- Steam App
- Nosgoth (200110)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 12 February 2015 - 13:16:02 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Below are the patch notes for our February 12th patch. Matchmaking Improvements to matchmaking are ongoing. In this update, we have made a few specific changes that we will be monitoring closely: - The MMR algorithm has been rewritten with the intent of better, and more rapid, skill ranking. The old version was too conservative and had clustered many players in a tight range of MMR values. - We have switched the matchmaking server to a system that only creates lobbies when it has 8 players ready to start a match. This allows for better matchmaking - the more players in the "pool", the more potential for creating balanced matches. The downside is you will sit at the matchmaking screen longer, rather than seeing the lobby fill up one by one. We've added more messaging as a first step to addressing this - the server will now communicate the average time to find a match so you know what to e...