Favorite companion?

[MTV]

Mine is Racter. Because I like Riggers and his drone is so cool.

Gaichu is my second favorite.

[HoroSaga]

I liked them all, though if I had to pick a favorite I'd go with Gobbet. She's already pretty entertaining by herself, but Madness and Folly are icing on the cake.

Just a shame that she kind of sucks, from a character build standpoint. By the end of the game, she was only hitting with one out of every four shots. :P

[MTV]

Originally posted by HoroSaga:

I liked them all, though if I had to pick a favorite I'd go with Gobbet. She's already pretty entertaining by herself, but Madness and Folly are icing on the cake.

Just a shame that she kind of sucks, from a character build standpoint. By the end of the game, she was only hitting with one out of every four shots. :P

Gobbet is cool. I like her better than dietre. I don't really bring her on runs though. I'm not a Shaman fan. The only good they got is haste. That alone isn't worth it though. I think drones make better minions.

I don't really care for Is0bell and Duncan. Is0bell is kinda whiney. She's good in combat at least. So I bring her along.

Duncan is just an Eiger clone.

I don't dislike any of them though. I'm just not a big Duncan/Is0Bell fan.

[joefitts63]

Originally posted by HoroSaga:

I liked them all, though if I had to pick a favorite I'd go with Gobbet. She's already pretty entertaining by herself, but Madness and Folly are icing on the cake.

Just a shame that she kind of sucks, from a character build standpoint. By the end of the game, she was only hitting with one out of every four shots. :P

If Gobbet is firing her weapon, you are using her wrong. She shouldn't even have the damn thing; she is useless with it.

[HoroSaga]

Originally posted by joefitts63:

If Gobbet is firing her weapon, you are using her wrong. She shouldn't even have the damn thing; she is useless with it.

Well, I use her for spells when I can, but those all have cooldowns. I also use her for spirits when I can, but those have very limited availability throughout the game. Unfortunately, that means she has a whole lot of leftover Action Points that get blown on her shooting at nothing with her submachine gun.

[The Neen]

Gobbet and Gaichu. Gaichu is a supreme badass, and i love his verbal spar with that one vampire.

Gobbet is adorable and entertaining as hell, even if shes filthy. And ive actually found her fairly useful in team settings purely as a spellcaster and summoner.

Also hasting Gaichu in heaven stance, everything dies so quick. Hes so savagely powerful, i love that ghoul.

[Terra]

Racter is probably the best combat companion. His drone lives up to its name, because it's basically unkillable. The fact that you can give it 5 AP and buff its accuracy is just icing on the cake.

Is0bel is the resident Decker, so she's invaluable if you're not playing a decker yourself.

Gobbet is cool, but like all shamans she's kind of bad. I feel like this is a result of the Astral never making it into the game in any meaningful way.

Duncan is a slightly better and slightly worse Eiger. He's good for hosing fools down with full-auto.

I haven't actually gotten into a fight with Gaichu, but he's probably an unstoppable killing machine.

[Happyscientist]

Racter: Best personality, ok in combat (with drone).
Duncan: Most useful in combat but has all the personality of bran flakes.
Gobbet: Second best personality, bloody useless in combat (sorry I just cant find a use for shamans)
Is0bel: average.
Gaichu: Not bad in combat but needs more dodge/armor/hp.
Carter: Feels like she would have been interesting, sadly we will never really know.

[4 / / itchy tasty]

Gobbet is my number one--I kept her in slot two the whole damn time. Totally hilarious and that haste/aim combo on either Gaichu or Duncan just ruined fools. The summon token was a great back pocket too.

After that it's pretty much all of them, great character writing. Maximum Law had me laughing so hard throughout even if he isn't a companion.

[joefitts63]

Between Maximum Law and the Shadowland message threads, someone on the dev team definitely has a sense of humor.

[Balt]

Originally posted by M'aiq:

Mine is Racter. Because I like Riggers and his drone is so cool.

Gaichu is my second favorite.

I consider Racter as en evil psycho since my first discussion w/ him, never runned together and fired him as soon as he suggested.

I killed Raichu after a little talk... Seemed cool for a ghul but... he's still a ghul !

