What gets recorded, and how

The short version

A server owner points Bulletmeta at their server. From then on we ask it, every few seconds, who is connected and what the score is. The difference between one answer and the next is what becomes a statistic.

That is the whole mechanism. There is no client mod, no overlay, no launcher, and nothing that reads your game while you play it. If you join a server that does not use Bulletmeta, nothing about that session reaches us at all.

Which servers count

Not every server an operator registers feeds the boards. A new server starts out of public stats — a good share of them are private event, tournament or scrim boxes — and counts only once its operator asks and Bulletmeta support approves. Until then the operator still has the live console; your matches there just leave no mark on your career, your rating or any leaderboard.

Why playtime is lower than you expect

Playtime counts the time you were actually connected to a server we watch, measured from the join we saw to the leave we saw. Time in menus, in a lobby, or on somebody else’s server is not in it. Neither is a session that started before the owner enrolled their server.

Who can see your sessions

Your career totals and your rating are public — that is what a leaderboard is. When you played is not. The list of individual sessions is a movement pattern, so it lives on your own account page and on the console of the operator whose server you were on, and nowhere else.

You can also opt out of the public boards entirely without losing your profile or your graph, and you can export or delete everything we hold, from your account page.