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racoon:
Idea is to buff companions because now they're shit. not even worth to "catch". bg with 5 ap? laser with 1 pe? melee with 1 en and 80hp? specials shouldnt be total randomness because even melee mercenary for 100 caps is way more superior in battle than those companions. also give them perks and skill increasing each lvl.

Michaelh139:
here here!

S.T.A.L.K.E.R:
make them respawn faster too

Edit: also, please take away throw travelers, they dont do nothing if they are too far from the enemy

Malice Song:

--- Quote from: racoon on August 01, 2012, 11:10:43 pm ---Idea is to buff companions because now they're shit. not even worth to "catch". bg with 5 ap? laser with 1 pe? melee with 1 en and 80hp? specials shouldnt be total randomness because even melee mercenary for 100 caps is way more superior in battle than those companions. also give them perks and skill increasing each lvl.

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Actually BG companions with 5 AP are kind of amusing. It comes with the nice implied narrative that not everyone in the wastes is the Chosen One (as we so often preach) and sometimes ambitions are just bigger than capability. I will grant, though, that it would be a lot funnier, if you didn't have to wait for ages for one of them to bloody show up.

I do believe, however, that they're intended to be weaker than mercs (or at least should be). Mercs are basically geared for combat only, while comps come with a few other perks to compensate. And as far as melee is concerned, truth be told, mercs are on the cheap side to begin with, as far as caps and pp are concerned.

As far as I am concerned their randomness seems perfectly fine to me on paper and not every one of them needs to be a beast in combat, on the contrary, having flaws adds to the charme and you still can get outstandingly good comps. The problem is the ratio of their effectiveness and the difficulty to find one. In a vacuum it's perfectly fine to find a 1 EN melee companion, in reality though you sometimes have to wait more than a week to find a comp with the proficiency you're looking for, especially without a network of other players who can give you a heads up, and under those circumstances, yes, encountering a less than optimal comp, to put it mildly, can be annoying to say the least.

I'd be more in favor of upping the frequency of encountering them, for example making them turn up in encounters, than of turning them into mercs with swappable armor.


--- Quote from: S.T.A.L.K.E.R on August 01, 2012, 11:24:30 pm ---make them respawn faster too
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Also this. Very much this.

Roachor:
50 caps gets me an unarmed mutie with 450 hp that is infinitely more useful than all but the luckiest companions

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