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Halo: The Master Chief Collection matchmaking patch finally arrives tomorrow

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Man, patches are HAWT right now. So much so in fact, that we’re debating adding a new award category at the end of the year to celebrate the best patch released in 2014. With that being said, Halo: The Master Chief Collection may just have one of the more highly anticipated patches, which lands tomorrow to finish the fight.

According to Halo Waypoint, the new patch will drop in tomorrow on November 20, sometime in the afternoon. It’ll be sorting through more issues that the 15gb patch missed out on, including campaign bugs throughout all four bugs. But the more pertinent fixes, will be to the matchmaking section of Halo. Full list of fixes, below:

  • Addressed a number of issues that resulted in extended matchmaking times and low matchmaking success rates.
  • Made a number of updates to how matchmaking progress is communicated to the player. With this update, you’ll see better, more frequent and more informative status updates throughout the matchmaking flow – so “Players Found” for example, will be displayed to let players know where they are in the matchmaking process instead of simply wondering if it’s going to connect.
  • The improved matchmaking flow is as follows:
    – Searching
    – Searching for more players
    – Players found
    – Finalizing matchmaking process
    – Connecting session
  • Made an update to ensure that parties stick together when returning from the post-game carnage report
  • Prevented the ability for players “kick” other players from matchmaking games
  • Made an update to ensure that the Roster correctly displays the “searching” UI rather than “My Game Session” while searching for players
  • Removed the possibility to boost ranking through a custom games exploit
  • Made an update to ensure that players cannot get stuck in the matchmaking screen during map voting
  • Made an update to ensure that the “Connecting to your game” message no longer incorrectly displays in the lower right of the screen during gameplay
  • Made an update to the “team creation” phase that allows players to be grouped by team
  • Made an update to prevent players from seeing the “connection failed” dialogue if disconnected during the map voting screen
  • Improved roster / matchmaking lobby stability
  • Made improvements to the accuracy and stability of the “Game Session Details” UI
  • Improved version compatibility

Don’t forget to cast your vote for the patch of the year, and you too could be flown up to the Lost City in December 2014 for the first ever Patchies award show*, sponsored by Chappies and any ISP which offers terrible rates on data top-ups.

*Disclaimer: We don’t have a budget for this, so entire award show may take place in dodgy alley behind a Wimpy.

Last Updated: November 20, 2014

16 Comments

  1. Lazygamer.net bringing you the latest in patched news!!

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  2. Admiral Chief Wang

    November 20, 2014 at 14:06

    • HairyEwok

      November 20, 2014 at 14:10

      Would have never thought ill see another A-Patch-Eh

      Reply

  3. Hammersteyn

    November 20, 2014 at 14:06

    I bet video game awards gets a new category, Patch of the Year.

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      November 20, 2014 at 14:10

      POTY – tm OVG.

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      • ToshZA

        November 20, 2014 at 14:16

        Won’t be long before we get “UBER AAA GAME – POTY EDITION. Now with all patches included!”

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    • Spaffy

      November 20, 2014 at 14:19

      We have some good contenders this year!!

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      • ToshZA

        November 20, 2014 at 14:20

        More than the GOTY category I imagine.

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        • Corrie

          November 20, 2014 at 14:29

          ooooooooooooohhhhhhhh nailed it

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  4. Corrie

    November 20, 2014 at 14:32

    *Disclaimer: We don’t have a budget for this, so entire award show may take place in dodgy alley behind a Wimpy

    Can it be one of those wimpy’s that have outside seating so we can chow down on a Epic XL while watching the awards?

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    • ToshZA

      November 20, 2014 at 14:38

      I’d rather play a Ubisoft game at launch than eat a Wimpy burger.

      #Just saying.

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      • Corrie

        November 20, 2014 at 14:46

        It’s like I don’t know you anymore *Sniff*

        Seriously what is wrong with you, you don’t like Wimpy Burgers?

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      • Mongoose

        November 20, 2014 at 14:51

        O_0

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      • Mossel

        November 20, 2014 at 14:55

        Agreed! That shit tastes like plastic.

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