The heroes of Overwatch are dashing through the snow in this year’s Winter Wonderland! This event features a special delivery of new arcade modes, cosmetics, free rewards, and plenty of good times to be had with teammates and friends!
We’re also cooking up a sweet holiday treat just for you! Starting now through January 2, you can buy the all-new Gingerbread Legendary Bastion skin for a single Overwatch Coin.
Even if you are brand new to Overwatch 2 and don’t have any Overwatch Coins yet, we have you covered. Completing weekly challenges in the game will award Overwatch Coins for free, and thanks to our friends at Microsoft, you can now ...
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In the first part of our two-part deep dive on matchmaking and competitive we’ll look at how matchmaking works under the hood and answer some outstanding questions around how MMR is determined and factored into the system.
Ultimately, the goal of matchmaker is to create as fair matches as possible across all game modes. We know matchmaking can be a source of frustration, especially in competitive, and we’d like to recognize it doesn’t always feel like it’s meeting its goal.
In order to address your thoughts, we need to dissect the matchmaker and competitive systems separately before going into how they affect one another. In part 1, we talk about how the matchmaker works, some of the challenges we’ve faced, and some of the ways we’ve started to tackle those issues.
Our matchmaker is designed to create balanced matches. To do that, we need some approximation of each player’s skill...
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