How To Create AI Firefight Waves In Forge | Beginner Halo Infinite AI Tutorial

[@Ducain_Plays]

BIG THANKS to Dark Maiming for the help! He is the smart one that knows Scripting really well. Find him HERE: twitter.com/darkmaiming I also stream almost daily so follow for Forge Streams: www.twitch.tv/ducain23

[@RetrovexAmbient]

we'd love to see you talk about nav mesh, more content for you to make and more of awesome videos for us to watch! :D of course no pressure I enjoy watching you review maps just as much as you talking about forge

[@LateNightHalo]

We’ve been dreaming about this since halo 3’s forge. It’s crazy that it’s finally here

[@user-gv5zl7hi8x]

Me too , what are you most excited about

[@Ducain_Plays]

Yup! So excited for the future!

[@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf]

"There are those who said this day would never come. What are they to say now?"

[@thejfoshow1320]

I’m Houngry for more

[@nick33ee]

@@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf they still say 343 is trash.

[@ObstacleRace]

Fun fact with the phantom spawner that I discovered: You can adjust the boundary height of the phantom so that it doesn't drop as low to the ground. Super helpful when space is a little tight!

[@ObstacleRace]

My barrier is getting troops to spawn when a player walks into an area but aren't there when a player isn't to allow for more AI elsewhere. Ideas?

[@Will_Forge]

​​@@ObstacleRaceI'd make them "trigger by script" in their object settings. Then trigger them to spawn troops there with a script. I don't have a super strong grasp of the specific scripts you'll want, but yeah. Something like that should work with the right scripts.

[@EwokHunter27]

Oh wow that’s helpful. Do AI take fall damage or is there a Max height? Would be cool to make some kind of “Banished ODST” gamemode

[@EwokHunter27]

@@ObstacleRaceYeah I’d make a script for that

[@Will_Forge]

Yes, AI do take fall damage @@EwokHunter27. And as a funny little thing you can do you can grow the area of the phantom down vertically, and then place the phantom far up in the air. As long as the are is touching the navmesh below it, it will spawn and it will drop its troops at the height of the blank white phantom that represents the squad spawner. It looks like the pilot just flew in and booted the troopers out the door and make them fall with a splat. Kind of a sick chuckle sort of thing, but funny nonetheless. 😆 I've been experimenting with the campaign AI on my channel in my live streams if you want to come take a look. I'm making a MOBA game mode.

[@NOTHINGISREALYET]

In the process of building a custom campaign map which will hopefully lead on to become a series of maps, scripting is one of the big barriers for myself atm but have been dreaming of doing this since halo 3, your guides have been invaluable thank you Mr Halo Man

[@Ducain_Plays]

You're welcome! Excited to see what you create!

[@TheLorePerson07]

This really helps someone like me whose brain melts when he does anything more than placing something in forge. Thank you for making this!

[@AcidDavid]

Same here lol

[@strawboi1]

One thing I notice about the AI Zone Move is that if they attack you they will not get out of that area they are set to and they'll try to shoot from a far when you're out of that zone so what I did to let them chase you is by creating a AI Master Zone which covers a big area or the whole map and how to set it is by having the AI Spawner link to the AI Move Zone if you want them to go to a specific location on the map and then have the AI Move Zone link to the AI Master Zone which is the AI Move Zone that covers the whole map and it allows the AI to pursue you around the map when you're trying to flee the area but since the Master Zone covers the whole map they'll chase you around the map and it makes the AI more lively

[@Darknight3701_]

That's a great idea!!

[@keanujeeves-kinsella7516]

Thats brilliant! Where would the AI master zone be, in the node graph settings?

[@nugbug3541]

If you guys are having problems and it says “compare node not built successfully” or something like that just connect Queue size to both Operand A and B instead of just A

[@bonk4316]

Increase AI Budget, also what if we had spirit dropships as phantom alternative

[@acrustykrab]

Love Spirits

[@Airsickword]

It would be awesome if they also add Pelicans so we can do Marine drops

[@sizzle5775]

I think recreating the invasion game mode with the forge ai would be awesome.

[@The123tactics]

Hell yes.

[@toringmort4231]

but there's no playable Elites

[@The123tactics]

@@toringmort4231 But we can fight real ai in an invasion style game now.

