Digsite



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.

Known team members

 * Kenneth "Ken" Peters
 * Sean "kornman" Cooper
 * Conscars
 * General_101
 * Num0005
 * xScruffyDaSasquatchx
 * Sean T
 * Ludus
 * Zeddikins

Digsite Alpha (Pre-Xbox Halo and Halo: Combat Evolved)
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 Covenant Human
 * Blind Wolf
 * Thornbeast
 * Keelbug
 * Early "toad" Elite model
 * Slugman
 * 5 early cyborg (Master Chief) models

Maps

 * b20
 * Indoor
 * Ruined pain

Weapons
Forerunner Covenant Human
 * Concussion Gun
 * Gravity Wrench
 * Microwave Gun
 * Early Plasma Rifle iteration
 * Early Plasma Pistol iteration
 * "Shovel" sniper rifle
 * "Needler" minigun
 * Several SMG variants

Vehicles
Forerunner Covenant Human
 * Forerunner Tank
 * Spectre (originally known as the "Shadow")
 * Doozy
 * Kestrel
 * Viper

Digsite Delta (Halo 2)
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

 * Alphamoon
 * Earthcity
 * Raceday

Vehicles
Covenant Human
 * Covenant Command Shuttle
 * Mongoose
 * Piglet
 * Überchassis