Either have them available every round. Or have them be purchasable during rounds 2, 4, 6 but for 10-15k cash and remain free in 3, 5, 7
I just wanna actually use fully realized builds in game
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The powers are the thing that makes matches different game to game though, they’re the thing that decides the build you work towards.
Being able to pick most of them at once would defeat the purpose of the mode
I personally haven’t ever gotten to play a fully realized build. I either win or lose long before round 7,
And the practice range is not an acceptable place to test them out.
I was under the impression that the point of the mode is to have all these crazy abilities
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Also allow us to sell and buy new powers. I know that’s an intended feature, but it makes it so you can’t be flexible with your build. You have to build around the powers you chose.
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I agree with this. I can only do so much theory crafting with builds in practice. when I see a set of powers aren’t synergizing like i thought they would I should be allowed to switch things up
Alot of this has to do with bot hp not scaling so ill try something and it seems effective…then in match against people who in reality will end up with 300+ hp things suddenly need adjusting
Just another stupid thing about stadium’s design
The whole point of the mode is to make these builds but the only way you actually get to complete your build is if you purposely throw and lose lol
If you play well and win by rounds 3/4 you only get to see half of your build come to fruition and usually are still rocking basic items. In order to actually see the game through to a full build you basically have to make sure you lose 3 of the rounds so you can make it go to a round 7 so you can actually get your last powers and the high tier iterms.
Pretty dumb design imo.
Ive only had 1 game that has gone to round 7, every other game has been over by turn 3 or 4. Vast majority of my matches I have only gotten to try builds with 2 powers and maybe 2 purple items MAX. The games are over before any full or meaningful builds can even come online
Additionally, even if you do get to round 7 and get a full build, you only get that 1 round to actually play with it. After that round the game is over. So even if you spend 30 mins and do somehow get to round 7, you only actually get 1 round to enjoy what you spent 30 mins building. Seems pretty stupid to me.
It’s giving battle royale, spending 30 mins looting gear and items to finally get a good loadout just to die and never actually use any of it
I dont actually think they used their brains when creating the mode lol. Its like with clash how the more you win the more the game punishes you, so you purposefully have to lose just so you can actually play the mode. Everything about stadium seems entirely backwards
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Problem is, how much of a spike in strength each power is - especially towards the Damage-role. You want to make sure players have time to build out appropriate to counter very specific builds or strategies.
No, that’s not the point.
The point is to be flexible and adjust your build as needed to counter specific strategies and tackle ever ramping up power.
You should be pretty much built out by Round 5 if it gets that far.
Slow killings or low elimination totals can handicap you and the enemy team from really building up some practical builds early on.
It does get crazy, even if you don’t make it to the end.
The crazy just ramps up, as it should. It would get old pretty fast if it was just equivalent to an April Fools mode with nonstop crazy.
No one has a full build by round 5 lol. If you are going to round 5 you also are having to lose at least 1 round.
You only have 3 powers, maybe 3 or 4 purple items. You literally only have at max 75% of a build going
Its stupid and badly designed. You only get to a full build if you purposely lose rounds to get you to round 7 just for you to only actually get 1 round with your full build
In any other game with an itemisation system, you get to a full build usually by mid match and then the rest of the match is spent refining and buying endgame-only items. Usually permanent stat boosts that stack infinitely or you invest in temporary spikes in power designed to close out the game.
Point is in those games you get all your items and main build online basically every match vs stadium where I only get to play with half a build vast majority of games.
Additionally, because in other games you get your full build online part way through the match, you actually get to play with and enjoy your full build for the rest of the match you just spent 30 mins getting to. Unlike stadium where you literally spend 30 mins putting a build together, purposely throwing rounds to allow you to even get to round 7 to get to a full build, just to get only 1 round to enjoy what you spent 30 mins getting to.
The whole mode is entirely backwards. In order to get the full experience you have to intentionally lose rounds so you can actually get all 4 of your heroes powers.
As i said above, the devs seem to design these modes like stadium, like clash, which punish you for winning and you have to purposely lose rounds to win the game.
In clash if you win the first 2 points the game punishes you by giving you an impossible last point and the best strat is to intentionally lose that last point so you can set up a stronger position on 2nd.
In stadium if you win the first 3 rounds the game punishes you by only letting you actually play half a build. So the best strat is to intentionally lose so you can get to later rounds so you can actually get a full build going and have fun. The mode feels so samey and its been <1 week partly because most games you are just repeating the same exact builds over and over due to not getting to those later rounds to add variety
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horrible take. if you win three rounds in a row, hopefully you’re 15k ahead in points so there doesn’t need to be a forth round.
clash is just an awkward mode (and…kinda better in stadium since there is only three points to take) Clash would be better if the middle point didnt move till it was captured three times by a team (think hybrid maps) afterwards it deactivates
Exactly 
and you then dont get a full build
Literally the point
well… i didn’t say it wasn’t the point…just that it was a bad one.
If you’re 3-0ing someone you should WANt (sorry voice crack) to trigger the mercy rule, so you can get to the next match which hopefully will be closer
If the game is going 3-0 you are literally only getting to play half the reason you are even playing the mode in the first place lol
Hence once of my issues with stadium
If you win you are literally robbing yourself of ever getting to experience the whole mode. Locking full builds behind having to purposely lose rounds just so you can make it to round 7 is just dumb and bad design
The only way you get to experience a full build in stadium is for you to have to lose rounds to take it to round 7. If you win or lose too fast you literally will never get to see your build come online cus the game is over turn 4. By then you only have 2 powers and basic items.
Dunno why anyone else is playing stadium, but im certainly not playing the mode to only get my first 2 powers then clock out
If you Trigger the mercy rule yes, you only play half a game. Not every match is won this way.
Most games are over by turn 4 lol
Some should end turn 3 but for some reason they stupidly added the mercy rule which just makes everyone have to sit around another round
I usually make it to at least turn 5.
so peoples experiences with the mode will be different
The mercy rule is so dumb as well
There have been games where our team has had more stadium cash than the enemy yet we are 0-3 so the game forces a 4th round just for us to lose anyway
Its so pointless. They should just remove it
Judging solely on stadium cash is just a terrible decision. Same with mvp. Stadium cash doesnt mean that person is mvp lol
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