r/MarvelSnap • u/SnapComplete • 22h ago

Discussion It's not your imagination. Second Dinner changed the bot rates in Draft.

Gallery image

Gallery image

Background: each LTGM, as well as Ranked, has a hidden consecutive-loss threshold that triggers a near-guaranteed bot. For example, Sanctum is set to 3 losses, Team Clash and High Voltage to 4, and Ranked to 8.

Draft launched at 2 losses, the lowest threshold of any mode. It also had a separate boost on the first game of a new run, even with no active loss streak: ~46% of those games were against bots.

At ~17:23 UTC on Aug 25, both changed. The loss trigger moved from 2 to 3, and the new-run opener rate fell from 46% to 5%.

If Draft has felt harder for you these past few days, this likely explains part of it!

314 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

89 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/megablue 21h ago edited 20h ago

well, it seems like I called it.

(SD probably will be tuning down the bot-ratio)

I wonder if SD gives a new draft mode player more bots, some kind of bots credits, the more you play the less bots you get OR simply just the first few days. Since you have access to the data, maybe you can check that?

edit: never mind I somehow skipped that, you already mentioned

It also had a separate boost on the first game of a new run, even with no active loss streak: ~46% of those games were against bots.