I just watched this announcement on the stream. Each player in the ground that have a boost gives a stacking experience percentage for the match. So if one team has five players with the boost and the other team has none. The first team will have a substantial advantage to victory.
I don’t play HotS often and I really do enjoy the game. But these boosts just seem. slimey. They sound like something I don’t want to be part of.
That… is not the thing…
i’m pretty sure it’s for player experience (on the start menu) not in game experience
It is post match character XP that is boosted, not in-game team XP, and the enemy team’s boosts counts towards your XP gain.
In your example, everyone would have 10% extra xp, added on at the END of a game like a Stimpack.
They meant XP gold gains at the end of the match
The game is a weak pay to win. Not much new.
Sounds like boosts are replacing stimpacks at some point in the future. They said it was an in match %5 experience boost that stacks for your team for each person on your team that has a boost. It does everything a stim does plus in match experience.
If it IS the end of match experience, then that’s good. But that’s not how it sounded when they said it.
At the end of the match, not during.
Jesus, how special do you have to be to not understand that stimpacks are being replaced by boosts and boosts are specifically boosting XP gained for the hero, not in game.
What Hoku said. It surely encourages ppl to pay more, but even free players get bonus from it, so it’s increadibly freeplayer-friendly.
That is exactly what it is. It is just like Stimpacks, but it also has the stacking 5% extra XP on top of that.
I stand corrected. Thanks mate. I guess we just misheard it. I’ve been up since four am. That’s my excuse. haha
No worries. Your concerns would be justified if that is what they had meant!
Boosts act exactly the same way that current Stimpacks do except it encourages more people to own them so you can get larger gains in XP at the end of the match.
That’s literally all it does, it just incentivizes more people to buy them.
No word on boosts also applying in vsAI mode? If all 5 players have a boost, do we receive a +25% exp boost?
Nothing specific on ai but i’m sure it will work too. But you don’t boost youself, in your exemple you would get 20% extra exp + the usual 150%. On their exemple of a game with 10 boost they say you would get 45%.
Edit: This also mean that if you are the only one with a boost… you gain nothing more but give all other 9 a 5% exp boost.
It’s literally just Stimpacks but they give a small boost to teammates at the end of match as well.