I am so excited!

Well for you guys

I understand what you're saying, but changing app permissions doesn't go a long way, especially considering some of this stuff is programmed deeeep in the OS. What phone do you have that's locked down? Android? Hell no, great security but if you think you have any privacy you're insane lmao. Apple? No lol. Windows phone, obviously not. Blackberry? Even they build their OS on android now. "Privacy" means nothing to me honestly, they're not sitting there reading my emails and watching me through the front facing camera.

what if he flashed it with a different much more customizable OS?

I'm going to make CAPI the Clippy of Forge PC... hehehe:

Considering you said flashed, I'm assuming you're talking about custom android ROM. Obviously that's always a possibility but that's 1% of 1% of phone users.

yup, wasn't entirely sure of the correct terminology. if he's that paranoid over privacy i will be dissapointed if he hasn't.

Damn guys, forge is coming to PC and you guys start about how shitty you think windows 10 is..

I am really looking forward to forge on PC, so I can finally forge a map again.

Quoting myself - "My phone is about as locked down as it can get considering how sharetastic it wants to be. "

Multi, I didn't realize you were such a conspiracy nut. Sure apps have a way of sharing your data, programmed at the lowest system levels but disabling them will lock that down. Now agreeably this could be re-enabled at any time and share your info anyway, but then again someone could just break my window and have a happy wander around my home.

What I'm talking about is that after disabling these data sharing settings the only way for them to grab data is to re-enable it on an update (do not auto update) or to hack your computer. Again not much different then picking your lock. How many times have you misplaced something in the house that you could tell if it was you and not somebody else who moved it.

For me the most important things is that my privacy not be "openly" shared. Again to reinforce the home analogy, I just want my door to close and lock as apposed to having it laying on my porch. It's a somewhat false sense of security but it's better than none.

1st of all, I'm literally the opposite of a conspiracy nut, I thought YOU were the conspiracy nut lol I think we're saying the same thing.

That's a MEGATON right there.

One of the best things about the news here is that its entirely FREE. There are going to be a lot of new people outside of the console demographic interested to start making levels with this. Similar to the release of forge for Halo 5, we should see a new surge talent emerge very close to the time of its release. Seeing new people come into our community and making amazing things that blow the rest of us away has always been really exciting for me to watch.

My best friends son is a huge Minecraft kid and has always wanted to make Forge maps like his "uncle" If it weren't for the fact the my other best buddy and I surprised my best friend with a Xbone for his bday last Sunday this, soon to hit, service would have been his only way to get a chance to try.

There are tonnes of amazing people outside the gaming community that love architecture and or map layout and design, that feel no interest in killing each other playing fps games. Not that I've seen it as much recently but Halo Forge art had some pretty amazing stuff made in it, and I would love to see more of that talent being represented.

I want Halo meets Minecraft. If we could get even simple AI support in Forge I would love to see some basic Halo-esque story missions built. Actually more like Halo meets Project Spark except without all the sucking.

It's amazing how people can worry about their PC running Windows will lead to the loss of privacy while they can't wait to purchase and take home the latest and greatest NSA audio visual bugging devices. Stalin is only sad he was born 100 years too soon.

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I so disagree. Without console and h5 they won't be making maps for halo. The whole forge will be more stand alone like Minecraft.

Unless you know something you aren't telling us.........

how is the forge going to be stand alone like minecraft when you can publish the maps you make to xboxone for use in halo 5?

personally i'm hoping they evolve this into a game creation tool for PC.

for anybody interested in privacy, this is worth checking out

I took this at face value "advanced file sharing capabilities" but then I had a thought, could this finally be the group object import/export feature we were told about in January?

Uh...

Snowden...


And the only way to lock down your phone is either install your own os and know what you are doing...

Or crush it with a hammer.

Forge is like a dumbed down version of toolkits like Unity and UE4. What would be nice is if this PC version more like Unity where you can import meshes and textures, and generate more complex lightmaps. So basically you can make maps whose visual quality is on part with disc maps.

Who says I don't build my own Roms?

Blender



I use blender and unity and the only issue I have had is reassigning axes in the import phase.

The entire purpose of forge is to eliminate modeling entirely. In fact I decided I needed to create a forge like editor to rapidly build maps for my own game. Once I decided to go down that course I then decided to make it an offering in my own game. I would have released the map editor by now but I have side tracked the last five or six months to protect my IP.

I'm HYPED AS F**K to play Halo 5 at 4K with that new GTX 1080!