Last night, 343 Industries rolled out a fairly robust content update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. While some of you may have already downloaded it, if you're just logging on today you will be prompted to do so.
According to 343 Industries, the update addresses campaign, UI, and some Matchmaking and party issues. A larger matchmaking performance-focused content update is planned for release next week.
For now though, here is the list of changes in the recent content update:
- Fixed a variety of issues that caused players within the same Matchmaking party to be placed on different teams. In rare cases, this issue may still occur, and we are investigating additional fixes.
- Fixed a Matchmaking issue with behind the scenes team skill matching, allowing team skill matching to be more accurate in both ranked and unranked playlists.
- Fixed an issue where the campaign HUD did not reset from level to level with scoring or time HUD enabled. This will clear out the full visualization of level segments, which was previously not reset.
- Fixed a variety of issues with campaign leaderboards and scoring HUD, so now when scores are posted, score, kills, time, deaths, and penalties will be reported correctly for new mission leaderboard entries. We are still working on additional fixes for playlist leaderboard entries.
- Fixed an issue with competitive HUD time split. Now, when players have competitive time HUDs on with a rival set, they will see per-segment split times for whether they are ahead or behind at each segment.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection's multiplayer has been plagued by matchmaking issues since launch. Though 343 Industries has been releasing updates regularly, a number of players are still experiencing long wait times in the queue. As a result, 343i delayed the start of the Halo Championship Series pre-season.
