Overwatch 2 to introduce competitive matchmaking improvements in Season 3
Blizzard recently released a blog post regarding the long-term issue of competitive matchmaking in Overwatch 2. Fans will be happy to learn that the post covers the vast majority of issues that developers will fix in Season 3 of the Hero-shooter.
The blog post explores the direction of the development team on competitive matchmaking and other aspects of rank. While a previous entry also acknowledged the community's complaints, the most recent article confirmed all the fixes coming to the title.
The post starts with developers addressing complaints made by fans regarding skill variations in matchmaking. The developers later discussed the current features of players being able to queue together despite differences in MMR, and it being a major source of skill disparity in competitive matches.
Not only does it increase the chances of facing opponents who have a huge skill gap, but also ruins the competitive experience by a variety of factors such as adapting to high-level strategies.
Considering all the Overwatch 2 community feedback, Blizzard talked about implementing an update that will try to place "pairs" of players who share a similar MMR in each role for both teams.
For example, if someone picks a Tank hero, the opposing team will also get a player who is playing the exact same role and shares a similar MMR rating. This will improve the skill-based matchmaking balance for everyone.
Blizzard mentioned:
This change will mainly focus towards the matchmaker and the post also mentioned that developers will actively monitor the changes for side effects.
Another major issue Season 3 will be fixing is the rank update. The blog mentioned that the developers have received feedback regarding players having to play 26 matches to get an
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