Remember when we had a service record? like… 18 years ago?
11 Likes
Yeah, incredibly annoying not to be able to check people’s service record after the game. Yet another step backward. They ever explain why?
7 Likes
i also remember us being able to tal to others in lobbies
Proximity chat in matches being a thing
Being able to party up with randoms after a match with a click of a button
Being able to veto maps and game modes
Having the ability to play as elites
Having the ability to customize the primary and secondary colors pf our armor
The ability to customize our emblem and nameplate
Having a xp level/rank thats not tied to ranked mode or a battle pass
Gee there’s a lot of features here that were loved by the community that are missing
9 Likes
Iirc money
Gotta allocate those funds to something else
2 Likes
Personally, I think stat fixation is an absolute plague for video game fun factor. Which is why I myself don’t have any problem whatsoever with Infinite having no in-game tracking visible. I’ve actually enjoyed that, given that third party trackers have existed and been reliable and pretty accessible for all the players who care.
This just sucks, though. Sounds like MS privacy policy has killed DotAPI. Not super surprising as issues like this are going to increasingly affect all of our online experiences going forward, but 343i should absolutely make it right for those players who do want to track their stats by providing a rock solid in-house solution. Again, personally I’d prefer that be a separate/companion app or site from Halo Infinite itself, but it should exist. Hopefully HaloTracker can weather this storm intact and provide players with a comparable resource for a long time to come.
4 Likes
I tend to use stat tracking to see how much xp i need to level up(when i was on my inheritor grind) or to look at all the medals i earned
3 Likes
I get why people like it, I used to be addicted to it myself for a ton of reasons. It just makes actually playing the game so much less fun to me at least.
But there has to be a way for players to access accurate and up to date stats, absolutely. If Microsoft privacy policies are going to make it impossible for third parties to accomplish that, 343 has to get on it.
3 Likes
Litterally i’m somewhere in the Top 5 for Killionaires. I’ve made friends from these leadboards just existing. My friends actively try to be #1 in a bunch of categories.
It’s just ridiculous at this point, The things Halo players have to do to track stats. As always the ineptitude of 343i will shine through because they clearly can’t do anything right.
If they listened to community feedback this would’ve been addressed A LONG time ago but they don’t. What a joke of a game.
2 Likes
Infinites got no soul
1 Like
I can’t believe we don’t have a formal API.
Halo 5’s was limited… but at least it was there.
I had such high hopes for what Infinite could have done.
2 Likes
At least we have a new UI (big fat lol) for the forum that is unintuitive and pretty useless, i.e. posting links etc.
2 Likes
They’re making a career leveling system with stats page
2 Likes
What’s hilarious that other game forums arent as strict if you want a example look at dead by daylight’s forums you could link, add pictures and or embed stuff in your posts
2 Likes
Dead by Daylight have staff to moderate the forum.
4 Likes
Insert destiny 2 drifter’s ooh face here
2 Likes
There are also mods here but I don’t know whether they are staff or volunteers.
Just going to voice my disappointment at this. Sure, stat tracking is one reason to use the API, but there are countless more reasons. The community that I help run is built on custom game matches. Having information-driven features automatically input from the game itself allows our players to track their performance within the community events, not just overall statistics from matchmaking. We planned on using this to build feature-rich tools for team matchups, event attendance, etc. To do these things manually is tedious and will lead to community leader burnout. I wish these API endpoints could stay up, or 343 could bring out their own officially supported API at least in the same capacity that they had in Halo 5.
1 Like
Halo tracker will work fine. Just the medals chest won’t work which is kinda wack but still atleast we have HT which is what I thought everybody used. I didn’t even know some of these other sites existed. Idk why these ppl are so devastated about 1 site when Halo trackers probably way better
Halo Tracker is great.
The site I use the most though is Halo Data Hive. I’m going to miss that one a lot.
Still don’t understand why we don’t have a public API. It’s supposedly hindered by Microsoft’s privacy policies… but the game already has a privacy setting!
Interesting how Microsoft & 343 limits players in this way. Kind of ridiculous as to how a game like Infinite doesn’t have a set in stone API for public use.