Aaron Keller
@aaronkellerOW
Game Director, Overwatch
New balance patch for Stadium just went live! We're hoping to do these weekly up through mid season. Check out the notes here: overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/pat…
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! overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/241…
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!
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 overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/pat…
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.
As many players noted, there was a bug that unintentionally made armor weaker with the release of Season 16. This bug has since been fixed, and that fix is live as of this week, but I thought it might be interesting to explain what broke in that system, and why. (1/11)
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! overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/242…
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.