Saving ow2 by undoing all those turning that ballance team pushed in the game since season 2 . #imho
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It’s a return to the more casual style of design that people fell in love with in the first few years before it turned into an esport.
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Not really anything casual about it though, it’s min-max everything or get stomped
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If that’s your criteria for a game to be considered competitive in a design sense, then sure I won’t argue with you.
I wouldn’t say it’s competitive in design. Rather the opposite; the design is so thoroughly imbalanced that it’s anti-competition. Competition, in my mind at least, requires far more thoughtful balance than what we see in Stadium.
But it’s also not very casual. Casual and Competitive are not a true dichotomy; not everything is either one or the other. They are not mutually exclusive terms necessarily. If you play Stadium “casually” without min-maxing your team comp and your builds, you’re going to lose constantly and that’s never very fun.
I can goof around in QP on characters I never play and not tryhard and still win some games, because other players are doing the same thing. That’s far more rare in Stadium.
Stadium still doesn’t undo the S9 bullet size though?
Exactly. It’s a bit of a meme mode, making it comp only doesn’t change that. Stadium is unbalanced by design, and I’m fine with that, but making it competitive was a dumb decision. It’s going to drive so many players away.
And the mode isn’t even that good to be honest. I don’t think it’s trash, but they didn’t think it trough. It’s a an absolute mess.