Overwatch 2 Reveals Roadmap for Future Stadium Updates

Summary

Overwatch 2 revealed a Stadium roadmap with new heroes and maps coming between Seasons 17-19.
Three heroes will be added in Season 17 and Season 19, and new heroes are set to be added during their debut seasons.
Future additions to the mode include Unranked Stadium, crossplay, custom games, and more.

Overwatch 2 just revealed a roadmap that confirms tons of upcoming features for Stadium, including the addition of Junkrat, Sigma, Zenyatta, Sojourn, Winston, and Brigitte as playable heroes, Esperanca, Samoa, Route 66, London, and China as new maps, and a bevy of brand-new systems unique to the game mode. These new Stadium features will arrive in Overwatch 2 between Seasons 17 and 19, with even more updates planned beyond that.

Stadium is a popular new game mode Overwatch 2 introduced in Season 16. Fans choose one of 17 heroes to upgrade with Powers and Items as they battle across a pool of nine maps in a best-of-seven contest of strategy, tactics, and all-star builds.

overwatch 2 characters in a line in the stadium

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Now that Stadium has been out for just over a week, Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller has revealed some of the plans for the game mode in the near future. The Director’s Take blog confirmed that Season 17 would see Junkrat, Sigma, and Zenyatta join the roster of playable characters, with Sojourn, Winston, and Brigitte arriving in Season 18. Freja had already been confirmed for the Overwatch 2 mid-Season patch after her addition to the main game in Season 16, but players can also expect every new hero from now on to follow suit, meaning Aqua will join Stadium in the mid-Season 18 patch, and the mysterious Hero 45 in mid-Season 20.

Overwatch 2 Stadium Roadmap (Seasons 16-19)

Season 16 mid-Season update (~May 20 or May 27)
Season 17 (June 24)
- New Heroes: Junkrat, Sigma, Zenyatta
- New Maps: Esperanca, Samoa
- Unranked crossplay
- Build Importer/Exporter
- Custom Games
Season 18 (~late August)
- New Heroes: Sojourn, Winston, Brigitte, Aqua (mid-Season 18 in ~late September)
- New Mode: Payload Race
- New Maps: Route 66, London, two for Payload Race
- Stadium Trials
- Quests
- Endorsements
Season 19 (~late October) or beyond
- New Heroes
- New Map: China
- Draft Mode
- Consumables
- Item system upgrades

Over the next few seasons, several maps will be added to the pool as well. Esperanca and Samoa will get the Stadium treatment in Season 17, with Route 66 and London arriving in Season 18. Also in that season, a Stadium-specific game type called Payload Race will arrive with two brand-new maps. Lastly, a new map set in China is currently planned for Season 19, though little else is known about it yet.

Plenty of other new systems and features are also coming to Stadium soon. Overwatch 2 Season 17 heralds the arrival of Unranked Stadium and crossplay, along with custom games and a build importer and exporter. Stadium Trials, Endorsements, and Quests are planned to arrive in Season 18, and Season 19 is expected to add Draft Mode, Consumables, and plenty of other improvements.

This new roadmap has revealed a promising stream of content for Overwatch 2’s Stadium game mode. Indeed, if it continues the cadence of three heroes each season, plus new characters in their respective mid-season updates, Overwatch 2 should have the entire roster available in Stadium by Season 24 – ostensibly in August 2026. Needless to say, fans of Stadium should have no shortage of exciting things to look forward to for a long time.