Halo: The Master Chief Collection gets multiplayer playlist update

343 Industries is continuing to work on additional improvements to Halo: The Master Chief Collection's matchmaking, and today rolled out a variety of server-side updates to matchmaking player player counts. Today's update also sees the return of SWAT as a featured playlist. SWAT was previously removed shortly after the launch of The Master Chief Collection to help improve the game's matchmaking issues.

Below are the full patch notes for today's playlist update to Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

• SWAT has returned as the featured playlist. It features a variety of game types from Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 2 Classic, and Halo 4, and we’re making additional investments to include Halo 3 in the game type rotation for a future update. As we roll out additional content updates, we’ll be bringing other playlists back into the rotation – these include Halo: CE, Halo 4, Team Hardcore, and future featured playlists, such as Team Doubles, Team Snipers, and more. As we mentioned before launch, we’ll be keeping an eye on voting data and player feedback to determine which playlists stay in the rotation.

• Updated the player count to 4v4 (6 minimum, 8 maximum) for the following playlists:
  • SWAT
  • Halo Championship Series
  • Halo 3
  • Halo 2 Classic
  • Team Slayer

• Updated voting options across multiple playlists to improve the balance of appearance of BR-start and objective game types.

• Updated the “max party size” for Big Team Battle from 4-6, and the team is working on resolving issues that are affecting parties with 8 players. Once resolved, the max party size will return to 8.

• In a future update, the ranked Halo 2: Anniversary playlist will be moved to 4v4. For now, as the playlist contains a variety of mid-size maps, we’ll be temporarily allowing both 4v4 and 5v5 matches, but have optimized the voting options for this player range. For example, you’ll see less 5v5 Team Slayer BRs on Warlord and more voting options that are catered to the current player counts of 4v4 and 5v5 (8 minimum, 10 maximum). Additionally, you’ll now be able to search as a party of 5. These changes are temporary until we turn ranking online for additional playlists.

343 Industires says the next content update is scheduled for next week. As always, we'll be sure to let you know anything should we hear more.