Halo 5 Gets New Fan-Made Maps, Including Halo 3’s Valhalla and Sandtrap

Yesterday Microsoft released a bunch of fan-made Forge maps for Halo 5: Guardians.

The maps can be found in Big Team Battle and Grifball. Halo 3 fans will be will happy that among the new maps are remakes of Halo 3’s Valhalla and Sandtrap. Both were popular maps from the 2007 Bungie game.

You can see an overview for the new BTB maps through the video below:

The new Halo 5 community Forge maps for BTB are:

  • “Altar” by WyvernZu (the Sandtrap remake)
  • “Boulevard” by alex quit (inspired by Halo 3: ODST)
  • “Eagle Square” by SHIFTY time
  • “Fracture” by Squally DaBeanz
  • “Scavenger” by CommanderColson
  • “Viking” by no god anywhere (the Valhalla remake)

Halo 5 map

There are also new Forge-made Grifball courts:

  • “Bloodsport” by NLTROOO and Creative F0rce
  • “Blue vs Red 2003” by JA50N 0, The222v and ImDuhUnicorn
  • “Crow’s Court” by xNFx Monsta and RBG Persian
  • “Grif Temple” by Caustic Kirby
  • “Frontier” by CaptainPunch374 and Creative F0rce
  • “High Charity” by Darkprince909 and Creative F0rce
  • “Sandwich” by Darkprince909 and Creative F0rce
  • “The Arbiter’s Court” by guss br
  • “Underpass” by Katanga

Also, 343 announced it’s “loosened” the matchmaking skill parameters for all social playlists in order to “improve the experience.” The developer has also talked more about the new content coming to the game in April with the free Ghosts of Meridian update. To read more about the new additions and changes click HERE.

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