Skilled Spotter Aug Bugged?

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Platform:
PC, Steam

Description:
Unable to advance beyond copper tier Skilled Spotter. Not even sure how I got copper tier, as the game indicates that I haven’t even marked a single unit. So far I’ve tried:

  1. Unlocking both levels of Enemy Marking skill from the skill tree (as well as Veteran Guerrilla and Designated Target skills)
  2. Using the copper tier Skilled Spotter aug to mark enemies when destroying components
  3. Using the copper tier Scope Scout aug to auto-mark enemies when using a scope

Nothing has impacted the counter thus far.

Steps To Reproduce:
See above.

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Host or Client:
Host

Players in your game:
Solo

Specifications:
Windows 10, Intel i7-2600K, 16GB RAM, NVidia GTX 1070

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I have been working on this for some time now but for some reason it won’t progress anymore. I finished the bronze but silver won’t move. Been trying everything but it just won’t work.

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Do you have a screenshot of your current state?
And you marked the machines with the appropriate skill and your binoculars?

Did you try to restart the game?

For me it unlocked automatically just by playing, as my companion always spotts/marks enemies for me. And this also seemed to have counted.

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Merged reports. This is now the main thread covering the issue.

//Mod

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Has anyone been able to advance their tier on this recently?

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as for 12.9.2024 it still doesn’t go higher then bronze. still bugged

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Since my last post I’ve tried using the Spotter Module on my companion, but with no luck. Funnily enough I’ve managed to increase my tally to 30 somehow. I believe most of it was from marking tanks with binoculars in base defence missions (and promptly destroying them) and a couple extra were from joining a friend’s game and marking 2 harvesters with binoculars (again promptly destroying them). Haven’t been able to replicate any of this with further testing.

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Could you show that in a video?

  1. Watch at the augments-screen with prerequesites (yet to mark machines) of silver level
  2. Go, mark a machines
  3. Again take a look at the augments-screen with prerequesites (yet to mark machines) of silver level
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I don’t think there is anything to show. bronze level of skilled spotter went with no problems, but on silver it just stays 0/50, no matter what kind of robots I mark.

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I think you also have to defeat the machines after you mark them,and possibly while they are marked. If the mark fades before they are defeated, or if you don’t bother to defeat them at all after you mark them, they probably don’t count.

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yes mate, I have been killing marked machines, as you can see. silver spotter still 0/50

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Precisely.

I’ve gone back and tested this by trying out different combinations of skills, augmentations and the companion modules that enable enemy marking (or have an added affect when marking). I’ve tried using varying levels of skills and augs, in multiple regions, against different machines classes and so far none of my attempts have increased the tally whatsoever.

I’ve listed everything I know that affects marking below and did some thorough testing of them, which you can find in a post here (but feel free to let me know if I’ve missed anything):

SKILLS

  1. Enemy Marking
  2. Veteran Guerrilla
  3. Designated Target

AUGMENTATIONS

  1. Scope Scout
  2. Skilled Spotter

COMPANION MODULE

  1. Spotter Module