Spyke, Mumbles and Slick: Recruitable NPC's in early game?

[Echo]

Without realising it I had at some point recruited these guys... I'm playing a fairly strange campaign with just 1 soldier, no companions and I started by doing Rail Nomad camp first.

When I ran into these guys at Radio Tower I had leveled up quite a bit and was given some dialogue option (possibly Hard ♥♥♥) that allowed me to tell them to leave. But later on:

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http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197977649322/screenshot/30721791220129276

That's when I realised that were actually recruits but I had also seen them earlier at Vargas's briefing with Rook, La Loca and Brygo. It just hadn't clicked at the time.

So anyway.. "great" i thought.. and went off to add them to the team.. but.. now I can't find em. Now I'm thinking they might be a broken plot line or legacy team from alpha.

After a quick google search I can't find anyone mentioning them as recruitables before. Or anything about them at all. For all I know, this is the first time anyone has posted about recruiting them.

Would anyone else like to check this method and post more detailed instructions for recruiting them?

[K. the Land-Surveyor]

I don't think you get to recruit them to the party. All that happens is if you pass the Kiss Ass dialogue, you get 15 scrap from them and upon your return to the Citadel for the first time, you see them in formation while Vargas gives a speech.

[Gamefever]

Well that sounds really cool, I didnt catch that. Thanks for headsup.

[Sai Kyouji]

Oh dear...
I turned them into pastes cuz of allthe corpses I saw

[Red]

Originally posted by Sai_Kyouji:

Oh dear...
I turned them into pastes cuz of allthe corpses I saw

The only good raider is a dead raider.

[Echo]

Originally posted by Troublemaker:

Originally posted by Sai_Kyouji:

Oh dear...
I turned them into pastes cuz of allthe corpses I saw

The only good raider is a dead raider.

In their defence there were no corpses up where these three are standing (they're innocent of this particular crime at least). Once you recruit Spyke and co, the other group (near the corspses) becomes aggressive.

I still havent been able to add them to the party. They seem to have gone AWOL, the only lasting evidence of them having joined is their dogs hanging around the front yard.

[Dufflebags]

Originally posted by Sai_Kyouji:

Oh dear...
I turned them into pastes cuz of allthe corpses I saw

Yeah.... I used hard ass to defuse them with Angela and get xp. Then turned them into piles of goo for more Xp...

Evil.

[Dorok]

Weird I get them without any kiss azz skill. Nor I remember anything about them. What's sure is I quoted them at Vargas formation out of the citadel.

To what event this refer? What area?

I tried did stuff in a different order for first parts and did Rails area before the Citadel was open, perhaps it generated a bug.

Originally posted by Walkabout:

...the only lasting evidence of them having joined is their dogs hanging around the front yard.

So that is linked, I was wondering about the dogs. I quoted they sort of regenerate. I tamed the two but free one in the citadel outdoor. Took the second that survived few combats, and when its HP was close to 0 I free it (in rails area). When I came back at citadel the two was again here and again tamable.

[Dorok]

Mmm ok I get it, so it's Radio Tower area and there's another way to get them, I apreciated the variation.

Instead of going to the group at the tower I get to the other group and moved further to see what happen. The second group attacked me. Then I moved to the grate between the two groups but before I check the get a mercenay of first group talk to me and offer a lower bride price to pretend he didn't saw us. Then I threaten him and all the group at tower flee.

Lol and then they became recruit. I'm not sure but there was probablty a Bad Azz test.

EDIT: I made the tower area at beginning of the game so a long time before it's perhaps why I forgot them and their dogs.