Guild Wars 2

Sins.4782:

Can you guys write a script to change matchmaking variables at set intervals based on number of players queuing or something?

It isn’t just a matter of how many players are queuing, it’s how many are queuing within your skill range.

Essence Snow.3194:

Ahh …I’m on NA…..45mins now…and afraid it might pop any second and don’t want to restart whole process again

This is exactly what I was afraid of when I put min potentials up higher. Sorry :\

It needs to be made more flexible, or it will just keep outliers out of the game during off-peak hours.

Also interesting… Legancy of the Foefire, Forest of Niflhel, and Battle of Kyhlo have the lowest SD between teams.

Just looking over the data for the last day. With the exception of Courtyard, which seems to get a lot of blowouts, increasing min potentials seems to have a caused decrease in end-game scores between teams. I think that’s a pretty safe metric to gauge the competitiveness of a match, does anyone have any thoughts on that?

I upped it by another 25, but I don’t feel it’s safe to go any further until we get something in to automatically drop it back down during off-peak hours.

Silentshoes.1805:

It starts pretending that some people with a low skill actually have a higher skill than they do. It is called the “padding” variable. It pretends that a weak team is actually not weak, and then matches it with a waiting team of veterans.

Close, but it’s more likely to happen the other way around. We match players by the lower bound of their rating (i.e. rating – deviation), so it’s more often that it starts pretending veterans are weak.

This only kicks in if someone has been waiting in the queue for 4 minutes.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

I would like to know if the unrevealed world map resembles the actual map of Tyria.
In the unrevealed version of Dry Top we could see a ring we can’t see in Dry Top by any means. The unrevealed map of the Silverwastes indicates a huge lake we can’t see in the final map. Do the revealed and unrevealed map still fit together or is the unrevealed map outdated?

The unrevealed (over) map can turn out to be outdated in places, because we reserve the right to make changes as we build new maps, for design/story/art reasons, and the artist who created that overmap art didn’t have that information to reference at the time (I used to be an environment artist at our studio).

Xista.7391:

0 improvements so far for me in unranked queue.

I only updated ranked. Unranked now has the same settings.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Lopez.7369:

The point is you would probably be waiting forever on some nights since the game’s population is so tiny. You might be okay with that, but a lot of people aren’t.

Yeh you would literally wait from about midnight till 2 pm. 14 hours queue time anyone? :P

EU has a much strong drop off in off-peak hours. It’s like they all go to bed at the same time or something.

Amazing matches. Congratulations Team Abjured!

Also…. ’MURICA

Justin ODell.9517:

That would help, but I’m wary of the impact it would have on queue times.

OK, that change is in ranked arena, but if queue times start getting out of hand I’ll drop it back down.

Lordrosicky.5813:

I am looking at the matchmaking wiki. Perhaps it would be worth making the rating padding only kick in at 3 minutes or something instead of 30 seconds? And maybe it is worth increasing the minimum number of rosters that must be looked at from 20 to something like 50? Anyone else think this might help?

The padding could be the issue as its the high rated players experiences most of the problems.

That would help, but I’m wary of the impact it would have on queue times.

Booms.2594:

darek.1836

Interesting. The prediction that you would win each of those matches was 92-99%. I’ll keep looking to see if I can find out why you’re getting paired so far downward.

Booms.2594:

500-0s 3 times in a row just now. Not even close, we could 500-0 them in a 4v5… Please make a DRASTIC change to match making soon because this is horrible.

Are you playing on another account? I’m only seeing hot-joins on your account.

Lexiceta.4156:

Because not accepting is also dishonor it is a catch 22, either way you lose.

Dishonor is disabled right now. Also, the dishonor for not accepting is much lower than the dishonor for leaving a match.

Hi,

I’m sorry that this problem is still going on. My associate Mark got some information about this and posted this earlier:

An update on this. The team is actively working towards a solution for the lag issue many of you have experienced. They have already tried a few potential fixes that did not yield the expected results and are continuing to root out potential causes.
Suffice to say, they aren’t ignoring this problem.

This should be fixed, but there may be a few more people affected until the data is cleared.

Please let me know if you are still receiving the problem over the weekend.

We’ve created and deployed a new configuration option ‘Rating/@profession-ratio’. This new option controls the balance between your core rating and profession rating.

Since we were not previously tracking rating for professions, everyone’s profession rating started at the default level. This turned out to have more of an impact on matchmaking than we anticipated, hence this change.

