Units lose rank

[Luke]

Here's another one. I remember this happening from back in the original 1.10 CD days and it still happens.

This mostly happens with commanders in the Campaign. It probably happens with other units, but my commander levels up the fastest so I notice it there.

The bug doesn't happen until Elite rank. After your commander reaches Elite rank, if you beat a level and progress to the next, he will lose a rank and back down to Veteran. Accordingly, 2 of his units become disconnected. But, the game remembers how many enemies he has killed, so now it takes twice as long to reach the next "power of two" rank milestone and win that old rank back. Repeat this across enough levels and your commander will stagnate at Veteran or Elite rank with well over 4096 kills, and not enough enemies left in the entire rest of the game to kill to get to the next rank.

Sometimes if you reload the game, he will increase back to the correct rank. But it's hit or miss. It pretty much always happens across level transitions. The best workaround I have found is as follows. After completing a level, save the game, then continue. You'll find your units with reduced rank. Reload your savegame until the correct rank comes back, then resave. Again, this doesn't work 100% of the time.

I wish the savegame would remember unit ranks correctly. It seems to until they get to Elite (3 chevrons + rocker)... then it gets flaky. After all, the kill counts are saved accurately.

I do enjoy the concept of keeping your experienced units through the campaigns... It's kind of nice at the very end to know that your victorious Vengeance Gauss Cannon tanks are the very same units that many missions ago were stomping scavenger ass in puny viper machineguns.

It's possible this has been discussed before... but the forum only allows me one search every couple minutes, so it'd be tedious to search all possible ways to describe this bug.

Luke

[Buginator]

before / after savegames please.

[Luke]

Will do, tonight after work.

[Revelo]

Will do, tonight after work.

Have noticed this too, but only with the commanders as they have been the only things to survive from Alpha 6 to the beta campaign. One is stuck on elite with over 500 experience.

[Zarel]

Have noticed this too, but only with the commanders as they have been the only things to survive from Alpha 6 to the beta campaign. One is stuck on elite with over 500 experience.

Umm...

See: Unit experience

Commanders with over 500 experience are supposed to be Elite... They take more experience to promote than regular units.

[Revelo]

Umm...

See: Unit experience

Commanders with over 500 experience are supposed to be Elite... They take more experience to promote than regular units.

Forget what I said, he is up up to Special rank now. It had just seemed ages since he was last promoted and I saw this and thought I had the same bug.