MERCY'S THREADS OF FATE 💙 Tips & Tricks!
2,009Hey everyone, in this edition of the Weekly Recall, let’s talk Stadium! Our team has been having a blast watching you all experiment and enjoy Stadium. It’s a big, bold adventure for all of us and we’re happy you’re along for the ride. Thanks to your feedback, and millions of additional data points, we've been able to tune up some pain points and make Stadium more fun for everyone. Now let’s dive into some ways we’ll be improving Stadium today, tomorrow, and beyond.
Making Better Matches
Matchmaking is a delicate process that takes constant improvement and tweaking on our end, especially for a brand-new game mode. We’ve heard your frustrations and are happy to share some ways we’ll be making better, more balanced matches in the future!
To help folks settle into their matchmaking rating (MMR), we shipped Stadium with an internal modifier that helps calibrate the MMR for new players. The problem is that it was being applied to all Stadium players, not just new players, which caused matches to be wider than initially expected. We’ll be patching this out on June 3 alongside a standard balance patch. We expect matches in Stadium to even out over the next few weeks.
Last week, we deployed a hotfix that bumped the Stadium Ranked Skill Bonus from 25 to 50 for Pro, All-Star, and Legend ranks. We want to make sure players who work hard toward reaching the All-Star tier have a fair chance to reach it and the bonus increase should allow you to more easily hit the top ranks and earn the All-Star Legendary Juno skin. To give everyone enough time to earn the skin, we’ve also extended that challenge through the end of Season 17 to give you more time to climb.
Finally, our team is paying close attention to how Heroes are performing within Stadium and planning measured changes to make a more even playing field. Our newest addition, Freja, made quite an entrance; we understand she can be frustrating to play against, so a new anti-air Item will be added in Season 17. We’ve recently clipped her wings this week with a few more adjustments that should make her easier to handle in the trenches of Stadium.