A new update released for Halo Infinite today, and with it, we get a new (old) game mode: Assault!
While I'm stoked that the game is continuing to get new content this far into its lifecycle, the game mode was unfortunately implemented using the "Minigame" game variant. As a result, there is only a single statistic that we can see related to objective points: Score. No arms, no disarms, no plants. Just score (which appears to go to the player who detonated the bomb).
Since that's the case I've gone ahead and added our lone statistic as the only input into the objective category on the roles graph for all Minigame game types. It is what it is.
On a happier note, it's been a whole year since Halo Query went live! Here's to another year of data crunching!
The 2024 HCS season is coming to close this weekend in Seattle. For those interested in following along via Halo Query, I'd like to publicize a little known feature of the site: Did you know that with a bit of url manipulation you can query entire teams and find a history of all the games they've played together?
Here's links for every Worlds team that this hack works for:
- Spacestation Gaming
- Optic Gaming
- Rebellion
- Faze Clan
- Complexity
- Native Gaming
- Quadrant
- Into The Breach
- Sentinels
- Team Lethal Fox
- Akave Esports
- Ascend Baseline
- Mindfreak
You can do this for almost any* team, not just the ones at Worlds (including your own 4 stack or duo). Just plug the gamertags that make up the team into the gamertag parameter of matches page URL, separated by commas. For example, that Optic Gaming link above looks like so:
https://haloquery.com/matches?gamertag=OpTicFormaLMatt,deadzZzone,Luciid TW,TrippySo uh, what gives GravlLift, how could you forget about Cloud9, Dark Inside, and Pure? Well... there's a catch to this trick: the first gamertag in the list needs to have their privacy settings set such that their games are searchable, and unfortunately, at the time of writing this, all of the players on those teams... don't. You can still get to a match that they played against one of the other teams, you just can't list their own full custom game histories.
Anyways, I'm off to Seattle. If you see a pair of dudes rocking old school Instinct/Final Boss hockey jerseys, that's my brother and I. Feel free to say hello, I love talking to the people who use the site!
With the patch today, we now have 4 ranked playlists to choose from (3 permanent and one rotating). To celebrate the occasion, I'm pleased to announce the addition of public ESR and CSR leaderboards to the site.
The leaderboards will track any CSR or ESR that is seen by Halo Query in a match played in the last 7 days. That includes players beyond the ones that were explicitly being searched for — anyone who was involved in the match will get their skill levels added to the leaderboard. That means when you load up your profile page and your 200 most recent matches are fetched to render your skill charts, almost 1600 entries are potentially being added to the leaderboard.
That graph at the top of the board shows the distribution of skills as recorded by Halo Query. Each bar can be clicked to jump to the corresponding page in the leaderboard.
If you're logged in to Halo Query, you'll also see a new "Leaderboard" button in the player search and your user menu. Clicking this will jump you directly to that player's page on the leaderboard.
However, being logged in is not a requirement to view the page, so share the link as much as you like. Happy grinding!