Halo: The Master Chief Collection's online troubles are well-documented by now, with a series of patches released to address the extremely slow and troubled matchmaking system present at launch. A new patch released last night, aiming at fixing the game's team balancing issues.
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The last update focused on improved matchmaking speed, but this one seems even more comprehensive. Keeping even teams in online games is a focus, but there's plenty else in this update (full patch notes here), which was kept quiet compared to some of the others.
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Matchmaking success rates should be improved, ranks accidentally resetting has been fixed, and party cohesion has been solidified. There are a handful of game-specific improvements, as well--take a look at the patch note highlights below, and read the full list at the link above.
- Made improvements to matchmaking team balance
- Made an update to improve matchmaking search times and success rates, specifically expediting the "Players Found" and "Connecting Session" search phases
- Made improvements to prevent a player's rank from resetting unexpectedly
- Made an update to resolve an issue that allowed players to be placed into an incorrect lobby after a matchmaking game
- Made improvements to prevent the party from being disbanded upon returning to lobby
- Made an update to ensure that players are sorted by team in the "Match Found" screen
- Resolved an issue where Team Slayer matches in Halo 3 could separate players onto individual teams
- Resolved an issue where players could be placed into a group of 7 players and unable to find more
- Made improvements to ensure that the party-leader is prompted to "Bring Party" when leaving a lobby
- Made an update to ensure that split-screen players cannot be divided onto different teams
- Made improvements to ensure that clients are not kicked from parties at the end of matchmaking games with a "failed to connect" error
- Made an update to ensure that Halo 2: Anniversary matches do not continue indefinitely after entire opposing team quits
- Made an update to ensure that parties are not separated when the party leader navigates through multiple titles
- Made improvements to Halo 2: Anniversary objective pickup, specifically in regards to objective "juggling"