Digsite

The logo used by the Digsite team.

Digsite is the name of a team comprised of 343 Industries employees and community modders, whose goal is to recover cut content from previous Halo games, polish it, and make it available to modders of those games, usually through the Halo Editing Kit released for the game, if available. This process requires scouring 343 Industries' internal archives to find surviving files related to the cut content, in some cases reverse-engineering compiled assets, updating them to work with the version of the game engine used at launch - which may have been changed significantly during development after the cut content was abandoned - and occasionally creating new textures or animations to fill gaps in cases where the cut content was partially lost or unfinished. For some of these purposes, the team devised custom tools to allow them to work more effectively.

History

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Known team members

• Kenneth "Ken" Peters (Senior Franchise Writer at 343 Industries)
• Sean "kornman" Cooper (Publishing Team member at 343 Industries)
• Conscars (Community modder)
• General_101 (Community modder)
• Num0005 (Community modder)
• xScruffyDaSasquatchx (Community modder)
• Sean T (Community modder)
• Ludus (Community modder)
• Zeddikins (Community modder)

Additional team members joined the project in 2023:

• Crisp (Community modder)
• Killzone64 (Community modder)
• Krevil (Community modder)
• Neo Te Aika (Community composer and modder)

Restored content

Digsite Alpha (Pre-Xbox Halo and Halo: Combat Evolved)

Main article: Halo: Combat Evolved cut content

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The following is a list of known Halo: CE content restored as part of the Digsite Alpha project, named in reference to Alpha Halo.

Characters and NPCs Human 5 early cyborg (Master Chief) models Covenant Early "toad" Elite model Slugman Ambient life Blind Wolf Thornbeast Keelbug Maps b20 Dusk Indoor Spasm Ruined pain

Weapons Various early iterations of Halo: Combat Evolved weapons Human Machete Missile Launcher "Needler" minigun Several SMG variants Spear Gun Covenant Early Beam Rifle iterations Forerunner Concussion Gun Excavator Flak Cannon Gravity Wrench Microwave Gun Vehicles Various RTS vehicles Human Early Warthog iterations Doozy Kestrel Viper Covenant Seraph tank Shadow (originally known as the c_transport) Spectre (originally known as the "Shadow") Forerunner Forerunner Tank

Digsite Delta (Halo 2)

Main article: Halo 2 cut content

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The following is a list of known Halo 2 content restored as part of the Digsite Delta project, named in reference to Delta Halo.

Maps Singleplayer Alpha Moon Arcology Destructo Earth City M20 Moonbase (not to be confused with Alpha Moon) Multiplayer (Early revisions of maps that shipped in the final game) Ascension Burial Mounds Colossus Headlong Lockout Midship Waterworks (Previously unreleased maps) Anchor Point Artery Backwoods Convergence Convict Grotto Rodentia Shaft Soccer (Rare map samples intended for distribution with the editing kit from Halo 2's Vista port) Human Sample "Earth City" Forerunner Sample "Beach Battle" Covenant Sample

Vehicles Human Early Warthog iterations Mongoose Piglet Überchassis Covenant Covenant Command Shuttle

Gallery

Trailers

A trailer for Digsite, as premiered at the 2022 Halo Modding Community Showcase.

Branding

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  An older, unofficial logo used by the Digsite team.

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  The current logo, created by Ludus in 2022.