Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s Next Update Will Provide Matchmaking Improvements

Coming off of a troubled launch last November, 343 Industries’ various patches and updates for Halo: The Master Chief Collection have steadily improved the game into a workable state, with the latest setting its sights on providing more updates to the game’s matchmaking services.

In a new post on 343 Industries’ Halo Waypoint blog, the studio provided a new list of patch notes for the game’s latest update, including significant improvements to the matchmaking search functions and decrease in errors resulted from “awaiting privileges” messages in matchmaking.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is currently available on Xbox One – you can check out the full list of patch notes below for the latest update to The Master Chief Collection:

MATCHMAKING:

Improved matchmaking search success rates.
Made an update to reduce instances of “Awaiting Privileges” matchmaking errors.
Made an update to ensure player counts more reliably match the expected numbers for each playlist.
Fixed an issue where player would sometimes appear to be searching in an incorrect “FIND GAME” screen.
Added countdown sound effect to the voting timer.

GENERAL MULTIPLAYER:

Made several improvements to party joining through the in-game Roster.
Made an update to ensure that the mute icon is visible while in Matchmaking.
Fixed an issue in Halo 4 where players could equip the same weapon as their primary and secondary weapons.

GENERAL CAMPAIGNS:

Made several improvements to stat tracking for Halo: CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo 4.
Made changes to Halo 3 and Halo 4 scoring to ensure that players are not penalized for destroying empty vehicles.

GENERAL MENU:

Lowered the music volume level in multiplayer menus.
Fixed an issue where friend emblems in roster would show up as default when exiting a game session.
Made updates to UI and menus to improve multiplayer status messaging, such as when a player joins your lobby.