Having a guy follow you not picking up loot?

[Kreddi]

Is there a way to make a guy you made follow you via the paying option?
It's pretty annoying that when you are two that only one can pick up stuff and fill up the rucksack with crates

[PlayerNameT]

You can always call for other survivors to loot places but as far as i know there is no way to specifically let the one who's following you scavange stuff.

[Mikfail]

If you group up with other playable characters you can switch to them and loot more stuff

[ekrow]

But the followers are just standing around when I loot, that should not happen.

[astrea_anerada]

But when you ask them, you ask them to watch your back not to loot items with you ;)

[Mikfail]

Originally posted by ekrow:

But the followers are just standing around when I loot, that should not happen.

You want them to hold your pants up while you loot? JK :)

I dont mind them standing around cause they guard me while I loot, sometimes I switch to other characters following and use them to loot also.

A button to toggle options to followers would be cool though. (could walk into an area and push a button to have followers Guard, Loot or Barricade)

[Kreddi]

Calling in other survivors is a possibility but it both takes influence and the survivor very often is slow

[Kreddi]

Another thing that annoys me, why can't i call in people on the radio and make them go somewhere i am curently not?
If i use the radio to search for a specific kind of resource why do i HAVE to go there first and THEN call in other people? Shouldn't they know there is loot there aswel?

[astrea_anerada]

Originally posted by Kreddi:

Another thing that annoys me, why can't i call in people on the radio and make them go somewhere i am curently not?
If i use the radio to search for a specific kind of resource why do i HAVE to go there first and THEN call in other people? Shouldn't they know there is loot there aswel?

I think the reason behind of it is for you to do a research in the building and if there a lot of items that you can't carry then you can call them. But don't forget that when you log out of the game, the game is still goes on and the other characters are scavenging the area for loot.

[Tarot1970]

I can live with them not looting. It's when they decide to go home and take off after only five minutes that annoys me. Usually, it's when I've just gotten to the infestation that I wanted the help to clear in the first place.

[astrea_anerada]

Tarot1970, maybe they got badly wounded and they have to go back home for security reasons? I did notice that after I took with me Maya for looting and we had some zombie battles but managed to get the stuff and return back home, I was badly wounded and tired so I thought that I should change to Maya to do some other quests. So when I change to Maya I noticed that she had 75% less health and I had to use medicing to full up her health.

[Kaje]

It is annoying that following survivors don't also loot with you, or that there isn't an option to ask them to take a specific item. Sometimes survivors you can get to follow you, but can't actively play, don't have a weapon - so they're just defending you with fists.

It would be nice to be able to search somewhere and then press a button to ask your follower to take the item or equip the item as a weapon.

[astrea_anerada]

Kaje, you mean that they did have a weapon but it got damaged after a lot of zombie killings or you mean that when you ask them to follow you they come without any weapons on them?

If it is the second case, it is better to take with you other survivors who have a weapon on them (you can check them on your journal). Well, this is what I always do if I need some help.

[Kaje]

The second case - but on this occasion he was the only chap who would follow me!

It'd still be a nice feature, though!

[astrea_anerada]

True. Well, at least they can slow down the zombies even with their hands ^_^

[Kreddi]

I must edmit that i'm slightly worried about this game.
The game is made by an indie company, like many other games recently, but it's already been out for a couple of months on xbox360.
I hope that this isn't just gonna be a straight port and when everything works they release it. Would be neat if they would add in features (Like we discussed in this thread) and then patch those into the xbox360 version aswel.