Just thought I'd drop by and share some of the comments from other sites regarding these maps and BTB. Looks like people are excited!
"The thing about these forge maps is they don't look real, like an actual place like the warzone and arena maps do. And its more obvious with guillotine. Its almost like an overwhelming lack of detail"
"but I'm a little bummed to learn that initial BTB maps are Forge"
"The only reason I'm ok with the btb maps being forge is because they're remakes. But very soon I want completley new maps, not made in forge."
"Those colors in the forge created BTB maps are terrible. It would've been much nicer if they made real maps with personality."
"If I knew a month ago the BTB battle maps were going to be ugly -Yoink- forge -Yoink- I wouldn't have purchased this game."
"wow headlong looked so bland these maps have horrible quality"
"hope 343i polish a Little bit that forge maps"
"I am sorry but I am disappointed the BTB maps are forged. I mean I know 343i are just trying to show forge off but they look bland and have no real colour to them :/. I'm sure they will be fun to play but I expected maps built by 343i with full colour pallet and unique environments."
"I'm kind of disappointed that the BTB maps are only forge maps. Forge maps just don't feel as good as developer made maps."
"I was just thinking the same. Clever marketing. I hope these forge maps aren't part of the 'free 19 map dlc' bundle because they're just community forge maps"
"so, is btb only going to have forge maps? that's... disappointing"
"I really hope these are cleaned up a bit in their final release. I know some of them are Forge maps, but I shouldn't be able to instantly tell they are Forge maps from a single render screenshot. They look like lego sets."
"Free forge maps lol good one. If they turn around and say these are part of the 15+ extras then I'm done."
"The forge maps definitely look nice (for forge,) and I'm sure they'll be fun, but I hope we'll have some more maps built from the ground up instead of with forge in the playlists."
"I think the btb maps, look good, well as good as a forge map is going to look. but in headlong, not sure why there are flat grey walls, would look better if they added some color there instead of leaving it grey."
"Why have they started making loads of forge maps"
"Oh look, disgusting Forge maps to play BTB on. One step forward with BTB, 30 steps back with ugly maps. I just can't play on them
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"I want to say it looks like a remake, but the suspended bridge part is much lower than in the original map. This and the Standoff map look like direct ripoffs as opposed to re-imaginings."
"No idea, I honestly thought it was a troll of some megablock picture set until I looked closer."
"It's a Forge map by The Psycho Duck... Looks like ass. Too much grey. Lord knows what else this amateur screwed up with the map."
"That's what happens when you bring in not talent amateurs like the Cartographers to build a map. Only decent looking map of this release is the Longbow successor. Pretty sad."
"Because this is our first "DLC", which is total bullshit that they're giving us forge maps by amateurs instead of real maps by developers."
"mediocre forge maps"
"To be fair, the Standoff/Gulch/Longbow remakes aren't that bad - but the textures on the headlong one look like something from the Sims."
It's really great to see the community coming together with such enthusiasm and respect for content creators!