You know, despite today marking a day where matchmaking is going to get really bad in Comp, and probably stay bad for the next month. At least this is good communication that it’s a top priority issue that will get fixed. Very good effort for community relations.
That said it’s Interesting how they didn’t cover how a lack of Support players is causing Matchmaker issues. Or very indirectly.
For example, we might match a highly rated tank against a comparably lower rated tank, so even if the overall match is balanced, the competition between tanks feels very one-sided.
We’ve got changes coming to the game over the next few months which will dramatically reduce these disparities. We’ll try to find pairs of similarly rated players in each role when making a match. For support and damage roles, which have two slots, each player will be paired with one player on the opposite team. There will still sometimes be matches with a large range of differently skilled players, but in these cases, the two teams will be more like mirror images of each other.