Decent companions?

[Fadden]

I hope that the companions are half decent in Tyranny and not like PoE where to have any kind of okay companion you had to take the "build from scratch" option but you had to ditch the companion quests. Please...don't add ♥♥♥♥♥♥ companions.

[Stoibs]

Eh? What was wrong with the actual written characters in Pillars?
I'm learning more and more from these forums that there are actually people out there that built their own party members as an aside. Never known anyone personally to do that.

I loved my party of established canonical characters.

[Hathur]

Weird, I never made custom characters in POE, only used the story companions as almost all of them were quite interesting to have around (though Durance was an ass and got on my nerves.. I eventually booted his ass, was sick of his attitude).

[Fadden]

in the harder difficulties, the story companions were nowhere near good enough, you had to create your own to have their stats right to make it work. I loved the POE companion stories and quests, they were quite good! I was very sad when they were not usable in the higher difficulties :(

[♡ Katalina Aryze ♡]

This game has some of the best rpg companions I've seen in a long time. Check out thre games' website and read the short stories which tell of the character's back stories.

[Spaceboy]

Every companion has multiple viable builds in this game. As a results I think the character stories are gonna be more flushed out (as the devs are sure you're gonna be using them). Even more quality over quantity this time.

[Hathur]

Originally posted by Fadden:

in the harder difficulties, the story companions were nowhere near good enough, you had to create your own to have their stats right to make it work. I loved the POE companion stories and quests, they were quite good! I was very sad when they were not usable in the higher difficulties :(

finished it on path of the damned difficulty using only story companions, nothing wrong with them.

[la_nague]

Originally posted by Hathur:

Originally posted by Fadden:

in the harder difficulties, the story companions were nowhere near good enough, you had to create your own to have their stats right to make it work. I loved the POE companion stories and quests, they were quite good! I was very sad when they were not usable in the higher difficulties :(

finished it on path of the damned difficulty using only story companions, nothing wrong with them.

yeah there is, they are a big handicap.
But you can still finish the game with them.

But their builds were really bad and you cant correct the stats without cheating.

[BarcaS]

Originally posted by la_nague:

Originally posted by Hathur:

finished it on path of the damned difficulty using only story companions, nothing wrong with them.

yeah there is, they are a big handicap.
But you can still finish the game with them.

But their builds were really bad and you cant correct the stats without cheating.

So, game could be finished without any tinkering of companions. Where is the problem then? I can min-max my companions' stats and make them stronger so that means original ones suck?

Good grief I played D&D with that kind of people. No fun.

[Krigsprästen]

The companions are OK-ish, apart from the fact that there's an absolutely abysmal number of them (6 in grand total, 3 of which you can have with you at any time) and that several of them are very snowflake-y; one is completely encased in a single armour, meaning that unless you use heavy armour yourself, all heavy armour in the game is useless, one is a literal half-animal, and one has a completely unique mechanic different from the others and the player, reminiscent of Chanters in Pillars of Eternity (and she can't remove her helmet, which is a very minor annoyance compared to same-armour-forever-guy).

Kinda frustrating turnout, tbqh. The game is overall better in many departments, compared to Pillars of Eternity, but it's overall less polished, too.

Also, they somehow managed to make a worse-looking UI with less functionality, and that really took me by surprise after all the ♥♥♥♥ they got for PoE on that account.

[Nauzhror]

Originally posted by Fadden:

in the harder difficulties, the story companions were nowhere near good enough, you had to create your own to have their stats right to make it work. I loved the POE companion stories and quests, they were quite good! I was very sad when they were not usable in the higher difficulties :(

They were very usable. I beat the game multiple times in path of the damned, and never used anything but the story characters.

Not being as strong as possible does not mean "weak" or "too weak".

[Lightning]

Really wish they would have allowed us the 6 party member team from pillars so we can get all of the characters in a party you know lol

[Adanu]

The only companion I really, really wish they had changed was Barik. The rest are tolerable in their own ways, but I really wish I could have just hired a mercenary and kicked that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ back to the legion instead of listening to him ♥♥♥♥♥ and moan about his pride being wounded.

Then I'd like to go and find his unit and kill them all, just to watch him eat his words.

[Fadden]

Originally posted by Adanu:

The only companion I really, really wish they had changed was Barik. The rest are tolerable in their own ways, but I really wish I could have just hired a mercenary and kicked that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ back to the legion instead of listening to him ♥♥♥♥♥ and moan about his pride being wounded.

Then I'd like to go and find his unit and kill them all, just to watch him eat his words.

savage lol

[Adanu]

Originally posted by Fadden:

Originally posted by Adanu:

The only companion I really, really wish they had changed was Barik. The rest are tolerable in their own ways, but I really wish I could have just hired a mercenary and kicked that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ back to the legion instead of listening to him ♥♥♥♥♥ and moan about his pride being wounded.

Then I'd like to go and find his unit and kill them all, just to watch him eat his words.

savage lol

When I'm slaughtering four Disfavored in each engagement like cattle, trying to tell me they're invincible in every other sentence is going to make me eyeroll for hours. This ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is blindingly prideful and I wish I had another tank to get rid of him for.