My 25 Halo Maps... 10 Years Later

[@Matortheeternal]

Awesome video! I remember coming on the FyreUK minecraft server several years ago and making the connection that you were from the Halo CE community. You were surprised, saying other's hadn't made that connection before. I didn't end up sticking around long in the FyreUK server because minecraft could never really hold my attention (certainly not like Halo CE did), but I did really enjoy watching your timelapse builds over the years. It's really cool to see and hear about how the Halo CE community influenced someone else. I had a similar experience, though in a different part of the community. My interest was in finding glitches in the engine, doing halo "tricks". I started in 2006, and stopped playing late 2011, early 2012. Over that time I got involved in many communities/groups, including the High Impact Halo forums, }SoC{, ES, etc. It was a truly formative experience for me, I learned how to create and edit videos and how to do basic web development. I hosted weekly workshops where I taught tricks to other players and eventually created my own tricks through an understanding of the game engine and persistence. Overall I probably spent over 4000 hours (~3000 tracked on xfire, if I recall) on the game mastering the engine and hanging out with other players. At the end of the day, I learned a lot from my experience with Halo, but nothing stands out more than learning to understand systems. I do contract Software Engineering, and I feel that a lot of how I think about software comes from my experience with Halo - thinking outside of the box and defining behaviors. Anyways, was a great watch and I may actually download the map and give it a try. I still have my CD key and I'm still connected with a few communities. (The map looks great, by the way!)

[@firedragon04]

Chapter Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 02:03 1 Grenation 02:34 2 Fire Cove 03:09 3 The Hangar Classic 03:29 4,5 Clicksion & Zyclone 04:03 6,7 A Bridge To Far & Conception 04:49 8 The Omen 05:08 9,10,11 Moksha, Nirvana & SubZero 06:09 12,13 CalibrationX & Paradoxical 06:44 14 Helix Canyon 08:10 15,16,17,18,19,20 Ceaseless, Deceit, Defy, Denial, Desolate & Shockwave 10:39 21,22,23,24,25 Cliffedge, Cliffrun, Enclosed, Escalade Mount & Pellude 12:24 Intermission 12:57 The Reveal 13:35 The Process 17:15 The Tour 19:28 Outro

[@Quality3rr0r]

Wow astonishing!

[@TheCyanWool]

Nice to see you back

[@firedragon04]

Thanks, hope you like this video :)

[@TheCyanWool]

I did!

[@jasonycw1992]

Wow, it has been a long time

[@firedragon04]

"Kept you waiting, huh?"

[@Moodydata]

Makes me feel old, takes me back to a great time, loved talking to you and working with you. - Sonic

[@Lat3ksi]

I remember watching your tutorials. Also must've played hundreds of matches on Helix Canyon, Paradoxical and Escalade Mount. Looking forward to playing Arrival!

[@firedragon04]

Lat3ksi thanks! I can't believe how terrible I sounded in those old tutorials though.

[@Ducain23]

Really great video... I always love seeing people's progress when making maps

[@firedragon04]

Ducain23 thanks Ducain. Keep on forging on!

[@whaliin]

Interesting video, well done

[@Wally17.]

This is very cool. I played a lot of Halo Custom Edition back in the day and always wanted to learn how to make a map.

[@Shinyhunter48]

Welcome back, glad to see you uploading again.

[@firedragon04]

Thanks, this video took me months to make due to the content within it but I have some ideas for new content for the channel soon.

[@Shinyhunter48]

FireDragon04 Can't wait

[@Nintendan95]

Here from your recent post of the UE4 subreddit and wow awesome to see someone on there who made HCE maps back in the day, H3 machinima and even Pokemon nuzlockes! It's so interesting to see how over time you become more aware of map design through these levels. The first little map pack of yours was the first where I noticed that spike of quality. I remember trying to learn to make HCE maps when I got into it, probs sometime in 2008 (I started with H3 in '07). I struggled and gave up I guess haha (I was only 12 at the time) What you've done with Arrival is insane. That room with the holograms is unbelievable. Looks amazing. These levels overtime have really started to look more like playspaces you'd actually see in a Halo game, and Arrival honestly tops the ones in Halo CE. I don't recall playing any of these, I think I just cared about badass custom vehicles but I might have downloaded 1 or 2 of these. Either way, this was super fun to watch. It's awesome to see people still around on the Internet who were part of smaller communities you've interacted with in the past.

