The Official Halo 3 Forge/Gametypes Thread.

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:23 am

bet the name also helps get it chosen,

unless bungie renames a badly named but very well designed map.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:36 am

I'm so grateful that they are going to let us create our own geometry in forge. Can't wait!

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:46 am

drxthirst2 wrote:I'm so grateful that they are going to let us create our own geometry in forge. Can't wait!

No. You can not edit geometry in Forge.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:52 am

We'll see about that in September.

Dojorkan · Post by **Dojorkan** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:01 am

drxthirst2 wrote:We'll see about that in September.

Or maybe we already saw it in the Bungie Podcats, Magazines, Weekly udates, leaks, and Gaming website articles. -_-

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:06 am

drxthirst2 wrote:We'll see about that in September.

Bungie doesn't lie about features. They specifically said you can not edit geometry. If you could, they would just avoid mentioning it. Considering how many times it has been stated that it will not, I'm amazed that you think it's still going to. So now, please end the discussion of that because you have absolutely zero evidence to support it, and you're telling people it will happen as if you have proof. Proof which doesn't exist.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:07 am

Oooooooooook.

CaptainPoopface · Post by **CaptainPoopface** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:36 am

My goodness. Forge would almost completely eliminate my need to mod... Level design is what I like most. Even with the tools we have for H2 now, the things I want to do still feel like carving a canoe out of a sequoia with a scalpel.

I'll still miss my weapon mods though... I only use my own weapons these days.

I am concerned that the monitor will be very easy to cheaply exploit in-game, and that many or most of the kids you run into online will reach into some obnoxious little bag of tricks at the first sign of danger. It's basically a big battle rifle in that regard. Or like modders on Live who are unbannable. The honor system is too precarious, assuming there are no checks and balances. Unless you know the people you're playing with or manage to find others who adhere to a high ethical standard of play, cheap play must be legislated out of the game, or it will be exploited shamelessly.

For example, they could allow you to only switch to the monitor a set number of times per game; make you lose all your lives if you get killed as the monitor; make the whole team lose if the monitor gets killed three times; let the opposing team sacrifice a certain number of lives as a way of disabling the other team's ability to become monitor; create a temporary barrier beyond which monitors cannot go; etc. I would love for these things to be configurable in the gametype, but I'm dubious.

As is, it sounds like a lot of fun, but I think it's too wide open. You have to find people you can trust. Needles in haystacks.

galvination · Post by **galvination** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:08 am

You don't have to join games where 10 year olds see how many boxes they can stack and spawn random crap

. As far as I can tell forge wont interfere too much with core gameplay, you can't actually edit the maps jsut the objects on them, player spawns, weapon spawns, vehicle spawns, and spawning objects....

antszy101 · Post by **antszy101** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:22 am

If some kids are acting like idiots using forge, just ban them and close the party

Im assuming forge is only usable in custom games of course

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:30 pm

galvination wrote:You don't have to join games where 10 year olds see how many boxes they can stack and spawn random crap

hey dont be dissing the random box spawns, im 18 but still like making piles of crap in halo.

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:26 pm

turk645 wrote:
galvination wrote:You don't have to join games where 10 year olds see how many boxes they can stack and spawn random crap
hey dont be dissing the random box spawns, im 18 but still like making piles of crap in halo.

I second that

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:36 pm

turk645 wrote:
galvination wrote:You don't have to join games where 10 year olds see how many boxes they can stack and spawn random crap
hey dont be dissing the random box spawns, im 18 but still like making piles of crap in halo.

Very well said. I agree (beside the fact that I'm not 18 =/)

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:53 pm

Don't post links to videos of the Epsilon. -GTAF

Sgt.Peppers · Post by **Sgt.Peppers** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:58 pm

Edited.

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:00 pm

Yeah, my friend emailed that to me earlier...blowing random crap up and making giant explosions is what Forge is/will be about.

Sgt.Peppers wrote:Haha that was awesome, what was up with that first scene? (The one with the Hornet) It was in third person, and it looked like he could freeze time and whatnot.

Saved film mb?

Dissolution241 · Post by **Dissolution241** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:34 pm

New Bungie Podcast is up, I'm downloading it now. It's from what I understand all about Forge.

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx ... &cid=12734

Edit: Listened to it, very informative. You can create maps, save them, and load them in any custom game (that way you can play 8 vs 8 or whatever with larger players). Yay.

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:36 pm

When the halo 3 section is created will there be a Forge forum?

Sgt.Peppers · Post by **Sgt.Peppers** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:39 pm

xzodia wrote:When the halo 3 section is created will there be a Forge forum?

I wouldn't doubt it.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:06 pm

No, but I have a sufficient plan laid out for the entire Halo 3 category. I don't think I've left anything out. I'm touching up the post relating to Forge.