Forge
Since Halo 3, Forge has given players the tools to create maps, modes, and a galaxy of unforgettable experiences. It was the birthplace of Grifball, Speed Halo, and countless other community-made modes that are now part of Halo’s enduring legacy. The latest generation of Forge continues that tradition with more powerful tools than ever before.
Completely redesigned for Halo Infinite, Forge now gives creators access to a robust tool kit used by professional Halo Studios multiplayer designers. With a massive asset library, improved building tools, and a simple visual scripting system built on the same game engine that powers Halo Infinite’s Campaign, this is the most expansive Forge mode yet.
ROBUST BUILDING TOOLS
Forge runs on the same powerful game engine as Halo Infinite. With a robust asset library, powerful features like Object scaling and incremental magnet snap, and a massive memory budget, you can build rich environments for your masterpiece maps and modes with more versatility than ever before.
ADVANCED LIGHTING SYSTEMS
Create immersive experiences with Halo Infinite’s dynamic lighting effects and rendering. For the first time in Forge, a new voxelized lighting system introduces untold depth with physics-based rendering, dynamic shadows, and customizable reflection volumes.
Choose Your Canvas
Halo Infinite’s Forge editor provides eight diverse Canvases to choose as a starting point. Each Canvas provides different skyboxes, scenery, and biomes to act as a backdrop for your creations, along with Spawn Points and other basic starting elements you’ll need to forge memorable maps and modes.
DESIGN GAME MODES
By combing Node Graph elements in a simple visual flowchart, Forgers can add conditions and triggers to Players and Objects, spawn new Objects, and update global game state with granular control.
CAMPAIGN AI AND SPARTAN BOTS
Custom modes designed in Forge can be played with AI Bots that automatically navigate maps. Forgers can also enhance PvE experiences with non-playable units that use the same AI systems as the enemies and allies in Halo Infinite Campaign.
Audio, Music, and Voiceover
Forgers can maximize player immersion with audio effects, music, and voiceovers. Complement your creations with iconic Halo themes, enhance combat with callouts from Halo Multiplayer announcer Jeff Steitzer and Spartan Commander Agryna, or create evocative moods with ambient soundscapes and sound emitter Objects.
ENHANCED IMMERSION
Whether you choose to build a custom Firefight mode, a madcap minigame, or a sprawling, campaign-style experience, Forge includes all the menus, Waypoints, messages, and custom inputs you’ll need to bring your vision to life.
In-game Radial Menus
Create custom Radial Menus to enhance play with unique interactions. Forgers can use Radial Menus to add economy-based systems for upgrading weapons and equipment, enabling loadout and spawn selections, build power-up menus to change player attributes, and more!
Radial menus can be nested to create multi-layered and branching selection trees. This is especially useful for games where players need to choose a specific weapon from a broader category, upgrade an attribute set in a custom class-based mode, or spawn allied AI units from different available factions.
CUSTOM INPUTS
Use Custom Input functionality to map actions to unused controller inputs and key bindings. These Nodes can be used to implement custom game behaviors such as teleporting, opening in-game Radial Menus, interacting with match-based economy systems at specific moments, or calling in AI reinforcements.
With extended support for tapping and holding inputs, Forgers can create contextually responsive input mechanics to create more complex game types.
MESSAGES & MARKERS
Forge’s visual scripting system includes Nodes for displaying messages in the Event Feed, setting Waypoints and Nav Markers, updating Objectives and on-screen text in the player’s HUD, and triggering interactive UI Prompts when conditions are met.
CONTENT BROWSER
Once you’ve perfected your Forge creations, publish them to Halo Infinite’s in-game Content Browser to share them with the world.
To bookmark maps and modes built by fellow Forgers, head to the “Community” tab in Halo Infinite to browse recommended and popular creations.
CUSTOM GAMES
Select “Custom Games” from the main menu in Halo Infinite to play your Forge-made maps and modes. Create custom matches with bookmarked modes, search for public matches online, or set up a match using personal creations from My Files.
CO-FORGING & ATTRIBUTION
Halo Infinite Forge makes it easier than ever to Forge with your friends. Add any friend, recent player, or Fireteam member as a Co-Forger to start building together.
Co-Forgers will share attribution on any map or mode to which they have made contributions. Permissions levels can be simply modified from the Forge file menu.
MULTIPLAYER
Play your Forge creations and awesome social modes in Halo Infinite Multiplayer, free to play for the first time in Halo history.
In Halo Infinite Multiplayer, the quintessential Halo competitive experience returns with all-new modes, genre-defining favorites from time-honored Halo titles, and a galaxy of enhanced customizations for your Spartan hero.