[@firedragon04]

Thanks :) I felt nostalgic making this video and after been a 'fairly popular' Minecraft KZbinr (FyreUK) for so many years (2011-2015) I decided to show people Minecraft wasn't my first creative outlet nor was it or will it be my last. I've moved on to real creativity and not building with blocks since then.

[@soulivan827]

You taught me how to make levels with your tutorial videos for Clicksion and Zyclone!

[@firedragon04]

That's kind of you to say, I was about 13-14 when I made those tutorials and I turn 30 next year so half a lifetime ago.

[@dazman23]

Wow that brings back memories thanks Matt!

[@firedragon04]

Darryl Osborne it was a trip down memory lane for making it these past few months so I'm glad it gave similar feelings to other. Hope you're well!

[@thefakebriskeh]

omg I remember playing these as a kid long ago, you sir, are a teacher. a damn good one. I think of you as a child hood friend now. you should honestly play some halo now, mcc would be fun to watch. keep up all the greatness and have yourself a damn good one

[@firedragon04]

Briskeh you're far too kind! Thanks so much.

[@o_o-037]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[@MoDNcA]

I remember watching your videos and creating my own CE maps after that. Such grate memories.. Your new map looks breathtaking and at the first moment i thought it was a port to a new game or engine. In fact I would really wish to belive some of those memories i have with the new map. Is there any player base left?

[@chocbartowbar2668]

your video editing skills are honestly really good

[@firedragon04]

It's what I do for a living so that's nice to here, thanks.

[@Jacob7393]

If you hosted a game night playing your new map (and maybe some of your old favorites as well), that would be extremely fun. Do it -- you know you want to :) Just subbed btw

[@Bodzilla1]

Well i'll be. Good to see ya man. n00binator just linked me this. I still talk to him this day 10 years later. Good to see ya been keeping busy man

[@5nanometers]

6:27 I remember playing the Halo Revolution remake of this map also

[@MaveryCreates]

Ah, I was not subscribed to this account... a lot more people here lol But aside from that talk, this is coooool Matt!

[@Derek_B]

Great video! You called me out exactly wondering why there was more to the video, and wondering what it would be like if you made one today! I do think it would be great if you included gameplay of your new map (even the old ones). Get some people together and make another video!

[@Jimmydontrook]

Happy birthday! belated...sorry

[@MrWax]

Good old nostalgia

[@5nanometers]

Ah, I remember playing on Moksha few years ago

[@5nanometers]

8:17 Ceaseless ended up being used as a FFA wrestling map lol

[@Lat3ksi]

"Mortalkombat" wasn't it?

[@buddercreep3r763]

Hahhaha, i actually remember watching your tutorials back in the day! :D Thanks! BTW you ripped Favyn's 'Halo... 10 years later' title didn't you?

[@wtblack5]

Timberwoods is easily the most underrated Halo map of all time...

[@Corruptinator]

Greetings! I have to say that the modding community for Combat Evolved must have been incredible. I wonder how the future will go forward now that the Master Chief Collection is slowly being implemented to PC with Mod support. Would 343 allow modded multiplayer maps to become part of the Official Social Playlists? Who knows... By the way, Not sure if this is relevant but the reason I stumbled upon this channel is because I remember watching a Halo Machinima that had the username FireDragon04 titled _StarFell_ , a machinima about two spartans Elliot and Thomas sent by the UNSC to discover the dark secret within Sandtrap that took out the UNSC StarFell. I honestly thought it was a good short machinima film. Too bad Machinima went kaput along with all the halo videos posted there now deleted.

[@firedragon04]

Thanks! I loved making StarFell all those years ago. I don’t have any of the original video files anymore unfortunately - I’d like to rewatch it. Oh well! I am possibly planning a return to Machinima film making with Infinite, depending on its feature set.

