Marvel’s Avengers, the action role-playing game from Square Enix, will finally hit the current consoles on March 18, but it’s also getting another change. After that date, it will take even longer to reach the maximum character level of the game, as the developer increases the XP requirement.
According to the developer, the fast level-ups and the fast XP gain were something they thought could be confusing for new players, in part because each level needed about the same amount of XP to go through and rather required more for each character level.
‘This has led to tempo problems, such as skill points being rewarded too quickly at the moment, which can be confusing and overwhelming for newer players. We want every decision to invest in a skill or Heroic to be more meaningful, ‘the developers said.
To help reduce the amount of progress players can make quickly, the XP needed to progress to levels later in the game is increased from character level 25. To close the message, the developer recommends that everyone which has a character that is not level 50 makes them already fast before the change on March 18th. This of course means that players starting out on Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 will be forced into the new, slower leveling system.
One thing that is not entirely clear is why this change was necessary at all. If you do not start the XP increase with level 25, new players can still get confused about skills. More importantly, the battle to level a character to level 50 was already one of the slowest, finest parts of Marvel’s Avengers. Making the process even more difficult, especially for new players, is confusing to say the least.
The March 18 update of Marvel’s Avengers will also include the release of Hawkeye, as well as a new change to cosmetics that makes it slightly less random and gives players more control over what they unlock.