APEX missions. Am I missing something?

3 of my teams are lvl 20 and stil only 25% on golds

Missions have 'traits' and if your team has the one corresponding, succes chances are bigger. But they can also get the opposite trait, which will make chances lower.

When teams fail missions, they get negative traits that can become a problem for gold missions. That's why I deleted some and recruited new teams, which I play safe. Hopefully they get to level 20 with four or five positive traits and zero negative.

Yes, level 20.

After that they also can't get traits anymore, positive or negative.

Everytime a Strike Team completes a mission, there's a chance they gain a trait. Positive when you succeed, negative when you fail. Spamming a low level team on gold missions got me a team with five(!) negative traits. That team became useless at level 20 because of all those negative traits.

Yes, I think so. Unless someone else did get a new trait at level 20, but I'm sure I should've triggered one by now.

That is good to know, and I hope you are correct about no new traits being possible after hitting level 20. I got 'That's XCOM babyed' the other day on a Bronze APEX Mission. My level 17 team had a 99% chance to succeed. I failed the mission, and picked up night blindness. Needless to say, I was not a happy camper.

I may disagree on positive traits being random, however. Each team had one to start, then got 2nd at 5th level, 3rd at 10th, 4th at 15. Both my teams are now level 18 (I only have 2) and they have run enough missions that if positive traits were possible after any mission, they would have gotten one by now. Instead, they each have 4 positive traits, and one team has the negative.

I also wonder if there is a maximum number of total traits. Can a team have 5 positives plus >0 negative traits, or is the total trait number capped at 5?

So how does running these work? If you use the app, how does it know what play through to assign the rewards to? For instance say I have two play throughs. Scot and Sara, both not complete yet. Who gets rewards if I use the app?

Just curious. I don't have the game.

You only get the reward once. So if you start another game you are not getting that reward again.

You get to choose; in single-player you go to the Strike Team console (either aboard the Tempest or the Nexus) and can tab over to the Rewards tab and collect any of the rewards you want that single-player character to get.

Yup, sorry. Got one too right this moment.