[@Corruptinator]

@@firedragon04 Awesome! :D

[@5nanometers]

7:23 Helix Canyon has a dedicated server today I think

[@firedragon04]

GaryDX25 That's awesome, it's one of my favourites that I made, for sure.

[@ChainsawRick7]

Liked the video shows good progression. Any chance of seeing a game play video of Arrival with you and others?

[@Ramotttholl]

that looks Awesome Matt. but it also makes me sad that its been so long since we had a halo game on the pc. (i just wished PC had halo3.. thats all)

[@Gelgoog]

Didn't I used to have you on xfire or something. Will say the gamenights I host every so often have helix canyon as a sort of mainstay since it feels like an actual map Bungie might have published. shame the HCE community is a shell of it's former self and most custom map servers are dead

[@BigSmork]

Are you planning to play SPV3 when it comes out on August 19th.

[@aLTis94]

Awesome video! I've actually played on most of your maps, some of them like Moksha, Desolate and Helix Canyon are still being played to this day. I'd love to play on Arrival but I can't see the download link, will it be released later?

[@firedragon04]

aLTis94 Download links are up in the Modacity CE release forum and I've uploaded it to HaloMaps (but its not up yet)

[@aLTis94]

Ah, well don't expect it to be approved on HaloMaps anytime soon, it is very rarely updated now. I think you should post the download link in the description too.

[@firedragon04]

aLTis94 I'll add them into the description the next time I'm at my PC. I have Mega and Mediafire Links of the map download.

[@ShellyHerself]

oh btw, me + altis and some others are planning on playing your map some time soon. maybe we could get in contact so you can see how it plays?

[@firedragon04]

GoofballMichelle I did like zero play testing and only set it up for Slayer and CTF (I can't remember if I even did that now) as I was purely making it for aesthetic reasons but I'd love to hear how it plays.

[@spliter227]

Dude your map Arrival is sick but where are all the weapons/power ups on map? And the bases are switched, such a beautiful map...a shame its not playable...been running custom maps with a small group on mcc CE every sunday

[@firedragon04]

I didn’t spend much time on the actual in-game things like spawns and weapon placements, sorry. I didn’t have anyone to test or give feedback when I made it either so I kind of just called it done and put it out there. I’m glad you think it looks nice though. It was fun to return to the world of Halo mapping in 2017 after 10 years… maybe I’ll do it again after 20 years in 2027.

[@spliter227]

@@firedragon04 i've been teaching myself the modding tools, i have changed the weapon tags on Arrival so now they appear and respawn! The blue flag spawns at red base and vice versa, when I corrected it on sapien the map would get stuck when loading ctf, any thoughts on a fix?

[@o_o-037]

You should play the SPv3 campaign mod for Halo ce by CMT. It's half finished and the 2nd half is coming out this September.

[@firedragon04]

I actually used to do some 3D Modelling for the wayyyy earlier versions of SPv3 back in the day.

[@o_o-037]

Where's Arrival? I can't find it on Halomaps.

[@Lat3ksi]

Check from Modacity releases.

[@ShellyHerself]

Hey, where did you release the new map? if it was on halomaps then I suggest adding an extra link on mediafire, mega or something like that to your description. Halomaps doesn't get updated often anymore. A site that gets updated more frequently is haloce3 dot com, so you can upload it there too.

[@pikatrainer3835]

You can download it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHuQqYKpqLx1rqc

[@JJAB91]

11:20 isnt March around the time of the Halo 3 Beta?

[@firedragon04]

I thought the beta wasn't until early May 2007, but I'm pretty sure we had Valhalla gameplay and screenshots by early 2007 anyway.

[@BMMcferrin]

what are you up to these days?

[@firedragon04]

I am a freelance motion graphics animator and spend my free time creating short stories, environments and such in the Unreal Engine.

[@BMMcferrin]

Unreal Engine, huh? Ever take a stab at Unity?

[@FRoZE22]

ya should do more creations for mc

[@firedragon04]

FRoZE FME Considering I think Minecraft is one of the worst games ever made, I don't think I'll be returning to it anytime soon. Haven't played it in 2 years and counting.

[@MihirGates]

Are you on discord m8?