343 Drops First Halo: Master Chief Collection Update Since July

343 Industries has just dropped another Halo: The Master Chief Collection update - the first since July 2023 when the team shared an end of development message with its employees. This new patch is only a minor update for the game across Xbox and PC, but it does show that the team will continue to monitor the collection for any potential issues that may arise.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection version 1.3385.0.0 is now live; a roughly 1.6GB update on Xbox consoles. We'll drop the full Halo: MCC patch notes down below:

RESOLVED ISSUES AND BUG FIXES

GLOBAL

  • Players’ selected video backgrounds no longer have a chance to reset when closing and relaunching Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
  • When playing Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST with a mouse and keyboard, pressing the G key will no longer result in the selected grenade type switching.
    • The ‘Previous Grenade’ and ‘Next Grenade’ functions can be bound to the G key if desired.
  • Multiplayer squads will no longer become stuck if the squad leader leaves the lobby during the “Checking for rejoin” state.
    • When this issue occurred prior to this update, squads could recover from this state if the new squad leader backed out of the active search and started a new search. With the fix included in this update, the new leader will inherit the active rejoin check seamlessly.

HALO 2: CLASSIC MULTIPLAYER

  • Improvements to hit registration and projectile speed in online multiplayer matches.

HALO 3

  • The Phantom Hunter Achievement can now be unlocked consistently by destroying three Phantoms during the campaign mission The Covenant.
  • Cortana narrative sequences now play as intended in the campaign mission Arrival.

MOD TOOLS

  • Scripts included in maps for Halo: Combat Evolved will now work across the host and all client players in an online multiplayer match.
  • Resolved a crash that occurred when using the Sapien Structure Painter tool in the Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer Editing Kit.

Are you still playing Halo: The Master Chief Collection? Tell us which part of the collection you like best in the comments below!

[source support.halowaypoint.com]