A little confused about XCOM abilities

[Alucard †]

How did i managed to get Tactical Rigging skill on this reaper
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3437118462

But this one lacks it
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3437118745

How do i give her/unlock Tactical Rigging too?
Cause being able to carry Bluescreen Rounds on a Reaper is seriously powerful.

[Amanoob105]

Because all the abilities in that bottom row are randomly selected. This is true for both hero units and the normal ones, you have next to no control over what they can be.

Most of us find it adds to the fun and replayability of the game, the rest mod it out.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Because all the abilities in that bottom row are randomly selected. This is true for both hero units and the normal ones, you have next to no control over what they can be.

Most of us find it adds to the fun and replayability of the game, the rest mod it out.

I see. I suppose that's pretty neat. Makes each of the hero units unique.

[Nico]

Just see the XCOM ro wof abilities as a way to make the different soldiers more diverse as even soldiers with the same class have different XCOM row abilties. After all, it would be a bit boring if every soldier would have the exact same abilities.

[Stardustfire]

you can alivate that by haveing higher combat inteligence, it gives a higher chance to get more xcom skill slots, s long you dont unlocked the ranks where a new skillsot woud be possible. (but somehow i got a templar that 2 times got 5 xcom skill slots with only normal, so there seems to be some other factors as well)

[Mousetick]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

(but somehow i got a templar that 2 times got 5 xcom skill slots with only normal, so there seems to be some other factors as well)

That's because it has actually nothing to do with combat intelligence.

Soldiers always get 4 XCOM skill slots. Faction Heroes can get between 2 and 5 slots.

Combat Intelligence determines the number of ability points a soldier receives per level-up.

Edit: A corollary to that is to not train rookies with a combat intelligence above Standard as Psi Ops, otherwise their combat intelligence is "wasted" since they don't have access to XCOM abilities.