At the start of this season I noticed that a few things were slightly different with the hero progression stuff. Most notably, it seems like myself, and basically everyone I’ve seen with a relatively high account level seem to all have the same maxed out golden diamond-shaped medal attached to their accounts. I’m level 734 and just before this season started I had a cyan colored medal that was only partially “filled”. It seems the only account level medals I see people having in my games are either these maxed out golden ones or completely minimum level ones, or close to it.
To a less jarring note, I’ve noticed that after the changing of the season, the “sub-badges” seem to visually progress more noticeably now? Before, every single sub-badge for every category I had was still bronze, with varying amounts of little dots added to the bottom to show progress. Now the few sub-badges that I’ve leveled enough to get five of those “dots” have changed to look purple, and the dots have turned to stars, when before they were still all just bronze.
There was no mention in the patch notes of changes to the Progression system, so I have to assume that these changes were accidental. It’s also just pretty ugly just seeing the end-of-match screen with every hero lined up and they all either have the max or minimum level medal over their head; as well as, while I don’t actually know how the sub-badges’ appearances change as they level up past bronze, going from bronze to purple with stars seems a little irregular.