Speaking of Ranked Stadium… we've also increased the Skill Bonus reward for wins! High MMR players will feel this the most as we try to catch them up to their predicted rank faster.

We've made some adjustments to the Stadium matchmaker to reduce queue times. Matches could be slightly wider, but the trade-off feels acceptable to get folks into games faster. We've been monitoring this change since Monday and are happy with the results.

Hey everyone! With the holiday weekend in the US, we won’t have a Weekly Recall blog this week. However, look out for a new Director’s Take on Monday!.

Stadium update!. We're disabling Freja's power, Lille Faelde, effective immediately. Bigger changes are coming next week, but we've heard your feedback around her bola builds and wanted to take action before the weekend.

Curious who's dominating in Stadium? Dive into the latest Director’s Take for hero pick rates, win rates, and some insight into how we balance the mode — out now!.

New balance patch for Stadium just went live! We're hoping to do these weekly up through mid season. Check out the notes here:.

When I say the 8th, I really mean the 6th! 😅.

Hey console players🎮- we dropped some performance tweaks to Stadium yesterday (the 8th), with the aim of smoothing FPS out, especially on older systems. Noticing a difference? Let us know!.

We're aware of a Stadium bug causing the Rank Progress bar to show incorrect SP after a match. This is only visual, SP values shown and recorded are correct. It’s worse at high ranks; it can look like you lost up to 7x more SP than you actually did. Fixed in the mid season patch!.

🚨 Quick update on the Stadium Roadmap:. The two new Stadium maps in S18 are not King’s Row or Route 66 — they’re completely new Payload Race maps set in those iconic locations!. Saw some confusion and wanted to clear it up. More details coming as we get closer to S18!.

RT @JevyHabibi: @aaronkellerOW Payload race???? Hightower?????.

Stadium also had a big balance patch today. We're looking at putting together another patch, as well as another Director's Take with more stats and info soon.

New Director's Take is up! We're focusing on Stadium this week with a peek at it's development history and it's future with a multi season ROADMAP!!!.

Patch day for Stadium! This is our first of many balance patches based on a lot of the feedback we've been hearing over the last week. Check out the notes here.

This week, we fixed an armor bug that went live with S16. If you're looking for an in depth explanation of the bug and some insight into how these can happen and what it takes to fix them, take a look at our lead gameplay engineer's post here.

Hey all! I wanted to get some info out on Stadium before the weekend. Check it out in this quick Director's Take with some of our thoughts on the feedback we've heard. 😊. We're also working on a more comprehensive one for later next week. See you then!.

Stadium launches today.Freja launches today.Hero Bans launch today. Season 16 launches today and its gonna be big!.

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Besides Totally Normalwatch launching today, we've also brought 6v6 Open Queue to QuickPlay! The play time in Competitive 6v6 OQ has been really solid (roughly double the rate of Comp 5v5 OQ) and we're excited to see player's reaction to this version.