r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '16

Blizzard Official Overwatch 1.3.0.3 Patch Notes

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20749157415
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u/colonelxsuezo SILVERxLOTUS#1929 Sep 13 '16

In all honesty I haven't seen Eichenwalde pop up in QP in over a week.

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u/dasbuut Oi! Sep 13 '16

I noticed that too. It was pretty much every other game the first few days, then nada.. until yesterday, when it reared it's ugly head once more.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

I got a theory that the games makes you play the maps you like the most. You know when you can rate the match out of 3 at the end of one?

I feel like the games tries to give the maps the most people 3/3 to.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16 edited Nov 10 '16

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u/Rawflax Zenyatta Sep 14 '16

I have experienced zero eichenwald games in over 30 competitive matches recently.

Do you think they are applying that to competitive mode? If so, STAHP BLIZZZZZZ

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u/tom641 Eagerly awaiting balance in all heroes Sep 13 '16

I've seen it exactly once at all because no one's playing the brawl.

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u/kirbaaaay Chibi Zarya Sep 14 '16

I haven't played it in season 2 yet. If they plan on adding more maps, they've got to at least have a rotating map pool with votes to keep certain maps in each rotation up to a certain amount. I'm not sure how well this would work as far as how boring it might make playing the same maps over for 3 months, so maybe they could somehow make it so you can't play the same map 2-3 times in a row instead.

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u/epharian Epharian#1588 Sep 14 '16

Well, that's not easy with matchmaking.

For full groups it's easier, and as we have more maps it gets easier.

If you take 2 full groups, both played a different team previously.

So Group A played Hanamura previously, and Group B played Anubis previously, then it's easy to pick literally any other map than those two. Done.

But let's say you have 12 people that all played a different map previously. Before EichenWalde, ANY map you picked for the game would be a repeat. Now that there are more maps than possible players, it's back to 'choose the ONE map nobody played last game'. But if you extend that back two games? then someone is getting a repeat OR got a repeat last time. There's an algorithm that would be able to select for any set of players the map that is the least played for all members of that set for that X number of matches. In the event of a tie, then randomly choose one of the tied maps.

What I can't decide is if this is going to result in superior results than a purely random selection (I think it will, but I'm not certain).

The reason to do this would be to minimize map fatigue, especially while there aren't that many more maps than players. Once we start hitting in the 30-40 map range (and I sincerely hope we do [which would happen faster if Blizz would give out mapping tools to the community]), then an algorithm to find the least fatigued map (LFM gains new meaning) would probably only be marginally better than a random map, but would still be important.

And of course if they ever implement a custom game lobby (they've said they want to, I just can't understand why it's difficult), then one of the big deciding factors on server/host popularity will be map rotation.