More On What’s to Come
Changes to Matchmaking Present Today
We know you’ve already read through a lengthy set of Update Notes this week, but following yesterday’s server maintenance, you may notice some changes in Ranked matchmaking today that are aimed at getting you into a match sooner.
These updates change the first band of our matchmaking slightly, accommodating for an initial higher-point difference in ELO between you and the person you’re ultimately matched with. This should shave off some of the initial time to matchmake for any player experiencing wait times of six minutes or less on average. We’re continuing efforts to improve matching for players toward the extreme lower and higher ends of the ELO range, but in the meantime, please send any feedback or issues related to these changes our way.
July Patch
As we mentioned earlier in the week, we’ve already got a patch in the works for late July. This patch will allow us to monitor and respond to some of the early feedback following the release of Season Five (our balance team is always eager to see what you have to say!) and also provides a chance to follow on with a few other meaningful changes, such as:
- Granting Ranked Rewards based on the Highest Rank you achieve during a season vs. Final Rank. We mentioned investigations were underway in our post on Monday, and we’re excited that the first wave of actions needed to complete this work were included with the server maintenance from June 14th. Ranked Rewards are tracked and granted via the server, so this was an important first move to take. Next steps include updates to the client to support this change within the UI.
- Updates to queue dodging. You can read more about our plans in the Season Five release notes, and some of these changes are currently tracking for our July update.
- Balancing & bug fixing. We’ll be paying close attention to what we hear from you about the Season Five build.
Late Summer Patch
Major updates like Season Five add a huge amount of content and changes across the board and also provide a great opportunity to Keep the game fresh. Our Public Update Previews help us collect and respond to major issues beforehand, but we also expect to “fine tune ” and continually support throughout a season via smaller targeted patches.
Still in the works, but we’re keeping eyes on a late summer patch to light up some Seasonal Events, and also to further iterate as your feedback and input shakes out.
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