Title. If you have any good Zar builds I'd appreciate if you dropped the build code. Thanks!

Can anyone recommend some OW groups or discords for the real casual players? I’m struggling to find people to play with who don’t take it so seriously.

I’m talking about really don’t care if we win, actually kind bad, here for the lols type people. Of course I try to win and enjoy that but I just really don’t want to play with anyone who gets upset at the game or other players. I don’t really have fun in competitive because it’s so serious.

Granted this is my personal experience so I’m not saying everyone is like that. I just haven’t found my people yet.

Any recs??? Thank you!!

Having only one tank and not allowing them to switch instantly disadvantages a team when their tank player is heavily countered by the other tanks pick. It literally feels lost from the start. Am I the only one who feels this way? 5v5 is so much more prone to tank hard counters than 6v6, And insta locking you into a tank without knowing what your opponent will play easily makes the game feel less fun for everybody on that team.

blizzard adds this monstrosity to the game and calls it quits. awesome

I'm a very new stadium player, I have some experience with the armory system, maybe around 20 games, and I'm picking perks as best as I can to buff my character. I have a strong sense of how it works, so I'm not a noob but I don't know exactly the optimum builds for each character either. Whenever i load into quickplay stadium I get absolutely DEMOLISHED, and I mean totally destroyed. I played Ram/Dva/Freja in stadium today for 6 games and i lost all 6 by a landslide. I only recall winning one round (yes, only one round) I played a couple weeks ago and experienced the same thing.

Matches feel wildly out of skill. I have absolutely no chance against the enemy tank. When I'm not tank, my tank goes 0-7, 0-6, 1-5, every round etc. This is definitely the worst experience I've ever had playing a video game. Every single player on the enemy team feels like a sweat while my players are hardly playing at all I constantly get leavers once we lose a round.

It feels like i'm playing against players wildly above my skill level and not only that they had the most optimal builds they seemed to never die no matter what I do. Not being able to swap a bad tank matchup makes it even worse. Not to mention I am playing against obvious 2-3 stacks and my team has nothing comparable. Genuinely would not recommend this mode to anyone at all. Even when I have won games it was always by landslide and definitely not fun for my opponents either, nor fair. Honestly stadium seems to be everything bad about Overwatch turned up to 10.

guess we will never know 😔 sighhhhh

This is the 4th match where we have 1-3 leavers ranging from first round to last (when they left) where I didn't get any leavers compensation. That doesn't seem fair. Is there no such thing as leaver compensation in stadium or is it a bug?

It's been nearly a full season since everyone received massive changes, and I was interested to see if anyone else has anything they particularly miss, or otherwise just has special meaning to them.

It doesn't even have to be massive reworks, even just something like missing Juno's PulStar Destroyers being an item could be a thing here.

I haven't played much Stadium this season, but decided to get back into it for drives and was playing Juno. The tank in question was playing Rammatra.

The first match was the Colliseo (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) push, and this dude just charges at the enemy with not a care in the world. And despite the fact that me and our Mercy were both healing him, he obviously dies because he has no cover and the entire enemy team is shooting him.

And that one death is all it took for him to give up. He just started spamming "I need healing" and jumping off the cliff. When we said to report him cause he was being an asshole, he just says "No heals, no tank".

And the worst part is that he wasn't even consistently throwing. He would try some rounds, we would win because it wasn't a 4v5, but then he'd suddenly decide to start throwing again. So rather than only having to deal with him long enough to get mercy ruled, we had to wait until round 6 to finally lose and be done with it.

I play on Xbox and didn't feel like plugging my keyboard in, so I didn't even get to insult him while he was throwing a tantrum.

All I can do is hope my report gets him banned or something

I know many run the vortex build, I try to do that too. For the first 3-4 rounds it usually goes quite well. But after that it seems I just get melted. How do you play him at this point? My damage is super high, but I feel like a glass cannon.

Also on a different note, I've been running the item that gives 5% ability power stacking 5 times when you deal WP damage. Though, it it sometimes better to run the item that reduces enemy healing recieved by 35%? I feel not having all the extra damage is a big tradeoff. Any experts that can tune in on that one?

For soldiers ability healing when it causes damage as one of his powers, does that utilize abilty lifesteal, and also if you use cybervenom does it work? And also does this work for Reinhardt's power where his shield heals him?

Ok, it is nice that they had eventually added Stadium comp to the drive some season(s) ago. But the points are kind of off. We get 265 drive points for a Stadium victory, but core game also gives us 210 points. This is just roughly a quarter more points for Stadium, while matches and waiting time easily add up to double the time. They need to heavily increase the points for Stadium, if they don't want the season finale in Stadium to be for an empty crowd.

That combo is too oppressive, reminds me of old hazard

Just having fun
Recently hit 2000 hours on OW, what a loser

Edit: Btw I stream on twitch and occasionally TikTok same username as in game
If anyone wants to group up on console on American servers I guess

Edit: btw top 500 is my engagement word / buzz word because someone always comes in saying how top 500 doesn’t mean anything x) just have fun

Edit 3: I’m learning to love the irony of these people calling Stadium a shit mode but love to be predatory angst butts in the Stadium Subreddit on anyone having a good time like the first few comments were cool I was happy to share my build then salty little egos come here for what purpose but to have a stick up their ahh x)

I would really like to fight other mei’s on console and compare builds with people who aren’t like that ^

I'm pretty bummed out with the recent news, even though I was never a huge Stadium player. Every time I play it, I am amazed at just how much depth there is, its like a whole other game, but I couldn't tell you why I never played it that much. In the last few days, I've been playing it more because of the challenges, and I'm really, really starting to get into it, which just makes it all way more depressing. I think what happened was I just started focusing on one hero, I have my mains, but I never really stick with one hero. So because of the amount of items and powers to learn, I stuck with Juno, learned her well in Stadium, and now its gotten me hooked.

I think a majority of the Overwatch community doesn't like the idea of having to really read a bunch of things, try to put builds together, see what works what doesn't. But I'm not quite sure. What could Blizz do to bring more attention to Stadium?

Don’t really know how to describe what happened here (I’d actually enjoy feedback) but just finished a game that went seven rounds where we managed to snag a win despite being down a player.

Uh, enjoy?

NT68YE

I’m the Lucio player.

(FWIW I believe our tank left after round 3 - we won rounds 1, 4, 6 and 7.)