{"id":107457,"date":"2020-01-16T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/57689\/"},"modified":"2020-01-16T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:10:00","slug":"dota-2-update-january-16th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/dota-2-update-january-16th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 Update &#8211; January 16th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steamstore-a.akamaihd.net\/public\/shared\/images\/responsive\/share_steam_logo.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p> &#8211; We\u2019ve removed variability in the amount of MMR you gain or lose from a match. This means that there will no longer be matches that give results like +10\/-40.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Instead of matches giving 25 MMR, solo games will now give 30 MMR and party games will now give 20 MMR. We have more confidence in the impact of a player on the game when they are solo compared to in a party, and thus we are willing to move a player\u2019s MMR faster\/slower depending on that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We have removed the Fast\/Slow queue and replaced it with Ranked Roles and Ranked Classic. To play in Ranked Roles you need to earn Role Queue games by playing matches while selecting all roles&#8211;this is unchanged from before. Ranked Classic has replaced the Slow Queue, and it does not let you select roles. We are making this change because the slow\/fast queue concept has not been successful in producing good quality games. The end result was slow queue waiting a little bit longer, and then forcing very bad quality matches on the entire player pool. We think it\u2019s a fair requirement to enforce that if you want to have the advantage of playing a specific role, you have to contribute to the matchmaking system by sometimes playing other roles, or just queue role-less as in previous years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; We\u2019ve removed variability in the amount of MMR you gain or lose from a match. This means that there will no longer be matches that give results like +10\/-40. &#8211; Instead of matches giving 25 MMR, solo games will now give 30 MMR and party games will now give 20 MMR. We have more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-steam-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}