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In addition to posting updates here on the blog, I have begun to post to Twitter concerning updates to iHaloStats. You can follow it at: twitter.com/iHaloStats.

Screenshot Viewer Working Again

Tapping the thumbnails in the Screenshot section will now bring up the full-size image again. This was broken by a minor change on the Bungie site.

Screenshot Viewer Is Not Currently Working

Something is amiss with the screenshots section, specifically that it isnt showing anything when you tap the thumbnails. I am investigating.

Minor Update: You can now tap medals in game history

I case you can't recognize every Halo 3 medal instantly on sight, you can now tap the medals listed in the appropriately titled Medals tab of Games in a player's Game History to get a popup describing it (much the way you can on the Medal Chest).

New Feature: Combined Weapon Stats

Much like the combined medal stats pushed in the last update, Weapon Stats have been updated to show combined (Ranked + Social) stats on a single page. Simply choose "Combined" from the drop down list and enjoy.

Game History Section is Now Live!

After much hard work, the "Game History" section of iHaloStats, which has been in development since the site was opened, has finally gone live! It took a great deal of time and effort, but I think the results speak for themselves.
Tapping the "Games" button will take you to a list of the last 25 online multiplayer games for an individual. Left and right buttons at the top of the page allow you to navigate to the previous/next 25 games, or you can tap the middle "Page" button to quickly select which page you want to navigate to.

Want the details of any game listed? Tap the name of the game (or anywhere in the block of information) to navigate to the page for that particular game. Similar to the main Game History page, the Game Viewer features navigation buttons in the upper left corner. Left and right take you to the previous/next game, while the Games button takes you back to the Game History page.

Since there is a great deal of information to pore over, the Game Viewer is tabbed in the upper right (or left side in landscape more). Tapping any tab will display the associated stats.

The page is usually divided into two sections: general game info and player stats. The game info at the top shows all the relevant data about the match in general: game type/variant, playlist, mapname, date, and length. In matches with a large number of players this information will be shrunk down, or in extreme cases omitted, replaced instead by a round button bearing the gametype logo that can be tapped to show a popup to display the information.

The player stats list teams, player emblems, player names (which link to their iHaloStats page), skill level, rank, and whatever stats are relevant to the section being viewed. Since space is limited, most stat column names are abbreviated. They are usually easy to figure out, but just in case a key is provided below the stats (or on the left side in landscape). On pages where the number of players makes this impossible, the title row of abbreviations is colored cyan and can be tapped to display a popup with the key information.

The Weapon section contains a column a player's best weapon ("Weapon of Choice") for the map and can be tapped show a breakdown of all weapon kills (navigation buttons are present if there are more than a handful of weapons used).

The VS section display a player's "Most Killed" and "Most Killed By" both of which can be tapped, like the "Weapon of Choice" column, to display a breakdown of all kills/killed by.

Finally, the Medals section lists each of the medals a player earned during a match (with count) along with a large representation of their "Weapon of Choice" and their player information (emblem, rank insignia and title, and service tag). The background is colored either by team or, in the case of "free for all" games, player color. Arranged somewhat differently than the other sections, the gamertags in the Medals section act as tabs that can be tapped to display a given player's medals.

The Game History and Game Viewer pages are perhaps the most complicated additions to iHaloStats to date. I've done a great deal of testing but there are bound to be one or two issues that have thus far escaped my notice. As usual, bug reports and feedback to MasterChief@iHaloStats.com is appreciated.

Along with the Game History came a few other updates:

• Minor bugfixes and cosmetic changes (including adding "iPod Touch" to the main page banner).
• A "fix" to the Achievement Count/Gamerscore code added in the previous update to address players who were erroneously being reported as having 0 in both. Due to a limitation of the data source used by iHaloStats, the Achievements/Gamerscore information for some players is unavailable. This was previously being listed as 0 which is misleading. This has been changed to show as a '-' (dash). Beyond that I have no power to fix the information.
• Per request, the Medal Chest page now contains an option to display "Combined" medals, which shows the medals from Ranked and Social in one page.