Until everyone’s profession rating stabilizes, we’re going to set the ratio to ‘0’, meaning profession ratio isn’t being included at all.

We’ve also seeded unranked arena rating data with same data we used to seed ranked arena, so you should see improvements there as well.

Please let us know if you notice any improvement in your match quality.

Thanks

Fixed now /5teen

insanemaniac.2456:

sticky it

It’s a good suggestion. I’m checking with my team about the best way to use this.

Jeknar.6184:

Pavel.8531:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

An update on this. The team is actively working towards a solution for the lag issue many of you have experienced. They have already tried a few potential fixes that did not yield the expected results and are continuing to root out potential causes.

Suffice to say, they aren’t ignoring this problem.

Reading this, then checking the OP’s post date made me almost pass out from laughing.

This thread has been necro’ed recently tho… Two days ago I belive?

Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention to the original post. I noticed the recent posts and had seen an internal discussion recently about the lag situation and wanted to provide a bit of an update.

This will be fixed soon™. Trying as hard as we can to fix it before the weekend. For now you can solo queue.

Edgar Doiron.2804:

I started translating the billboard with reddit users.

Amazeballs!

Kitiara.2706:

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,

There was quite a lot of discussion around the proposal of removing white swords from objectives in WvW. We understand there are concerns about how this change might work in practice or how player behavior may change as a result of it. We felt like the best way to understand fully the impact, and give players a chance to see for themselves how it directly changes the WvW experience is to let people try it and see what they think.

We have decided to run a special multi-week event in WvW where we’ll be changing some of the “rules” of WvW for a limited time. This event will feature two major rule changes while it is running: we are planning to remove white swords from objectives, and add points per kill in WvW to the over-all score for the duration of this event. We are currently targeting December for this event but will keep you posted when we have dates nailed down for certain. If this type of event is successful, we may look to do more events like this in the future where for short periods of time the rules of WvW are changed to different rules, scoring and scenarios to help both keep the game fresh, as well as to change up the experience and try new fun things for WvW.

We look forward to your feedback once the event begins, both on the temporary event only changes, as well as the concept of these special events in WvW.

Thanks,
John

Any idea when this will happen? There are some of us really looking forward to trying this stuff out.

Thanks

The temporary rule changes will be implemented with the release on December 16 and will last until the first release of the new year.

Shinki.8045:

The etymology buff in me loves everything about what you just posted.

Here’s another: tera (Greek, monster) + griff (short for griffin) = “stabby cat”

Thanks, Tom. Very helpful info!

I’m going to see if we can highlight this in some way. We regret that the search engine is not functioning properly right now, and this work-around is very useful!

An update on this. The team is actively working towards a solution for the lag issue many of you have experienced. They have already tried a few potential fixes that did not yield the expected results and are continuing to root out potential causes.

Suffice to say, they aren’t ignoring this problem.

We are working on a fix for party queuing.

It’s so very sad to hear of this loss. Eris was well respected in the game, and I know he will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him or knew of his generous spirit.

The tribute was a truly lovely moment, and deeply moving. What a great testimonial to your love and respect for your guildmate and friend.

Thank you for sharing this with us. Sincere condolences to his friends and family.

No, we are talking about the same thing. I mentioned dotabuff which is exactly what he’s talking about.

Working on a fix.

Ah ha! So the team is aware of this issue and will be adding it to the bug list very soon.

I guess y’all know this, but it’s supposed to say:

• 2 Warrior Pieces of Warrior Gear for Warrior-y Warriors

Ok, fine, I jest. We’ll get that fixed and to all those who hit the ladybug in the game, extra thanks!!

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Dondarrion.2748:

…you what now? Scleritethin, I’ve missed out on this discussion of the DSD… is there a link to naming discussion and is this the name or what you hypothesize is the name?

Not critique, it was just the first time I saw it and now I’m curious!

Basically a joke name using the Sclerite weapons …

Not to derail this conversation, but here’s a peek behind the curtain: when I was coming up with a name for the creepy weapon set created for our ‘Secret of Southsun’ release, I was looking for a term that would evoke ancient sea creatures and also the disturbing eyes on these weapon skins and decided to reference the Greek root skleros, which means “hard, cruel, fierce.”

The word for the white portion of our eyes, sclera, comes from this root, as does the biological term sclerite, the hardened portion of an arthopod exoskeleton.

Sorry—continue speculating!

Yep, we had to do another migrate of stats to fix up profession stats getting blown away.