[@Wrath1999]

I’m psyched to try and make a Spartan Ops type thing. You are a lifesaver!

[@ConcasicoWoodworks]

No joke, this is going to become my new toy box. Can't wait to make some cool firefight maps 😎

[@Ducain_Plays]

Can't wait to see them!!

[@ConcasicoWoodworks]

@@Ducain_Plays will be trying to find some time to work on them after working on my wooden figures but I should be able to start with something. Also, if you are still interested in that custom ODST and Mongoose you asked me over Twitter, I left you a message regarding that 😉

[@nick33ee]

@@ConcasicoWoodworks wait you did that master chief in your pfp? looks incredible,

[@ConcasicoWoodworks]

@@nick33ee yep, I have made a variety of Halo characters as wooden action figures :D

[@Killjoy0329]

Gonna donate to your kid, you took your time out to help us with getting to use forge, we’re gonna help you out

[@Ducain_Plays]

They would love that and I really appreciate it :)

[@Veilvormela]

You’re a life saver I spent forever trying to make a decent firefight map but wanted a basic straight to the point simple method for doing things and yours works perfectly same as your last AI video you covered. And through that I’ve nav meshed BTB maps people have made left their credits of course and added PvP ai to their maps allowing people new ways to try them.

[@EwokHunter27]

Lets go part 2 🎉

[@Ducain_Plays]

HYPE!

[@EwokHunter27]

@@Ducain_PlaysFr! 🔥 do you know if the golden sandwich weapon is available in forge?

[@Ducain_Plays]

@@EwokHunter27 I don't think it is :(

[@EwokHunter27]

@@Ducain_PlaysAw man ☹️ I wonder if you could get it in forge if you loaded up on Forbidden and deleted the map to make your own, but just kept the sandwich

[@EwokHunter27]

Never mind you cant

[@scoutspartan]

Could you make a tutorial on how to make ai respawn squad specific for example if bravo squad is gone will respawn only bravo squad?

[@Ducain_Plays]

I can look into it!

[@scoutspartan]

@Ducain23YT that would be awesome right now I have a script "on squad remaining percent" does action theres a spot that says squad on it to connect a node to specify what squad u want to respawn but I can't figure that part out

[@TexMackerson]

​@@Ducain_Playsplsss

[@blkmmbo]

Oh my god, thank you so much for this. I have been struggling with this since the first hour the season came out.

[@XSquidbeatsX]

There is so much you can do, right now I’m building a strike like in destiny, a 4 player mini campaign. Also gonna put in banshee chasing you as you drive to an objective in a warthog for some epic fights

[@TearsOfLa]

25:05 setting the compare to 0 checks the wave queue to see if it is empty. If there are 0 items in the queue and there is no active wave, then you have beaten all waves.

[@numenthehuman]

Personally when I was trying to figure it out through trial and error what messed me up was having to put the spawns in an object list. It's refers to a spawn list... I spent so much time looking for a spawn list script like an idiot. Wonderful video thank you!

[@bonk4316]

I honestly like slower I’m slow lmfao

[@grant2707]

ducain is the goat

[@toringmort4231]

teach us how to do endless waves that just repeat themselves please

[@gcwishbone]

You n darkmaiming = very good for halo

[@Ducain_Plays]

Appreciate that

[@Yeiyn343]

You learned all of this over night, since the stream?? Great video Drew!! -Yeiyn from Twitch. :-)

[@Ducain_Plays]

Well learned it from DarkMaiming... he was the smart one...haha

[@jkovids]

Thanks for the video, this helped me out alot.

[@Ducain_Plays]

Glad it helped!

[@MaxiNitroYT]

Great tutorial learned a lot from it! It definitely inspired me to play around with the AI placement and what not.

