The devs shipped an update the other day that quietly broke a piece of The Bayou Ledger's logic. Here's what was going on.
How it used to work
- We asked whichever region we were loading least. When we needed stats, we went to the region we happened to be hitting the least at that moment.
- The answer was (almost) always current. Those stats came back with no lag behind reality.
- The region didn't matter. You'd kill someone on Europe, we'd ask Russia for your stats - and the MMR there was already updated.
What changed
A few days ago that stopped holding: stats are no longer always synced across regions. Working out what was happening was brutally hard, but we got there in the end - each hunter's stats have to be requested from their own "home" region. Otherwise their stats lag by roughly half an hour, which plenty of you are already seeing.
What happens next
We're still working out how to do this properly, because we obviously have no idea which region anyone plays on. Worst case we'll add some kind of region selector and everyone sets it by hand. Which, honestly, sounds pretty cringe.