I got a question, or maybe more, about this.
When reading the tables for environmental effects it strikes me that you always get certain effects like limited movement, sight, Communication, etc.
Now what I'm wondering is this. Will survival training help me overcome the automatic effects?
I was looking into this and was thinking that those who do have survival training would be able to decrease the effects of the automatic effects somehow since it's training. So say a survival of 2 then on a environmental effect of 3 on Venus. at lvl 3 you would have 12" LoS and Combat Fatigue 2 by default, will survival training give this effect -2 of the 3 to a total effect of 1 and give me only a 15" LoS? This seemed logical to me since that would let the trained units be better than those who buy gear and just moves in.
On a note on that, it would also mean that survival gear do not let you modify the automatic effects downwards since it's just gear, but else it works just as before and let you easier travel in terrain. (easier to make the survival check for effects)