A profile with Progression badges
Player Progression is a feature introduced in Season 6 of Overwatch 2 that highlights the player's experience and playstyle with each hero.[1]
Overview[ | ]
The Player Progression system serves as a replacement for the portrait structure from Overwatch, which upgraded a player's in-game portrait as they gained experience from playtime. Player Progression allows players to track and show off their performance on individual heroes, roles, and game modes by rewarding them with various cosmetics.
Sub-badges display specific statistics based on the hero, role, and game mode played. For heroes, this tracks the stats that are key to the hero's role, time played, and games won, along with stats for their individual abilities. For roles, they show common stats associated with the role, along with the number of wins earned and total playtime. Lastly, for game modes, they track the total number of wins and playtime across each individual mode.
As a player's sub-badge levels up, it contributes XP to the badge level for that specific hero, role, or game mode. Every time a badge is leveled up, the player's total progression level goes up, decorating their Progression Showcase that represents them as a player. By leveling up badges and progression levels for each hero, players can earn Player Icons, Name Cards, and Titles.[1]
Badges[ | ]
Sub-badges are specific to each hero, role, and game mode. They track individualized stats based on what the player achieves via using that hero, role, or game mode's strengths. Each time a sub-badge is leveled up, it contributes XP to its associated hero, role, or game mode badge.
Thresholds[ | ]
Ana's sub-badges
Each sub-badge has a different "threshold" that a player must reach before it levels up that is related to that hero, role, or game mode. Unlike badges, sub-badge thresholds do not increase as levels are gained (i.e., regardless of the sub-badge level, it always requires 20 minutes of time to increase the Time Played level).
Each time one of a hero's sub-badges is leveled up, it contributes 200 XP to that hero's badge. This excludes the Time Played sub-badge, which contributes 5600 XP per level.
The Wins sub-badge awards a different amount of XP per level in different scenarios:
- 1200 XP to each hero and their role's badge
- 1100 XP to Unranked and Competitive badges (with an extra 1100 xp if queued up for All Roles)
- 1600 XP for Practice vs. AI, but requires two wins instead of one to level up
- 1200 XP for all Arcade game mode badges
A sub-badge can be leveled multiple times in a single game, with a maximum of 5 levels per game.
Sub-badge visual updates
Sub-badge visuals[ | ]
Sub-badges have a bronze color by default, with laurels on either side. Every 25 levels, a laurel on each side will "light up" and turn white, starting from the bottom. At level 125, the sub-badge gains an embellishment on the bottom and continues to gain another every 125 levels, up to five.
When a sub-badge reaches level 625, the badge's embellishments reset to one, and its color changes from bronze to silver. The badge changes from silver to gold at level 1250, and from gold to purple at level 1875.
Progression Level[ | ]
A player's Progression Level is represented by a unique Progression badge, and its level number totals all of that player's badge levels. The Progression badge is shown on the player's Career Profile Overview screen next to their BattleTag, and appears over their hero's head during their victory pose.
The Progression badge's appearance updates once every 50 levels; similar to the other badges' visuals, the laurels "light up" and it gains an additional layer of decoration. The Progression badge changes its overall color and shape every 250 levels, starting with silver, upgrading to green, blue, and purple, and finishing with gold.
Progression badge visuals[ | ]
Rank 1 Badge - Levels 1 through 49
Rank 1 Badge - Levels 50 through 99
Rank 1 Badge - Levels 100 through 149
Rank 1 Badge - Levels 150 through 199
Rank 1 Badge - Levels 200 through 249
Rank 2 Badge - Levels 250 through 299
Rank 2 Badge - Levels 300 through 349
Rank 2 Badge - Levels 350 through 399
Rank 2 Badge - Levels 400 through 449
Rank 2 Badge - Levels 450 through 499
Rank 3 Badge - Levels 500 through 549
Rank 3 Badge - Levels 550 through 599
Rank 3 Badge - Levels 600 through 649
Rank 3 Badge - Levels 650 through 699
Rank 3 Badge - Levels 700 through 749
Rank 4 Badge - Levels 750 through 799
Rank 4 Badge - Levels 800 through 849
Rank 4 Badge - Levels 850 through 899
Rank 4 Badge - Levels 900 through 949
Rank 4 Badge - Levels 950 through 999
Rank 5 Badge - Levels 1000 through 1049
Rank 5 Badge - Levels 1050 through 1099
Rank 5 Badges - Levels 1100 through 1149
Rank 5 Badges - Levels 1150 through 1199
Rank 5 Badge - Levels 1200 through 1249
Rank 6 Badge - Levels 1250 - 1299
Rank 6 Badge - Levels 1300 - 1349
Rank 6 Badge - Levels 1350 - 1399
Rank 6 Badge - Levels 1400 - 1449
Rank 6 Badge - Levels 1450 - 1499
Rank 7 Badge - Levels 1500 - 1549
Rank 7 Badge - Levels 1550 - 1599
Rank 7 Badge - Levels 1600 - 1649
Rank 7 Badge - Levels 1650 - 1699
Rank 7 Badge - Levels 1700 - 1749
Rank 8 Badge - Levels 1750 - 1799
Rank 8 Badge - Levels 1800 - 1849
Rank 8 Badge - Levels 1850 - 1899
Rank 8 Badge - Levels 1900 - 1949
Rank 8 Badge - Levels 1950 - 1999
Rank 9 Badge - Levels 2000 - 2049
Rank 9 Badge - Levels 2050 - 2099
Rank 9 Badge - Levels 2100 - 2149
Rank 9 Badge - Levels 2150 - 2199
Rank 9 Badge - Levels 2200 - 2249
Rank 10 Badge - Levels 2250 - 2299
Rank 10 Badge - Levels 2300 - 2349
Rank 10 Badge - Levels 2350 - 2399
Rank 10 Badge - Levels 2400 - 2449
Rank 10 Badge - Levels 2450+
Prestige[ | ]
When the player's Progression Level and their badges reach a much higher threshold, that badge will become prestiged. It will reset back to its rank 1 variant (or bronze if sub-badge), with the addition of a crown-like medallion hanging on top of the badge. There is a roman numerical placed in the center of this crown, which increases by 1 every time the badge is prestiged.
- A Progression Level prestiges at level 2500.
- A hero/mode badge prestiges at level 500.
- A sub-badge prestiges at level 2500.
Notes[ | ]
- For an unknown reason, the Rank 3 progression medallion has coloured border embellishments in its first visual upgrade. All other ranks have colourless embellishments, which then change to match the medallion's primary colour from the second upgrade onwards. This distinction is consistent with the Rank 8 version of the medallion as well.
- At the launch of Season 12, a widespread visual glitch occurred where all players who have a Rank 2 or higher Progression Badge received the final Rank 10 badge, regardless of their current level. Said glitched badge is visible on player profiles, as well as during the victory pose at the end of a match. This glitch was fixed on the September 3, 2024 patch.
- Any players who had a Rank 1 Badge at the start of Season 12 retained their Badge rank.
References[ | ]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 2023-08-22. SHOW OFF YOUR PLAYSTYLE WITH THE NEW PLAYER PROGRESSION SYSTEM. Blizzard Entertainment, accessed on 2024-04-22
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