[Guide] Strike Team Guide

I thought I would like that, and now I must have 15+ respec cards banked (if only there was a way to tell).  The things seem to drop like candy once you start buying Expert packs all the time. 

Learned something new tonight about Strike Teams.

So if you've sent teams on APEX missions, you can still always do the missions yourself. Once completed, this automatically asks you to debrief your team. The handful of times I've done it before, the team was always successful and got a small amount of experience.

It turns out that you team can also fail this way even if you successfully complete the mission And earn a negative trait I didn't think I was going to play tonight, so sent out my teams, then decided I'd go ahead and knock out a couple of missions. My immaculate, original team with no negatives picked up Xenophobia because I successfully completed the mission for them. 

If I wasn't so amused by how dumb this was I'd be salty about my starting team finally getting a negative trait. Literally punishing the player for playing the game.

RNG is RNG. You can't know anything based on a sample size of 1 to 6.

Any mission.

It's all RNG. According to the FAQ negative traits are only acquired on 'critical failures' but given we have no definition of that term... RNG.

Highly unlikely. Around 120-140 missions with around 15% fails without any negative effect looks at least like it's not pure rng.

Maybe critical failures appear more often when probability of success ist low. Sounds logical to me to implement it that way.

That's why narrowing down based on probabilities makes sense

I'm on my 3rd SP playthrough and have always regularly done my strike team business from the Tempest. Thank you for the advice though, I do appreciate it.

The app got updated again, not sure when, but once again I had to manually update.

Store now allows you to buy packs.

Strike Teams show more info, +5 bonuses now properly show as applying. The Debrief screen got a total UI overhaul.

Probably some other changes, but those are what I noticed.

I've got 4 or 5 teams now and not one single negative trait on any of them.

I don't send them on suicide missions.

Hope this helps.

I went probably a month with no negatives on anyone, even my poor 6 negative trait team.

Then bam, in the last week or so, picked up two negatives on two different teams.

Got 4 teams no negative traits but one. It's a lvl 20 that failed gold a couple of times until they got fraid of robots. Maybe bad traits come when a team fails too often (in succession / period of time)?

Seconding the randomness of negative traits. Had a clean level 20 team with exceptional human intelligence fail on a 94% chance bronze mission and pick up the xenophobic trait because of it.

I'm sure it's set up as such so that no matter how careful you are, eventually you'll pick up enough negatives you'll be forced to retire that team and rotate to a new one.