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Before the "walkthrough", I thought this map was going to be similar to Standoff and I was kind of excited. I still kind of see it, but there are lots of caves and tunnels. 

Overall, this is the map I'm most interested in playing - based on video evidence. 

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Thanks for posting these videos Dixon!

The 3 Castle maps "look" really sweet. I think most of the H4 maps are beautiful virtual enivironments to see, and move around in.

You are right, Flow and Function can be debated on each of them. But, they do look cool.

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 08:06 (Reply to #11)
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Kenjamin1 MI wrote:

...The 3 Castle maps "look" really sweet. I think most of the H4 maps are beautiful virtual enivironments to see, and move around in.

You are right, Flow and Function can be debated on each of them. But, they do look cool.

I do agree with you on this point. The graphics and environments created are really impressive. All of these video walkthroughs, the designers always like to brag about the "sky box" and rightly so, these maps are graphically impressive. 

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 09:16 (Reply to #12)
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No problem, Kenjamin, and yeah, these maps, although they don't cater to my likes, do look pretty damned impressive.  Unfortunately, even when we do get a map, we get some other reason to get upset over it, like Monolith, and how fucking noisy it is at the bases.

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