How do you gain levels?

[Hathur]

I'm confused as to how you level up / gain exp (I cannot find an experience bar anywhere either). Does it happen by using skills (marksman, healing etc), does it come from killing enemies? It's very vague.

[Valar Morghulis]

Well I cant seem to find the xp bar, so I'm confused as well. Sometimes people get a stat increase, although I dont know why.

[cifrelettere]

Stats increase from doing actions that use those stats...there's no progress bar but it's being tracked. I think JA2 vanilla didn't have progress bars either.

[Null Winter]

There seems to be a general experience bar for a level up to grab a perk that goes up whenever characters are present for a kill (even if they didn't do it) or a completed objective; that's new to this game, but at least it mentions the amount of XP you're getting?

Other skills and core stats go up with a more invisible meter as you use them or have them trained, just like the prior games. Gains seem much faster than prior games, and some things are much easier to train naturally now; several of my mercs gained over 5 points of Agility just from moving by the time I was approaching the second diamond mine.

[Valar Morghulis]

Originally posted by cifrelettere:

Stats increase from doing actions that use those stats...there's no progress bar but it's being tracked. I think JA2 vanilla didn't have progress bars either.

Well, sadly I didnt play JA2, only the Back in Action one (which imo wasnt as bad as people say it was, but maybe it's because I never played the original on) and there you had an XP-bar.

[Desna]

No idea none of my character level up, and ive cleared the entire first island and fort, still level 1

[Keith 'Blood' Hanson]

When you complete a mission or task, you get xp. You also seem to gain some during general combat as well. Also those STAR missions/challenges that crop up will also award you bonus xp.

[HozzMidnight]

There is no xp bar AFAIK but there is a log. It's the Snype button on the left side of the screen. You can see XP gains there. Leveling seems pretty slow. My IMP merc is only level 3 after leaving the starting island, capturing the first mine and securing the next town.

[Hathur]

It's very weird. I can see I am earning experience regularly for clearing areas of enemies, completing quests etc. I have cleared a little over 60% of the entire game map and my character and initial mercs I hired have only leveled up twice. At this rate I will have finished the entire game and only reached level 4 out of 10. Either the progression is bugged or the game is stupidly stingy on leveling (what's the point of making all those perks if you don't even gain enough levels to get more than 2 or 3 by the end of the game?)

[ontheroad]

Originally posted by Hathur:

It's very weird. I can see I am earning experience regularly for clearing areas of enemies, completing quests etc. I have cleared a little over 60% of the entire game map and my character and initial mercs I hired have only leveled up twice. At this rate I will have finished the entire game and only reached level 4 out of 10. Either the progression is bugged or the game is stupidly stingy on leveling (what's the point of making all those perks if you don't even gain enough levels to get more than 2 or 3 by the end of the game?)

Maybe the developers do like that for future dlc´s , I would like that idear :)

[Valar Morghulis]

Originally posted by Hathur:

It's very weird. I can see I am earning experience regularly for clearing areas of enemies, completing quests etc. I have cleared a little over 60% of the entire game map and my character and initial mercs I hired have only leveled up twice. At this rate I will have finished the entire game and only reached level 4 out of 10. Either the progression is bugged or the game is stupidly stingy on leveling (what's the point of making all those perks if you don't even gain enough levels to get more than 2 or 3 by the end of the game?)

That's the problem with hidden stats, you'll never know if the game is bugged or working as intended. I really hope this would be modable..

1.) I wanna see how much xp I gain for certain things
2.) I wanna choose the stats myself I want to increase

[Keith 'Blood' Hanson]

Stats don't increase with levels, just gaining a perk point. I know Wisdom affects the growth (Livewire got the first levelup, then my IMP, then Kalyna).

[Gui]

Bump, just picked up the game and hiding experience progress is a weird design choice for sure.
Having a blast nonetheless!

[uncle nick]

I think it was broken, and so game devs decided to hide it from us. Not sure if it was patched, but if you gain experience while on scouting operations for example, you will miss out on a perk upgrade. I've got level 10 mercs with only 8 or 9 perks.

[Magni]

Originally posted by uncle nick:

I think it was broken, and so game devs decided to hide it from us. Not sure if it was patched, but if you gain experience while on scouting operations for example, you will miss out on a perk upgrade. I've got level 10 mercs with only 8 or 9 perks.

Nope. And a level 10 will have 9 perks, because you don't have any at level 1.

[uncle nick]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3124973307

Yeah, nah? Were you here when we reported the bug? I think it was fixed with a patch, but i cannot verify because i already deleted many of my older game saves. My current mercs are all ok with the correct number of perks. Not sure about the players who are still playing with older game save files.

I was not complaining about it, by the time my mercs get upto 8 or 9 perks, the game will be almost over.