[@quinnchillai2406]

This video was extremely helpful, thanks! I have my waves spawning smoothly now and I can tie the waves in with the Extraction mode. I did run into an odd problem though; I was forging last night, putting the finishing touches on the 2nd wave. When I ran the mode in custom games, it spawned everything flawlessly, including the marines that spawn to fight the Banished. After the Banished died, it spawned the next wave, no issues. I booted it up today, added a third wave and when I ran the custom games, it now counts one squad of marines as part of the enemies to kill but not the other squad. It essentially soft locks the wave since I have friendly fire turned off. I’d rather not have to kill friendlies, not sure what has broken

[@Ducain_Plays]

Hmmm that is strange. I'm not sure what is happening. I guess double check to make sure the Banished are also on the same squad (like Alpha or whatever) as the marines

[@quinnchillai2406]

@@Ducain_Plays the Marines are on Bravo currently, so will switch it after work and see what happens. Thanks for replying Ducain, hopefully it’s that simple 🤞

[@thekleanupkrew8381]

AI in forge is amazing, most people are gonna make PvE stuff but I’m thinking about how can we add AI to older custom games? Imagine castle wars running along the bridge to the flag but you have elites with energy swords running with you on your team? Gonna be amazing

[@ItzSempa]

Great job! Thanks for your effort🤟

[@Ducain_Plays]

Thanks for watching!

[@As-iy2ki]

The one time when learning something in class is applicable in your day-to-day life unlike some other things e.g. quadratic formula. I guess learning about flowcharts and classes/ objects does have its merits outside of the workspace.

[@Greganaut]

great tutorial. i noticed when set up like this as soon as you kill the last enemy the next wave spawns. i tried adding the wait N seconds between but it doesnt seem to work. im thinking that is what the intermission wave is for.

[@Ducain_Plays]

I do know there is a known glitch with "Wait N Seconds" where sometimes it doesn't work. So that might be your issue because that should work. Hopefully a fix will come soon!

[@duvee]

you are a LEGEND making this

[@sofaking1627]

I clicked on this out of curiosity with no major plans to build anything worthwhile But that bit at the end "Let's forge a new Halo" Pretty inspiring

[@Ducain_Plays]

Haha thanks 😂

[@mihalypetranyi4042]

Hey, thanks for the video! I wanna make a firefight-like mode/map too. I have 2 questions: - Is there a way to randomize enemies or the order that they spawn? - What game type should you choose before going in? (I'm guessing maybe Elimination?)

[@goronthedwarf]

I am wondering the same thing unfortunately. I do know however, there is a community made firefight gamemode that can be used for any map.

[@princessoscar3089]

OMG I DID ALL OF THIS AND IT WORKS. BUT DO YOU KNOW HOW I MIGHT MAKE IT JUST RESTART THE ROUND AGAIN INFINITELY INSTEAD OF ENDING THE MATCH? :) EDIT: NVM a ZACHERIOT tutorial helped me out! :) You and him are like the GOATS of Forge scripting tutorials!

[@kelleebarton6500]

What about player traits like over shield melee power running speed and player hp is there a way of changing all that like in reach firefight or will that be coming with the official firefight mode midseason?

[@ohno5507]

There are nodes for adjusting player traits, but from what I understand we'll be getting some comprehensive firefight settings once it launches.

[@behelit9570]

Thanks man, i don't speak English so well But i understand everything almost... i get it!

[@TheVeteranLord]

This video saved me so much time. Thank you

[@treennis1605]

Hope flood AI gets added at some point! Been having a blast with this new update!

[@joeyoualreadyknow99]

Is there a way make it where after killing a whole wave, it ends the round and starts a new round sort of like a cod zombies style mode? Im just getting into forge and these videos are so helpful!

[@kokushibo2755]

Thank you, highly appreciate it!

[@Ducain_Plays]

You're welcome!

[@jancevaughn8539]

right now elimination works for life based firefight but if they add dominion it could work like warzone

[@heresytrain3593]

When Im testing in forge it spawns all of the AI at once for me, I am using the exact script you showed and used the prefab you made.

[@roycopeland4705]

I'm having the same problem

[@bodieriddle2791]

I’m having this problem as well. Find a solution yet?

[@bodieriddle2791]

Figured it out. Make sure the ai spawners is set to spawn during script instead of default, like he shows in the video. BUT also select the script brain that spawns in with the prefab and go to options and make sure the script brain select team is turned on to the corresponding team.

[@Linked_Ahead]

Thanks. Trying to figure this out eith no experience in scripting is very tough lol

[@Howitzer09]

Great vid ! But can you also make a video for how to make the spawn point for players? I want to make my own firefight map that I can use in the community lobby.

