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one take one Mark no outtakes this time |
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it's going to be perfect no outakes hi |
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again I'm starting that over sorry look |
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at that hi again this is Aaron from the |
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OverWatch team and today we have a few |
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updates for season 11 that we're really |
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excited to share with you after we walk |
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through those updates our Senior Systems |
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engineer Morgan madin is going to take |
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us through a season 10 Matchmaker retro |
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and share some of our upcoming plans for |
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season 11 let's jump p in a few |
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developer updates ago I talked about how |
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the OverWatch Community was on track to |
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reach 100 million players we're |
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incredibly happy to announce that we've |
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now passed that Milestone to celebrate |
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and express our gratitude to all of you |
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as well as to do some good in the world |
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we're bringing back something that our |
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community and honestly Team Four has |
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loved for years the pink Mercy skin will |
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return on June 25th during season 11 |
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in support of the Breast Cancer Research |
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Foundation alongside the skin will be |
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the new rose gold Mercy skin bundle |
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within the rose gold bundle are unique |
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name cards sprays and icons created by |
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OverWatch Community artists OverWatch |
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grandma and Angela zegler both the pink |
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Mercy skin and the rose gold Mercy |
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bundle will be in the shop June 25th |
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through July 8th benefiting the Breast |
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Cancer Research Foundation make sure to |
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check out our blog toar learn more |
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information this is a significant moment |
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for Team 4 because we get to partner |
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with you to support the things we all |
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care about together and now at 100 |
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million strong we can't wait to work |
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together with you and this incredible |
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Foundation our collaboration with the |
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community doesn't end there we have |
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partnered with four of your favorite |
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content creators to cook up something we |
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think you're going to love there will be |
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a community crafted arcade game mode |
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live at launch starting June 20th and |
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running throughout the midcycle on July |
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9th we have eong balancing tank Heroes |
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custa on mostly projectile damage Heroes |
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tqq with the hit scan damage Heroes and |
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SK unsupport Heroes these four had some |
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wild but super fun takes on our heroes |
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and to preview a few of their changes |
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Baptist has donated some of his kit to |
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Anna Reaper's wraith Might Sting a |
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little when he walks past you orisa has |
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a new ability and there's something |
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going on with Hanzo storm arrow that |
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might be a little reminiscent of one of |
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his former abilities we hope all these |
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things commemorate this moment and |
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express our thanks for being on this |
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wild ride with us we have a little more |
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to share in this update though so let me |
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pass things along to my teammate Morgan |
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to cover some of the systems and |
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Matchmaker changes in season 11 |
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hi I'm Morgan madin and I'm a senior |
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engineer on the OverWatch team I'm here |
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to talk about matchmaking some of the |
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things we learned from season 10 and |
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share some of the updates we're making |
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to season 11 in season 10 we removed the |
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old grouping restriction system and |
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added a new system that separates wide |
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and narrow groups so that they play in |
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separate pools in the narrow pool we got |
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significant wins in match quality in |
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season 9 for example three out of four |
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ranked matches were with players within |
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2.5 divisions from each other we think |
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this is great but the worst case was |
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around 10 divisions wide in season 10 we |
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were able to reduce this worst case down |
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to only six divisions in the narrow pool |
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for wide groups we expected that Q times |
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would be long but we've heard that |
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you're feeling the pain that two stat Q |
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times are too long this is because we |
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need to match every two stack with a |
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three stack in the queue the good news |
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is in season 11 we're in inreasing the |
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threshold for what we consider a narrow |
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two stack which we hope will better |
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balance the number of two and three |
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stacks in Q and ultimately give two |
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stacks a much better Q time for groups |
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of three and five Stacks we're seeing an |
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average of around two to 3-minute cues |
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which we're very happy about for groups |
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with extremely high MMR players and high |
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ranges of MMR we're seeing especially |
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long Q times as well these cases present |
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some unique challenges for match quality |
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we want these matches to feel as |
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competitive as they can but we also want |
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to balance that against Q times we're |
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making adjustments to the rules for |
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narrow groups at the top ranks to try to |
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improve this we also continue to make |
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adjustments to how the Matchmaker |
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handles the wide pool we're still |
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learning which factors of match quality |
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are most important for these very wide |
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matches and finding where we can most |
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effectively relax match quality to |
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improve Q times the team will continue |
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to improve the wide experience and we're |
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working on new tech from Matchmaker that |
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we look forward to sharing with you in |
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future Seasons we can't wait for you to |
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jump into season 11 when it launches on |
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June 20th as always please continue to |
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share your thoughts with us and we look |
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forward to the next developer update see |
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you in game you're never going to see my |
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cowboy bbop stuff are you oh yeah that |
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is not what's supposed to be happening |
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give me the high kick no it like hurts |
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my legs but we've heard that you're |
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feeling the pain that two yeah |
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that week of karate I took when I was |
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younger |
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