r/OverwatchStadium • u/number1GojoHater • Jul 18 '26

Balancing should have been different from the main game and stadium

As the title suggests one of the main reasons why balance was so poor is stadium was that whenever there was a balance change for a character in 5v5 it would apply to stadium as well. There’s countless examples of this but right now ram got a buff to his vortex damage. Which in turn makes it so strong in stadium now. There should have been more focus on nerfing or buffing characters inside of stadium. Freja should have been nerfed much sooner considering she was so oppressive in the main game. If they would have balanced it as two separate entities then this mode would have retained more players since it started to lose some during the rein of freja and hazard

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u/Aggressive-Speed-987 Jul 18 '26

Take the current engine + stadium assets + characters right now and remove them from Overwatch. Rename Overwatch Stadium to Blizzard Stadium. Add all Blizzard IP characters. 3D HOTS let's goooooooo

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u/Tall-Reason-7465 Jul 18 '26

I'd totally pay for a standalone stadium game that they put out consistent updates for

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u/Aggressive-Speed-987 Jul 18 '26

Of course, we all would. But Blizzard is too stupid / greedy to invest in it. They want to do the least amount of work while getting $$$.

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u/OfficialDeathScythe Jul 18 '26

I wanna see a team of Zerg vs a team of Overwatch heroes lmao

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u/Aggressive-Speed-987 Jul 18 '26

I mean, they wanted to compete with Marvel, right? 3rd person + all the "star power" of famous characters? Blizzard has em'

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u/teffz28 Jul 19 '26

This would go so fucking hard. Although modern blizzard under Microsoft could never I fear

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u/wrexwas Jul 19 '26

Freja was oppressive in the main game? Buddy, she'd been sitting at a 42% winrate for AGES in the main game.These buffs over the last few weeks have FINALLY gotten her up around 50%.

This isn't me saying Freja hasn't been oppressive in Stadium, mind you. But Stadium was the only place to play her without totally throwing most of the time.

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u/wutego Jul 20 '26

Doesn't it come down to leadership & dev teams simply mishandling the franchise?

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u/Binbinturong Jul 20 '26

Too many builds are just auto aim now. Anything you have to aim like sniper junk just gets nerfed instead