WoT RU: Matchmaker Improvements

A finely tuned matchmaker is a smart system at the heart of exciting battles. We are improving it to ensure more accurate team compositions, making battles more dynamic, fair, and diverse.

Matchmaking Based on New Rules

Update 1.38 will introduce several important changes to the matchmaker.

±1 Tier Distribution

Almost all battles will now be single-tier or follow the ±1 tier rule. Only up to 5% of matches will use the ±2 tier rule.

Balance by Roles and Classes

Currently, the matchmaker allows differences in team roles after 3–8 seconds to speed up queue time, but this sometimes leads to unbalanced teams. With the improvements in Update 1.38, the matchmaker will build mirror-role teams. This may slightly increase queue time to up to 30 seconds, but battles will become noticeably fairer.

Class and Role Limits

Each team will now follow stricter vehicle limits:

• No more than 2 light tanks (for Tier VII–XI battles)

• No more than 2 SPGs

• No more than 5 tank destroyers (with no more than 4 sniper/support TDs among them)

Updated Team Composition Templates

Team composition templates will be improved. Priority templates will include:

• 4/5/6

• 3/5/7

• 7/8

• 6/9

For example, in a 15-player team, 3 vehicles will be top-tier, 5 will be mid-tier, and 7 will be bottom-tier.

Additional Improvements

• The chance of being placed at the bottom of the team list several battles in a row will be reduced.

• The matchmaker will try to place a player higher on the team list if they are playing a newly purchased vehicle for the first time.

Vehicles with Preferential Matchmaking

Previously, the main advantage of vehicles with preferential matchmaking was that they never faced opponents two tiers higher. They would only see vehicles one tier higher or two tiers lower.

With Update 1.38, the conditions become even more favorable: preferential matchmaking vehicles will only face vehicles of the same tier or lower!