Valve ditches instant CS2 queue times in favor of more equal matchups

Don’t you just love queuing up for a Counter-Strike 2 Premier ranked match and seeing opponents with triple your Rating on the other team? Those days may be over, after a CS2 update today sees the matchmaking system trade shorter queue times for a much more competitive experience.

Valve’s Oct. 10 update to CS2 has seen the plug pulled on a Premier setting that shortened waiting time artificially by matching players with limited regard for their Ratings. With all players essentially starting fresh in CS2, queue times were made incredibly short as everyone was thrown together and there was no hidden MMR or Rating on launch.

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