*rp extremist*

That being said, I love Gobbet & Is0bel. Duncan is fun too. Can't name a fav between the 2 ladies, I guess... The first one who will accept to sleep w/ me? *.*

[Wood Elf Smalls]

gobbet hasting my melees->room turns into a blood orgy

smgs overall feel pretty weak though. I usually keep her hasting and healing, and ocasionally pulling enemies out of cover with the flush smg skill so isobel can drop them with her ridiculously strong pistol.

[Erudite]

Firstly, to address some of the negativity towards Shamans: Conjuration is a stellar support discipline. As itchy tasty above noted, Haste/Aim comboing, along with +Armor, spontaneous, on-call cover with barriers and stacking is a force multiplier that makes existing badasses just that much more scary.

As for favorites.. full disclosure, I got a bit of a thing for Gobbet, rats' nest and all. She's got an awesome personality, along with natural flaws and realistic baggage that understandably colors her character, but doesn't incite her to mope about like a self-loathing imbecile.

But despite my bias for her, Racter's just downright -fascinating-, could see him being a great anti-hero or circumstantial enemy, but one with mutual respect and genuine intelligence, and it's the fact that while he is very well educated, articulate, skilled and accomplished, he rarely (maybe never) condescends the MC and speaks to them as an equal. He also readily acknowledges his failings regarding mysticism, yet even so respects and embraces the possibilities it can offer his research. Also, like Madness and Folly, I totally dig his relationship with his.. well, "child".

Gaichu is also great, I enjoy Is0bella's Matrix personality and Duncan.. you know, he wears the "matured sidekick" hat well enough. I enjoy that he's a heavy that isn't brick-dense: he actually -listens- to you when you make it a point to go into y'all's past.

Enjoyment all around, really, but Gobbet and Racter get the most fist-bumps. Is0bella by proxy, since I need a Decker in every run.

[CountZero]

Gobbet: Hasting my street samurai adept and Gaichu = Broken game. Her aim buff and armor debuff just makes it unfair to the opposing side. Plus, she has a likeable personality to boot.

is0bel: Meh, I usually play as a decker too (somewhat). I never bring her along unless she's undroppable in a mission.

Duncan: Like someone alluded to earlier, he has all the personality of a turnip. An Eiger replacement that simply moped around the boat all of the time. His combat ability is pretty good, but there are more entertaining characters to bring along for a shadowrun.

Racter: An evil psycho mad scientist of a Russian? Join up! His robo-pal/killing machine helps out a bit too. Together, they outshine Duncan.

Gaichu: Everyone's favorite Zombie/Samurai/Killing Machine. Armed with the Emperor Sword, together with my samurai adept with his Distant Storms Foretold sword, the battlefield becomes stunlock city.

My preferred crew: Racter, Gaichu and Gobbet.

[Balt]

Damn, so few love for Is0bel !
1st: she's cute
2nd: she's not "whiny", all her "fresh memories" story is well built and ANYONE would have complained about it at first... Still she took the hit for the team and (at least where I am) managed to stay strong.
3rd: she's not as cold as you seem to think and actually finding the lines that will keep her in a good mood is quite interesting (when Gobbet, that I also like, is more like "Yeah I'm cool and all that, but I don't really care about what you say to me)

I don't know, I really like the dwarf... I'm weird right? I knew that... :/
(and yes, her matrix shape is DOPE ! )

My team: always Gobbet, Is0 & Duncan, except once I took Eos(? The Felicia Day doppleganger) instead of Gun Show

ps: reading your messages, I feel like Racter & Gaichu are both pure killing machines... Well, I play in hard and I never needed those freaky monsters :P Eat that, chums !

[Dorok]

Personality/companion point of view, and only for now after few missions:
1. Gobbet, but it seems her personality development is becoming a bit weak so it can change.

Pure mission team design:
1. Gobbet, efficient and because she is 1 in previous section.
2. Duncan

EDIT: Is0bel is certainly very cute but she is a closed character, a little bit like Glory, but for me Glory had something interesting that triggered my curiosity, and Is0bel hasn't it yet, but I guess dig it and have her more open could change the picture.

But Is0bel mission which is the first companion mission I got, was sort of epic even if bizarre too. :-) Great mission.