I think the passive leader power Battle Hardened is broken, as in it doesn’t work. If anything I think it prevents units from leveling up, or if they do it’s very slow.
While playing the campaign, I always went for it at the start, but never really noticed a difference with how often my units died. Unless it was a mission where I had no base. Only in those mission with set units, or part of mission with just set units, they seem to level up fine.
Since beating the game (with early access from the pre-ordering the definitive version on PC), I’ve been messing around in Skirmish mode on easy (I know easy is supposed to be easy, but not like this, where the AI literally does nothing except make a couple of units and and use like one leader power if you attack the base) with all the leaders and getting feel for there powers and unique units. So far, if I play as a leader without that passive power, and I go around the map and clear the sentinels around the power nodes on the entire map, my starter units can get to rank 2 maybe 3 if take out the random AI roaming unit. Playing as Cutter and maxing this skill out, my starting marines did not level up once after clearing the all sentinels on the map.
I’ve asked a few other people I know if they noticed this, but they say it works, but clearly to me it is not.
BLARGH!! every day I check this site hoping they’ll at least add this to the known issues list… and now Known Issues has been updated, but it makes no mention of Battle Hardened! is anyone listening?? Is this what prayer feels like!?
iv been noticing this too i don’t expect to much during multiplayer, but it really puts a wrench in the campaign, especially on harder difficulty since some missions its activated at the start like mission one three zero you have limited units and limited supply yet your units cant level at all making it that much harder than intended
Welcome, herraFancyPants! The known issues list is the pinned (and locked) topic second from the top on this forum titled “Halo Wars 2 - Known Issues”.
Currently im getting used to build spartan early on and this skill would give a huge advantage, but not…
But only reason I practice that is when they fix it I can have veteran Jerome lasering around.
It appears this isn’t address in the patch notes. However in last weeks community update, it was stated that it would be fixed within the upcoming patch.
