they are moving in the right direction. this is good.

Valve is really making good on their promise of significantly improved communication. Hope this is a trend and not a one-off.

TLDR: still nothing for how the hell they're going to deal with the greatly increased power of GTX 1070s, 1080s, and in the not too distant future, RX 490s.

This post doesn't really make sense man

is there anyone buying a 1070 who's going to have a rig that doesn't pull 200fps? i feel like that's a massive non issue compared to just about anything else

The top post on "that other place with those weird aliens" is literally all about the fact that Valve needs to step their stuff up when it comes to actually taking advantage of people with high-performance systems.

But TF2's major bottleneck has always been the CPU. You can't just move that shit onto the GPU in most cases.

I assume you're talking about, like, more particle effects, higher quality textures, etc. Which I guess would be nice but I think that there are higher priorities.

I like this, this is good. +1 valve

So still nothing about matchmaking purgatory. cool

All I want is the option to only play with less than 70 ping

the mm system NEEDS 10 placement matches and a revamped rank system like dota/cs. people who play right now and hold a 50% winrate (common for mm systems like valve's) will always be fresh meat and play with players who might not be at their skill level.

i'm happy they're addressing a lot of the problems mm has but this is easily the biggest imo.

hello ban the fucking #1 hacker pls?

i dont understand why people point to a 50% winrate being bad, isnt a 50% winrate player someone who is honestly ranked?

I think problem is they're at the lowest rank with people with people who have lower winrates.

Make it so if the game is already 1-0 or 1-1, the abandon won't end the game (keeping making the game safe to leave if someone leaves in the first round).

I'd rather wait 10 minutes to start a match with ping below 100ms than wait 10 seconds to play with 260ms.

Good job valve you actually followed up!

now there are still some problems, however:

-the system is basically whoever plays more gets a higher rank, or whoever six-stacks. When everyone starts at rank 1, if you're a very middle of the road player, you're going to lose/win half of your games, depending on the skill of the player who is ranked 1 instead of higher because of a lack of placement matches, and are going to stay there yourself.

-there's a memory leak (i think? some error to do with dx9 shaders repeating over and over) in matchmaking which basically makes it unplayable for some people after a game's worth of play, or if it's a long game, you're fucked with 30-40 FPS by the end of it

-viewmodel fov: please cap it at at least 70, minmode viewmodels look alright with 70, but at 54 even min viewmodels look like you're holding it right in front of your face.

-you shouldnt have to be booted to the main menu after every casual game. casual is great, don't get me wrong, but it could be so easily improved by giving the option to keep playing. Or just do the CS:GO system of vote for the next map, which, to be honest, would be great.

-not related to the core aspects of the game, but since this game just got it's competitive update, i'd love for valve to actually point players toward actual competitive in some way shape or form-- in game. One way is to fix the stream UI to always be open-- that led a lot of players in, and boosted view counts. Now that's toggled off and as far as i can tell nobody clicks the button to turn it on, and since it was toggled off, viewer counts have dropped. If the problem is showing the community trashy streams, then maybe make a box that appears when there are competitive game(s) going on. That notification that the ESEA grand finals were happening was great, and I'd like to see more of those.

Hope they use csgo's system where frequent abandoners end up with week long bans.

This is kinda refreshing

Ok, thanks. I guess the obvious solution is placement matches?

the system ideally would promote you if you had a 50% winrate at the lowest rank, and would keep promoting you at 50% until you reach the rank at which valve would like the largest bulk of players to exist.

http://i.imgur.com/GOb3bJa.png

With the current distribution model, any player that isnt in the top 50% of players stays at rank 1 eternally. This is pretty terrible for obvious reasons, the largest of which being that balance essentially doesnt exist and players are progressively more sparse as you rank up.

In an ideal distribution model, the bulk of the players exist in a middle rank, which gives brand new or completely clueless players more balanced matches AND gives the top level and most experienced players a larger pool of players to choose from. This ranking system would also just make more sense logistically in the terms of a ranking system. if you take a look at CS ranked player distribution, it forms a bell curve similar to what my graph looks like

Do you guys remember posts like these?

I appreciate them making these kind of posts now with the MyM issues, but sadly I believe that they wont happen anymore after the major issues are gone.

We are monitoring the game around the clock.

B U L L S H I T

Isn't that already happening? I coulda swore Yttrium said something about almost getting a weeklong ban.

In Hearthstone you don't lose 'elo' in the first few ranks. This allows players that just play the game long enough to crawl up from rank 25 to 20 and then stay there if they never do well again. Playing with bad players with 50+ games under their belt is generally better than playing with completely brand new players.

I don't know if this will work well in TF2 but not losing 'elo' until you're rank 4 may be a good alternative to placement matches. Of course this would mean introducing seasons where you de-rank 3 levels every season.

Bad news everyone: New GPUs mean worse performance for everyone.
If you don't deal with the TFLOPs they will leak out and steal your fps.

It's nice to see a blog post update, and I sincerely hope this becomes a regular trend. They cannot be silent for any longer if they want MM to actually succeed.

All welcome changes, sure, I just don't understand why these obvious problems weren't adressed in the beta.

There's still no feel of a reward, playing the competitive matchmaking/casual. I think if they added a Overwatch's Loot Box similar system in Tf2, it would bring more players to matchmaking, Just award players with loot boxes that contain random hats/skins after each level in casual/competitive and then people will start playing.

Just saying that it's not all about how MM functions, but it's also about what can you get from playing it and how can it be more popular.