GiantChiprel

Tech lead by day, partnered twitch steamer by night, all around dork!
Much love 💕
Top Brall player 8)

[🐉Lord_Zath @Lord_Zath]

My con begins now with @GiantChiprel

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

@noxiibun how was the game though?

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@noxiibun YA YA YA GRATS!

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@SkylarSkynyx Ahhh oh no I hope she heals up well :o

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Fishing prank in @playSUPERVIVE , thanks @Koalifier for showing me the hidden power :D

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

RT @safelocked: me when I ask - what's your sign
No one:
@GiantChiprel: Uh, I think I'm a Kingpin Rising.
Nurd: Kingpin is in retrograde tb…

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@TheAnnarf Thanks for not being toxic on comms! 8)

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

@TheAnnarf @dominos Film them delivering it!
Record the call!
Sue them and become a gazillionaire!
Or settle the case for unlimited pizza for life, delivered to the right address sometimes? :D

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

@TheOrioli Insomnia made me get back on and beat the levels I was struggling on off stream even :D

Ya'll made a super chill game and should deff be proud!

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@SincerelyLyn Is it time to SUPERVIVE? 8)
https://t.co/WAJdXy8RwF

[Bellissimoh @jbelliss]

TLDR - Looking at a combination of game health metrics combined with player feedback we've decided to roll back the party restrictions for Master and Legend tier players.

Last week we rolled out a queue restriction for Masters and Legend players in an effort to reduce the "shark tank effect" - or top teams steamrolling through lobbies. The idea behind this change was to make queue times better and improve match quality at high MMR.

As we rolled out the restriction we watched several different game health metrics for the top 3% of games by MMR:

MMR Differentials
- This is the measure of "how big is the range of MMR of players in this game".
- The quality of matches hasn't meaningfully improved for top tier games.

Stompiness
- Here we look at the team that stomped the most in a lobby and how many kills they got.
- The average before and after the change was still roughly around 20 kills.
- Fun fact that high MMR games have way more kills than low MMR games, high MMR players are much better at killing, escaping, and reviving which drive kill counts 30-40% higher than all other MMRs.

Distribution of Eliminations
- How many different teams eliminated at least one other team?
- Our hope with this change here was that less of the team eliminations would go to the top team, but this stayed the same.

Queue Times
While this did improve, it wasn't on a magnitude that's really meaningful.

So what now?

Remove Queue Restrictions
- SUPERVIVE is intended to be a game that you play with your squad - and given we're not seeing the competitive / match quality benefits of this change - we'd rather be quick and change back given the feedback we've seen.
- We're going to rollback the restriction for Masters and Legends and let people fully premade with their friends. This change will go live in TC regions on 12/4 at 9am PDT.
- Note: one change we will make with this is to tighten up matchmaking at the top-end. This will mean if you’re in the top 1% of players and queue as a 4 stack, you’ll be subject to longer queue times than before.
- Note2: We will also be leaving the Legend+ Custom Game access until January 15th (updating every Monday) because if you’re literally the #1 through #4 ranked player in SUPERVIVE, you will absolutely be better off self-organizing games than queueing for a well-balanced lobby.

Upcoming Ranked Changes - Season 0
- We're working on a series of other changes for Ranked for Season 0, arriving on January 15th, those changes are aimed at:
- Reduce Overall RP in the System
- Dynamically Adjusting Antes based on your rank and your opponents
- Regional Leaderboards
- Ranked Rewards
- Other potential changes to improve matchmaking quality

Thanks for helping us test these restrictions at high MMR. We're an experimental studio and so we're willing to try things, but we're also quick to pull something back if it's not working for you. Ranked and the competitive experience are really important to us as competitive gamers ourselves - so expect to see us continue to iterate and improve

P.S. Wanted to shoutout @KingNidhogg and @GiantChiprel for their balanced feedback on both sides of the matter - beyond the data we know there are so many intangibles in high-tier play, and you both spoke objectively to the positives and negatives as players on the inside. It really helped round out our perspective. Thanks!

P.P.S. More Hudson nerfs are coming, yes.

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

@Its__Tk_ @playSUPERVIVE I air blast with no hit, the bishop must have done damage to them not long before which gave them the credit :D

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

A beautiful thing about @playSUPERVIVE is you can have over a thousand hours of game time and still be surprised

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

@SchwinnSJ @playSUPERVIVE As a men of science, @DjMontague and I attempted to test and recreate immediately after and we believe the sucky ghost you see at the start is thrown with them and sucking the entire time with no visual to dunk them as soon as they tap glider

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

@newzerozeroone @playSUPERVIVE The effect of taking vacation days each test to play both EU and NA over the last almost 2 years :D

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@TomKick @playSUPERVIVE Week might be over but you'll forever be my GOAT <3

[Theorycraft Games @theorycraft_inc]

🚨🚨🚨 WHAT'S NEXT FOR SUPERVIVE?🚨🚨🚨

We have so much new content planned! New hunters🏹, new events📅, experimental modes🤩, biomes🌴, items⚔️, wisps🦆, skins🧥, THERE'S TOO MUCH🔥

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

@playSUPERVIVE GOOD PATCH!
INSIGHTFUL CHANGES!
RESPONSIVE DEVS!
AMAZING GAME!
Much WOOOOOOWWWW!

[Theorycraft Games @theorycraft_inc]

with the #SUPERVIVECreatorCup (and OPEN BETA) just around the corner, we should start announcing our talent and teams...

but first a trailer

[GiantChiprel @GiantChiprel]

@playSUPERVIVE OH MY!