I can’t imagine that the Halo Wars 2 player count is very high, even considering cross-play, and 343 has at least for the moment, moved on from further development of Halo Wars 2.
But nevertheless, I want to create an app for tracking progress in the game. I’m considering making an Android app where you can see interesting stats about recent matches and maybe some advanced features. Is this anything anyone would be interested in testing down the road?
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> I can’t imagine that the Halo Wars 2 player count is very high, even considering cross-play, and 343 has at least for the moment, moved on from further development of Halo Wars 2.
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> But nevertheless, I want to create an app for tracking progress in the game. I’m considering making an Android app where you can see interesting stats about recent matches and maybe some advanced features. Is this anything anyone would be interested in testing down the road?
The Halo API forum is probably where you’ll get more technical insight, but sure it could be cool - the question would be how much is still doable with the API data
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> > I can’t imagine that the Halo Wars 2 player count is very high, even considering cross-play, and 343 has at least for the moment, moved on from further development of Halo Wars 2.
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> > But nevertheless, I want to create an app for tracking progress in the game. I’m considering making an Android app where you can see interesting stats about recent matches and maybe some advanced features. Is this anything anyone would be interested in testing down the road?
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> The Halo API forum is probably where you’ll get more technical insight, but sure it could be cool - the question would be how much is still doable with the API data
I have been having so much fun playing around with the API. There is a true wealth of data to be found in it, I’ll be spending a lot of time sifting through it and making it presentable. Hopefully I can put something together soon. I’m super interested with what I can do with the information of unit creation and destruction that the game records during a match.
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> > > I can’t imagine that the Halo Wars 2 player count is very high, even considering cross-play, and 343 has at least for the moment, moved on from further development of Halo Wars 2.
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> > > But nevertheless, I want to create an app for tracking progress in the game. I’m considering making an Android app where you can see interesting stats about recent matches and maybe some advanced features. Is this anything anyone would be interested in testing down the road?
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> > The Halo API forum is probably where you’ll get more technical insight, but sure it could be cool - the question would be how much is still doable with the API data
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> I have been having so much fun playing around with the API. There is a true wealth of data to be found in it, I’ll be spending a lot of time sifting through it and making it presentable. Hopefully I can put something together soon. I’m super interested with what I can do with the information of unit creation and destruction that the game records during a match.
That would be really interesting. Is there any location data there which could create e.g. heatmaps?
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> I can’t imagine that the Halo Wars 2 player count is very high, even considering cross-play, and 343 has at least for the moment, moved on from further development of Halo Wars 2.
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> But nevertheless, I want to create an app for tracking progress in the game. I’m considering making an Android app where you can see interesting stats about recent matches and maybe some advanced features. Is this anything anyone would be interested in testing down the road?
That would be very well, Waypoint gives us most of what we need I think but accessibility would be huge with a app option. What features would be separate from waypoint?
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> > > > I can’t imagine that the Halo Wars 2 player count is very high, even considering cross-play, and 343 has at least for the moment, moved on from further development of Halo Wars 2.
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> > > > But nevertheless, I want to create an app for tracking progress in the game. I’m considering making an Android app where you can see interesting stats about recent matches and maybe some advanced features. Is this anything anyone would be interested in testing down the road?
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> > > The Halo API forum is probably where you’ll get more technical insight, but sure it could be cool - the question would be how much is still doable with the API data
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> > I have been having so much fun playing around with the API. There is a true wealth of data to be found in it, I’ll be spending a lot of time sifting through it and making it presentable. Hopefully I can put something together soon. I’m super interested with what I can do with the information of unit creation and destruction that the game records during a match.
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> That would be really interesting. Is there any location data there which could create e.g. heatmaps?
So sadly, there isn’t much data that is provided that could be used to make useful or interesting heatmaps. Unless I haven’t been as thorough as I’m sure I have, the only real location data that is provided for match events is the spawning location of units. You would think that if the game records where on the map a unit was created, that it would also record the location of where a unit is destroyed, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to find that information in the API match events endpoint.
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> > I can’t imagine that the Halo Wars 2 player count is very high, even considering cross-play, and 343 has at least for the moment, moved on from further development of Halo Wars 2.
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> > But nevertheless, I want to create an app for tracking progress in the game. I’m considering making an Android app where you can see interesting stats about recent matches and maybe some advanced features. Is this anything anyone would be interested in testing down the road?
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> That would be very well, Waypoint gives us most of what we need I think but accessibility would be huge with a app option. What features would be separate from waypoint?
Oh man, there is a true wealth of data that is recorded during a match. When I first saw what match information is provided on Halo Waypoint, I thought that it was pretty impressive. But the more I explore the API, the more I understand that the information provided on Waypoint is more of a demo of what could be accomplished.
Currently, I am only able to work on the coding of this app on my time off. But so far I have been able to write scripts that parse simple information like the gamertags of who was on your team and the enemy team in any given match, as well as the outcome (win/loss) for the last x amount of matches, and what leaders those players picked for those matches. This is all info that is found on waypoint.
There is a lot of additional information from a match that one can choose to focus on. I’ve decided to make use of army unit information, for example. Things like how many units a player built during that match and what kind of units they were. So I am able to see for any given player, not only how many hornets, marine squads, condors, etc. they built, but also how many of them were destroyed, as well as which units and how many that player destroyed of the enemy team. Something that I am currently working on now is a way to display how many resources are shared in between players of a team. So that, when you send a teammate resources or power, it will display how many you sent throughout the match and to who. Really, there’s all kinds of cool stuff to discover.
If you want to see this kind of unit information for a match that you played, reply with your gamertag and I’ll respond with the results. In a way it will help me test the code, since I only really ever play ranked 3v3 and I don’t know how it would respond to other game modes.
Here are some screenshots of the progress I’ve made so far. It’s not a lot, but I only get so much time to work on it: >>> Halo Wars 2 Match Info Progress - Album on Imgur
If this can provide what waypoint does and possibly more I would definitely be on board to testing and stuff. Just hit me up with whatever.
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> If this can provide what waypoint does and possibly more I would definitely be on board to testing and stuff. Just hit me up with whatever.
Sorry for the late response, I don’t know why I don’t get email notifications for replies and stuff. And I certainly will be in touch with you as soon as I can pack the code into something that can be distributed for testing.