'Halo: The Master Chief Collection' News: Devs Further Explain Game Issues, Confirm Release of Patches
Several years after the "Halo: The Master Chief Collection" was released and players struggled with its glitches, development director Frank O'Connor wrote fans a letter hoping to explain what went wrong and promising a patch alongside the release of the Xbox One X.
"Halo: The Master Chief Collection" was released in 2014 and was packed with all the main titles available under the "Halo" franchise. However, shortly after the game went live, players had problems in online matchmaking, preventing many from accessing it in its proper state.
Recently, O'Connor addressed fans by writing to them with a very lengthy explanation through the Halo Waypoint blog and the game's sub-Reddit thread. His statement provided an overview of the mistakes made in the development of the game accompanied with the promise of fixing them. However, developers refrained from providing exact release dates for the highly needed patches.
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In the statement, O'Connor explained: "I should be clear here, that in terms of chicken/egg scenarios, fixing the existing 'vanilla' Xbox One MCC was the Chicken that laid the Xbox One X enhanced version egg."
O'Connor added that they were more capable now than before of digging deeper into what went wrong with the "Halo: The Master Chief Collection" because they already have the "resources, OS and capability to make meaningful changes."
He further explained that they were also able to deal with fixes for "Halo: The Master Chief Collection" at this point due to the enhancements that have been applied to the Xbox system as Microsoft prepares for the launch of the Xbox One X early next month.
"Without the ability and opportunity to reconfigure and fix this thing, we wouldn't touch an Xbox One update. But a series of changes to the Xbox architecture, some of them related to Xbox One X ... have cracked open an opportunity we've wanted to seize for many, many months now," O'Connor said.
The development director then confirmed that both the Xbox One and Xbox One X systems were getting patches for the "Halo: The Master Chief Collection."
