While the idea is cool, the implementation of those ideas are extremely poor. Most people in my game are not having fun and chatting in match chat about how garbage the mode is
If i pick ashe and the enemy happen to pick dva I literally cannot play the game. All my shots get eaten, dynamite is useless etc.
How did the devs not come up with a single item or power that when u r dps you can pick to get around matrix? When you cant swap mid game you HAVE to offer ways for people to build around what the enemy have picked otherwise you just get locked out of the game
That plus leavers, Really bad first impression of stadium
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This game mode literally sucks all of the joy that is left in my life. The tank experience is especially abysmal. After the couple of hours I begin to hate everything that this game stands for as well as every single soul somehow related to it
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You must be getting matched with bad players because Iâve played 15 games and only lost one of them
I feel stadium sometimes highlights the âlose at select screenâ phenomenon. The same happened back when they introduced the moba watch arcade mode, except you werenât held hostage for 4 maps and I swear the mercy rule doesnât work. Iâve had games that were 19k in difference and it still continued first to 4.
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In my last game yesterday I was zarya and the enemy had dva and genji. There was nothing stopping my beams and bubbling my teammates from those two. Giant bubble is also so big it covers everyone. The long beam perks allows me to reach into their back line.
I feel so nice and powerful but also felt bad for the dva and genji.
After I got armor breakers, dva just melts.
I think they should add a 2nd tank if they want to keep hero lock or give more perks to counter counters.
Its pretty bad and embarrassing how the mode is already extremely boring and repetitive and its not even been a week
17 heroes at launch was simply not enough at all. It always feels like you see the same heroes every match and because of how terrible designed the itemisation and balance is, it always feels like you are playing not only against those same heroes, but everyone is already playing the exact same build.
It only took a day before the clear best way to build was spec into full dmg irrelevant of hero cus building a survival build is totally useless if you cant then kill anything. Pick ashe, build dmg. Pick rein, build dmg. Pick juno, build dmg. No point building anything else.
The mode has 0 experimentation. There is 0 theorycrafting and crafting builds. The itemisation is too basic and has 0 depth. The game basically forces builds on you by making the choice so braindead simple. If you want to play firestrike rein you pick the firestrike powers and ability dmg items and 2 shot everyone. That doesnt take skill. That doesnt take creativity or depth to build. Its so surface level in design its actually stupid
The most âin depthâ mechanic ive seen is on ashe you can get a power that heals 3% hp for each shot you reload. Then there are other powers that instantly reload your gun x amount of shots like when you shoot dynamite mid air you reload 5 shots. So when you combine them hitting dynamite reloads 5 ammo which then instantly heals you 15% hp. Thatâs cool and all. But that is like the most basic shallow synergy.
Compare the ow stadium armory to any other moba esque game or mode and you quickly see how barebones it is. I dont understand how the company who makes diablo, struggles to understand how to create rpg build mechanics
Stadium is literally babyâs first moba
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Stadium is the best advertisement for all the other games in your steam library.
Itâs 2025 and Blizzard still think that stomp matches are what players want in their game.
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