After celebrating Halo 5: Guardian's gold master, 343 Industries announced that a major update for the Master Chief Collection has gone gold and its release is imminent.
Headlining the upcoming patch are new penalties for being idle, quits and betrayals. 343 Industries hopes to release the patch at some point this week, so the studio shared what to expect for the game's update.
After the update rolls out, 343 Industries plans to release another playlist update. The playlist update will, among many things, bring more capture the flag and more modes that start out with battle rifles.
"The playlist team continues to tune existing experiences as well as create new ones, including Halo: CE 4v4, which will be the next rotational playlist after Infection, Head to Head, and more," 343 Industries said last week in a blog post.
But before the playlist update, comes the patch. Here's a rundown of what the Master Chief Collection's patch will fix when it hits Xbox One console:
• Quit and rank penalties for leaving anytime after matchmaking voting begins in both ranked and unranked playlists
• Halo: Combat Evolved received matchmaking betrayal booting
• Matchmaking voting selects a random winner
• Improved ranking calculation
• Fixed an issue that could cause down the ranking
• Emblems and clan tags in match search
• Fixed Team colors for Forge mode
• Music lowers when players connect in lobbies
• Resolved problem in which menu music could cut out after a game or at startup
• The H1 Boxer's control scheme now matches the in-game control layout
• Improved UI launch settings for Halo: CE and Halo 2 Campaign
• Improved matchmaking messaging between players
• Fixed an issue where lobby player positions could shuffle after a promotion to party leader
• Fixed an issue where players could select and use nameplates that they had not unlocked
• Fixed an issue where profiles could match into a game after the match started
• Made a variety of fixes for players who could become stuck at the "Downloading Latest Data" screen
• Fixed the glitched achievement, "Who Needs Them?"
• Improved miscellaneous compatibility issues
• Made miscellaneous improvements to stability