[@BlueFlameStudiosOfficial]

THANKS BOSS

[@EwokHunter27]

I saw a clip of some Giant Hunters in forge. Could you try to make a forge AI sizing tutorial? I NEED to make the Giant Grunt

[@RabuGamingYT]

bro i am going to transform soooo many maps into firefight

[@jonathanz.9675]

Thanks so much! I would love a tutorial to stop elites from cloaking or at least entering melee. I saw nodes for it but… I think you can guess

[@SkinnyFG]

why is it that the enemies just stand where they spawn and not follow any move markers or nav points?

[@mrfakerkrab]

Why do i get “end round missing required property” when I did the exact thing in the video

[@mochalavender9398]

So I'm trying to do something specific; Every third wave, i want it to automatically trigger an ai spawner, that i set to spawn friendly marines. Any tips on what i need to do to make this work?

[@yumikimiko398]

Make an AI spawner and set it to marines, then just link it to your 3rd wave object list.

[@papastudios]

Hey man can you do us forgers a solid and make a video on Nav Mesh? Its kinda tricky to understand. i've put so much time in my map that its so detailed to the point it cant generate nav mesh. Really frustrating. Need to know quick tips and tricks to get it working easy and setup

[@thetropicaldream5933]

Can anyone help? I’ve been trying to make a firefight map got everything up and running but for some reason everytime I play it at some point it says unstable packet loss. Or the ai freezes along with the game and eventually it resumes. It’s so annoying!! I’ve tried everything. Nothings working. Please help

[@danielbob2628]

Is it possible to get the Grunts to identify when you're AFK and kiss you on the lips?

[@Ducain_Plays]

This needs to be figured out ASAP!

[@redemption-dark509]

I have 2 waves, each wave has 4 rounds of waves so to speak, and I would like a message to appear when wave one ends and when wave two starts, but the UI messages always appear when starting the game, one after another, how can I fix it? HELP 😢

[@thestopers1012]

I have a question, is it possible to make it where if you kill an enemy you will win the game? Edit: Like if you kill a boss or something

[@electricecho_]

You a legend 🙏

[@Ducain_Plays]

Happy to help get this info to the community :)

[@goronthedwarf]

Does anyone know why my enemy spawns are doubled from the AI spawners I tried to make a spawner spawn two brute minors and a brute captain instead it spawned four brute minors and two brute captains any fixes?

[@imahaloguy]

Can you show us how to generate the nav mesh and get phantoms to work? That seems to be a barrier for me.

[@kevine9474]

1. Hold Y 2. Make sure there's space, other than that its almost the same as a normal spawner.

[@Ducain_Plays]

Holding "Y" will open a menu and Nav Mesh is to the right. Also this video I go over phantom spawners: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWOcl4CApMmLhpI

[@imahaloguy]

@@Ducain_Plays yes I did exactly this. But the phantoms still didn’t spawn in on a big open forge canvas. I don’t understand why they aren’t.

[@thed2criminal221]

I cant find the "on gameplay start" anywhere

[@Ben-M112]

They really just turned the node system wayyy up. I heard they increased the cap from 400 to 2000 5 times increase!

[@jobcuellar1298]

I suck at this, I mean, I don’t know how to really do it so someone created a firefight with waves that has banished forces fighting against you want to see friendly AI let me know that I could join it or if I can save it to my Files

[@AndreasNater81]

Hi there, I made a map and wanted to play oddball. I set Oddball Spawn, but doesn't work.... I dont know why....

[@emperorofgravalash9288]

Whenever I go into a custom game with this, I can't lose. I'm not sure why. If I die, it still just makes me win anyways.

[@dresarcade8074]

Hello there I was wondering if you can do a tutorial to setut the Victory or defeat script. Mine is constantly saying win when I lose in attrition

[@gabrielspartacus6342]

So i have a problem with volume spawning, i set it so that ai spawns when player exits a volume, but it gets bad in multiplayer, 3 players passing the volume spawn 6 hunters and it’s excessive, how can i cap it or give it a cool down?

[@cloudnimble]

There are nodes that let you cap how many are on the field at once. Not yet sure how they specifically work, but the options there.

