On September 25th, Honor of Kings ushered in an update, and after this update, it also officially entered the S37 season. According to the statistics of some netizens, after this update, more than one million players have returned to the game.
This time, the return of players in large numbers is indeed due to some changes in the new season that players are very satisfied, and many players who have been out of the game for a long time will return.
There are a lot of changes in the new season, and it's not the perks or skins that attract players to return, but the optimization of the game experience. For example, the split matchmaking system is open all day, and before this system was only open for a fixed period of time every day, but after the new season update, there is a split matchmaking system every moment, and the permanent presence of this system also allows players to ensure that they can play until they want to play, and the behavior of competing for positions is much less than usual.
In addition to the permanent split-way matchmaking mechanism, the scoring mechanism of the new season has also been optimized, and compared with the previous scoring mechanism, the scoring mechanism of the new season is more intelligent.
The previous scoring mechanism is actually very unreasonable, such as Sun Bin and Da Qiao, which are difficult to kill, plus the clothing and equipment can rub the assist, and they have a certain output ability, so it is easy to get a very high rating in the game. And melee heroes like Old Master, Meng Tian, and Liu Chan, because they need to resist damage, they will die many times in a game, and there is no outbreak damage, and they can't get any heads, so the rating is very low.
In addition, after the update of the new season, the rating system will be based on the heroes used by the player to score more refined, not only to see the number of kills and deaths, but also to count the amount of damage taken, the number of towers, the control time, and the number of healing, and even the value of the vision provided will also be taken into account in the scoring system, compared to the past, the rating of the new season is more perfect, basically it can be said that the rating of the new season can fully represent the player's performance in this game.
The reason why the scoring mechanism of the new season is perfect is mainly for another functional service, that is, the gold medal does not drop stars. In the S37 season, Honor of Kings launched the gold medal non-dropping star mechanism.
In ranked matches, if you lose the game, but as long as you get the gold title, you won't lose a star, and if you win the game and get the gold title, you will get an extra star.
In fact, this is the main reason that attracts many players to return, after the launch of this mechanism, it means that players will be completely based on strength, and the previous ELO mechanism will be completely non-existent.
Powerful players, even if their teammates are very pitiful, but as long as their performance is good and they get the gold medal title, they can add two stars to quickly improve to a higher rank if they win, so as to avoid teammates with low levels. It doesn't matter if you lose, there is a gold medal title, and you won't lose stars if you lose.
If this mechanism was launched before, it would naturally not work, because the previous scoring mechanism of Honor of Kings was not perfect, and there were some problems with the evaluation of the gold medal title. However, after the optimization of the new season, the improvement of the scoring system has regained the gold medal title, and the players who have won the gold medal title have played the greatest role in this game. It's because of this change that the S37 season will attract millions of players to return.