Every single map on the beta was awful.I forgot what video I was watching when they said something along the lines of:
"It seems like 343 has the map design process backwards. Its like they start with visual designs, concept art, and go from there,
rather than starting with geometric shapes for balanced gameplay"
maybe it was cursed lemons vid, but I guarantee you thats how they designed the maps. "Oh it looks pretty, great job! ( ͡° ͜ ʖ ͡° )
But yea the maps are garbage, so much wasted space and bad designs imo. Bungie why did you abandon us
If you watched their documentary series they show the process a bit. They do make low poly versions first and test them, then hand them off to art who manage to fuck everything up. Then the mp team has to fight with them to fix what they changed. One example was getting to p3 on Truth, worked fine in the low poly version and Quinn and company made sure to stress how important being able to get up there fluidly was. Then art went and made it more difficult with the changes to the geometry they made, leading the mp team to more or less petition to have it fixed.
