so i got a taste of a fight with an ally earlier today and thought about how nice it would be to be able to recruit mercenaries and the sorts,because lets face it,after a while your gonna have more money then you can actually spend unless you plan on drinking yourself to death everyday,so did a few google searches,no mods do this yet and no way to do it in game and this isnt the first thread that talks about it(heres one of the comments:
“It’s sci-fi. Why? You and only you should do quests. Not your companions. It’s about you as a blacksmither. Not about the others. And also, this recruiting feature consumes a lot of developing time for my opinion. I don’t see any problem grouping with some NPC, like be in a group, but why should I running through the game with some NPC? Doesn’t make sense. But you will have your horse etc.”,and to that i reply “alot of us play on pc,its not the pc master race for nothing,we have options,and lots of them,if you dont want to use that feature you can ignore it,but some of us would like to use that feature because we like having the choice,it wouldnt take that long to develop that sicne the framework is already there,just have to add some dialogue and make it so they can listen to basic commands”
so heres my thoughts on it.
there already seems to be framework to have a “follower” (the quest my friend timmy specifically,one of the mercenaries will follow you until you kill him,which i did because there were too much for me to handle even with some of the games best gear(im not a horrible player mind you,not the best but im good and getting better and better),running didnt solve anything since you dont run fast enough to outrun them,causing me to die all the time,one on one or one on two is fine,the moment theres 3 or more (in this case, 5 iirc) its a shitshow with the camera system and the fact that you get swarmed in a matter of seconds),it shouldnt be too hard to take some character models and re-use some voice lines and add options to “follow me” or “stay here” and make them able to gear themselves up with the money we give them(or we can gear them up oursleves,either way is fine by me)
anywho,if someone could mod this in that would be great,i cant mod for the life of me lol
and then theres the horses
i have only one issue with the horses
whistling doesnt make them follow you,sure they go to where you whistled,but they dont follow you
please make it so they follow you when you whistle,that would be much more immersive then constantly whistling for the same effect or leaving it behind and seeing it spawn in when you press X