Well I was re-watching the Halo Fest panels and I got onto the ‘What’s next for Waypoint panel?’ and I noticed this at the top of the page: Lost Friends List Feature?
If you look at the middle icon, it has a number one next to it inbetween the Sign out button and the Service Record button.
Does this mean that a Friends List feature similar to what Bungie.net has was planned for the website just like the Halo Waypoint Mobile App has?
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> …that was definitely something witnessed on the web version?
> Or rather a prototype which was presented for the web version of Halo Waypoint?
It was an image taken of the prototype shown on screen at Halo Fest during the panel, it is just odd that everything seen on there made it in and that seemed to be the only feature missing, I am not 100% sure if it was a Friends List feature, it was never discussed but it looks awfully familiar to a friends list feature and considering the Halo Waypoint app had a friends list feature on November 14th when everything got revamped while the site lacked it.
Maybe it’s a feature that’s yet to be finished?
Waypoint does look and sound like it’s going to be tied with future Halo games, where you can go from campaign straight into match making with your friends by a click of a button on a mobile device, so there might be a friends list that goes with it, and they’re still working out the bugs, and going to release it with Halo 4?
> Hmm, perhaps they were going to implement it, but decided not to. It’s not really necessary, as we could just go to Xbox.com to check.
I am not sure that is it. They may have held off for now. However, with all the new social integration coming with Halo 4, I would assume we will get something like this when the next big update takes place if not sooner.
The code is still there. I remember coming across it whilst traversing the client code, I think it was commented out. It was simply an online friend counter. I’ll see if I can find that code…
> The code is still there. I remember coming across it whilst traversing the client code, I think it was commented out. It was simply an online friend counter. I’ll see if I can find that code…
I swear you and Cobb are robots, you both know everything about coding when it comes to Waypoint.
> I swear you and Cobb are robots, you both know everything about coding when it comes to Waypoint.
Everything? That sounds like a lot
Can’t find it at the moment, but the feature was obviously cut, presumably due to server database calls increasing server stress, or if it’s external, it could have effected load times.
Here is one reference to the friends feature. Also i believe in one of those pics at halo fest it said that it had file shares, which we know only recently came out and not in the November update.
Thats really weird you posted this Moa… I was watching the Halo Waypoint panel for the first time this morning and also noticed this… It would be a cool feature but I can understand the idea being scrapped. Its weird though, because the mobile app version has this feature…?
> Here is one reference to the friends feature. Also i believe in one of those pics at halo fest it said that it had file shares, which we know only recently came out and not in the November update.
Maybe it was set to be implemented along with the File Share on here but since the website was getting so slow and buggy, they delayed it as it might have caused some corruption.
Hmmm… Waypoint needs some more back-end servers or something. I don’t usually like to make comparisons… but Bungie.net could handle a whole lot more data without having to turn off features.
