Unable to converse with a unique recruit

[Roosting Flygon]

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I am unable to start the recruitment conversation with Burn, a unique recruit. I am well under my squad limit, I am still able to speak to other unique recruits with the very character I tried with him (I'm not using Ray or Agnu), and recruiting Sadneil went without a hitch. I tried verifying files but nothing doing

Any help? Importing the game works but that means some prisoners I captured as trophies will despawn. I also want to use the recruit prisoners mod as a last resort

[Pyrrhus]

Maybe stealth knock down Burn, wait for it to get up to see if it woke up. Be sure Burn sees you for you to open dialogue. You still could always recapture your trophies after importing the game. Are you using some mods?

[happy]

Isn't burn ona clock or something?
I've read somewhere that you have to e quick to recruit him, after a while it's just not possible.
100% sure I read that, 80% sure my source is 39% reliable
anyone?

[Roosting Flygon]

256 squad limit and unique recruits buffed are the two I think may be causing issues, but I did try disabling both but nothing changes. Also I can't recapture a new Holy Monk

Anw I'll test the KO method soon. So I just thunk him, then stand in front of him when he reboots? @Pyrrhus

I'm on like, day 70 lmao. The issue being importing the game still sets me at day 70, but now he can be spoken to. At lost of my lovely war trophies @happy

[Pyrrhus]

I have 256 characters mod too, I was able to recruit Burn. I never tried recruits buffed. Yeah stand from of him when he gets up after your crime countdown expires from knocking it down. I know Burn sometimes would run off to fight other machines once player characters enter the area then discover Burn isn't around. That's only common issue I know of with Burn.

[Shidan]

My money would be on the buffed recruits mod. If it buffed him too much and didn't alter the dialog checks, then he could easily go too high on his stats, causing him to no longer have the "recruitable" tag.

[Kannon]

Originally posted by happy:

Isn't burn ona clock or something?
I've read somewhere that you have to e quick to recruit him, after a while it's just not possible.

People probably meant that he can run away and get killed. Floodlands have its share of mechanical wildlife and if you spend too much time doing nothing within his loading distance he'll probably run away to commit a robot assisted sudoku.

[Roosting Flygon]

@Shidan I tried disabling that and nothing doing

That being said, I went to the Flotsam village with buffed recruits mod on, some of the unique recruits were available even with higher stats than Burn

[Pyrrhus]

You prolly need to import game again to reset Burn's stats. Even mod is disable, Burn's stats still would be unchanged until you import.

Some factions like flotsam ninjas and anti-slavers with high stats can be recruited, most of other factions we can't.

[Shidan]

Indeed, an import would be required even after it was disabled.

As for the other recruits. It's trivial to remove the condition that checks their stats. Given the mod is based around increased stats, I'd wager they did that for most recruits. Probably just missed Burn's by accident.

[Roosting Flygon]

urgh. rip burn, you old joker. I'm not losing my cool war trophies just to hire you

farewell, old man