Can you tell if a soldier earned enough for level up during mission? (other than rookies)

[DrakenKin]

It's hard to tell which one is gonna level up, the goal is to spread the experience and give the kills to whoever hasn't had enough for a level up.

It's nice to be able to do that with rookies, why not show the "+" sign to other ranks? Is there a way to tell that i missed?

[gimmethegepgun]

When the soldier gets the exp for a promotion it will give a notification. There will also be a notification on the class icon in the bottom left corner on any soldier that has enough to level.

[DrakenKin]

What kind of notification? What does it look like?

I had many missions where there was no + icon next to their names, yet they leveled up... so not sure if i am missing something obvious.

[Ninjasquirrel]

You get xp for completing a mission.

[-Singularity-]

As ninjasquirrel said. It is hard to tell who is going to level because a great deal of your soldiers xp comes from the mission completion.

[gimmethegepgun]

I don't think you get exp for completing the mission. Instead, it probably calculates kill assists when the mission ends (kill assists give a fraction of a kill worth of exp for every enemy that someone else in the squad killed).

[DrakenKin]

So far I am spreading the experience, but it's a hassle to remember how many kills everyone got as you go.

I wish i knew exactly how many kills / assists are needed for each rank.

[Dragon32]

Originally posted by Draken:

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I wish i knew exactly how many kills / assists are needed for each rank.

Here we go:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/4ahszm/xcom_2_experience_point_benchmarks/

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Dragon32:

Originally posted by Draken:

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I wish i knew exactly how many kills / assists are needed for each rank.

Here we go:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/4ahszm/xcom_2_experience_point_benchmarks/

Those numbers are only accurate for vanilla. In WotC the kill requirements are somewhat higher.

Rookie: 1/5/12/24/38/57/90
Veteran: 1/6/12/24/38/57/90 (only difference is cpl takes 1 more)
Commander: 1/6/12/24/42/60/95
Legend: 1/8/18/40/70/110/175
Reaper, Skirmisher, and Templar all get a kill for every 4 assists.

To OP, do keep in mind that assists are not shown in the character sheet (and in WotC, the Lost don't get full credit, I think they get assist credit for everyone including the killer) so you aren't going to be able to tell how much they need. There's a mod for vanilla that shows soldier xp (including the xp from assists) and what's required but I don't think there's one for WotC (and the vanilla one would probably work incorrectly since the numbers changed).

[DrakenKin]

I play vanilla with DLCS except WotC, so that's good for me. I just generally stay away from mods in general since i had some weird issues and bugs and i don't want my core experience of the game to be teinted by anything external.