Along with some further tuning to matchmaking, we’ve made the following changes:

Starfighters & Components

• Increased Y-wing Rotary Cannon damage by 13% (from 34 to 38.5 per shot)
• Increased Y-wing Auto Rotary Cannon damage by 13% (From 17 to 19.25 per shot)
• Reduced Movement Penalty on Y-wing and TIE bomber Rotary Cannons from -60% to -50%.
• Reduced Rotary Cannon Wind-up from 1.7s to 1.4s
• Reduced Burst Cannon Damage by 10% across the board
• Reduced Rocket damage from 100 to 60, so total payload is now 2400 instead of 4000.
• Reduced damage reductions for the A-wings Overload Shield (by 40% each) to 15% for primary weapons and 30% auxiliary reduction
• Increased hull health on Flagships and Capital Ships by 11%
• Increased TIE bomber health by 10%

Known Issues

• Changes are not updating in Fleet Battles Solo vs AI (including Custom Matches)...

Two quick questions:

1. Have you seen that error message since or just that once?

2. Have you had any connection issues in the past?

Beautiful!

As Jo said: Thanks folks! This sort of thread really means a lot to the team. :)

Thanks for the info, and sorry to hear that! We’ll get it sorted out ASAP.

What would you* say your average matchmaking wait time was before? And if you play Fleet Battles, what is your current rank? It would help with diagnosing the best way to adjust the formula.

• “You” = Anyone reading this who’s at a high skill level and is struggling to matchmake this weekend but previously didn’t have trouble.

Thank you for your feedback. We made several changes to MM yesterday to improve match quality (i.e. fewer one-sided blowouts). The tradeoff is somewhat increased matchmaking times. The goal is certainly not to make it impossible for people on the outside of the bell curve to find matches, however.

We’re observing telemetry (and player feedback like yours) over this weekend to see where the pain points are, and then will make further adjustments to address it.

I absolutely shall!

I put a link to this post in the Squadrons team Slack channel :) Thank you all so much.

Eh, I'm just being a pain in everyone's ass as always. The credit for this feature goes to Lead Gameplay Programmer Pat Lalonde! :)

Shoutout to /u/tibermoon for personally taking this on. He was determined to do right on this.

Try restarting your game/console.

We're testing out some new matchmaking and will push some further changes server-side until we feel they're right, but we think a bulk of our players should be having a much more evenly matched experience, though perhaps with a slightly longer matchmaking time on occasion.

Also, quick thing: If you're not seeing cosmetics or loadouts for the new starfighters, wait about 13min!

Restart to see things if you haven't yet!

The following bug fixes, changes, and additions come in Update 4.0. Bolded are some highlights we think the community will be most interested in. For full details on the new content added, check out the Pilot Briefing on our Holiday Supply Drops.

B-wing vs TIE defender

General

• Added...

We're looking into this, actually. Could be skewing at higher levels.

Statistically, they're just about even to my knowledge. It's close to 50:50 for winrate.

We actually have, but it requires players to play enough matches that it can recalculate their skill levels. This should resolve itself over time.

(Also, level isn't an indicator of skill, just playtime, to be fair.)

Edit: Thanks for the reports! We're looking into this, particularly at higher skill levels.

We're aware the in-game QR code for our Star Wars: Squadrons Twitch Prime promotion is taking you to a 404 page right now. The page should be live by ~12pm ET/9am PT. Sorry for the confusion!

Whoops! Went live just a bit early. Should be live at 12PM ET/9AM PT.