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by Steve Watts, Oct 26, 2012 7:30am PDTThe next major beta patch for StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm will let players start to experiment with a new leveling system. Blizzard promised that it's coming "very soon," and detailed how the leveling and experience systems will work.
According to the Battlenet Blog, you'll earn experience in Blizzard matchmaking modes, and any custom modes played on Blizzard maps. You'll have separate XP bars for each race, which you can level up by playing that race normally: building your own units, and destroying others. Blizzard is also toying with bonus XP perks, set up like mini-achievements. Each race has a maximum level of 20.
Your level will earn you portraits and decals, and your respective race levels will be displayed in your profile so other players can easily see how afraid of you they should be.
But, this is still a beta test, with emphasis on the "test" part. Blizzard says it will probably reset XP at certain points as it makes adjustments. It does note that you'll get advanced warning of the system resets, and may request specific ways of grinding XP to test them out.
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StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is getting a major beta patch soon, which will allow testers to try out the new XP and leveling systems.
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is getting a major beta patch soon, which will allow testers to try out the new XP and leveling systems. : Shacknews
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Also leveling up is generally nothing new in the RTS genre. Blizzard themselves already used the hero mechanic in WarCraft 3 and if they pulled that from anything, then from hack & slays such as their own Diablo series or RPG's.
I wrote all this merely to clear things up and it shouldn't be seen as some Blizzard fanboy defense jump. However, I'll admit that I truly despise "MOBAS", especially League Of Legends and that I wholeheartedly hope that all this hype about them dies rather quickly. As long as the genre generates money it won't die completely but I at least hope to not read about it EVERYWHERE and that people come to their senses. Sorry, just some personal rage. I just don't get the appeal, after having tried it and having many friends play this is annoying as fuck.
But whatever, I'll keep on ignoring it the best I can and stay away from it.
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