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burkeydaturkey
9 years ago
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How does the multiplayer "level" work?

I recently bought the game and after playing a little Single Player, jumped onto the Multiplayer as co-op/pvp is what I play mostly on shooting games (Destiny, CoD, The Division etc.)

Now I'm used to having my "player" have a level (like CoD levels your player up) but I'm a little confused on how/what is progressing when playing matches?

I have basic characters which seem to be rank 1 (the I) and level 1, so do I only level characters by playing as them and not myself - and myself only gets APEX points to determine my goodness (a.k.a how bad I am!)?

Then to rank up characters, I have to open a pack and find a card with the same character for it be become rank 2 (well roman numeral II)?

Just wanting to understand I'm understanding how I progress onto a stronger build (more shield, health, stronger powers) and upwards from Bronze matches...

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Guess no one else knows what to reply, since you figured it out by yourself ...

    So simply put, yes.

    A bit more comprehensive:

    Playing a character increases its level and by that the skill points to be spent, which you could use for health or shields or whatever the skill tree for that class provides.

    Drawing multiple copies of a character increases its Tier (I - XX), resulting in additional skill points to be spent (II-X) and extra damage for powers, melee and combo detonations (XI -XX).

    Every character is leveled independently.

    Your APEX rating is simply an adding up of things you achieved.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Guess no one else knows what to reply, since you figured it out by yourself ...

    So simply put, yes.

    A bit more comprehensive:

    Playing a character increases its level and by that the skill points to be spent, which you could use for health or shields or whatever the skill tree for that class provides.

    Drawing multiple copies of a character increases its Tier (I - XX), resulting in additional skill points to be spent (II-X) and extra damage for powers, melee and combo detonations (XI -XX).

    Every character is leveled independently.

    Your APEX rating is simply an adding up of things you achieved.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    just for reference, you get 3 skill points per extra level that you gain through normal xp earned for level ups.  

    so 3*19=57 skill points.  on top of the free skill you get to choose at the start for a character, you then add them on as you wish during play (i recommend check a few descriptive build guides out if you don't understand skills much as they often give good reason why some skills for 4th 5th and 6th rank skills are chosen over the other.)

    As for cards from packs..   yes you can go from RANK I to RANK XX now, but rank I-X gives you either armour customisation options on odd numbered rank cards and skill points on even numbered rank cards.   For XI to XX cards, this just boosts bonus stats and those stats are not always entirely helpful to all build types .. so you may find some of them useless tbh.

    Also sadly APEX rating is also calculated from the opening of packs too, which is why these people who pay real money to buy massive amounts of packs have such high apex ratings.  (How on earth someone with 7k apex rating had a batarian scrapper XX is beyond me considering the RNG and the massive loot table now.. but meh.. if they are going to be stupid enough to pay that kind of money out then more fool them eh 🙂

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