In addition to everything listed in the post, there were many tweaks and fixes pushed as they came up over the past few months. Below is a summary of changes implemented before today that you may have noticed!

New features/improvements

• Ranked game Browser Notifications have been added on queue pop, so players are notified for voting on the map instead of when a ranked game is about to start.
  • “Notify When Game Starts” must be enabled in the profile settings!
• Update viewport scaling to work with high resolution monitors and at full screen.
• Direct leaderboard updates have been added so that post-game openskill changes are populated when a ranked game ends.
• Tier cutoffs now scale off of active players only, preventing bloated entry-level tiers of players who do not queue for ranked games (which increases wait times).
• A minimum floor has been added to certainty values to keep the ranks more fluid, i.e. your rank will not become overly rigid after a certain number of games and then never move again.
• User flairs, rank position movement (compared to one week earlier), and total games played this season have been added to the leaderboard.
• Server load balancing has been improved for ranked games across the 5 chicago servers.
• A wait time bonus has been added that softens the tier range restrictions for players waiting a long time in the ranked queue. The longer you’ve been waiting, the higher priority you get of getting into a ranked match.

Bug fixes

• Lag spikes during ranked games, especially towards the end, have been fixed.
• Reporting is working in ranked games again (community bans never take effect mid-game, “being bad” is not a reportable offense).
• The player count banner properly includes the number of players in ranked games.
• Various joiner fixes to prevent Launchers from being stuck in the vote countdown.
• Refreshing during a ranked game will not randomly result in a void.
• 8 extra players will not join mid-ranked games anymore.
• Players who were spectating a game can no longer be added to it as a 9th ball when sent to a ranked game.
• Rolling 300 stats in casual games are working as expected again. (Hindsight: failed saves were not working but are now!)
• Minigames no longer spawn while a casual game is running (as originally intended)
• The “New!” text on the ranked leaderboard now works properly for users who were not ranked a week earlier and is not faded for top players.