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.
Matchmaking and UI update in Overwatch 2 Season 3
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 update. This is mainly discouraging for gamers who are trying to grind out competitive playlists, making the progress tiresome as well.
Season 3 will be a new ray of hope for matchmaking. As one will get a competitive update with every five wins and 15 losses. This will make playing competitively a lot less hectic and more fun.
Lastly, Blizzard will also deploy a mid-season patch for Overwatch 2 Season 3 that will introduce a UI upgrade. With many players complaining about the layout, a new UI will surely make things better. It will improve aspects such as observing competitive progress and it being always viewable.
Blizzard will also make changes to the Top 500 leaderboard rankings. As those players will have their ranks updated in every match instead of competitive updates.
How To Unlock Overwatch 2’s Competitive Mode
Everyone who unlocked Competitive in Overwatch will already have access to it in Overwatch 2 on launch day. New players will need to go through the First-Time User Experience. Which will help them get to grips with the game. They’ll have access to a limited number of heroes at first. Then gradually unlock the rest of the original 32 Overwatch heroes as they play games. Kiriko will not be available in the ranked mode for anyone in the first two weeks.
‘Overwatch 2’ Skill Tiers
Numerical Skill Ratings will no longer exist in Overwatch 2. Blizzard made that call ” to relieve the sense of being stuck at a certain rank. Seeing your SR go up and down after each match almost felt like taking a test with the teacher passing. The failing you based on each question rather than your complete work. It was a lot of pressure. So, it doesn’t give players an accurate representation of how they’re performing overall in Competitive.”
While the tiers from Overwatch (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master and Grand Master) will stick around. They now each have five tiers. Five is the lowest and one is the highest. So, Grand Master 1 is the tippy top.
Each division is equivalent to around 100 SR. But instead of losing or gaining SR after every game, you’ll get a Competitive update after every seven wins or 20 losses. This will display your progress and move you to another division. The idea is to show your progress over time, rather than putting too much focus on every individual game.
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