Kelvin killed by cannibals. Game breaker.

[BladeofSharpness]

I found out why Kelvin was not playing catching up anymore with me. He has been killed by cannibals.
Seriously. Non-immortal NPC, not respawnable, rather weak compared to hostiles ???

This is plain bad game design, unless this is a bug that is.

[Evono]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SonsOfTheForest/comments/11ayqft/i_found_how_to_revive_kelvin/

[AMANN]

I agree it can be annoying if Kelvin dies when you wernt there to even save him but saying it's a bad game design since he can't respawn is a little much. Maybe they will eventually add respawning kelvin as a custom game setting

[Jyggalad]

I get not liking it but bad game design? No. He's not essential to the game in any way (at least as far as I know), so why would he be immortal/respawnable? It's a horror survival game. Be kinda redundant if you took the fear of death out of the game.

[BladeofSharpness]

Because he is super weak. Look guys, let's use Skyrim as an example, you can only lose a NPC if you kill him yourself, if an enemy "kills" him, then he is downed but revivable.

[big knee]

from my experience kelvin can be revived at least for a little bit if he gets downed by an enemy and even then he's sorta just for convenience to make the game less grindy or for an achievement, i do think that they should make him less useless in defending himself he just points at enemies and sometimes runs away when he gets hit

[Realm]

I'd rather like if they gave us the option to arm him like we can arm the other friendly NPC. Brain damage or not, you'd think a man who can cut down a tree or catch a fish would still be able to defend himself with a firearm or a spear.

[forcecomdr]

My issue is that he refuses to stay put.
I'm ok with him being able to die, if i can leave him safely in my base when i go to a cave, or to do something risky. But he always seems to follow you even if you tell him to stay.

All he does is get in the way and distract you. If you're gonna make him so weak, Don't force him to follow you to the gates of hell.

[JahJah192]

is see no problem in that he´s weak he is not the npc made for fighting like virginia. But i thought i had a bug but i´ve seen it in a stream too, he got downed by a cannibal and i couldn´t revive him anymore, there was no button. so he died after restarting the game and forced me to reload a old save.

Originally posted by Evono:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SonsOfTheForest/comments/11ayqft/i_found_how_to_revive_kelvin/

if this really works this is gold. thank you!