Halo: The Master Chief Collection new matchmaking and roster fixes

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343 Industries has released the newest patch for Halo: The Master Chief Collection designed to improve matchmaking, roster, parties, and more. This is the latest in the many patches they released to improve the multiplayer side of the game.

Detailed below you will find the patch notes via the Halo Waypoint site.

Matchmaking
Made improvements to the reliability of Matchmaking parties.
Local split-screen players will now always be on the same team in Halo 2 Matchmaking.
Made an update to allow players to use Voice Chat during loading screens in Matchmaking.
Made an update to ensure that players are not forced into an incorrect party after encountering an issue in Matchmaking.
Resolved an issue where the "Winning Team Won" text was shown in the Carnage Report.

Roster
Made fixes to reduce the amount of time it takes to update the Roster:
Players will now be discovered sooner after starting the game.
Changes to the roster will be more immediate to better reflect friend activity.

Parties
Made several improvements to party joining and management.
Resolved an issue where players that were in a party could not join another party from the Roster.
Made changes to ensure that parties cannot exceed the maximum party size of a playlist.
Made an update to ensure that Party Leaders can assign a new Party Leader or Kick a player from their party.

Custom games
Made a change to ensure that teams selections are correctly carried over in Custom Games.
Made an update to ensure that player settings do not revert to a previous state after completing a Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer match.
Made an update to ensure that players do not disconnect after completing a Custom Game.
Resolved an issue in Custom Games where parties would disband if some players were playing in Split-Screen.
Made a change to ensure that Halo 3 Custom Game variants display correct author information.

Halo: CE
Made various changes and improvements to Halo: CE multiplayer hit registration.

Achievements
Made an update to ensure that the 'Legend Slayer' achievement unlocks when prerequisites are met.
The 'Pacifist' achievement will no longer be awarded for resuming 'Assault on the Control Room'.

Stability improvements
Made a variety of stability improvements across the following areas:
Matchmaking
Custom Games
Campaign Playlists
Main Menu

Control schemes
Updated the Halo 2 'Green Fingers' Button Layout.
Updated the Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer Recon Button Layout.

Misc
Made improvements to stat-tracking.
Improved language support for Norweigan, Spanish, German and Japanese.

*Note: The team is aware that "Legacy" controls are incorrectly functioning as "Default" in Halo 2: Anniversary and Halo 4, and are working to resolve this issue in an upcoming update. We will continue to work on additional content updates to further improve the game.

Posted: Dec 17, 2014 12:14 am
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Comments

-GoldCoast-Posted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

Gonna hop on soon and check it out, Hopefully the multi player is actually playable now.

SzaPosted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

I'm glad there is another update I know its go be playable

DeluxeHazardPosted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

Another update. 343 Studios are definitely good at listening to their community and giving the people what they want.

ATLatimerPosted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

Well untill Halo 3 is ranked i`m not playing.

SwiftPosted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

Updated, and the game is actually playable now. So much fun.

THCv3Posted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

Haven't tried the update, but haven't played in a long time solely on the fact that multiplayer is an abomination.

MissPosted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

The stability is all that really matters to me. As long as that is fixed, I'm good to go. Downloading this last night too, but didn't get around to playing it unfortunately. Definitely going to give it a try later.

ProJimmyRustlerPosted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

I don't quite understand how they had this many issues with 4 games that were already completed from the get go. All the game run on there native engines (from what I read). They should have known about these issues way before release.

CraigPosted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

Tend I'm still looking forward to buying this game.

Never been a fan of halo but this does look pretty good.

ORL_MAGICPosted: Wed. Dec 17, 2014

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Latias
Sole_Tatted Does anyone know if the multiplayer is working well or is it still messed up?

You can semi-reliably find matches now. However there is still often unbalanced teams and some other quirks. Bottom line its at least playable at this point.

Thank you and Potion for answering my question. The thing that makes me mad the most is the unbalanced teams but I might have to pick this game back up

I would never expect this game to have that great of a multiplayer with the sole fact is 5 games put together. Still an awesome game to have especially if you are someone like me who has never played the campaigns before and only played the Halo 3 multiplayer.

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