| gtotheunit91 said: Halo is probably the rarest of franchises where Campaign, Multiplayer, and Custom Games must be in harmony. One cannot exist without the other. If 343 had nailed all 3 of those when Infinite launched, it would've been declared the best Halo game ever. But it was so segmented that people just left. |
Why I've always had a little sympathy for 343. They've got so much on their shoulders, a lot more than almost every other FPS developer and have to do it with fewer developers than those, Lol.
If Halo doesn't have a great Campaign, Multiplayer, lots of Modes/Maps across Arena/BTB, a great Forge/Custom Games, etc. All at launch then the Halo community lose their shit and the demands only seem to grow whilst with other titles (Battlefield) they can dump Campaign entirely and nobody gives a damn, Lol.
Soon we'll be expecting Firefight at launch as well 
Hopefully Unreal Engine can make all of that content possible on a much faster scale.
| shikamaru317 said: I doubt they will dump Forge alongside the switch to Unreal 5 on Tatanka. I personally don't see why the Engine switch would kill Forge. We already know Unreal Engine can be used for large open world maps, far larger than the largest Forge canvas would likely be. All then that needs to be done is making a UI for selecting between assets to place within those canvas maps, and making the assets themselves, and considering Unreal 5 has a built in library of open source assets already available to all developers, that would be even easier to do than Halo Infinite's Forge since Infinite's Forge required developers at 343 to hand build all of the Forge assets that Forge designers can pick between. It should just be a simple matter of carefully selecting assets from the Unreal open source library that are less hardware intensive, and designing some of their own assets where necessary, in order to expand the maximum item allowance as much as possible while still allowing for 60 fps gameplay on the finished product. I can't say that the Forge in Unreal 5 would be quite as robust as the one on Slipspace Engine, the item allowance may be somewhat smaller overall, but it will definitely be a part of Tatanka I think, if not at launch than certainly at some point after launch. |
I also doubt it will happen, I'm just countering the narrative that Forge isn't important to Halo, Lol.
There's a reason I think why Forge seems to be the first thing they're trying to translate over to Unreal Engine...
Hopefully they can make it work as good as Infinite's or I'll accept "almost" as good, Lol. We really can't revert too far back from Infinite's Forge.
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