If they can fix the monetization and free to play experience by lowering coin costs for items in the store and increasing the weekly challenge reward coins substantially from a max of 80 per week to a few hundred per week, and fix the current issues with matchmaking queue times for damage ...
There are some serious caveats to this grouping, though. Blizzard says to expect longer queue times because of specific matchmaking, like attempting to match parties against similar ones. The example given was that a Platinum tank and Bronze support will attempt to match with another Platinum tank...
Competitive matchmaking is just awful, if it wasn’t for the good will I’ve felt for Blizzard as someone who’s played their games for about 20 years, I’d just quit permanently and not think much of it. Sadly they just cannot seem to fix the issue and they refuse to put in place...
What should be good news to FPS players out there, is that Blizzard are running with dedicated servers for Overwatch’s matchmaking, rather than player-hosted lobbies. This means (mostly) stable servers and reliable ping for random matches as well as playing custom games with your friends. ...
The current iteration of the Competitive mode is terrible and needs to be reworked. Here are several reasons as to why: The True Skill variation Blizzard are using for everyone below Diamond (the matchmaking that featur…
I have been thinking about--and this is purely brainstorming so we don't have anything in the works for this--how do we, in particular for competitive play, allow groups to form outside of the natural matchmaking, so somebody could say, "Hey, I'm just a support player and I'm goin...
The goal here is to loosen the restrictions somewhat to allow for more grouping while preventing some exploitable behavior and matchmaking issues that are caused by high-skill players who group with lower skill players." ZanthianMitey WorrierIcrontian ...
While it is true the more you play the more skill you’re likely to gain, it’s also true that skill gain will be reflected in the matchmaking values as well. Source: Reddit AMA 2020 Furthermore, the game does reasonably work to pit groups of equal size together, not always but it ...
“Matchmaking takes people at a given SR, and then matches high skill players with low skill players to make a balanced match”. There is much more that goes into “high skill” and “Low Skill” and if it’s not taking that into account, that’s where the gripes come from. A genji...