Latest Halo: MCC patch adds Halo 4’s Spartan Ops mode, further improves matchmaking

News by Sherif Saed Contributing Editor

Published on Dec. 23, 2014

Spartan Ops co-op mode from Halo 4 has been added to The Master Chief Collection along with a slew of new fixes and in the latest patch.

343 Industries has posted the notes of the latest patch to Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The patch adds Halo 4's Spartan Ops mode as promised along with the usual set of fixes and improvements. It's just over 3GB in size.

Matchmaking

Made an update to make sure a match only starts when teams are even
Players will now receive a ‘loss’ when disconnecting before a round has ended
Made an update to include all split screen players in vote tally
Resolved an issue that caused players to become stuck “Joining Session"
Resolved an issue where players could be dropped from matchmaking after disconnecting their controller

General multiplayer updates

Made additional improvements to Halo: CE hit registration
Made an update to the “Halo 2: Anniversary Career Progress” page to ensure achievements are correctly tracked
Fixed an issue where it took a long time to join players that are in a Multiplayer lobby

General UI/menu updates

Made additional improvements to Roster update times
Fixed Halo 3 game type text when viewing saved data in “My Files"

Halo 2: Anniversary campaign

Fixed an issue where the ‘Black Eye Skull’ incorrectly prevented players from reaching checkpoints

Campaign playlists

Fixed an issue where cross-game playlists could fail to progress to the next level
Made several fixes to Campaign Playlist Carnage Reports
Fixed an issue where Halo 3 Cooperative Playlist progress would not save correctly when completing a mission
Made changes to ensure that Competitive Scoring and Timing are tracked correctly in Halo CE and Halo 2 Campaign Playlists

Stats & medals

Made updates to improve stat tracking
Fixed an issue where the “Steaktacular” medal would not be correctly awarded in Halo 3
Fixed an issue where the “Supercombine” medal would be incorrectly awarded in the Halo 4 Campaign

Achievements