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Greetings Champions! In this Developer Insights blog, we're going to be sharing some larger changes coming to various game modes in the Street Style: World Tour update! Oh yeah, if you missed our announcement, Street Style returns with all new skins for Tyra & Seris, adding a few more popular Champions to the Realm's fashion pop group. We also are sharing PTS Notes tomorrow, including a lot of changes to the previously revealed Talents of last Insights blog. All that aside, let's hop into the content of this blog!
What changed
- Store
- Gameplay
- Maps
- Events
Arcade 2.0
Over the past year, we’ve had a difficult time balancing offering all the game modes we’ve wanted to while preserving quick queue times and pushing for improved matchmaking, usually solved by rotating modes in and out of the Core rotation to accommodate all players. In an ideal Realm, we’d be able to offer all of our Core modes in their own queues and allow players to Multi-Queue into whichever they want to most. However, Multi-Queue has a lot of flaws that make this increasingly hard as time has gone on. All non-Siege modes struggle to ever appear if in a Multi-Queue with the mode, leading to most uses of the Mutli-Queue system being “anything but Siege”. This still however leads to issues with splitting players into multiple matchmaking buckets (as each queue still uses its own when in Multi-Queue) and Onslaught often still overpowering the other modes. After running several data tests, we feel the best path forward is making Arcade a permanent queue.
How will it work?
Arcade will feature all of the non-Siege modes that have ever been in our Core Rotation. This includes Onslaught, Team Deathmatch, Payload, King of the Hill, and Survival. We’ve curated the starting Map Pool in order to try and provide the best experiences in each of these modes as well as make it easy for players to not get confused by which mode they are playing on a map. Here’s the starting lineup:
Onslaught - 30% Odds
Foreman’s Rise
Magistrate’s Archives
Team Deathmatch - 25% Odds
Abyss
Dragon Arena
Payload - 20% Odds
Hidden Temple
Frostbite Cavern
King of the Hill - 15% Odds
Marauder’s Port
Trade District
Survival - 10% Odds
Primal Court
Snowfall Junction
While we’re testing Arcade with a larger audience, the Onslaught queue will remain available as well! Team Deathmatch will be on hiatus as we want to have the largest number of people possible test out Arcade. Your feedback will help us shape this queue in the future and we want to ensure any changes to the queue brings the benefits players want in matchmaking and queue speed.
What about Quests and rewards?
Starting in this update, Arcade will be compatible with all quests and rewards normally associated with a casual queue! This includes Daily Queue Bonus, Trials of the Realm, and any other places we call out certain game modes other than Siege!
Will modes within Arcade still see improvements?
Yes, our goal with Arcade is to better support and improve all the modes within based on the fact that they will be permanently available, starting with changes to Survival and Payload this update. Speaking of updates to modes...
Siege
Map Pool Additions
Stone Keep (Day)
Map Pool Adjustments
Stone Keep (Classic) odds are normalized now.
Onslaught & Arcade
When looking for a match, these queues will now prioritize matching parties of 3 or less with each other. Parties of
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