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this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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Played some Overwatch 2 Stadium mode. It's kinda underwhelming I guess?
Comments described the mode as super crazy, with all the powers you can get, but it doesn't feel much different, since normal OW also added passives, that you unlock during a match. There are also not that many characters enabled for the mode yet, which doesn't help, because there are just one or two characters per role I want to play. With superfast rounds, it does feel faster than normal OW, but the whole match takes 20-30 minutes, except giga stomps, that can be over in only 10 minutes.
Since the matchmaker is also terrible as always, games just don't go to 7 rounds, so you don't get all of your upgrades. I played 11 matches, 9 of them were had a 4-1 scoreline or worse (3-0 or 4-0), wins or losses. Only two went to 4-2. Stadium is treated as a ranked mode and has no casual queue, so maybe once you've climbed some time, the matchmaking gets better, but each role has a separate rank, and I always flex, so that could take a while.
I think I'll just go back to normal Quick Play.
for me Stadium is a bit of a good middle point to ever enjoy smething close to moba without really getting into a whole new game like dota with all of the complex stuff. So it's a bit of a refresher from Quick Play. Then I never bothered to play the normal Competitive.
But content-wise, it's not drastically transform every abilities but few things are funky enough. like Reinhardt can fly, Moira can spam multiple orbs, Mercy can have dps build while also heals, Juno can almost launch torpedos every second when lucky 🤣
I main Kiriko but she doesn't seem to have significant changes.
But few things are real annoying like Soldier gets auto aim after using abilities, Freja is also more annoyimg in general compared to QP.
Overall I can only play 1-3 Stadium games a day though. It's competitive & intense. Quick Play is more relaxing.
Apparently matchmaking in Stadium is non-existent yet so it's definitely annoying when I get to team up with lower ranks team against higher ranks team.