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Halo 5 Forge for PC coming September 8th, additional Halo updates detailed
- Thread starter Nirolak
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#sorrynotsorry
Member
But will there be achievements!?
jediyoshi
Member
..you play them as well. On PC.
You can do 16 player custom matches on PC.
You can play customs on PC.
Did you selectively ignore that you can play Custom Games with this?
Its like people choose NOT to read before typing.
You can play multiplayer on PC.
dragonelite
Member
Uuh so map creation tools on pc is a bad thing?
Seems I´m one of those weirdos who likes the campaign/story from Halo. xD
Not this bullshit again.
Forge on PC has been requested for almost a decade. It's being made for the forgers.
Not to mention it includes free custom games.
Salmonbottle
Member
You can play customs but there is no server browser or any way to find them besides somehow having 15 friends who want to play Halo on PC at the same time.
Bring over the whole game!!!
Bring over the whole game!!!
GodlyPerfection
Member
This is going to be HUGE. It will help the custom content community grow! I'm pumped...
RandomExpletive
Member
Cool, perfect time to drop, just when classes start picking up 
Will definitely try out, I can't wait to see how rusty I am, man its been a while since H3 forge
Will definitely try out, I can't wait to see how rusty I am, man its been a while since H3 forge
ebullientprism
Member
So (continuing from the other thread that got locked) the only difference between this and the MP component on the X1 is the matchmaking? At least thats what it sounds like.
Any chance they would bring that over as well??
Any chance they would bring that over as well??
dancrane212
Member
Like I said in the other thread I'm excited to finally get a forge browser on console. It's easily my biggest "want" with Halo 5.
SomedayTheFire
Member
I mean this is the first time I've read about this (well the other thread was). There's no matchmaking, right? Its not full Multiplayer, just if you can scrounge up 15 people at one time to play etc. Right?
Oops. Sorry. I never do that, which is probably why I didn't know it's verboten.
You will find out more about easier ways to organize games soon. But correct, no XBL-style matchmaking.
One thing I am still confused about, is if they are making ways to host or find Custom Games? All of this stuff sounds fantastic, but I won't use it if their is no way to look for players wanting to play. That has been an issue with Halo 5 so far. The average shmuck doesn't haven 8+ friends on to play Custom Games with, and this isn't 2008 anymore where you had Custom game lobbies goes 24/7. I've yet to actually play in a full Custom Game lobby currently in Halo 5 and I'm level 118.
PKMNTrainer
Member
Nice! Hope this runs well. I have few good machines I'm not worried about, but a few lower end PCs that might struggle. Want to have lots of LAN parties with this
The Jackdog
Member
oh its this nonsense again.
this isnt for you. its for the huge crowd of people who have JUST wanted forge on PC
all other microsoft games in the future are day and date pc.
but ya gotta be mad about something right
Shouldn't be hard at all to find a group for classic 4v4 / 5v5 action.
Unlikely.
shit post. This is for console forgers. It is a tool that has been requested by the community.
jediyoshi
Member
Pretty sure playing multiplayer falls under the category of playing Halo.
LFG is coming to the Live platform, presumably across both Win 10 and Xbox
Jessie.Bristol
Member
Seems to be a lot of content launching on September 8th.... great (/s), as the Dead Rising Triple Pack launches less then a week later. Thanks Stinkles! But on a serious note, it all sounds great. So on September 8th we'll have the Trio of maps known as Truth, Regret, and Mercy. So, is Mercy Covenant themed?
They give pc users arguably the most valuable aspect of Halo multiplayer which is Forge and custom games and you see this as a big fuck you? How did you not even read the post to see that you can play the maps before posting a negative reaction to this awesome news as the firs post no less?
NippleViking
Banned
Can't wait, though there really needs to be more gamemodes. Asymmetric, KOTH and race, and we're golden 343.
Looking forward to seeing what the Forge team's been working on. They perform miracles with their one month turn around - on this occasion they'll have had more than 2.
Looking forward to seeing what the Forge team's been working on. They perform miracles with their one month turn around - on this occasion they'll have had more than 2.
Yup! It's Sanghelios themed actually.
Great observation that we now have the trio!
If you can imagine a world where a corporation does all this work, then gives it away for free just to hurt you, then go nuts.
This is a tool for Forge creators to iterate more quickly, find and share files, and for PC players to play Halo's MP suite with friends, for free. However the first full Halo game to come to PC day and date with Xbox One version, will be Halo Wars 2.
The Jackdog
Member
i think they are banking on the LFG feature coming to the dashboard for this kinda stuff.
built into the OS and all
Will Halo 5 Forge continue to be supported with new content over time?
That's fine. It's less that you posting about Halo 5 is an issue, so much as having 2000 developers postings about their own games and 8000 journalists posting about their own websites suddenly making GAF unusable, so having an across the board policy helps prevent that.
I can't wait to try it out.
It's a baby step to the full thing and you are already complaining? Lol, maybe MS should just stop wasting their time with PC gaming. I can't imagine the PC versions will sell good next to their Xbox counterparts if this is the general hostility to their efforts.
It's a baby step to the full thing and you are already complaining? Lol, maybe MS should just stop wasting their time with PC gaming. I can't imagine the PC versions will sell good next to their Xbox counterparts if this is the general hostility to their efforts.
funnily enough the only mainline Halo engine that doesn't have a PC version somewhere is Halo: Reach.
1 came to PC in 2003.
2 came to PC in 2007.
3 & 4 were ported to PC for an online F2P russian Halo release.
5 has PC Forge.
Wars 2 is day and date and will also come with a PC port of Halo Wars 1 (which MS should talk about more, it's buried in the store description!)
At this point Reach is the only Halo that only exists natively on the console it came out on.
oohhhh i forgot about this
blue_phazon
Member
Yeah forge used to be updated with new stuff every month until June.
However, updates are now going to be less frequent since they're probably busy working on other stuff. But there's still gonna be updates
The Hamburglar
Banned
why not just sell the damn game on PC, I've loved to do the campaign on legendary co-op. no intention of buying a xbone just to do that though.
Because that costs a lot of money. You can't just magically press a button to port it to PC.
They're adding a LFG feature to the Xbox OS so that could be the sollution
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Granted that people complaining probably didn't read the announcement and are just flailing at the title, but I think it speaks to the unusual nature of this release that the title is not enough to clue people in to how it works. It is pretty unusual for publishers to release map-building tools and a very specific gameplay mode but not the rest of the game on PC. It's understandable, this reflects Microsoft's recent pivot on the PC space and Halo is a big franchise that they want to get right and this is probably the most feasible product they can release given time and resource limitations and the need to focus on the next game in the series. Still, it remains unusual!