
you want to play solos in South America on Switch at MR 10, there’s a good chance you’re going to be waiting for a LONG time). With just a few variations of each, you can quickly end up with a LOT of buckets (e.g. Queue times traditionally have depended on the number of players who are queuing into a given “bucket.” Each combination of game mode, server region, cross-play ruleset, and mage rank (MR) grouping created a unique bucket for players to queue into. What goes into a good matchmaking experience? Generally speaking, the goal is to provide you with matches that have 1) fast queue times on 2) low latency servers against 3) other similarly-experienced (and real!) players.Įach of these has challenges associated with them and Spellbreak has, at times, been better and worse at different parts.
Pay off placement spellbreak update#
It’s unfortunate that the real fix for Updraft to make it bounce as high as before requires a client update and it can’t be included here too but it was important for us to close off this loophole rather than let it persist until we can truly fix things. After this is live, there shouldn’t be any change to normal Updraft usage, but if you try to trigger the sky high launch, the server will correct your movement and you’ll “blip” back down to where you should be. With an update early next week, we’re also going to be fixing the very unintended Updraft exploit where players can fling themselves exceedingly high into the air by using certain runes in combination with Tornadoes and Updraft. One quick, not matchmaking-related, note on Updraft

Also in an update on early next week, bots will have the ability to be much smarter. Tl dr Matchmaking takes place from the main menu now instead of the lobby and is more flexible, better accounting for things like mage rank and region.

We’re going to be rolling out server-side updates to matchmaking and bots, starting today and going through the weekend and into early next week, and I wanted to share some of the details of why we’re making the changes, what they are, and talk about bots and their role in this in a way we haven’t before.
