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

Weapons Forerunner Concussion Gun Gravity Wrench Microwave Gun Covenant Early Plasma Rifle iteration Early Plasma Pistol iteration Human "Shovel" sniper rifle "Needler" minigun Several SMG variants Vehicles Forerunner Forerunner Tank Covenant Spectre (originally known as the "Shadow") Human Doozy Kestrel Viper

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 Alphamoon Arcology Earthcity 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 (Halo 2 Map) Grotto Rodentia Shaft Soccer (Rare map samples intended for distribution with the editing kit from Halo 2's Vista port) Covenant Sample Forerunner Sample Human Sample

Vehicles Covenant Covenant Command Shuttle Human Mongoose Piglet Überchassis

Gallery

Trailers

A trailer for Digsite, released at community modding event VKMT.

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.