New Forge AI Toolkit is a big deal for Halo Infinite

[Guest Athima Chansanchai, Writer]

The Forge AI Toolkit is coming to Halo Infinite -- and Xbox Wire wants you to know why this is going to be a big deal. “Forge has been around for a long time, and we’ve seen a lot of cool variations on multiplayer themes, but we’ve never seen what players can do with the AI. We’re going to see people remaking the intro battle when you first land on the Ring. We’re going to see that and that’s huge,” shares Michael Schorr, game studio 343 Industries' Forge lead designer. “Technically speaking, this is the first time we’ve had campaign AI enemies in multiplayer,” says 343 Industries’ Forge Technical Designer Connor Kennelly. “Which means whatever you make in Forge, they’ll show up in whatever game mode you want. That’s really cool for existing creations because you can go and add [AI enemies] to stuff you’ve already made, or you can create new stuff with them.” Head over to Xbox Wire to find out more, including what this toolkit means to the Halo Infinite community, game designers and non-creators (consumers).

 

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