HotS UI Update

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The 1.5 patch we released a couple months ago was a major update that included several changes to the menus and the addition of the new Arcade experience. What you might not know is that many of the changes in 1.5 were actually slated to be a part of the Heart of the Swarm expansion. We felt that several features, including Arcade, would be of immediate benefit to players, and decided to release them earlier in the 1.5 patch. Since we weren’t done with the rest of Heart of the Swarm yet, we had to compromise in some areas of the menus to support these features. We weren’t really happy with how this added additional complexity to the menus.

Since then, we’ve continued to work on Heart of the Swarm, and we’ve made some big changes to improve the overall user experience. With the release of the next major Heart of the Swarm beta patch, we'd like to give you an advance look at those changes. These updates will become available to both Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm players once the expansion is live.

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We’ve heard your desire for more stats, and we couldn’t agree more. With Heart of the Swarm we are adding more stats to help you track your play.



To start, we have included a racial stats tab so you can view your play stats against each race in ranked games.



There’s also now a map stats tab, so you can see how you perform on your most played maps. The new performance tab on the score screen will display your performance against opponents and Battle.net will track your career averages as you play games throughout the season.

And finally, now that we have added unranked play as an option, we’ve returned full stats (including losses) for all leagues back into the profile summary and ladder pages. Players who play competitively on the ladder can now better track their progress regardless of which league they’re in. And those players that would like to enjoy the benefits of matchmaking, but are not interested in the pressure of being ranked can now use the unranked play mode.

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On October 19 2012 10:25 FinestHour wrote:
Does unranked play have an mmr system so you play against people of your level, or is it random?

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On October 19 2012 10:25 FinestHour wrote:
Does unranked play have an mmr system so you play against people of your level, or is it random?

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On October 19 2012 10:27 emc wrote:


it's MMR and ranked/unranked are matched against each other, it was confirmed by Blizzard. However, this can change once the game is released because right now, unranked doesn't have enough of a player pool to justify splitting them up in two.

I actually like it this way, because then I know exactly the kind of skill level I will be playing when I'm ready to check the box for ranked games. However, there is a chance that a ranked player could be matched with an unranked player and take an easy win because the unranked player just doesn't care.

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On October 19 2012 10:48 Mastazaka wrote:
There is still far too much null space on the screen. The stats the Party system and all of what you have added are great but you can do a lot more with the screen. Have tournament information on the front page, have a stream tab, integrate things better for a much more smoother experience and not the same thing rehashed and not done well. Add unit information for new players to read counters to units or what they do like a link to Liquipedia. Show new custom games instead of on the launcher that starts the game. There is still a lot to be done.

What I commented on the post

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On October 19 2012 10:49 ShiroKaisen wrote:


They said they left so much null space so they COULD make those changes further down the line.

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