Online Team Battles up to 4v4

Team battles are now truly online. Every seat can hold a person: from 2v2 to 4v4, up to eight players in a Steam room, plus four spectators.

What changes

• In the room, each team is a column of seats. Pick yours with Sit here; empty seats go to the AI.
• 4v4 also arrives in matches against the AI and in AI vs AI.
• If someone drops, the AI takes their seat right away, and the player gets it back on return, without the match stopping for anyone.
• Surrender is now a team vote: the team gives up once the majority votes.
• In draft modes, picks follow a 1-2-2-1 order across all players.

How it works under the hood, and what testing with eight windows open caught, is in the devlog: Eight People, One Battle.

— The Castle Arena team