: But wait! Find a game, get in it, play it to completion, and all of a sudden
: the party lead can back out the entire party with them to start a new game
: again. Say what? 343 did a thing right!

: Emblems are still busted.

: My completed Lanfall achievement STILL says "Done! Unlocking..."
: after three weeks.

: Post carnage report is still busted. Best guy on our team apparently was
: killed most by us and killed us the most even though we were on the same
: team.

: Finding games even faster seems to be legit, but it's fairly spotty if you're
: playing with friends. No guarantee from one game to the next that it'll
: get done quickly. First attempt took nine minutes, second attempt took
: two, third attempt took four, fourth attempt took five. All over the
: place. Maybe the population is low, Halo 4 style due to blunders? No clue.

: Final assessment: Still mostly busted, but "improvements" are
: verified on many levels, particularly with finding games and keeping your
: party together after said games. Can they get this thing fixed by
: Christmas? Will Gravemind get to keep his Xbox One and MCC? Stay tuned
: next week for a new episode of "As the Patch Blunders"!

I tried to go into matchmaking for the first time since the MCC came out. I was playing the four campaigns first anyway so it was no rush.

This has been my first experience:

I went into Halo 2 Anniversary Rumble. I wait for about 5 minutes but no other players are discovered. I decide to pass the time by accessing the Halo Channel. I search out, with difficulty, the H2A terminals, since they usually refused to play when encountered in-game.

I queue up the one I want and the Halo Channel feels the need to inform me I'm watching the Halo Channel. It gives me two attempted starts of the video I requested, then it ends up playing a commentary of the revised Lockout map.

Huh? How'd that happen, no matter. I press the X logo on the controller because I should have some opponents in the matchmaking system now. Nope. Well, this is not productive. I'll back out and play some more campaign.

Hmm....it says it's leaving matchmaking. For the next 4 minutes....

I'll just try and load my H2A terminal again. I can't seem to exit out of this Lockout video enough to get to a Halo Channel menu again. Grrr...

OK, I'll just play campaign. Still exiting matchmaking?!

I shut the Xbox....I mean, what else can I do?

Long story short....congrats to those who have been able to try out matchmaking on the MCC.