The stadium is a success: Here is the next one for the new Overwatch Wild mode

Overwatch launched a new game, stadium, last week as part of its sixteenth season. after Play the situation before launch for a weekShe called it “The first thing I really felt in the game since its appearance.”

Well, the players seem to enjoy the new taste. in Blog Blog BlogBlizzard announced on Thursday that, in the first week after its launch, about half of all hours of play in Overwatch was spent on the field. “While we often see a big rise at the time of playing shortly after launching a brilliant new event, the time of playing in the stadium was a little more strict,” the game developer said.

This is good news about a game facing a more solid competition since December, to a large extent in the form The marvel of competitorsThat was a great success in shooting the hero directly from the gate. Earlier this year, Overwatch presented a new system to provide more progress in each match, which at that time felt a big change. Although this may have turned into a basic fast game playing and competitive situations, it did not serve as radical radicals to Overwatch 2 like a stadium.

Blizzard said that the first week of launch led to 2.3 million stadium games (which translates into 7.8 million hours), more than twice the popular Overwatch Classic.

Game director Aaron Keeler in collective interviews said before the stadium launched that the Overwatch team was invested extensively on the field, including the situation that has its separate resources and a new flow of heroes and new maps every season. We have already seen a few hotfix stains to treat the designs and heroes overlooking them.

We will get the first great taste for this commitment to the stadium when Freeja joins chaos In the mid -season correction. But this is only the beginning.

After some time in the stadium, I noticed that some of the team’s strategies have a varying vocabulary in Overwatch. In particular, the compositions felt a slightly rush, thanks to a group of available heroes (especially tanks) and the most pressure maps. I was hoping to give future champion additions a priority of different macro strategies, “enable more structures that ranged with heroes such as Sigma and Zeniata or diving combinations with Winston.”

As it turns out, Sigma and Zenyatta joins the situation in Season 17, along with Junkrat. This is a big batch of damage ranged. Then in season 18, the stadium will add Winston, Sojourn and Brigitte, which should complete the current heroes in the situation like Genji and Ana to the most powerful diving settings.

Certainly, it is still just success, so most people choose just any hero they feel, and perhaps without thinking about the team’s synergy in general, but I love to give us Devs the ability to follow these types of strategies, even if it is rare to meet. The new heroes come alongside the new maps and situations, the uncomplicated operation, and put a final blackness over the next many seasons.

In general, it is a set of good news about a situation that appears to be successful. I have been playing the situation almost decreed since its launch (I don’t want to neglect the standard patterns so that I can run Freja, who feels like the new hero more fun since Kiriko)-the situation differs from excitement to urge anger, but it is definitely boring. On Thursday’s updates on Thursday is a strong indication that Overwatch is ready to keep the momentum.