In a quick update from Aaron Keller, learn about what immediate changes are coming to Stadium and what changes were already thinking about in the future.
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Appreciate the update.
Can they give any insight on how matchups are done with this mode?
Does it use data from other modes, or is it entirely different, since its a new mode?
I’m not sure how it looks internally, but externally it has some wide-ranging differences in how it feels when matched into games. Both good and bad it sounds like.
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Hey guys, wondering if there was any way the devs would consider allowing us to change the keybinds for viewing team/enemy loadouts in Stadium? I am used to playing the game in a way where I hold tab but continue playing, and the loadouts being bound to left click and right click are causing a ton of issues. For example, Mercy players often open the scoreboard repeatedly to track ults, who to damage boost, etc, but there’s no way to switch beam modes or beam targets with the scoreboard open, which feels clunky. I’m sure doesn’t bother most players, but it is pretty significant for me and I feel that just adding the option to rebind the controls would be great!
Would also love the scoreboard’s stats to persist between rounds, but since the replay viewer separates them into separate games, I understand if there’s a backend reason why this can’t be done. Really enjoying stadium though!
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Great work devs!
Some suggestions!
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Please bring the third person view to other game modes as well - or specifically for Reinhardt in all modes as a toggle
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Let us change skins every round - that would really elevate being able to appreciate all our hard earned skins collections in third person and show them off
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The build phase could do with being a bit shorter
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Instead of a rank for each role - Stadium should have a separate rank ladder for each hero; this should be possible now there’s no hero swapping
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Not super convinced by those very minor changes to some items and characters, we’ll see if they drop a bigger balance patch soon.
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There are two ways we can do this, either create an unranked version of Stadium and enable it there or turn Cross-Play on in the current ranked version.
eh probably just do the former people care so little about rank in this mode that I don’t see much point
These changes should affect everyone in the lineup, but there are targeted adjustments for Cassidy, D.Va, and Zarya
Uh not mercy and rein the actual problem heroes in the mode? I’m the number 1 zarya hater and even I don’t care about her in this mode
We are currently crunching data on Hero Bans and Perks, as well as seeing how players are responding to Freja. We’ll be talking about these in the next few weeks.
Good players vote to ban ana and bad players don’t that’s all there is to it
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Eh, I find myself needing the time fairly often if I’m debating counter-build options. Maybe speed things up more if everyone has the armory closed instead.
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Being able to endorse players after a Stadium match would be nice…
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add more heroes and custom build
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I am enjoying stadium a lot, and it’s good to see that there are updates and changes to things to ensure that tank match-ups are not so one-sided.
I saw the patch, though.
I don’t think the issue is only that Cass is getting too much money and buying powerful abilities too early on. The problem is that he kills things easily even with baseline/less-expensive power-ups.
It gets to the point where it doesn’t matter what you build on DPS or support; sustain builds don’t matter, he’ll two-tap you anyways.
Reducing the money will fix part of it, I suppose, but it’s not going to stop him from getting to a build (assuming he’s earning money at the same rate) where he just dominates the lobby and you can’t really do much against him. It only delays that happening a bit. I hope you continue to keep a close eye on him. Weapon power on Cass scales disproportionately and Weapon speed on Soldier scales disproportionately.
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Oh yea cass mercy duo in stadium.
This one is for you.
but there are targeted adjustments for Cassidy, D.Va, and Zarya
I would please ask the devs to consider this niche controls issue:
My whole excitement for playing stadium was to do flying reinhardt builds, but this isn’t really feasible on controller because of the button mapping. There aren’t enough shoulder buttons for jump, crouch, and abilities. Please please PLEASE allow us to use the control stick to steer the Reinhardt flying charge, so my dreams can come true.
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There are leavers in Stadium, that’s true, but it’s not at a rate higher than in Ranked. At least, that is what we’re seeing from in-game data so far.
This… isn’t true at all and feels like gaslighting. What ranks are people leaving at constantly in regular competitive? It is rife in Stadium.
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Please, please, PLEASE give losing teams more money than winning teams. 
It’s hard enough for losing teams to climb back, now they’re also at a statistical disadvantage. I love this gamemode, but I counted and 4 out of 5 games were one-sided stomps where the other team didn’t take a single round.
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My biggest problem with this text is the word “week” and it is repeated in this text and in others. This is a game in the live service model, this word is not good
Please end the obnoxious juno missile spam.
2 powers that reduce the cooldown significantly, another for an additional charge, raw extra explosive damage, and being able to heavily boost it %wise since it’s an ability and thus 1 hit, or close to 1 hit multiple people.
For an ability that requires no aim or effort whatsoever is absolute insanity.
I remember symmetra aimlock beam with high damage and it was obnoxious, so it was removed.
This has even less of a skill requirement , ridiculous damage and can reach across large distances across the map, AND it can target multiple enemies at once.
Anyone can see this, and there is no joy in trying to play against it as there is little to no counterplay.
It’s almost impossible to avoid them apart from having them hit a wall, and even then they’re just as likely to still round the corner and kill you anyway.
There is no pleasure in it for the player either, unless they enjoy making others miserable, which I hope is not the target audience.
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Played a couple of hours of stadium and found the game pretty frustrating. I think I’m not in the minority in feeling this way.
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Are you all going to improve the ranking system? I just came out of a game with another Tank, who is a QP player, never played Competitive, was a Rookie in Stadium, and on his second game. We lost, he lost no points, but I got demoted from Elite.
This is a really, really bad ranking system.
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Please give PC users the ability to opt out of cross play in every mode. I get there are a rare few console players that can hold their own against PC users. But it isn’t common and it isn’t fair for us to have to carry the majority of them in our matches.
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It does. It will fast forward the build phase timer.
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