Dota 2 continues to adjust MMR and allows to block toxic player chat

It seems that the Dota 2 matchmaking change in September has some issues. Valve stated in the blog post that “some players, especially at high ranks, felt the quality of matchmaking has decreased after the recent adjustment”, and the Dota 2 matchmaking system continues to change in the new update. best.

This update also tweaks the post-match review screen, and adds a post-match survey to allow Valve to “gather more feedback from players on the quality of the game to find commonalities that make the game interesting.” compared to games that make players unhappy.” Several methods of reporting non-rated players have also been removed “to improve signal-to-noise ratio”, and Valve will also take on toxic players by blocking voice and chat from anyone with behavior score below 3000.

The previous update blocked a series of “extremely” toxic and negative players, but it only affected a small portion of players. “We also want the system to gradually improve to catch people who are not extremely negative but still have a big impact, individual players who are outside the general player community,” Valve explained.

“We believe this gradual support mechanism will be more effective at protecting a larger pool of players from isolated players and as a warning system for those going in the wrong direction, encouraging them to ‘spin’ The head is the shore’. We’ve set the threshold at 3000 because it’s usually only players who constantly have a bad influence on their teammates to drop to that low.”

Valve warned that matchmaking could be “slightly unstable” for the next few days following this update. Even so, players should continue to provide feedback on changes once things are stable. “Our focus over the next few weeks will be to monitor and measure the results from this update and take what we learn. Another big area that we will be focusing on soon is changing the new player experience in a future update,” the blog wrote.

“In addition, we are also focusing on detecting smurfs. It will indirectly help us in the future in placing new players in the right matches as they complete the first new player experience. We hope that after improving matchmaking, this will be an ideal time for new players to join, as well as existing players to invite their friends to try the game…”