halo-infinite

Just yesterday the new build of Halo Infinite dropped. With this build, one of the biggest changes that graced us with its presence is The Exchange - a new virtual venue where a player can use a new in-game currency, Spartan Points, to acquire all sorts of already known cosmetics.

Another week, another release of OpenSpartan Workshop (1.0.3, build ESCHARUM-03052024)! This one was a fun to build because it introduces a few improvements that will delight its users.

Maintenance release inbound! I had to fix a few bugs with the performance of the application, add some parallelization, and update the installer to make sure that the .NET components are not uninstalled when the upgrade of OpenSpartan Workshop happens.

Right after the release of the first version of OpenSpartan Workshop, I am following-up with an update that adds some quality-of-life improvements and some minor new functionality. You can get the latest release on GitHub.

The first version of OpenSpartan Workshop is officially out.

How I dove into the Halo Infinite AMQP API to dig for treasure - wait times for every single playlist available.

How to get your game build identifier without firing up Fiddler.

How to track your own Halo Infinite service record with the game REST API.

How to understand which maps and modes are more likely to come up in Halo Infinite games.

A quick personal recap of the first year attending Halo World Championship in person.

How to query the career rank API to understand tier requirements and get an idea of emblems and rewards.

You can now see some missing medals on Halo Waypoint. Here is how to get to them from the API.

As I am building OpenSpartan as the experience to analyze stats for Halo Infinite, I wanted to have a quicker way to analyze my performance.

I am ashamed to admit that for all the nerding out I am doing around Halo I did not know that there is a Halo Museum up until a few weeks ago.

Earlier this year I bootstrapped a project called OpenSpartan. Its intent is to primarily fill a gap for those that want to tap into Halo Infinite data - the developers that build tools such as Halo Data Hive and others.