reverse-engineering

It finally happened - after a bit more than a year of playing Halo Infinite, I’ve finally reached the end of the line. The pinnacle of experience-based rank, if you will - Hero.

A collection of photos from the event.

I finally reached the Hero rank in Halo Infinite, and as the primary dogfood-er of the OpenSpartan Workshop project I ran into issues where the Hero rank was not correctly rendered in the app. With this release, it’s now correctly shown.

A few people were reporting problems with the Windows App SDK, so I released a new version of OpenSpartan Workshop that fixes the issue.

Diving into the Halo Infinite lesser-known post-match film data.

The latest dataset for Fleetcom is now available on GitHub.

Let’s talk a bit more about the Exchange. I’ve discussed its API implementation on my blog when it first came out in retail builds of Halo Infinite, but now that I am growing the content on the OpenSpartan website, I decided to start documenting my API explorations here. After all, it’s all at home with the rest of the Halo-related tinkering that I am doing.

The latest dataset for Anvil is now available on GitHub.

If you haven’t yet noticed, there is a [brand-new release on GitHub of OpenSpartan Workshop 1.0.8. In terms of new features, this build is a bit light - it comes on the heels of the Operation Fleetcom, which introduced a new date format that I did not recognize for seasonal ranges, resulting in the application crashing. This has been fixed.

I’ve spent some time optimizing OpenSpartan Workshop (the latest release is definitely mostly a performance improvement), and so you can now enjoy the fruits of my labor.

Get a glimpse into the aggregated playlist wait times for Halo Infinite.

As part of the work on OpenSpartan Workshop I needed the capability to convert a Xbox gamertag into its immutable identifier - the Xbox user ID, also commonly known as the XUID. My plan was to add the option for someone to find all the matches where they played with a specific player.

OK, look - I am not the one to tell you that you absolutely have to track your stats for a damn video game, but I am the kind of person that finds a certain fun in that, just like I find the fun in reverse-engineering the entire Halo Infinite API. There is a certain beauty in looking at your own numbers, even if they are for some meaningless, entirely made-up progression system.

A new version of OpenSpartan Workshop is released, adding support for The Exchange, ranked tier counterfactuals, comprehensive event tracking, a faster match search, and more.

I talked about Halo Infinite career ranks some time ago, but I kept needing to come back to the idea that I just wanted to have a quickly accessible list that just tells me what rank experience requirements are and how far along to Hero each rank is. No ads, no, fluff, just the table. Said table is now here.