Bungie announced today that the second title update for Halo 3 will available on September 23. Below is a quick description of some of the changes that come with this second title update.
The Web Devs here at Bungie are rolling out phase one of some significant changes to Bungie.net. The first batch of changes is available now, but the features that they modify are mostly tied to TU2. Throughout the site, you’ll notice a handful of small, courteous notes reminding you that functionality like the Playlist Ratings require actually participating in hoppers that track Playlist Ratings – again, those become operational on Sept. 23.
Players will notice that their Career Stats page has seen a pretty significant visual facelift. We’ve brought Ranked and Social stats onto the same page and allowed players to sort which stat they’d like to see first. The Gold Bars represent Ranked stats and the Purpley-blue (I’m colorblind) colored bars represent Social stats. Regardless of which preference you’re sorting by (Ranked on top, or Social on top), your medal chest sorting will mirror that preference.
This change to the Career Stats page does a number of things. First, it unifies looking at a player’s stats, with users being able to easily tell what kind of player someone is. Do they mostly play Ranked? Social? Do they only use the BR in Social and exclusively use the Plasma Pistol in Ranked play like Shishka? That data is now digested very easily and quickly.
The second reason we wanted to get all of the stats onto a single page was for a new feature the Bungie.net team implemented: Player Comparisons. As the name suggests, this allows you to enter another player’s gamertag into the window and we’ll spit out a side by side comparison of the two players using the new stats view.
