MicroWorks: How to Level Up Quickly

Play on Team Pointmatch, take it slow to win as many microgames as you can, and gather as many players together in one server as possible. Winning matches gives you the most XP.

At the end of every match, MicroWorks will grant you experience based on your performance during said match. That XP is put into your global level. As that level rises, you’ll unlock skins and auras for your avatar. XP is not awarded if you are playing alone, if you have mutators enabled, or if the server is closed beforehand.

While there are some more nuances and specific rules, XP is generally rewarded for the following feats (this list is in no specific order):

• Winning microgames*.
• Winning five microgames in a row.
• Fragging players.
• Getting the highest score in boss stages.
• Winning matches**.

Naturally, winning individual microgames only give you small amounts of XP, while winning the entire match gives you the highest payout. There is no payout for placement. Victory XP is on an all-or-nothing basis.

New players begin at level 0 with 0 XP. The highest attainable level is 50, which requires 100,000 XP. The amount of XP required for each level-up starts out relatively low, but will increase at certain level milestones. What this means for you is that you’ll be going through the lower levels faster than you will through the higher levels. So if you’re trying to go for Max Level, that means level 25 isn’t the halfway point – in actuality, with 50,000 XP you’ll be somewhere around level 34. Once you reach level 50, you won’t get any more XP.

* = How fast you win the microgame does not affect how much XP you get from it.
** = Victory XP scales based on player count. You’ll get notably (but not enourmously) more points if you win a match with 12 players than if you were to win one with only 4.

• Play team gamemodes. This is by far the biggest tip I can give you. Winning a match gives you the most XP out of all the possible feats. Playing in team gamemodes drastically improves your chances of winning, since the victory is attributed to everyone in the team, not the #1 player on the scoreboard.
• Play Pointmatch or Scorematch – but especially Pointmatch. Since the speed at which you win microgames has no bearing on the XP you get from them, allowing yourself a little extra time to win them consistently gives you better chances at getting additional XP from combos. Pointmatch lets you do that without having it affect your chances of winning the match.
• Play in servers with high playercounts. This will only make a difference if you win – but winning a match with lots of players gives you more XP than one with a small playercount. Public servers are your best bet for that.

 

• Play Survival. Matches in Survival don’t end until either everyone is dead or the boss stage is complete, so if you’re eliminated early, you’ll be spending most of your time spectating and missing out on XP.
• Play Boss Rush. Because you only get XP for placing first in boss stages, it’s much harder to make good progress in Boss Rush, especially with high playercounts. You might be able to get some consistent boss wins if there’s less players, but this is very hard to do and doesn’t give you that much more XP than normal.
• Focus too much on getting extra frags where possible. Certain microgames let you frag other players even if it isn’t the primary goal – such as “Hit A Target Exactly X Times”. While you should go after other players to get some additional XP if the opportunity arises – you shouldn’t ever give it priority over winning the microgame itself. Winning the microgames themselves gives you more XP in the long run. And besides, they might kick you for being so cheeky. 🙂

Here’s a table of all the feats you get XP from, and how much XP they give you.

Here’s a table of how much XP is required to reach each level.

Keep in mind that these numbers might be changed by updates. I’ll try to keep them accurate as updates come along, but cannot guarantee they’ll always be 100% correct.

Thanks to noam 2000, the project lead of MicroWorks, for providing me with these!

By Mauritsio