I spent more than a thousand hours on halo 3 alone, so seeing a group of dedicated fans restore over 1.9 billion Halo 3 match stats, 801 million Halo 2 matches, and over 30 million Gamertags is surreal.
This is a big moment for me and honestly, it’s incredibly impressive work by the Halo Archive. It hits especially close to home for me. If you’ve followed my work, you know that I’m a big Halo fan, especially the Bungie was.
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However, it wasn’t until 2021 when Bungie announced that stats would be going offline, giving players just a few weeks notice to save their data. That moment pushed HaloArchive to adapt the original Halo 2 script for Halo 3, eventually getting 1.9 billion matches.
Since then, HaloArchive, along with other contributors, has worked to restore the Halo 2 and Halo 3 data sets, sorting through more than 30 terabytes of plain text files. Now, the site is active and in testingwith access available if you register and are accepted.
As HaloArchive says, this project wouldn’t be possible without Tactics, Cyrix, Bigstack, community members, and more. A big shout out to everyone involved.
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