is there any recruitable character in california?

[Doc Maccinakloutos]

all is in the title, got five members, two are trash (lexinarium is funny, yes, but BAD and that indian ♥♥♥♥♥ keeps going rogue at the worst moments, she even killed herself once, forcing me to reload) i need new heads.

[☠CRⒶZY BR㋛]

yes got 2 ppl, just finished to play...

[Sammy]

There's a Satan-worshipper metalhead dude called "Ertan", he appears at the entrance to Sante Fe Springs after some time, he's specialized in heavy weapons and really good with a minigun. Unfortunately he also seems to go crazy and shoot at nothing during fights.

[Hurodrik]

There are at least 3 that I know of. A handgun/barter specialist (Pistol Pete), a first aid/surgeon/smg/blunt weapons guy (Brother Thomas), and a kid that uses heavy weapons (the aforementioned Ertan). Thomas is a pretty good npc, Pistol Pete is reasonable but not great and Ertan is very meh because he is very dumb so good luck upgrading his skills. As far as I know, they will all show up at the door of your home base. You will even be told on the radio about Pete. (At least that's how it worked for me).

[Devoras]

I only ran into Ertan, he was actually pretty good once I had upgraded him in blunt weapons, and he was a lot stronger than any of my other characters so could carry a lot of stuff. His dialogue as you're travelling around is pretty funny too. He just showed up at my base, I was notified via the radio that he had arrived.

[Sentient_Toaster]

If for some reason you want a pistol specialist, you might have to accept Pete's offer to help out Rodia instead of doing it with your current crew -- I told him to stay at the base while I sorted out the gang @ Rodia, and he was gone when I returned.

Brother Thomas... heh, starts with *9* in SMG -- but annoyingly, he didn't have enough ammunition to fill even the magazine already in his MP5k. Give him more 9mm ammo, consider giving some armor (dodgy because of the energy weapons, but oh well), mod his gun, and he'll be pretty useful.

Kind of sad that I'm considering swapping out Corran Cain for Chisel's raw power; blades (CC) vs blunt (Chisel) plus the latter's extreme strength make him useful, and I'd already covered all of the former's non-combat skills to higher level. Thomas and Cain would make an interesting pairing theme-wise.