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Greetings MechWarriors,

We're planning a 10-day 8v8 Quick Play Queue Match Making change.

We’re aware that search times have been trending upwards—especially during these summer months when many players are out and about rather than in-game.

To help reduce search times, we considered two options: reducing match team sizes or widening the Tier gates. We’re going with a temporary reduction to 8v8, which maintains the current Tier gates while scaling things down.

Widening the Tier gates could speed up matchmaking, but at the cost of overall match quality—something we believe is the less attractive option.

For the first 5 days of the event, we’ll be limiting group size to 3 players. For the remainder of the event, the group limit will return to 4 players.

EVENT TIMES

• The Quickplay 8v8 will begin on Friday, August 8th at 12PM PST / 7PM UTC.
• On Wednesday, August 13th at 12PM PST / 7PM UTC, max Quick Play group size will return to 4.
• On Monday, August 18th at 12PM PST / 7PM UTC, Quick Play will return to 12v12.

We hope you are enjoying the Legendary Summer Beach Party and Tournament Supporter Pack Content!

You can also look at this adjustment as a chance to test your skills in 8v8 in preparation for MWO COMP CS 2025!

Leave your feedback in the forum thread for this News Post!

Thanks,

The MechWarrior Online Team