Want some Stadium dish? We’ve got some piping hot Stadium improvements—like matchmaking tweaks and Build sharing—for you to salivate over.
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Save builds and unranked 
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Let’s go!
Stadium just keeps getting better!
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When you add hero bans the mode will die and people will play the version of QP you add.
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love you guys, looking forward to forge and better match making wahooo!
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There are too modes already, and being able to queuing max 1 of these is not the best IMO, maybe you can add multi queue. Search between stadium, normal, arcade and ranked modes also for these and get in the fastest room available would be great
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Not meaningfully nerfing the over-performing builds for JQ, Juno, and Soldier is definitely a choice.
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Cool. Looks like Stomps are going to be addressed with a June MMR patch coming in June. Hopefully it will narrow down the skill and experience variability of matches! 
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Unranked at last. Haven’t played much stadium after getting the MVP title cos it still had “competitive” vibes with everyone being so afraid to lose, derank, getting angry etc. Now I’ll be able to mix and match powers however I want in shorter matches, person leaves cos they’re getting wrecked = new player to take over with enough money. “But I need to select all my items and don’t have enough time”: Stadium forge to pick your favourite build for your most played heroes. Perfect.
Oh and make sure you add perks to story missions please. Would be nice to use level 3 turret on Ironclad.
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We’re super excited about a feature shipping with Season 17—Stadium Forge!
I like the UI on this. Like it’s enough flexibility to get the idea of a build across without having to micromanage every single upgrade
You’ll play a best-of-5 series instead of a best-of-7, resulting in quicker matches with no mercy rule necessary. Powers are given on rounds 1, 3, 4, and 5
Yeah that’s pretty neat how there’s an actual distinction between the two modes. Does seem odd they chose 2 as the round where you get no powers though
so we’ll also be adding a Backfill feature with Unranked
Not so sure about this one, but I guess at least it’ll be fun getting to go right into the late game sometimes
so a new anti-air Item will be added in Season 17
It’s obviously something they’d need eventually but I don’t quite get why they’re prioritizing this when the roster is over half hitscan and neither of the 2 pure fliers are in yet
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What an absolutely massive mistake making a QP version of stadium. It’s just gonna increase the queues for both sides.
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Why not just make Stadium cross play, and not move it to QP?
You guys clearly want it to be the “fun” way to play ranked.
It’s already fun. Make it less restrictive.
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thankfully they said bans aren’t definitely coming, and they’d be considering them once the roster is much bigger. with 3 heroes added every season, 4 in midseasons of new hero launches, that won’t be any time soon
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Enjoy your free wins Freja, your dominating time is almost over 
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Crazy that they secretly added in a system designed to rig the matchmaking and its taken them 6 weeks to even tell players that sort of thing even exists…
Makes you think if this sort of thing exists in stadium, what else have they got in the game and don’t tell the players about…?
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Is crossplay for stadium coming or? No mention. Stad already feels pretty casual. Why can’t my friends on console join PC pool to group with me? Surely it won’t muck up your balance related data.
Or will console players be able to join PC pool in unranked stadium?
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Let us queue for stadium QP and ranked at the same time! I don’t care which one it is, I just want to play a match without having to wait 18 minutes.
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Absolutely nothing said about the queue times for support. I haven’t played Stadium much since it came out, not because I don’t like the mode but because I don’t like sitting in queue for 20 minutes just to play it.
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Really hoping the support queue times go down. It’s rough waiting nearly ten minutes for a match, just to play a single game of stadium.
I did that the other day, joined a match, and it was cancelled. Then I was put in the queue all over again. I just opted for quick play instead…
I just don’t have it in me to wait that long for a game repeatedly 
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Adding characters like Doom or Venture will kill the mode before bans ever could lmao
Just Freja’s addition alone has done damage
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