The studio announced their plans to introduce a new matchmaking system to try and avoid highly-skilled players going up against a bunch of amateurs, earlier this week.
This has become an emerging issue in the game and Ubisoft hope that although matchmaking may take longer, it will improve the overall gaming experience.
The Rainbow Six Siege update will take the game offline on February 23 starting at 9 am GMT time but should only last for around 30 minutes; PC users will have to wait until 3:30 pm GMT.
In official message from the development team confirms:
“We will be tweaking the Ranked Matchmaking in order to improve the experience for you. To do so, we have changed the relaxation parameters for ‘Skill Rank’ so that you are matched with players closer to your rank.”
“The situation before this update: Relaxation is currently occurring too quickly, with big ‘Skill Rank’ relaxation increments, with no maximum differential between teams. This means that high skill teams could get matched up against much lesser skilled teams.
“New situation after this update: Relaxation will occur quicker, but with smaller increments and with a maximum differential cap between teams.
“This means that you could see an increase in matchmaking queue times, but the match up will be better balanced and of better quality.”
