Bad Luck Trait - cannot reach max level

[LostScribe]

So I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature, but I have a sergeant at level 9 with the bad luck trait. I didn’t take redemption when it was offered since as traits go it didn’t seem that bad, but now I have found a weird issue - this guy cannot ever get promoted to level 10.

Things I have tried:
- missions (he gets XP, but because it subtracts one at the end and doesn’t ever go past the max, he ends up at 13/14 experience)
- regular training (says will be promoted in one day, but isn’t)
- intensive training (says will be promoted in one day, but isn’t)

Has anyone else run into this?

Moral of the story - if a marine has bad luck, get rid of it as soon as you can!

[Uncle-Bin]

My sergeant had bad luck and he got to lvl 10 without any problems. I lept the trait because ut seemed pretty harmless to me.

Btw:
You don't get xp for training once your guys hit lvl 4.

[LostScribe]

Ah I didn’t know about the training limit. Thanks for that. Maybe I have just been unlucky with the XP received.

[happyscrub]

Originally posted by LostScribe:

Ah I didn’t know about the training limit. Thanks for that. Maybe I have just been unlucky with the XP received.

You didn't know because the game DOESN"T TELL YOU!!!!

[LostScribe]

Originally posted by LostScribe:

Maybe I have just been unlucky with the XP received.

This was in fact the case. Took him on another mission, got enough XP to get past the -1, gets to max. Guess I was just unlucky with the other mission and ended up right on the line.

[H-Foundry PIXIV]

Originally posted by Uncle-Bin:

Btw:
You don't get xp for training once your guys hit lvl 4.

damn I wasted so much time.

I'd be butthurt but now I just find it funny.

[c_falk]

I had a gunner with bad luck, and he was simply one, maybe two deployments behind the other 3 to tier 10. As I recall (playing Hard mode), by the time I was able to deploy 5-man teams, I had three level 10s, the gunner at level 8 or 9, and a medic at level 4 (I almost never used a medic before 5-man teams. But even the medic was at level 10 by the time we started the last mission.

Hint: If you want to level up your squad as fast as possible, at the end of each deployment before you extract, find a nice survivable spot near the APC/ARC, with a good killzone and somewhere to rest nearby, provoke hunts to run through all the massive onslaughts possible, including at the end of Hard aggressiveness, Maximum Aggression. That will earn you a few extra XP per deployment. Never Extract before Maximum Aggression.

Bt the way, YOU don't have to be in those fights. You can let the ARC and sentries do the shooting while you hide in a room. In fact your stress will not rise as fast when they can't see you.