Halo: The Master Chief Collection Patch Notes

General:

• Added Halo: Reach, a progression system, and seasonal unlocks.
• Increased shared file capacity from 50 to 150 to support migration of legacy map and game variants.
• Fixed various stability issues throughout the title.
• Moved Spartan Ops from Halo 4’s Multiplayer installation package to its Campaign package.
• Fixed an issue where settings changes made by guests while mid-game did not save.
• Fixed an issue where load times were increased based on the number of profiles signed in for splitscreen.
• Added a Jumper Jumper setting to Halo: Reach and Halo 4 which allows the user to hold the jump button while airborne to activate the Jetpack ability if it is equipped.
• Added new background video to celebrate Halo: Reach's addition to MCC.

User Interface:

• Rebuilt the main menu and several other UI screens.
• Added Text Chat, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and other accessibility settings.
• Added behavior to display the current matchmaking status while within nested menus.
• Added a film duration element to the Theater menu.
• Fixed an issue where Skulls enabled in Halo CE and Halo 2 Campaign lobbies carried over into the Spartan Ops lobby
• Fixed an issue where an objective marker was visible in the loading screen image of Episode 3 Chapter 1 The VIP mission in Spartan Ops.
• Fixed an issue where there was no button callout in the help bar to exit the PGCR for clients in co-op Campaign.
• Fixed an issue where the tool of destruction image for the Elephant Turret was stretched on the PGCR.
• Fixed a number of syntax and capitalization inconsistencies throughout the menus.
• Fixed a number of cases where text extended outside of widget boundaries or overlapped other text in various languages.
• Added additional clarification to the tooltips for various settings.
• Corrected the header text on the Competitive Games screen.
• Fixed an issue where certain Campaign player stats weren’t displayed.
• Fixed an issue where Campaign Scoring and Timing leaderboards displayed 0s for all entries until the screen was refreshed.
• Fixed an issue where co-op support was not consistently stated for Campaign playlists.

Matchmaking:

• Fixed an issue which resulted in some users experiencing higher-than-expected latency when connecting to servers.
• Fixed an issue which was affecting skill sorting in social matchmaking.
• Fixed exploits and visual artifacts on several community forge maps in Halo 2: Anniversary.
• Disabled infinite Sudden Death in remaining Halo 2 game variants which used it.
• Made various polish improvements to game variants.

Halo: Reach legacy bug fixes:

• Built a new asynchronous network model for Firefight. More details are included in this blog post.
• Fixed an issue where holograms were displayed incorrectly on the motion sensor for clients.
• Fixed an issue where the player’s head was not healed by health packs which resulted in inconsistent time-to-kill against players who had taken damage and then healed in bleedthrough-enabled variants. More details are included in this blog post.
• Made three previously unskippable cinematics in The Long Night of Solace skippable.
• Fixed an issue which resulted in low level-of-detail Falcon flocks appearing near the camera during the outro cinematic on Tip of the Spear. More details are included in this blog post.
• Fixed an issue where a hostile dropship waypoint was displayed on the friendly Pelican dropship on Installation 04 in Firefight.
• Updated objective waypoint behavior for Tip of the Spear on Easy difficulty to better guide new players.
• Fixed an issue where projectiles were incorrectly redirected towards marker nodes on the models of large forge objects. More details are included in this video.
• Replaced the sandbags on the MLG variants of Countdown and Zealot with more visually appropriate but functionally identical objects.
• Fixed exploits and made various improvements to the Invasion forge maps used in matchmaking.
• Fixed various issues on the Infection forge maps used in matchmaking.
• Fixed various exploits on the map Powerhouse in matchmaking.
• Removed some respawn points which were too near the death boundary on Unanchored (Anchor 9) in matchmaking.
• Improved the orientation of power weapons on Tempest in matchmaking to make them more visible.