Greetings Champions! Here's what happening in the Realm this week:
Modes Oh My
Now that you all have gotten a chance to play all 3 LTMs for this patch, we'll be keeping an eye on feedback and favorites as we spend some weekends with old classics.
We started a poll to see which one has left the largest immediate impression, and at time of writing Classic Maps is proving loved!
We've got a few more LTMs to share later in the year but until then, enjoy these new additions and prepare for some evolutions down the road.
About Those Servers
Discourse around servers has always been a mainstay in Paladins, but we felt it was time to address some of the recent concerns and confusion around them.
First, we want to apologize for some minor disruptions players experienced over the weekend. We had a reoccurring issue where players were unable to queue due to outages of the process that aids match creation. Traditionally, we tend to stay quiet & fix these issues quickly with little said, but we wanted to share in the spirit of transparency. The core of the problem is being investigated, but we don't expect too many future instances of this specific issue.
Another topic we've seen a lot of discourse about is servers for the SEA region. As some have felt, the SEA region has been merged into Japan, meaning they share servers. We do not make these choices lightly, but after watching the population & matchmaking time for both regions, we feel this is the best way to keep a healthy queue time for SEA players. In a future update, we'll be removing the SEA option from our UI for clarity on which regions our servers are located in.
This is an area where there is a lot of assumptions around how our game functions & what makes certain issues arise, so moving forward we will try to share information as we can in hopes that players can better understand it and be considerate when we have to make fixes.
Fan-tastic Art
Here's a few of our favorite pieces from the past week:
Weekend LTM: Cards to the Max (Siege)
This weekend, the king returns for its throne with a fun twist! Play with a loadout of cards all at level 7 in Siege, allowing for some truly insane cart pushes. Thank Remixed for this inspiration of this variant of a classic!
That's all for now, hope to catch some of you in Siege to the Max this weekend!
- EvilMojoKryptek