Roman always fails

[Master Gnocco]

I'm sure my gaming style is flawed, but I never, ever got the good ending with Roman. Either he becomes a junkie and dies or he murders someone and ends up in jail. In my last game I made sure he never was out of smokes, unluckiliy there weren't any maps to perform heroic deeds but he personally had every single positive interaction with neighbors, he dug up the victims, protected the young lady and didn't take the earrings, gave meds and food to kids, heck he was like a superhero and in the epilogue he died from drug abuse. Should I stick to my original plan of sending him to murder innocent civilians, so the other survivors will have plenty of unowned stuff to raid, and then have him killed in action?

[SpaceBallsJim]

yea roman is great, but lately i tent to take police officer custom character as a defender... or boris even more often... in case marko gets injured or ill, boris takes over looting, but get boring to do runs with same characters all the time... marin, katia, marko and roman... those 4 are way way op... and runs are super easy with em...

[znds]

For my gameplays so far, let Roman be only the guard. Let others scavenge. Avoid fights at all costs. And if there's no other way - let Roman kill only Bandits. I like playing Roman and Katia and I rarely let Roman scavenge. Of course, sleep, food, cigarettes etc. are must haves, that's beyond doubt :)

[Master Gnocco]

Originally posted by SpaceBallsJim:

yea roman is great, but lately i tent to take police officer custom character as a defender... or boris even more often... in case marko gets injured or ill, boris takes over looting, but get boring to do runs with same characters all the time... marin, katia, marko and roman... those 4 are way way op... and runs are super easy with em...

Originally posted by znds:

For my gameplays so far, let Roman be only the guard. Let others scavenge. Avoid fights at all costs. And if there's no other way - let Roman kill only Bandits. I like playing Roman and Katia and I rarely let Roman scavenge. Of course, sleep, food, cigarettes etc. are must haves, that's beyond doubt :)

From a power-playerish point of view Roman is great, but my point is that in the epilogue he always ends up in jail for murder or becomes a junkie and dies. He's a sadness sinkhole. Anyway I stopped playing at the moment, the game gets repetitive after a while, I tried the Father's promise story and fell asleep out of boredom, you are on a rail track with no choices whatsoever.

[kaganpunchwood]

Most characters you can feed on days 5,8,11 etc, basically every 3 days after day 5 until you have enough food to feed people more.

Roman (and Livia) are different and you need to feed them on day 3, 5, 7, 9 etc (every other day after day 3) and also med them up in case of sickness or injury, else Roman is liable to beat the house up or Livia leaves.

If you have untreated sicknesses with other characters, or go on civilian killing sprees that leads to sadness and depression overall in the household, then that could trigger Roman (or Livia), so avoid those things, keep up with the feeding/med schedule and no problems.

[ProtecTron]

Originally posted by giovanniferal:

I'm sure my gaming style is flawed, but I never, ever got the good ending with Roman. Either he becomes a junkie and dies or he murders someone and ends up in jail ...

He's not the good guy you want as a friend when the war's over. He is the usefull party member in determined situations, helps the group doing the dirty work and stays alive, sheltered and around good people trying to work his emotions and backstory with him to be content. If he f***s up afterwards, that his problem.

[PatchAdams]

The Roman/Katia scenario is particularly harsh for a large number of reasons, and depending on RNG, I sometimes make the calculated decision to let him go and die in a blaze of glory fighting bandits or militia.

Otherwise, he is often more harm than use to the other survivors in this setup.