The skill-based matchmaking (SBMM) system of Overwatch 2 had been damaged for some time. Bronze gamers had been paired with high 500 gamers in December 2022 and recently, Gold gamers have been put in lobbies alongside Grandmaster-level gamers, which leaves the sport unbalanced for all events concerned.
The builders of Overwatch 2 promised to repair aggressive points in December, however the points continued within the months that adopted. The sport’s director Aaron Keller addressed the matchmaking issues in a Twitter thread yesterday and revealed the builders rolled out fixes throughout Valentine’s Day, which will likely be coated within the subsequent weblog publish.
“Earlier at the moment we began rolling out fixes for a difficulty the place gamers from a a lot decrease ability tier would get pulled into greater ability video games,” Keller mentioned yesterday. “We’ll proceed to observe and make extra adjustments if wanted. For context, we made a number of adjustments to matchmaking in Season 3. We’ll cowl these and their influence (usually, actually optimistic) within the subsequent weblog replace. A byproduct of those adjustments was pulling gold gamers into GM lobbies. That’s what these fixes are focused at.”
These fixes Keller talked about got here after a number of changes the developing team implemented to the game in Season Three. For instance, gamers now acquire a rank replace after 5 wins or 15 losses, as a substitute of gaining a rank replace after seven wins or 20 losses.
In the event you, nevertheless, preserve working into poor Overwatch 2 ranked matches due to unbalanced matchmaking, it’s best to try Loverwatch, the non-canon relationship simulator set in Overwatch 2’s universe, whereas the builders attempt to repair the problems.
