Companion Thoughts (Spoilers)

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Would have been far more interesting to have Achilleas as a companion over Marazhai.

At least Achilleas is repentant, where as Marazhai is just a C*n* to you the whole game.

[Faptor]

Marazhai is great once you get to know him.
He has a lot of funny one liners, disproving glances and side eyes haha

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Originally posted by Faptor:

Marazhai is great once you get to know him.
He has a lot of funny one liners, disproving glances and side eyes haha

The problem is unless you want him for meta-reasons the game really doesn't give you a reason to give him the chance, as at this point in the game ou already have a full party. Thus not really needing him for help, and up until that point as before he's just an antagonist who will betray and lie to you at every turn.

[Schlumpsha]

Achilleas... who? He was so forgettable that I had difficulties to remember him later in the game. Suffice to say I like having Marazhai around.

Apropos companions: the secret ones all need a complete rework. Not in terms of build. They are completely devoid of dialogue, banters or special companion quests. My disappointment was immeasurable.

[Faptor]

Originally posted by Schlumpsha:

Apropos companions: the secret ones all need a complete rework. Not in terms of build. They are completely devoid of dialogue, banters or special companion quests. My disappointment was immeasurable.

100% but the voice for one of the super secret companions is an absolute 15/10 so its still worth it :D [/quote]

Originally posted by Tech-Priest:

The problem is unless you want him for meta-reasons the game really doesn't give you a reason to give him the chance, as at this point in the game ou already have a full party. Thus not really needing him for help, and up until that point as before he's just an antagonist who will betray and lie to you at every turn.

Depending on who you bring and the circumstances, some of your companions might not make it. Why keep the traitorous eldar?
Sure, Maz is your enemy and attacking your stuff but Yrliet deliberately lied and betrayed you. You can count on Maz being so angry and revenge hungry that hes at least temporarily trustworthy, he stabbed you in the chest where Yrliet stabbed you in the back.

[Shademi]

I romanced Marazhai and he became an obedient pet, who dreams of being spanked. I understand that most people will kill him, when they get the chance, but personally I like him the way he is. Also his voice actor did an amazing job.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Originally posted by Schlumpsha:

Achilleas... who? He was so forgettable that I had difficulties to remember him later in the game. Suffice to say I like having Marazhai around.

Apropos companions: the secret ones all need a complete rework. Not in terms of build. They are completely devoid of dialogue, banters or special companion quests. My disappointment was immeasurable.

On the bright side modders can probably use the secret companions as a template to build a Xeno's mercenary system off of since the one requested feature that we knew Owlcat wasn't going to give us is the ability to recruit non-human mercenaries.

[Eladrith Ynneas]

Originally posted by Tech-Priest:

Originally posted by Schlumpsha:

Achilleas... who? He was so forgettable that I had difficulties to remember him later in the game. Suffice to say I like having Marazhai around.

Apropos companions: the secret ones all need a complete rework. Not in terms of build. They are completely devoid of dialogue, banters or special companion quests. My disappointment was immeasurable.

On the bright side modders can probably use the secret companions as a template to build a Xeno's mercenary system off of since the one requested feature that we knew Owlcat wasn't going to give us is the ability to recruit non-human mercenaries.

Yeah, i'd like to have kabalite mercs

[treahnurb]

Marazhai is the best. I like Abelard and Pasqal, the others, Gosh I can't hear them anymore (looking at you, Yrilet). I didn't know what to expect when I read they give you a Dark Eldar companion (with "romance" even, lol) but they executed it so well. He easily became my favourite. And him lurking on your throne after thrashing it? Big bonus.

[treahnurb]

Originally posted by Shademi:

I romanced Marazhai and he became an obedient pet, who dreams of being spanked. I understand that most people will kill him, when they get the chance, but personally I like him the way he is. Also his voice actor did an amazing job.

Looking forward to that, atm I am the pet but honestly, it's fine, lol. His VA is outstanding, though.

[Daliena]

I'm not entirely sure Achilleas Scalander (the Inquisition informant on Dargonus for any who forget) was ever much of a fighter, and almost certainly wasn't much of one after he started needing an inhaler from the stress of conversation due to his prior injuries, nevermind what getting into a fight would do to him.

As for Marazhai, recruiting him made a certain level of sense at the time. You ain't friends, oh Warp no, but you do have a common goal. Escape the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that is that section of Commorragh, and kill the people responsible for both of you being made into slaves in the Dark City.

The Dark Eldar are sadistic bastards, but they aren't (all) completely insane. It's in Marazhai's rational interest to work with you, because he needs you a lot more than you need him, so he'll play ball for a time. Once you're out of Commorragh, then bets are off, as they always are dealing with Dark Eldar once it becomes more suitable to them to stab you than talk to you because things like loyalty and morality are alien concepts to them, but hey. Right then and there, he's an extra pair of blades to shove into the people responsible for you both being in a bad spot.

And afterwards.. Well, while he does take some work to get him housetrained, he's interesting to keep around, I feel.

[Steel]

Marazhai is fine but after the first warp jump I handed him over the Heinrix. I was willing to overlook a couple of murders.... Slaanesh is eating your soul I get it. But he slaughtered that entire deck basically and as a captain it did not feel good overlooking THAT much blatent murder of my crew.

[Daliena]

Originally posted by Steel:

Marazhai is fine but after the first warp jump I handed him over the Heinrix. I was willing to overlook a couple of murders.... Slaanesh is eating your soul I get it. But he slaughtered that entire deck basically and as a captain it did not feel good overlooking THAT much blatent murder of my crew.

Yeah, it wasn't great, I'll say. Still, killing him wasn't bringing the crew back, so I just made it clear that he'd be locked in a chamber, alone, every time we were in the Warp, with no opportunity to go killing.

My friends laughed when I showed them Marazhai's response to that.. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/333776858493747223/1186207010090385448/image.png

[Solomon Kane]

Originally posted by Steel:

Marazhai is fine but after the first warp jump I handed him over the Heinrix. I was willing to overlook a couple of murders.... Slaanesh is eating your soul I get it. But he slaughtered that entire deck basically and as a captain it did not feel good overlooking THAT much blatent murder of my crew.

Your own Enforcers kill more on the Ship then Maraz ever could.

[treahnurb]

Originally posted by Steel:

Marazhai is fine but after the first warp jump I handed him over the Heinrix. I was willing to overlook a couple of murders.... Slaanesh is eating your soul I get it. But he slaughtered that entire deck basically and as a captain it did not feel good overlooking THAT much blatent murder of my crew.

This always strikes me as odd. People are so quick to dismiss a Xenos who fell prey to a Dark God but honestly, specially Heinrix should keep his mouth shut in that situation. He tortures in ways that would make Marazhai faint from ecstasy, his first solution to everything slightly heretic is "orbital blast" while dipping hard into heresy himself (but BEHOLD someone else than him does it!) and that all while clear minded.
Argenta killed someone innocent who simply was a witness to her crimes - while being clear minded.
Our innocent little Navigator girl, praise be, accidentally makes people claw their eyes out or jump laughing into ventilators or kill each other simply because she has "mood swings".

[Steel]

Originally posted by Solomon Kane:

Originally posted by Steel:

Marazhai is fine but after the first warp jump I handed him over the Heinrix. I was willing to overlook a couple of murders.... Slaanesh is eating your soul I get it. But he slaughtered that entire deck basically and as a captain it did not feel good overlooking THAT much blatent murder of my crew.

Your own Enforcers kill more on the Ship then Maraz ever could.

Uh no, I handled that worker strike without killing anyone.