Spawning options

[IntuitiveLine]

just a couple questions I have when it comes to spawning. on some objects you can set it to spawns and im wondering how that would work out. I'm trying to a happy wars kind of map/gametype
and im trying to set the dominion pieces as spawn points when activated. also is it possible to choose your own spawn points?

 

[xCASx ROB]

Lots of questions there. Ok the reason you can set objects to spawns(I'm pretty sure you are referring to the respawn zone option) is because you can give objects shapes like you would for a trait zone or hill marker. Although I don't think it's ever used but your're supposed to be able to treat it just like a respawn zone. This is how they accomplished the KOTH trick by giving the warthog a shape and giving it the "hill" label.

To answer the dominion question you will have to give me some more information about that.

And the choosing spawn points thing. Um I know it was possible to do in invasion by giving a simple hill marker the respawn zone label. But I never really got into making it work for other game types. I haven't seen it on Halo 4 yet but It might work in dominion though. Thanks for bringing that up, I need to try that out. I hope I helped a bit

 

[IntuitiveLine]

Lots of questions there. Ok the reason you can set objects to spawns(I'm pretty sure you are referring to the respawn zone option) is because you can give objects shapes like you would for a trait zone or hill marker. Although I don't think it's ever used but your're supposed to be able to treat it just like a respawn zone. This is how they accomplished the KOTH trick by giving the warthog a shape and giving it the "hill" label.

To answer the dominion question you will have to give me some more information about that.

And the choosing spawn points thing. Um I know it was possible to do in invasion by giving a simple hill marker the respawn zone label. But I never really got into making it work for other game types. I haven't seen it on Halo 4 yet but It might work in dominion though. Thanks for bringing that up, I need to try that out. I hope I helped a bit

Okay so basically I want to have 3 towers (3 dominion capture bases) in between these 2 castles where the players initially respawn. each time a player captures the tower (base) , it serves as a spawn zone so people spawn in closer. whole idea is to get all 3 towers and kill everybody. but in happy wars u could choose what tower to spawn.
here's gameplay:

 

[xCASx ROB]

Well try the way you would do it on reach on your halo 4 map and I'll try figure it out soon as well. This would help me on my dominion maps as well so Id love to see work in halo 4 like it did on reach

 

[Wakko45]

To choose your spawn you could start in a room of 3 teleporters (one for each tower). The first one would bring you to your initial spawn area, the second the middle and the third your enemies base. Now I'm not sure this will work but you can try: To have it so you can only teleport to the bases you control, try to put a dominion shield horizontally just above the receiving nodes at each tower. Set these shields gametype settings to DOM_Shield. Now hopefully (crossing my fingers, no promises), once you capture a tower the shield will belong to your team, only allowing you to go through that shield. Hopefully this will block the teleporters for the other team and hopefully you'll be able to go through since the game realizes you won't get stuck under your own dominion shield.

If this works I'm awesome. Some other notes though: Don't let the second or third sender nodes spawn until like 2 minutes and 1 minute into the match respectively. This will allow your enemy time to capture their base so you can't just teleport there right off the bat before the dominion shield spawns. This will also give both teams time to fight over the middle tower and allow one of them to capture it so both teams can't teleport to it before it's captured. You might also want to make sure the dominion shields are set to the lowest respawn you can make it so that the enemy team can't just break the dominion shield in the middle and allow their team to come through.

Not sure if this will work but I really hope it does, good luck!

 

[IntuitiveLine]

I tried out the shields blocking the teleporters today, sadly it did not work:/ oh well...

 

[Parker Melnyk]

Maybe if you put a shield door just above the dominion shield. Then people on the other team couldn't destroy the shield. Then put a soft kill over the shield so the person is punished for cheating. Mwahahahaha!

 

[IntuitiveLine]

I'll have to ttry that out tomorrow as well, im really trying not to give up on this haha

 

[Parker Melnyk]

Also, this is complete guessing because i don't have my Xbox near me, i think that you can set spawn zones to be with the dominion base. I'm not sure though :/

 

[Emperor of Fate]

hey man I think Spawning in a pelican jumping out would be an exalance to see on the battle field, Bravo would be best option. Paratroopers would flipping rock the walls.

 

[xCASx ROB]

Hey sorry it took so long but I tested out the the thing in reach where you could select your spawns. Sadly It didn't work. This is probably because they didn't even put it in the game. I tried what I could but I'm pretty sure this is only possible in reach.

Anyways good luck with your map and happy forging

 

[IntuitiveLine]

it's alright, thanks for helping though! It's awesome to see us forgers helping one another

 

[PA1NTS]

This is gunna take some forge experience and know how, but it can be done. What you are describing sounds like a form of linear dominion. Which wouldnt be too far off from regular dominion. Simply use DOM_spawn zones and change them to the appropriate spawning sequence, so that they are the same sequence as the base terminal. Base A = Spawn Sequence 1, Base B = Spawn Sequence 2, Base C = Spawn Sequence 3. So, when a team captures that base, they spawn in wherever you set it's spawn zone to.

 

[xCASx ROB]

He's talking about being able to choose your spawns. If you played Reach, then you'll remember when you played invasion online, you were able to select where you wanted to spawn using the dpad up and down arrows.

 

[PA1NTS]

He's talking about being able to choose your spawns. If you played Reach, then you'll remember when you played invasion online, you were able to select where you wanted to spawn using the dpad up and down arrows.

Ah. ok. I should have paid a little closer attention to the thread lol.

 

[Emperor of Fate]

Ah. ok. I should have paid a little closer attention to the thread lol.

Dude It would be cool if you could pick where you spawn, but It delays sometimes, so I kind of like it where you don't choose, now only if you could make it like halo wars, teamates coming in on waves, but the base has a timer when its spawns are active, then soon as they do you spawn to the one that is closest to ready. I still think they need to add stationary gauss turrets, like one of the missions in ODST

 

[chicktapus33]

Have I been living under a rock for the past 14 years? What the hell is happy wars?

 

[IntuitiveLine]

Have I been living under a rock for the past 14 years? What the hell is happy wars?

Happy Wars is a free game on the xbox live arcade where you have to build towers to get closer to your enemies base, breach their castle, and destroy their tower. you can choose warrior, a cleric (builder), or a mage (wizard). it's incredibly fun with friends, so i suggest u try it out! it's free after all

 

[chicktapus33]

Happy Wars is a free game on the xbox live arcade where you have to build towers to get closer to your enemies base, breach their castle, and destroy their tower. you can choose warrior, a cleric (builder), or a mage (wizard). it's incredibly fun with friends, so i suggest u try it out! it's free after all

Sounds interesting. I'll check it out!

 

[ShortBizzle]

I actually like this idea! With Wakko45's idea it should work. I'm going to try and get a version of this working. If I get the test to work I'll post it here.