Blizzard has revealed the roadmap for Overwatch 2 Stadium, just some weeks after the brand new mode’s launch. The roadmap contains details about heroes being added to the Stadium roster, new maps and modes inside Stadium, and a few stats from gamers’ time with the mode already.
The latest harm hero Freja will likely be added to Stadium’s restricted roster as a part of the midseason replace for the present season. That will likely be adopted by Season 17 in June, which is able to see the addition of Sigma, Junkrat, and Zenyatta to the roster. The Stadium roster began with solely 17 heroes, as the brand new mode function gadgets and powers that you need to use to make a construct within the mode. These require extra balancing, so Blizzard is slowly including the complete Overwatch roster to the mode. That replace may even embody two extra maps, Esperanca and Samoa, together with the power to save lots of customized builds and share them. Season 17 may even embody cross-play, which hasn’t been out there within the mode since console and PC gamers do not share aggressive lobbies.
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Season 18 kicks off in August with Winston, Sojourn, and Brigitte becoming a member of the roster, together with a brand new sport mode, Payload Race. Payload Race will include two Payload maps, Route 66 and London, though Blizzard did not share any particulars on how the mode will differ from common payload matches. The roadmap stops at Season 19, merely stating that extra maps and heroes will proceed to be added to the mode, together with new gadgets.
Blizzard additionally shared that Stadium is presently the most well-liked mode in Overwatch 2, “eclipsing” Fast Play and Aggressive, the 2 major modes. The mode noticed 2.3 million matches performed in 7.8 million hours, which is greater than twice the quantity Overwatch Basic noticed when it launched, the earlier hottest new mode. Blizzard additionally shared that Lucio is each the hero with the very best win proportion and the bottom decide charge.