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November 9th, 2007, 11:16 PM
Some of you may, or may not, have noticed a little upgrade at Bungie.net; If you now go to your Career Stats page you'll find a new tab entitled "Heatmaps."
If you read Bungie's latest update, it contains some info as to what exactly Heatmaps are.
"What’s a Heatmap?
Heatmaps are the Doppler Radar System of Death in Halo 3. We’re tracking encounters, weapons used and their results in a given game, collecting that data and sharing it with players visually. The key here is “the darker the red, the more frequent the deaths (or kills, depending on the parameters).
We’ve taken that tracking system and adapted it to your own statistics. By visiting your Career Stats page, you’ll see a new tab labeled Heatmaps. Once you click that, you’ll be able to click each of Halo 3’s maps on the left side and see all manner of statistics, what weapons you’ve killed (and where you’ve used them) with on a given map, where you’ve died to a certain weapon on a given map all via sortable dropdown menus. These heatmaps, however, aren’t a collection of your lifetime statistics, we’re only processing roughly half of the information right now, but we’ll be turning it up to full power once the feature leaves this beta phase.
In addition to your own stats, there’s now a Global page displaying Heatmap results (it's found under the 'Bungie Online' tab of the main site navigation bar). Here, you’ll be able to look through each map in (both Social and Ranked playlists) and see where shenanigans are beget. Like the Career Stats page, the Global Heatmap page uses dropdown menus to display on what the tools of destruction are on a given map. Are more folks camping the canals of Snowbound, while your Heatmaps show you atop low base with a Carbine?
The below images show the heatmaps in action. These are global heatmaps tracking the kills (top) and deaths (bottom) from the Sniper Rifle on Guardian."
http://www.bungie.net/images/News/WeeklyUpdate/HeatmapSnipeKill.jpg
"Ya'all don't move around much with the long rifle, do you?"
http://www.bungie.net/images/News/WeeklyUpdate/HeatmapSnipeDeath.jpg
"Yellow room = dead room."
Source (http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12943)
You can also see the Global Heatmaps, here (http://www.bungie.net/Online/Heatmaps.aspx).
Heatmaps are one of the many new features Bungie's web devs have up their sleeves.
If you read Bungie's latest update, it contains some info as to what exactly Heatmaps are.
"What’s a Heatmap?
Heatmaps are the Doppler Radar System of Death in Halo 3. We’re tracking encounters, weapons used and their results in a given game, collecting that data and sharing it with players visually. The key here is “the darker the red, the more frequent the deaths (or kills, depending on the parameters).
We’ve taken that tracking system and adapted it to your own statistics. By visiting your Career Stats page, you’ll see a new tab labeled Heatmaps. Once you click that, you’ll be able to click each of Halo 3’s maps on the left side and see all manner of statistics, what weapons you’ve killed (and where you’ve used them) with on a given map, where you’ve died to a certain weapon on a given map all via sortable dropdown menus. These heatmaps, however, aren’t a collection of your lifetime statistics, we’re only processing roughly half of the information right now, but we’ll be turning it up to full power once the feature leaves this beta phase.
In addition to your own stats, there’s now a Global page displaying Heatmap results (it's found under the 'Bungie Online' tab of the main site navigation bar). Here, you’ll be able to look through each map in (both Social and Ranked playlists) and see where shenanigans are beget. Like the Career Stats page, the Global Heatmap page uses dropdown menus to display on what the tools of destruction are on a given map. Are more folks camping the canals of Snowbound, while your Heatmaps show you atop low base with a Carbine?
The below images show the heatmaps in action. These are global heatmaps tracking the kills (top) and deaths (bottom) from the Sniper Rifle on Guardian."
http://www.bungie.net/images/News/WeeklyUpdate/HeatmapSnipeKill.jpg
"Ya'all don't move around much with the long rifle, do you?"
http://www.bungie.net/images/News/WeeklyUpdate/HeatmapSnipeDeath.jpg
"Yellow room = dead room."
Source (http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12943)
You can also see the Global Heatmaps, here (http://www.bungie.net/Online/Heatmaps.aspx).
Heatmaps are one of the many new features Bungie's web devs have up their sleeves.