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Uber_Panzerhund's avatar
Uber_Panzerhund
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago

Maps missing from Breakthrough playlist as of 3.2.0?

With players from East and West US regions, I get online almost nightly with a squad to play regular Breakthrough (I mention this because it may affect our matchmaking pool?), but as of 3.2.0 we've noticed only the same 5 maps are on offer: Exposure, Kaleidoscope, Stranded, Breakaway, and Spearhead.

Hourglass, Manifest, Discarded, and Renewal are MIA or at least extremely rare to the point were we haven't loaded into a Breakthrough round on these maps since the update shipped. Is this intentional? Were they quietly excluded from rotation due to a major issue? Is time of day or party size a factor?

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  • EA_Leeuw's avatar
    EA_Leeuw
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Hey @Uber_Panzerhund,

    That is a very good question. We're not aware of a specific change to the matchmaking pool in terms of Maps or anything like that, so as long as you're in the matchmaking process, aka don't quit matchmaking after you're done with the previous one, eventually, they should appear. It's on a rotation.

    You're not quitting the matchmaking process after finishing a round I assume?

  • Psubond's avatar
    Psubond
    Legend
    3 years ago

    @EA_Leeuw wrote:

    Hey @Uber_Panzerhund,

    That is a very good question. We're not aware of a specific change to the matchmaking pool in terms of Maps or anything like that, so as long as you're in the matchmaking process, aka don't quit matchmaking after you're done with the previous one, eventually, they should appear. It's on a rotation.

    You're not quitting the matchmaking process after finishing a round I assume?


    that's definitely not how MM has worked since launch.  without canceling out of anything the game regulary puts you in the same maps over and over.  it might not be designed that way but that's how it's working

  • I haven't seen hourglass, renewal or discarded in days on breakthrough

    I see a lot of Breakaway, sprearhead and Kaleidoscope though...

  • NazT55's avatar
    NazT55
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    On a rotation.  That is the funniest thing I  have read all day.  Do they even play their own game?

  • Uber_Panzerhund's avatar
    Uber_Panzerhund
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 years ago

    @EA_Leeuw

    Typically after a game of Breakthrough finishes we will have the party leader quit as soon as possible and queue right away, skipping the 30-second timer in the menu. If it's a map we don't want to play, we keep cancelling until we get one. Lately, as I said, we've only been getting those 5 maps.

    Went ahead and did some short testing today. After playing 4 full consecutive matches, I got rounds of Kaleidoscope (attack), Exposure (defense), Breakaway (atk) and, Kaleidoscope again (def), without hitting "continue" or "return to menu," and allowed the game to auto-queue into a new game once it loaded into the menu. If any of the "missing" maps are supposed to appear, I can't seem to find them. Of course, it was only 4 matches before I had to get up and do something else and end my streak, maybe that's not enough?

  • EA_Leeuw's avatar
    EA_Leeuw
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago
    @Uber_Panzerhund, hmm, thanks for testing though. Not exactly sure what could be causing this, but I will make sure to pass the feedback on to the teams.

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