(Over The Storm) - Stadium [my overwatch gamemode before Stadium OW1]
I worked on Over The Storm for years making pretty good progress as a complete coding beginner to make a mode that was exactly like Stadium. I love that Blizzard finally decided to make a mode almost exactly like mine. (since OW1) (Code at the bottom)
I feel like Stadium was what OW2 was suppose to be. They should definitely bring this to PVE. I have not played any of the PVE simply because of the lack of what was promised in OW2. I feel like Stadium has the ultimate potential to bring OW2 back to being played especially if Blizzard starts to listening to the community.
When I was designing Over The Storm it was suppose to be play on words combining Heros of The Storm’s mechanics into overwatch but giving points based off of eliminations (originally it was damage and healing but this caused to much strain on the engine originally.) I combined both names to make something catchy and memorable for people to play. The only problem is its not finished and Since stadium has released I don’t know if I want to continue the project or not. However it can be a great resource for people who want to use its contents because it has a lot of cutting edge stuff I developed myself like custom abilities that use their own ability icons as well as a team level and stat system for players to use. [This is a free system for people to use. I don’t really need any credit because I just want the workshop community to improve their modes even if my crappy code gives people an idea on how to improve or tackle a problem better but they can play with it and see how I did certain things to get them to work. {weird work arounds that typically wouldn’t exist}]
I may use the original code to make a boss battle mode instead since stadium basically does what this game mode already does. I am not upset at all and actually happy Blizzard did this. The only thing I ask them to do now is expand Stadium to include all heroes and allow players to edit Stadium in workshop as well as include new workshop features and coding options with Stadium. Like Boss modes are the most popular in Workshop. Allowing players to design a 1 v 6 or 3 v 9 would be pretty crazy.
I wrote an old post a long time ago about this mode and I hope when / if they read it that it helped influence this decision to create stadium. Its funny because I designed Genji a triple jump and Kiriko a double jump ability that you can choose and they did the same thing which is really dope.
I hope that they expand the workshop and allow players to sponsor or be sponsored by blizzard. Meaning that you can make game modes that have more player accessibility. for example matchmaking and a tab like arcade where you can see player sponsored games where you don’t have to join a lobby to play their game but instead opens up a matchmaking que that lets you join like the other main modes. This could allow Workshop games to become more mainstreamed instead of joined from the custom games tab and prevents host abuse. If you are unable to find a game it can instead put you into a lobby under custom games and their should be showing a number of players looking for that specific game or show at least a probability of finding a match with that game mode. Stadium is game itself that makes overwatches gameplay much different almost similar to the game Paladins. Imagine how many other amazing games players would be able to enjoy with overwatch if they expanded the workshop. If Stadium brings back the Overwatch players than its just proof alone that expanding the workshop is a good idea.
Over The Storm Code: PYMYH
Original Creator: Layslegend4
Note: Unfinished and Buggy but useful utilities to help Developers.