Switching party member

[pph2102]

i know this game only allow up to four party member.
but could you dismiss them temporary and recruit other character ?

i don't wanna stick my party to my first four member joined

[jacobellinger]

I havent tried it but I know dismissing them makes them dislike you so you might have to bribe them next time you want them in your party.

[pph2102]

how about hired/mercenary companion ? (like in DOS 1)

i'm planning hire them just to upgrade his/her crafting skill to the max and to craft high level equipment/item
then dismiss them after the item created

[Zorpen]

Originally posted by pph2102:

how about hired/mercenary companion ? (like in DOS 1)

i'm planning hire them just to upgrade his/her crafting skill to the max and to craft high level equipment/item
then dismiss them after the item created

Yes, there are mercenaries for hire after act I.

[Sombrero]

Originally posted by pph2102:

i know this game only allow up to four party member.
but could you dismiss them temporary and recruit other character ?

i don't wanna stick my party to my first four member joined

Not only you can switch up your party but it will happen more often than in the previous game because your party members may decide to leave your party or straight up try to kill you depending how your dialogues / choices go.

And as soon as you finish the Prologue of the game you gain access to respec and mercenaries so you can remake your team entirely and even use hiremen to fill-up your holes in your party eventually. (we never saw them yet so hard to tell how they will be exactly)

[Agiond]

you can change party members. Just dismiss one and he'll go where you recruited him (if you are on fort joy. Past that i guess they'll be in the ship). Tho i did not notice them getting a drop in relationship for dismissing them.

[pph2102]

Originally posted by Zorpen:

Originally posted by pph2102:

how about hired/mercenary companion ? (like in DOS 1)

i'm planning hire them just to upgrade his/her crafting skill to the max and to craft high level equipment/item
then dismiss them after the item created

Yes, there are mercenaries for hire after act I.

so you could hire mercenaries, but in order to use them you must dismiss one (or more) your party member at the cost bribing him/her to rejoined later ?

[Sombrero]

Originally posted by Agiond:

you can change party members. Just dismiss one and he'll go where you recruited him (if you are on fort joy. Past that i guess they'll be in the ship). Tho i did not notice them getting a drop in relationship for dismissing them.

Well when you dismiss them it's more like "I need a break if you don't mind let's catch-up later".

[Zorpen]

Originally posted by pph2102:

Originally posted by Zorpen:

Yes, there are mercenaries for hire after act I.

so you could hire mercenaries, but in order to use them you must dismiss one (or more) your party member at the cost bribing him/her to rejoined later ?

I don't know about bribing them, but yes, you can "dismiss" companion, take mercenary, and then hire companion again.

[pph2102]

Originally posted by Sombrero:

Originally posted by pph2102:

i know this game only allow up to four party member.
but could you dismiss them temporary and recruit other character ?

i don't wanna stick my party to my first four member joined

Not only you can switch up your party but it will happen more often than in the previous game because your party members may decide to leave your party or straight up try to kill you depending how your dialogues / choices go.

And as soon as you finish the Prologue of the game you gain access to respec and mercenaries so you can remake your team entirely and even use hiremen to fill-up your holes in your party eventually. (we never saw them yet so hard to tell how they will be exactly)

ok, so it's like mass effect 3 or andromeda party system ?

[Uottafac]

Usually when an NPC gets offended you'll see a red text on their head and that never happened to me when i dismissed someone like the Prince and Sebille.

[pph2102]

let's say i start a new game, create a custom character (not origin story),
in the middle of my game , three of my friend join my game also with custom character.
after this scenario, could we recruit the other six "origin character" ?,
so our "squad member" will be ten in total. four from custom character and six from origin story

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by pph2102:

i know this game only allow up to four party member.
but could you dismiss them temporary and recruit other character ?

i don't wanna stick my party to my first four member joined

Yes you can, that's what the "homestead" aka player base is for, among other things, to serve as a gathering spot for those companions/followers you have unlocked but currently don't want tagging along.

[Strawbs]

Originally posted by pph2102:

let's say i start a new game, create a custom character (not origin story),
in the middle of my game , three of my friend join my game also with custom character.
after this scenario, could we recruit the other six "origin character" ?,
so our "squad member" will be ten in total. four from custom character and six from origin story

As far as I know, there is a limit of 4 party members at any time.

[Ladrim]

If you can switch between party members , does that mean that you can do ALL their quests (like in Mass effect, dragon age etc )? i dont want to replay the game again once its over, so i want to try to do all the stuff i can in my first playthrough

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Ladrim:

If you can switch between party members , does that mean that you can do ALL their quests? i dont want to replay the game again once its over, so i want to try to do all the stuff i can in my first playthrough

Hm, should technically be possible, although that would be very hard to do without a guide... we already know from the EA that there are cases where Origin Quests conflict with one another, quite intentionally, so for instance if you took Lohse with you first, there will be some NPCs that she just wants to kill, whereas the Red Prince would have needed to question those NPCs, just as a random example from the very earliest minutes in Fort Joy.