Whoops! Thanks for the report! (Did you happen to hit the Ladybug for bug report in the game? I am sure the team would want to see this. )

If you didn’t report in the game, do you happen to know what NPC showed this list? What map and NPC name? I think that might help the team replicate this bug. Thank you for any info you can share.

videoboy.4162:

BobbyStein.2315:

CETheLucid.3964:

I figured the voice was different because this is 20+ years ago prior to her going completely insane, before there was a Nightmare Court.

I didn’t mind it.

This is what we were going for. We used the same actress, Julianne Buescher, who also voiced Faolain in the core game Personal Story.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003925/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

That makes a lot of sense to me. However, my question is: Why does she seem to lack the accent that all the other Sylvari have?

Most, but not all, sylvari have the same accent. This was intentional and can be heard throughout the game. Occasionally, an actor’s performance may deviate and that might explain any inconsistencies in certain lines during a VO session.

That stated, I never perceived Faolain as having a British accent but more of a refined manner of speaking. Courtly, formal.

Is it only queuing as a team that doesn’t work?

I see people queued and playing in both data centers, which are you playing from?

We appreciate your understanding and support. We want to make the game the best it can be. Hearing constructive feedback (and being notified of potential errors or bugs) allows us to improve the game.

Servers were restarting, can you queue now?

The autobalance functionality should still be the same.

This is definitely something we’re interested in doing with the new system. I’m imagining something liked dotabuff where you can see each match, score, duration, profession makeup, builds, etc.

Congratulations to all who made the finals and the Abjured. Well played, teams!

Everyone started with fresh profession ratings, which is bringing everyone closer to default ratings when mixed with their previous team arena rating. We’re going to update the configs so that profession rating has less of an impact so the match quality should go up.

CETheLucid.3964:

I figured the voice was different because this is 20+ years ago prior to her going completely insane, before there was a Nightmare Court.

I didn’t mind it.

This is what we were going for. We used the same actress, Julianne Buescher, who also voiced Faolain in the core game Personal Story.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003925/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

I’d like to address the continuity issue in the Newly Awakened story instance of episode 7. In it, players have a conversation with Malomedies where he says, “We went so long without losing one of our own, but three of our newly awakened have been killed already. This is unacceptable.” He then goes on to say about Riannoc, “I worry about Riannoc. He’s going so far from home. What if he never returns?”

As some have helpfully pointed out, this is at odds with Caithe’s dialog in the Personal Story, where she mentions, “Riannoc was the first sylvari to meet death. We never knew what happened…” This is an error (a.k.a. text bug) that was introduced during the development of episode 7 and was not caught by anyone on the team or in our playtest groups. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. We’re going to fix the conversation text in episode 7 in an upcoming patch so that it is in line with the Personal Story.

On a related note, I should clarify this bit of dialog from the Personal Story, where Caithe says, “…We all felt it when he [Riannoc] died. It was like a part of the Dream was torn away—but we never knew why. Or how.” The sylvari did not feel Riannoc’s death as it happened, but reacted emotionally once they found out about it (such as when a loved one is lost). Caithe is speaking figuratively, not literally, here.

As always, thanks for playing and for sharing your feedback.

ameerpostalman.8975:

Looks like this doesnt work anymore?

TP was completely rewritten and all these endpoints are gone, yes.

Pat Cavit.9234:

You should really use the Official API though, we provide zero guarantees that we won’t break everything out from underneath you if you’re going against the TP directly.

Amazing games! Great job to all of our competitors and congratulations to Abjured for winning the whole thing. Game one of the finals was amazing!

I agree, Behellagh. I think the term is overused and used poorly.

To try to address some of the comments about “white knights,” we’re looking for people who know the game, participate in the forums, and engage well with others. These qualities means they won’t have a “speckled history” of a large number of forum infractions, suspensions, or what-have-you’s. We look for decent writing skills and a genuine interest in helping other players and our dev team with this project.

As to “white knights,” they can be white, brown, purple, or fuchsia polka dot. They can be male or female, any age above 18, and from any part of the country. A qualifier is not “Do they post only good stuff about the game?” but more “Do they express themselves clearly and fairly?”

I know we have a lot of forum members like that, and I hope they’ll consider helping out.

finkle.9513:

Im in the UK, I thought we where brothers

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Imagine how we Canadians feel.

Zaxares.5419:

Or us Australians. Not only do we always miss out on these promotions, but we also suffer from the “Australia tax” on video games.

I’m so sorry. Maybe we’ll be able to expand the program in the future!