Dangled

I'm glad that they came out with foundry. Playing maps forged from halo 1 makes it awesome for me. So far I've only had time to test out chill out, but I downloaded Damnation and prisoner. Not identical models, but fun nonetheless.

Haven't tried Rat's Nest or the other one though lol.

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Hitzel

Foundry is awesome. It's only been out for a few days and I've seen quite a few awesome maps put together. It's only going to get better. But that's obvious... Even Bungie's default layout is well-designed and competitive (except for objective games...)

Standoff sucks. It looks nice, and the basic design is good, but that map is just too damn wide. That's why there's not a Sniper on it; it'd be game-breakingly overpowered to put a Sniper on Standoff. And even without it, the map is so wide that small games are too unconcentrated to work and large games are too random. Horrible map.


IMO, Rats Nest is actually a very well-designed map. I don't think anyone's giving it the credit it deserves. The vehicle track on the outside of the map has no cover, is seperated from the center of the map, and only serves as a way to get from point A to point B. Because of that, the map doesn't suffer from it's size like Standoff does. The inside of the map is made of conjoined rooms with varying vertical geometry, which is a good thing. It's like an Unreal Tournament CTF map. When you play CTF or Nutral Bomb on it, it doesn't feel like Halo 3. Instead, the mix between balanced vehicle movement and choke-points around the map make if feel like a mix between a large Halo 1 game and a good team-based game like Team Fortress. Mind you, this is by Bungie's default settings.

The only WTF thought I have about Rats Nest is this; Bungie placed a Rocket Launcher, Sniper, Active Camo, Brute Hammer, two Shotguns, two Bubble Shields, a Machine Gun Turret, and Plasma Grenades all in the center room of the map. Seriously, what the eff?

All in all, the map pack is worth the ten bucks if you're actually going to play Halo. In reality, Foundry is worth the $10 because it's a map editor and the other two maps are neat little extras. So buy the pack if you want to edit and download user-created maps.

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EnJoi

I'd probably buy the map pack if I had peoples to edit maps with.

But I think that foundry looks awesome, and has great potential, and the other two are decent.

drtydzn12

I like Foundry First, then Rat's Nest, then Standoff.

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Lenny Emery

I really liked the maps, they are fun to dick around with. I doubt competitve play could be done on it, but it's funy to just chill and play.

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RedMorning

lol its probably true! Think about it, practically an entire community (MLGers) complaining about how crappy the current maps are. The casual players I know think the current maps sucked. Whats bungies conclusion? More casual than competitive players so release 2 casual maps and make a map you can wipe out and remake yourself. Its the easiest way for bungie to try to shut up everyone instead of just remaking the older maps =/

edit: I love you sig too brook lol

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ALEXFRATLEY

foundry is awesome not being much of map editor myself i just downloaded to keep my map making addict of a friend silent and i gotta admit rats nests is quite enjoyable more so if they had i dont know spaced the weapons out but foundry definatley has some intresting possibilities

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