New SR system/ logic?

Leotail72-11552 · June 30, 2020, 9:10pm

Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – June 30, 2020

Adjustments to Seasonal Placements for High SR Players

Beginning with Season 23, the maximum Skill Rating (SR) earned after a player completes each season’s placements has been capped at 3900 SR. Players are still matched with other players of similar skill, as we want to keep matches as fair and fun as possible. As each player participates in more games during the current season, their SR will slowly rise to reach a value that fully reflects their current skill.

This change is intended to address many of the issues that SR Decay tried to fix, but in a more positive manner that rewards staying active and playing more games instead of penalizing players for not playing enough. Achieving a very high SR at the end of a season can no longer be achieved by completing a mere five placement matches. This does mean you may see larger SR differences between all the players in a very high SR match than in previous seasons, as two similar and highly skilled players might have different SRs based on how many games they’ve played during the season.

This is pretty interesting, to say the least.

Hektik-11714 · June 30, 2020, 9:15pm

My guess that it’s to deal with all the alt accounts that people complain about taking up ranking spots?

Leotail72-11552 · June 30, 2020, 9:17pm

Imagine they did this for Masters too, just dropping all of them to 3400.

Hektik-11714 · June 30, 2020, 9:19pm

I’m just guessing but I figure GM/^500 was more of a focus since there’s quite a few content creators out there just making alt accounts doing unranked to GM on several accounts

Leotail72-11552 · June 30, 2020, 9:20pm

Better to just play on the one account, ya know?

Hektik-11714 · June 30, 2020, 9:22pm

I reckon that’s the point of the change

rhainsict-1418 · June 30, 2020, 10:13pm

It also deletes the market for selling boosted GM accounts.

Leotail72-11552 · June 30, 2020, 10:13pm

completely obliterated
gone, reduced to atoms

Hektik-11714 · June 30, 2020, 10:16pm

Was there legit a market for that? I know sounds stupid to ask. Just seems like a huge waste of money to buy a GM account that as soon as you put any time into you’re gonna sink to your actually level.

rhainsict-1418 · June 30, 2020, 10:58pm

Haha… Yeah… There’s a whole boosting market for buying accounts or having your account boosted to a desired rank.

It’s “one of” the top complaints amongst our 1% community. Basically boosted/de-ranked (smurf) players destroy competitive integrity at their level.

UNLIKE the lower ranks trash who are so desperate for SR they’ll literally climb on top of each other for the W, the higher rank players usually agree to draw/block/avoid/report people who destroy the competitive environment.