Wasteland Remastered
35 Achievements
1,000
25-30h
PC
Xbox One
Xbox Series
Major Trouble
Promote a character to the rank of Major.
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How to unlock the Major Trouble achievement in Wasteland Remastered - Definitive Guide
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After getting enough XP for a character, you can hit 
to radio into Ranger HQ and they'll promote you up through the ranks. Major rank is the sixtieth in the promotions, and requires 1,812,480 XP on any character, making it close to double what you need for Captain... which was far more than double from Lieutenant. Consistent, these are not.
I was well into the 50s when finishing with Base Cochise, so it's likely that this (and especially the last two achievement ranks) will require some significant grinding. As noted in my other rank solutions, it seems that you get more XP when killing things with melee, so the best way to grind some of these levels out is by decking a few of your crew out with some good melee when possible. By this point, you should already have a few good melee weapons going on and power armor (or at least bug armor) strewn liberally about.
Notably, Base Cochise is a great place to grind out XP. Even though you *can* keep playing after dealing with it, the Base and its associated mobs will be gone, so I strongly recommend making a save just before the last few steps in Cochise and starting from there for the level grind rather than playing on. YMMV.
Edit: Taken from the higher-level versions of this achievement, this gem from FranticRed:
For this and the other rank achievements:
Rank - Level - XP
Corporal - 5 - 10240
Sergeant - 12 - 67584
Lieutenant - 30 - 445,440
Captain - 45 - 1,013,760
Major - 60 - 1,812,480
Commander - 103 - 5,379,072
General Argent - 131 - 8,719,360
Edit: Turns out that the list I was going off of at fandom.com was wrong around Captain and afterward! I've adjusted them here, and the one at https://wasteland.gamepedia.com/Desert_Ranger_ranks_(Wastela...) matches, for anyone interested in the complete list.
to radio into Ranger HQ and they'll promote you up through the ranks. Major rank is the sixtieth in the promotions, and requires 1,812,480 XP on any character, making it close to double what you need for Captain... which was far more than double from Lieutenant. Consistent, these are not.I was well into the 50s when finishing with Base Cochise, so it's likely that this (and especially the last two achievement ranks) will require some significant grinding. As noted in my other rank solutions, it seems that you get more XP when killing things with melee, so the best way to grind some of these levels out is by decking a few of your crew out with some good melee when possible. By this point, you should already have a few good melee weapons going on and power armor (or at least bug armor) strewn liberally about.
Notably, Base Cochise is a great place to grind out XP. Even though you *can* keep playing after dealing with it, the Base and its associated mobs will be gone, so I strongly recommend making a save just before the last few steps in Cochise and starting from there for the level grind rather than playing on. YMMV.
Edit: Taken from the higher-level versions of this achievement, this gem from FranticRed:
Make sure everyone has swim and go chill in the middle of the world map lake. Use the camp command and each party member gets about 800 xp every 3 seconds or so. It's not fast, but you can get upwards of a million per hour. I haven't found anything faster yet.
And from TechnicallyCalm:There is also another one that doesn’t include drowning. There is an alleyway between Ugly’s hideout and a building. Once you enter there, you use a rope to climb up, kill the one enemy there and camp next to the window. I know I’m getting more then 1000 doing so.
I can confirm that I spent a good many hours getting from 5m to 8m harvesting for the last rank, so camping for levels (particularly early on) might be a good way to reduce risk in the game overall.For this and the other rank achievements:
Rank - Level - XP
Corporal - 5 - 10240
Sergeant - 12 - 67584
Lieutenant - 30 - 445,440
Captain - 45 - 1,013,760
Major - 60 - 1,812,480
Commander - 103 - 5,379,072
General Argent - 131 - 8,719,360
Edit: Turns out that the list I was going off of at fandom.com was wrong around Captain and afterward! I've adjusted them here, and the one at https://wasteland.gamepedia.com/Desert_Ranger_ranks_(Wastela...) matches, for anyone interested in the complete list.
