Can Andreja be made non-lethal?

[chipartist]

At level 85 my ballistic weapons are kind of OP and I had picked up a decent EM rifle during the principle UC mission, so I decided to build my melee and stealth skills with a Va'ruun Painblade, hunting down new possible xeno threats. I modded the EM rifle and gave it to Andreja to help me by stunning the targets, but even then she keeps killing them, using bashes I guess. Any way to tone her down a bit?

EDIT: Just battled a Hunting Cricket and that EM rifle is definitely dealing lethal damage when use by Andreja. WTF? When I use it it does not. At one point the game actually tells you to arm companions with non-lethals if you want to not kill targets, so there's a contradiction here.

[wolf4295]

The only way i found to reduce the risk. (She seems to cause a fire/explosive effect when she uses non leathal weapons). Was to ask Andreja to wait at a location away from the quest area. You pick her up afterwards at the location or ship.

[Turnex]

Originally posted by wolf4295:

The only way i found to reduce the risk. (She seems to cause a fire/explosive effect when she uses non leathal weapons). Was to ask Andreja to wait at a location away from the quest area. You pick her up afterwards at the location or ship.

I do the same. She may have high stealth skill and cloaking ability, but once the enemies are engaging you (or perhaps even just her?) she (like every other companion I guess) goes on a killing spree until the engaging enemy is either dead or has forgotten why he was shooting in the first place. Some times you need to park her fairly far from the place you want to engage the enemy to keep her from moving closer so she can join in.

[wtiger27]

There is a way. Don't use a companion. The Isolation skill, is for better than having a companion with you anyway when it comes to how effective you will be.

[alanc9]

I haven't seen that effect. We stunned people on the Key just fine -- well, as fine as the crappy EM weapons let you. Unfortunately, enemies kept waking up.

Is the effect on her gear, maybe?

[Knottypine]

It can be a bit of a pain at times. Especially when being stealthy, companions tend to jump out from the shadows and engage. Even walk in front of me while I'm lining up my shot through my scope. I pull my trigger just as Andreja walks in front of me and I shoot her in the butt. She says, "Good one!"

[maeharaprojekt]

When I am being greedy for XP, my Andreja never causes lethal damage, with the rare exception when she uses her rifle-butt.

At those times, she has a Novablast EM disruptor rifle with only the non-lethal mods, a single unit of heavy particle fuse, she doesn't have any grenades or mines, and none of her suit parts have an explosive, fire, or counter-attack effect.

When I need back-up but I also need her to be stealthy, she only gets an Old Earth Pistol (aka 1911) with the large suppressor, one .45 ACP cartridge, and she wears a suit with Chameleon FX and no counter-attack/explosive/fire.

I know she has Level 4 Concealment, but my head-canon is that adding a Tanith 1st-and-Only Cameleoline Cloak to a mutant whose skin that has preternatural, light-bending camouflage effects is nearing Raven Guard levels of stealth. With a side-order of heresy.

If I need maximum stealth, all companions get left behind.

It's a bit fiddly, but it works.

[AoD_lexandro]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

There is a way. Don't use a companion. The Isolation skill, is for better than having a companion with you anyway when it comes to how effective you will be.

^This. The damage and defence bonuses from Isolation will make you so buff you will never need a companion.

[Knottypine]

Originally posted by maeharaprojekt:

I know she has Level 4 Concealment

Her skill is stealth, not concealment.

[Six of Saturn]

Originally posted by Knottypine:

Originally posted by maeharaprojekt:

I know she has Level 4 Concealment

Her skill is stealth, not concealment.

Well she does at least have concealment level 3 because she turns invisible when she kneels and goes into stealth. Stealth skill does not do that.

[maeharaprojekt]

Originally posted by Knottypine:

Originally posted by maeharaprojekt:

I know she has Level 4 Concealment

Her skill is stealth, not concealment.

Double-checked and so she does. I know why I made the mistake; Andreja has the invisbility-while-crouched-and-not-moving buff that comes with Concealment 3. This activates even when she is not wearing armor pieces with the Chameleon effect, which does the same thing as Concealment 3.

When I first saw the effect, I said, "Hmmm..." then checked her stats. My cranial anxiety blob substituted "Concealment" for "Stealth" and I never thought about it any further before this thread.