The most notable is matchmaking: instead of scrolling through rooms and hoping you find people to play with, Monster Hunter: World lets you enter
a matchmaking queue and wait to be paired up with fellow hunters.
The patch also added the some user interface improvements and the first phase of a new leaver penalty system that will lock players out of
the matchmaking queue for three minutes if they abandon a game early.
Unfortunately, this configuration hadn't been widely tested under load, and caused all ending matches to never reset properly, leading to a starvation of the game servers, and thousands of players stuck in
matchmaking queue for about 30 minutes (starting at A on the chart).
FPP Solo
matchmaking queue will be made available for NA / EU / and Oceanic servers.
-- Fixed a bug that caused you to secretly not be in
the matchmaking queue when it looked like you were, then if you cancelled search, the game would crash.
Normally that isn't a problem, but I sat in the game's
matchmaking queue for 20 minutes (switching regions throughout) and did not find another player.
There are no checkpoints or additional attempts, you need to jump back in
the matchmaking queue and try again.
A new multiplayer mode named Archon has also been added in which two players team up to control a single base, and a new
matchmaking queue means you can also play this mode competitively online.
However, the one feature we are most excited about is the brand new Role - Based
Matchmaking Queue.
It's free and getting rid of the old map pack system means that the playerbases for these games are no longer splintered between different
matchmaking queues.
Once the Avoid as Teammate feature is rolled out, players may find themselves in longer
matchmaking queues as the system takes into account the teammates that should be avoided.
Not exact matches
Here are the cliff notes Two major changes are coming to Ranked
matchmaking Strict Solo
Queue and Linked Phone Numbers.
A little fiddling in the profile settings or
matchmaking engine and voila, attractive strangers are
queuing up to meet you!
What BioWare really needs to work on is
matchmaking cross server and more balanced Solo
queue matches.
Valve has become wise to an exploitative escape from the Dota 2 Low - Priority
Queue and is bringing down multi-year
matchmaking bans.
I had hoped that between that and the introduction of More Control ™ that the
matchmaking would benefit without prolonging
queue times to unreasonable levels, but if anything has been implemented, it is tough to tell.
Bots during
matchmaking to fill waits Instead of putting players in a
queue where nothing happens, put them directly into a match with bots as the opponents.
One thing we are doing with Battalion is having team - based
matchmaking where you get to create your own team before you join a
queue.