Survivors questions

[HardWorkingLoner]

1) How many can you have?

2) How many are there in the city? Meaning are they randomly generated so that as your survivors die, you can replace them over and over, or are they pre-made survivors that once they die, there is no replacement for them?

3) What happens when you reject a survivor? Are they lost forever, or can you meet them later or even recruit them later?

4) What about their skills? Are those random?

5) Can you get rid of survivors? Like if you have too few resources to sustain them, or when their skills are no longer needed?

[Ordisoftware]

Almost all of it seems to be and positioned as "handmade", no more random than a choose-your-own-adventure book. However, the EA randomizes the starting shelter if you skip the tutorial. Some zombies may or may not be activated. The resources have either changed or become a little or a little more random. Survivors have their place, and that's part of the story. And these characters were created like characters in a novel or a movie. No randomization, in my opinion so far. To get rid of a survivor, for the moment, this only happens when dying, killed, from hunger, from fatigue...

[Doug Dimmadome]

I'm not too far into EA, and have only run past the survs from the demo - there is the one guy in the church and another at one of the gas stations.

I know some people mentioning another guy at the fire station in the demo but cannot confirm for EA.

[HardWorkingLoner]

ok so do they disappear if you don't recruit them? and what about any survivor limit?because this way it seems that you may want to recruit everyone you meet because there is no picking and choosing for better traits

and since you can send multiple people to scavenge at the same time, resources should not be much of a problem

[Doug Dimmadome]

Originally posted by Ahti:

ok so do they disappear if you don't recruit them? and what about any survivor limit?because this way it seems that you may want to recruit everyone you meet because there is no picking and choosing for better traits

and since you can send multiple people to scavenge at the same time, resources should not be much of a problem

Not sure of a limit - I usually only keep 3 at most due to hunger and food issues (from the demo at least, from the looks of it in EA there is a lot more food but I have also kept 2 survs a lot longer than I did in the demo). 4 would probably be good so two can make upgrades, cook, etc. and two could go out. I would expect a limit of max 6, This War of Mine had a limit of 4-5 I believe so I would assume the same for this game.

[Dragonfirefly]

U can find one in the Taxi Level!

[Arkane Construct]

I haven't run into a limit yet, started Daphne & Penny, so zero food issues thus far.

Im at 8 now, starters + Rahul (church), Joe (gas station), Audrey (taxi depot), Lester (auto dealership), Barb (red mile), Hudson (motel).

There's at least 6-7 more including Kirk, Michelle, Isabelle, Frank, Pilot, Miguel

[Myth Alric]

There is like 15 of them, and I am pretty sure you can have all of them at once. Though I didn't have much for all of them to do, after like 8.

[Widderreiter]

i have like 12 survivors

[Anonymous2013]

1) Heard some people are juggling 8 survivors. But my go to is a maximum of 4.

2) I think they are set in certain areas and you have to find them.
Ex: I always found Joe over the radio (at a construction firm's second level is a radio on a table you can interract with), Marianne is hold up on the second floor of a house, and Cliff is at the top of an unfinnished building at a Fire Station.

3) That I don't know. I haven't really refused anyone even out of curiosity. My guess is that you might be able to get them later if they are still there, but in some cases they're lucky to be alive.

4) I'd say they are pretty much set.
Ex: Joe always has Strong Shoulders, Gearhead and some other perk that causes him to lose morale if he's hungry.

5) Right now? No. Only way you can get rid of them is to willingly toss them against a mob of zombies during exploration.