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'''Forge''' is the Map Editor in [[Halo 3]], confirmed in the [[Egm scans|EGM Scans]]. You will tweak elements in the map, such as removing crates or adding [[Fusion core]]s. You will also be able to tweak "minor" weapon (and possibly vehicle) statistics, such as "Ammo Capacity."
'''Forge''' is a ''[[Halo 3]]'' mode that allows for both play and design to co-exist and cooperate.  


You take the role of a [[Monitor]] (Such as 343 Guilty Spark). You can then travel throughout the map placing, picking up, moving, and deleting objects on the map. You can also add objects as well, but you only have a certain amount before you can't add anything else.
==Background==
A multiplayer focused tool, Forge will allow players to customize multiplayer maps, changing and resetting spawn points, weapon spawns, weapon timers, vehicle spawns and timers, vehicle spawn points, and add existing geometry to the map’s existing structure in the form of crates, boxes, fusion coils, lifts, teleporters and more.  


In a sense this isn't a map editor that you would have expected. You're not actually building and designing maps, you're manipulating the existing maps to a certain way you would like.
The amount of items you can drop is regulated by an economy budget system, with different items having different values and each map having an overall Budget that the items you place cannot exceed. By deleting existing things off of a given map, you can actually place more things. Players can modify and create their versions of maps, save them and share them with their friends, but that’s only half or so of what Forge allows.


Items that can be tampered with include crates and barricades, as well as weapon, equipment and vehicle spawns. The downside is that there is a "spending limit" meaning that after awhile you will no longer be allowed to spawn anything until you delete something. It has been stated that the [[UNSC Elephant]] will not be among the objects due to its size and specific purpose on maps. Throughout the time you're editing you can press up on the D-Pad and change to your multiplayer [[Spartan]]/[[Elite]] model and play.
In addition to functioning as creation-driven tool, Forge is also a playspace. Up to eight players can be on a given map at a time, shifting back and forth between their chosen multiplayer model and the Forge model – a Monitor. Players can play actual games in Forge, goof around, kill each other, play Slayer where each team designates a Monitor to supply weapons, vehicles, equipment and cover on the fly.  
 
Throughout the time you're editing you can press up on the D-Pad and change to your multiplayer model and play.


Once you're done with the editing you can start a party over System Link or Xbox Live and see how it works. You can build crate towers, grab a vehicle underneath a teammate, or have a friend jump on a crate and move it throughout the map.
Once you're done with the editing you can start a party over System Link or Xbox Live and see how it works. You can build crate towers, grab a vehicle underneath a teammate, or have a friend jump on a crate and move it throughout the map.


Forge will keep track of stats and kills. It has been confirmed by Bungie that you can save your creations. Also, if your creation is liked by Bungie, they will make it downloadable by other players for use.
==Trivia==
 
*It has been stated that the [[UNSC Elephant]] will not be among the objects due to its size and specific purpose on maps.
It is also speculated that when you are a monitor you will be able to be destroyed. Mainly because in the August Issue of EGM, it shows a yellow spartan with a detachable turret shooting at a Monitor, and the reticule is red. Then again that is just speculation. Of course, the writers also made it sound as if you ''couldn't'' be killed as a Monitor.  However, it also stated that you could "press up on the D-pad to become a Spartan and roll a grenade..." at a tower of fusion coils "and watch his work (and him) blow up", which still implies being able to be destroyed as a monitor, because it also mentions respawning as one.
*Forge will keep track of stats and kills. It has been confirmed by Bungie that you can save your creations. Also, if your creation is liked by Bungie, they will make it downloadable by other players for use.


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Revision as of 20:24, August 17, 2007

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A Monitor spawning a Scorpion tank

Forge is a Halo 3 mode that allows for both play and design to co-exist and cooperate.

Background

A multiplayer focused tool, Forge will allow players to customize multiplayer maps, changing and resetting spawn points, weapon spawns, weapon timers, vehicle spawns and timers, vehicle spawn points, and add existing geometry to the map’s existing structure in the form of crates, boxes, fusion coils, lifts, teleporters and more.

The amount of items you can drop is regulated by an economy budget system, with different items having different values and each map having an overall Budget that the items you place cannot exceed. By deleting existing things off of a given map, you can actually place more things. Players can modify and create their versions of maps, save them and share them with their friends, but that’s only half or so of what Forge allows.

In addition to functioning as creation-driven tool, Forge is also a playspace. Up to eight players can be on a given map at a time, shifting back and forth between their chosen multiplayer model and the Forge model – a Monitor. Players can play actual games in Forge, goof around, kill each other, play Slayer where each team designates a Monitor to supply weapons, vehicles, equipment and cover on the fly.

Throughout the time you're editing you can press up on the D-Pad and change to your multiplayer model and play.

Once you're done with the editing you can start a party over System Link or Xbox Live and see how it works. You can build crate towers, grab a vehicle underneath a teammate, or have a friend jump on a crate and move it throughout the map.

Trivia

  • It has been stated that the UNSC Elephant will not be among the objects due to its size and specific purpose on maps.
  • Forge will keep track of stats and kills. It has been confirmed by Bungie that you can save your creations. Also, if your creation is liked by Bungie, they will make it downloadable by other players for use.