Anesthesia specialist with a high rank

[Angry Crow]

All my specialists with unique skills are A++/S now, so i decided to replay "Angel with broken wings" in order to get Malak (the rescue target) with high rank too, but his rank haven't changed and he's still B. Does anybody have him with a higher rank?

[Skullmonkey]

Specialist ranks will keep changing if you replay a mission, sometimes thay have low ranks sometimes it's high ranks and the only other way to increase their ranks is to deploy as that soldier and increase it by playing FOB infiltrations and defenses and deploying them on combat missions.

[Aviator Alligator]

I don't know specifically about Malak, but if you want certain soliders with high ranks you have to already posses them as staff before you can recruit a higher vesion of them again. To clarify, you must have a certain unique individual with set stats as your staff, redo the mission, and then you'll find that the unique character randomizes stats the second time around. Approching them again in the field appears to reset their stats, so someone (like Malak at a set 'B') could potentially become an S.

One other thing: when you're recruiting for a second time, if the soldier's rank resets, and it's a low rank soldier, you can simply start from a checkpoint and the stats should still randomize like if you started over. That way you can keep restarting until you get the stats you want.

Hope this helps.

Good luck!

[Skullmonkey]

I actually extracted Malak the other day as he was the only specialist I needed to develop the last of my high grade weapons. I just checked the character and I received a guy called Cannibal Hog with A+ and S ranks.

[Aviator Alligator]

Originally posted by SMX87:

I actually extracted Malak the other day as he was the only specialist I needed to develop the last of my high grade weapons. I just checked the character and I received a guy called Cannibal Hog with A+ and S ranks.

Hmm... and you didn't have Malak before as staff? Not even accidentally in security or FOB brig?

I don't know if the randomization I described above works for all uniques, but it definately held out for a few I needed in the past because that's how I was able to boost their stats.

[Skullmonkey]

I have no idea, I thought Malak was a perma contract character but what I received was a different soldier.

[Angry Crow]

Originally posted by Grinning Alligator:

I don't know specifically about Malak, but if you want certain soliders with high ranks you have to already posses them as staff before you can recruit a higher vesion of them again. To clarify, you must have a certain unique individual with set stats as your staff, redo the mission, and then you'll find that the unique character randomizes stats the second time around. Approching them again in the field appears to reset their stats, so someone (like Malak at a set 'B') could potentially become an S.

One other thing: when you're recruiting for a second time, if the soldier's rank resets, and it's a low rank soldier, you can simply start from a checkpoint and the stats should still randomize like if you started over. That way you can keep restarting until you get the stats you want.

Hope this helps.

Good luck!

The problem is if you recruit Malak and already have him in your team, you won't get Malak, you will get a guy with a random codename who looks like Malak. I kinda don't want it be this way. Maybe if I check Malak's rank during the mission with him in my team and only then dismiss him right during the mission I will still get Malak with a high rank and name "Malak". Worth a try. Anyway, thanks!

[Aviator Alligator]

Originally posted by Salikh_:

The problem is if you recruit Malak and already have him in your team, you won't get Malak, you will get a guy with a random codename who looks like Malak. I kinda don't want it be this way. Maybe if I check Malak's rank during the mission with him in my team and only then dismiss him right during the mission I will still get Malak with a high rank and name "Malak". Worth a try. Anyway, thanks!

That first part I definately know happens because if you get a secondary unqiue character, it's not the same person even though they look alike so the name definately randomizes. As for trying to "trick" the game to give you the name Malak, I don't know if it'll work because who knows when the codename generates (if it's at the beginng when the map loads or only after you fulton them). Still, seems like it could be the latter, so definately worth a shot trying out.

Good luck with it!

[Johns723]

Anyone know if this works with Drug Developer? The base version starts out with low stats. I have the low stats version, and have tried playing the Back Up Back Down mission several times to get better stats. It puts a cybernetics specialist in her place if I already have drug developer. But if I dismiss drug developer, she reappears with low stats.

[Punished Miller]

Probably not the solution you wanted to hear, but it is the best one. Use S++ mod and he will be S++ rank.

[Johns723]

Figures. Looks like most of the specialists can't be upgraded. I just direct contracted them and let them sit at the bottom of the list.