[@decaf9150]

I wonder if using something like Wait could help with that, having the code wait some significant amount of time after executing would essentially be a cool down, but I've got no clue

[@elgiornok7854]

So, Wave Manager is an identifier but for waves?

[@Guesty-O-Player]

Where can I find end round - winning team?

[@LDqingshan]

I am very moved to see your efforts in AI scripts, but I still have a huge question. How can I generate a completely different set of monsters by monitoring the survival percentage of the remaining AI? This has a huge and fatal impact on the rhythm of the battle.

[@joeyvitale24]

Anyone know how to make killing enemy AI contribute to scoring?

[@brendongordon8595]

What's the outstanding elements left to build mean I'm worried all my maps are screwed and don't know how to fix this

[@Ducain_Plays]

You just need to check and build each of those like the nav mesh. Those are required to be built in order to publish your map

[@TheRageEnterprise]

Ty D this helped a lot. I’m still trying to work out tho; 20:18 does anyone know how to make it so when everyone in wave 1 dies, it will restart wave 1? I just want a simple way to basically respawn all enemies in an AI spawner when they are all killed.

[@Ducain_Plays]

Figured it out tonight and I'll have that tutorial coming out tomorrow 🙂

[@TheRageEnterprise]

@@Ducain_Plays

[@emmanuel4738]

Does anyone know how I can make random events with AI generation?

[@LCVcultGaming]

I am currently trying to have spawners on the map only be triggered when the specific squad that comes from it dies. I want a specific amount of certain AI and have all the spawners set to different squad labels. The "On Squad Remaining Percent" works to trigger it when it only linked to one spawner. As soon as there are 2 or more, when one squad dies (0% remain) ALL spawners are triggered. Is there a way to fix this? I have tried have them count as separate waves but the map can only have one wave active at a time. I believe the issues lies in the "On Squad Remaining Percent" node as there is not a way to specify what squad needs to be killed to meet the criteria to active spawner. So when one squad dies ALL instances of "On Squad Remaining Percent">"Trigger AI Spawner" activate.

[@aakodiak117]

i've been trying to figure out the same thing.

[@elite6657]

Very nice vid thank you

[@Ducain_Plays]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@SubbaBunny]

i need this but cant find it.

[@EP_mc]

Would it be possible to make a linear stealth mission with the ai patrolling and we can stealth kill

[@joynerplays5643]

What game mode is best to play this on mine works really well in forge but in customs the rounds don’t come in to play just one round then nothing happens

[@Naratiq]

Thanks for the video! Really helpful. Can you do one on how to make Friendly AI follow you after killing the enemy AI squad/unit they are fighting? Been having trouble getting that to work.

[@Ducain_Plays]

I'll look into that!

[@TomMontana01]

My spawners duplicated the enemies idk why

[@SubbaBunny]

i cant get object reference

[@joeyflores9649]

Thank you man lol your amazing

[@heresytrain3593]

What about Game mode set up?

[@ouzbelizovichaoj4805]

How can I add a timer between AI reinforcement in the same wave ? Example ( 2 Phantoms drops soldiers and one another Phantom drop soldiers 60 seconds later in the same wave. )

[@Ducain_Plays]

I know there is a delay in the spawner settings. So maybe you can put that up to 60 and get what you want. I haven't tried it so I'm not sure, but I think it might work

[@ouzbelizovichaoj4805]

Already tried it. The timer from the spawners settings is not longer working so every AI spawner works in same time.

[@Ducain_Plays]

@@ouzbelizovichaoj4805 ok well I'm sure there is a way to do it in scripting but I will have to look into it

[@Random_98765]

Hey man I've been using this for a while for all my builds lol, but do you know how to run 2 or more script brains simultaneously? I'm trying to have several banished outposts all throughout my map with their own re enforcement that come in after you start fighting with them but I can't seem to get more than one base to have re enforcement. Nothing else spawns in. Thank-you for all your health

[@josyf3396]

What if you don't have a build menu to create a nav mesh

[@Ducain_Plays]

That means you are on a dev map and that isn't available on those maps. You need to be on a Forge canvas 🙂

[@thed2criminal221]

Ive done everything exactly the same but it just makes all my ai spawn twice

[@Escxbvbv]

Make sure u set ur ai spawner get activated through script I made the same mistake 😅

[@ThatPMacleod]

Great video and thank you for the prefab! I am having an issue where the bots all spawn in correctly, but they will not leave the spawn area. They will fire at me but they stay in a small area. I have built the nav mesh, any idea what I have missed?

