Wasteland Remastered
35 Achievements
1,000
25-30h
PC
Xbox One
Xbox Series
Officer Material
Promote a character to the rank of Lieutenant.
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0.24%
How to unlock the Officer Material achievement in Wasteland Remastered - Definitive Guide
After getting enough XP for a character, you can hit to radio into Ranger HQ and they'll promote you up through the ranks. Lieutenant rank is the thirtieth rank in the promotions, and requires 445,440 XP on any character.
This one's a pretty significant jump from Sergeant, and for me was sometime around the Las Vegas area, which is a good place to be grinding around for these levels. It seems like you'll 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.
There's also a building near the center of Las Vegas (SE of the big intersection where Scorpitron will likely trounce you around this level), there's an Abandoned Building along the roadside which, when entered, will cause you to be attacked by insects... and also includes a handful of baddies, including a couple of snipers and combat hackers. One of the combat hackers drops the Proton Ax, which is a fantastically strong melee weapon for midgame that should help you level faster.
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.
This one's a pretty significant jump from Sergeant, and for me was sometime around the Las Vegas area, which is a good place to be grinding around for these levels. It seems like you'll 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.
There's also a building near the center of Las Vegas (SE of the big intersection where Scorpitron will likely trounce you around this level), there's an Abandoned Building along the roadside which, when entered, will cause you to be attacked by insects... and also includes a handful of baddies, including a couple of snipers and combat hackers. One of the combat hackers drops the Proton Ax, which is a fantastically strong melee weapon for midgame that should help you level faster.
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.