Forge Island coming April 11th!

**H2O Yordle** · 03-22-2013, 11:37 PM

Fake. His twitter wasnt verified. >.>

**THExSPIDERMAN** · 03-23-2013, 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by BubbaBishop21

That bike has my name written ALL over it. I just have to learn to park it on an annoying Redd. Anybody want to be my bike rack?

You looking to die, son?

Lol jk but no really.

**VerbotenDonkey** · 03-23-2013, 12:53 AM

Halo 4 Forge creators rejoice, a new Forge Map with a series of wide open spaces is coming on April 11, it's a free, and it's called Forge Island.

It's actually a series of three islands in one giant open water area. The first island is a very large open space, the other two are medium and small sized. All three are very flat and unobstructed for pixel perfect Forging. Forge Island is compatible with the current set of Forge tools, but it will also introduce some new items into the Forge palette as well.

We got our first look at the new areas today during 343i's PAX East Halo 4 panel, which included a demo walkthrough of a custom-built version of the classic Halo: Combat Evolved map, Hang 'Em High.

Forge Island will be available to download for free on April 11, just a few days after the Castle Map Pack, which will be available for download on April 8 (you can check out one of the new maps, Perdition, right in the video above).

343i also talked about changes coming in its third Title Update (TU) to Halo 4. Specifically, the TU will include balancing updates to the Active Camp and Gauss Warthog, but more notably, it will see the return of the "X" marker on the HUD when a team mate is killed.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/...rge-island-map

The palette for the map is said to be nearly identical to that of Ravine. It has also been confirmed that there will be no new major updates for Forge , and that any changes will not be implemented until Halo 5 is released with the new Forge mode.

So basically, no new vehicles.

In response to the LARP, yes it will likely be moved to Halo 4 now, although I'm concerned that they said they are flat, because they means we'll have to forge up some barriers to make it more like natural terrain. But yes, we will work hard to transition the LARP into Halo 4. Now we just need to decide who gets the Large Island and who gets Medium. :P And we could possibly have something special planned for the small island.