[@Midwahjul]

Thank tiem to finish my firefight arena

[@iviccartney2539]

Great tutorial thank you! Would love to see a tutorial on how to set up a way to earn points per wave and use those points/score to buy guns / equipment) like the cod zombies forge remake). Would also need a way to display said points…(on screen in between waves or on the map itself) Could also use those points to: -build cover or construct turrets / power ups - call in a squad of friendly marines/ elites/ spartan bots also, if those tutorials have been done already, could someone please point me in the right direction with a link?

[@Ducain_Plays]

Not sure if anyone has made a tutorial over that yet, but I'll look into it!

[@smefiregod6566]

Do you think if we can push the limit of the budget and all other thing, we can make an actual RTS/FPS Hybrid? So a mix of halo wars and fps

[@Ducain_Plays]

Someone is already making that and it looks awesome! I'll be sure to cover it when it is completed 🙂

[@smefiregod6566]

@@Ducain_Plays Can I still have the contact of the person doing that? Would like to see and help

[@Ducain_Plays]

@@smefiregod6566 yup! Here you go 🙂 twitter.com/FOAwsomeness/status/1714718975064416413?t=DHa-45kSt2p-RocvDbTU8w&s=19

[@WednesdayTheClove]

Ducain I used to watch your videos back when I played Reach! What happened to your main channel?

[@Ducain_Plays]

KZbin demonetized it. They said I was clicking on my own ads and when I told them I never have and can they provide proof...they said they didn't need to provide any 🤷‍♂️ My old channel is currently my Twitch VOD channel now 😂

[@devinaksalic8740]

ur the goat

[@vroomvroom1028]

It is possible to put intermission between each round?

[@Ducain_Plays]

Yes you can have wait times between waves 🙂

[@Ersymondequartiere312]

Hi Ducain aka "forge god" ahahaha i was wondering if you can do a tutorial about Fog settings cause i've used this feature in Halo 5 back then but apparently was more easy to use. hope you can reach this comment, bye🥳

[@Ducain_Plays]

I'll add it to my list of tutorials 🙂

[@Ersymondequartiere312]

@@Ducain_Plays I’ll be forever grateful 🥲 ahahahah

[@angusreed7113]

I now understand why they call it infinite

[@Amber-Phantom]

This video was great to get me started, but unless I missed it is there any possible way to make the waves loop endlessly? If I had wanted to make a sort of lone wolf type of mission from Reach, where the waves spawn until the player dies or the match ends is that possible?

[@Ducain_Plays]

Yup! I'll have that tutorial out today 🙂

[@Amber-Phantom]

@@Ducain_Plays Awesome! I can't wait for it, thanks so much!

[@Uppers101]

25:04 The reason you've to set operand B to 0 is because you're comparing the number of remaining rounds in the queue to 0. So it checks (in this order) 3 == 0 - False 2 == 0 - False 1 == 0 - False 0 == 0 - True Once True, and there is no active wave (which is handled in the node above) the game can end. I'd suggest updating the logic, so you only wait 4 seconds if there is another round to play. The same logic as above could be used, but every time it's false, you want to wait 4 seconds. That way, you don't have an awkward pause at the end of your game. Hope that helps!

[@Ducain_Plays]

Thanks for the help!

[@1964catt]

can you find a way to get the ai to respawn without using the firefight setup and wont end the game, i need the ai to respawn endlessly.

[@Ducain_Plays]

Yup! Figured that out tonight and will have a tutorial over that tomorrow 🙂

[@1964catt]

@@Ducain_Plays cool, I have been trying to get this to work and I can't get it to work, I have AI on both eagle and cobra and want the AI on each team to only respawn when the squad dies but they just end up spawning more ai's then what i wanted

[@1964catt]

@@Ducain_Plays it's really weird cause I have 1 AI on each team and have it set up where the AI will spawn when it dies but I kill the enemy AI and it spawns another AI on my team even though the original AI on my team has not died yet

[@austin62halo]

Can a map be to large for nab mesh?

[@Ducain_Plays]

Don't think so!