If you didn’t know about it, you haven’t been paying attention at all. It was a revelation about 2 months ago.
no, sorry, but i’m not going to let this one through.
and i don’t like when people gives false statements.
exept, this happened before and WAS a thing before already.
more precisely, happened to me 4 times out of 10.
where the " lonely " guy of the " unique " and different class ended up being the one i got. despite the minor %.
you can blain devs for other changes, but this one, it’s totally uncalled for, as it is FAKE.
those were not useless, and are not useless.
in conclusion, just because this whole factor never happened to you, doesn’t mean it never existed or things were different.
same it goes for the train order, just because they are useless to you, doesn’t mean they are.
best regards.
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It’s been random for ages, what are you smoking?
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Couldn’t reply earlier, had quite heavy storm in my area and lost electricity for few hours.
So you are saying that I give false statements because it didn’t work the same way for you, the thing is it really did work like that for me and many other people, just read comments here, some can agree to what I wrote.
From my perspective it all began about 1 month ago, I started to use Academy just at the very end of May when I reached level 29 of US campaign. Coincidently right at my first steps in using Academy I’ve read somewhere on this forum one post, that you will always get back the first soldier (out of 3) you put in academy slots.
So after that I was paying attention to who is going back after training, and guess what, every time I’ve been getting back soldier, that I chose as the first one, again… every single time up to this latest update.
After first few attempts I assumed, that this was the case for everybody (I can see now, I was wrong about it), just like you ErikaKalkbrenner assumed that I must be lying or something, because for you it was working the other way, the way it was supposed to.
This game is in Beta state, so some things may be working differently for others despite having the same game, I can give you another example of thing that was (and partialy still is) different for others.
Just few days after big changes to mortar ammo restrictions (over 2 weeks ago), I’ve taken my mortar for a ride, to see how it’s going to work. And to my surprise I was able to replenish my rounds for mortar infinitely from a single ammo crate, I even made bug report about it: Serious Mortar bug, infinite rounds replenishing from one ammo crate, unknown cause. For few next days I’ve been playing a bit with mortars and it was always the same story.
Just today somebody made a new post about same issue, but it only works sometimes: A bug related to mortar ammunition, and as I replied there, for me now my mortar is working correctly, but again no mention about fixing this thing anywhere, same as for this whole topic. Now, just because it wasn’t the same for you, you could call a BS to what I said, why would I want to make-up stories.
One last thing about “Train order”, for ME they were totally useless because of what was said already, but NOW they will find their purpose and will be useful for ME.
TL;DR
After reading some comments I can see, that Academy was working differently for others. For me (and some people) I would always get back the very first soldier I put in Academy training slot, no matter what, but for rest it was working the way it is supposed to (apparently), which is random one would be back.
So if it’s different for you that doesn’t mean someone is “giving false statements”.
Anyway it would be best for everybody, if it was working the same way, as it worked for me, I can tell you 
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It was always random for me - I tried putting a single type 2 in various positions with 2 type 1’s, for example, and it never consistently returned any particular position.
So a bug fix that is most welcome since apparently some were getting an unfair advantage!
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In less than a month I was able to finish my US side with this:
Almost all of them were leveled up from Star 1, 2 or 3, always putting them first to Academy and getting them back without issues, also mixing them with all kind of classes. Just about 4 or 5 of these guys were already Star 4 when I got them from bronze order.
Well it was always random in my experience. If you put a Tanker and 2 Snipers you had 33% chance of a Tanker and 66% for a sniper coming out of the academy
Well… technically yes, but untill today I’ve been sure, that this is how it works for everybody, not my fault this bug existed for me and many others, especially when I’ve read about it on forum in form of: “you know you always get the first one back” (something like that). Nobody mentioned it is a bug just for some players, nobody also corrected the person that said something like that, so I assumed it is how it is for now.
I wonder how many bugs some people are not reporting or even mention in other threads just to get the advantage.
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you have severe brain damage
He’s right - it was a bug - otherwise what would be the point of the “orders” that let you choose who to receive back from academy?
Stop being an a-hole and get over it.
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no worries.
exept, it is a false statement.
because happened before. nothing new.
and about the comments, i’m impress that those people despite playing for so long time, they havn’t noticed this factor, or never happened.
and others, seems not even know what they are talking about in my honest opinion.
don’t know what to tell you, you might just have been lucky, or on the other hand, i have been very unlucky.
matter of the point is, this WAS already present.
and again, it’s false saying that the devs tweaked or increased this factor, because it’s not truee.
it’s mainly based on rng.
lying about it?
how amusing.
that’s unrelated. because we are discussing about what you THINK that has been changed.
and i’m here telling you that it didn’t, because happened to me, and apparenlty, also to @116982155 .
you can’t compare two different things.
because again, they are different.
i can’t speak for mortars, i mean, i can, because they worked for me.
but as that dude mentioned, they didn’t work. and therefore, it’s a bug that needs to be fixed.
again, just because it works for me, and for you, doesn’t mean it’s ok and his bug report irrelevant. ( it kinda is because he linked no clogs, no version name, so it is kinda pointless ).
but speaking for this main thread, it’s kinda a false statement because it did happened before.
and you didn’t checked or asked if this was a thing before.
that’s all.
than i guess that proves my point…
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yes, it is because you didn’t looked up.
and saying that they tweaked this factor without evidences outside your personal experience, that it gets debated with others members that are stating otherwise, it’s not arguable.
and therefore, no offence, but you are spraying disinformation.
i’m not here to play the devil’s adovate, but this is uncalled for.
Initially you could select class you want to get back when you do not have 3 soldiers of that class.
After perks ceased to be erased, you could develop a soldier from one star to five.
It became important what are soldiers stats. Before sending them to Academy I always compared those of candidates.
They replaced all this with a lottery. I don’t know how they want to combine this with customization of names and faces. They removed whole mini game and made everybody the same.
No, even if I am interested in only 20-30 soldiers I won’t gather or buy dozens of tickets. This is micromanagement I’d rather play without.
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care to explain your answer?
Even from the Moscow campaign, I remove all 1-2 star soldiers, because this is too much hassle, it is easier to work even with the small number 3-4 that falls from the bronze.
The closure of the abuse shop is of course very sad, but I managed to make full stacks of 5 stars in Normandy and Moscow, so I will try to finish off Berlin with blood and sweat. Until the end of the campaign I will only play on 3 star soldiers, and then I will make fives.
no
That’s “literal” what most people have managed with for hte 1st season without any bother at all… if it breaks the game for you then that says more about your ability than anything else.
Expect he isn’t spreading misinformation.
I’ve been using this first guy thing since closed beta. It was nice that you could level up your favorite soldiers with no worries.
Now it’s truly random.
I still can’t understand why this only affects some some players… Was always random for me as far as I know/noticed.
Idk myself but only one thing that comes to my mind is that players that had the game installed before certain update could enjoy this bug 
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