AI teammates need an "actually be USEFUL" command.

[meow]

Guard does nothing.

Fan Out does nothing.

Focus is worthless 90% of the time.

It'd be nice if the supposed S Rank Titan Slayers in my current squad would actually save other people from Titans so I don't have to constantly babysit the red shirts, but they never do. Frankly, I have no idea what they're even up to most of the time and they sure as hell aren't having even a hundredth of the impact I am having on the battlefield.

Useless squad members.

[Faramir]

Arlert is the only one who can make them useful with the order command

[ZOOCH716]

I guess if they were killing everything there wouldnt be much left for you to do?
Personally if im not using a character who actually can control the squad e.g. Armin(choose focus, press y to attack parts, invaluable with weak characters, brings down titans very fast) I just leave the squad on fan out at all times and destroy everything myself...never seem to need them with strong characters anyway.

[Your Mother's A Good Woman]

Focus acutally is useful. They target the body part you've highlighted. You just need to pay attention to their charge time on their icon. Once they're fully charged, they attack.

I just ran a mission using Eren. My henchmen attacked once their portrait was fully lit up. Then they did nothing until it fully charged again.

It's just likely most people miss it, because when you first highlight a titan, it's usually an undesirable body part, or you're moving quick, or the camera's on a weird angle, and you miss seeing them attack. Pay close attention to when you target a titan, and their portraits, and you'll likely see something happen.

[Your Mother's A Good Woman]

Also, Hange has the Tacticians Eyes skill to start with. It's not just Armin. It also seems like Jean and Christa can learn the skill too, considering their base leadership skill is in the same neighborhood.

[Harambe The Almighty]

Originally posted by meowreka:

Guard does nothing.

Fan Out does nothing.

Focus is worthless 90% of the time.

It'd be nice if the supposed S Rank Titan Slayers in my current squad would actually save other people from Titans so I don't have to constantly babysit the red shirts, but they never do. Frankly, I have no idea what they're even up to most of the time and they sure as hell aren't having even a hundredth of the impact I am having on the battlefield.

Useless squad members.

Focus isn't too bad, the AI does suffer in True Attack mode.

Focus does work pretty well SOMETIMES. It's because they need to recharge every time they try to hit, And a lot of times they miss because of the angle they're actually trying. I would say it's more 50/50 for Focus.

[Black Hammer]

Originally posted by pepemustard:

Also, Hange has the Tacticians Eyes skill to start with. It's not just Armin. It also seems like Jean and Christa can learn the skill too, considering their base leadership skill is in the same neighborhood.

I think it's just Armin, Henge, and Erwin, but I could be wrong.

[Sanada]

This must be your first Dynasty Warriors like game. AI teammates are almost always useless hahaha. Everyone dying left and right most of the time you can't do anything LOL.

[teravisor]

They aren't useless if you're playing some characters.
Sasha/Conny: teammates attract titan attention more because you have stealth skill.
Armin/Erwin/Hange: you have tactician's eyes so you can order them to attack part anytime you want.
Christa/Jean: those have leadership and skills that enhance teammates. They get a lot of additional damage from teammates after you strike enemy.

Eren/Mikasa/Levy are just stupid dps so if you play them, no wonders you think teammates are useless.
7 out of 10 characters get bonus from having teammates, 5 out of of 10 characters have teammates as their primary damage (after getting A/S ranks in team).
Who said they are useless?

P.S. Setting them to guard or fan out as Levy sometimes helps you not fail objective or disperse them when there's a lot of titans around. Not always though...

[OwO Enjoyer]

+levi gets more damage the more teammates are around

[Anelyn]

They are not useless by any length. If you are using C's most of the time no wonder they don't perform as you would expect. Try to get some A's and S's and then you will see what they can do - especially vs end lvl bosses when you activate battle signal.

For example, Christa isn't an amazing fighter nor can she directly command cadets like Armin, but boy she fills that battle signal really fast and it lasts a lot longer than for rest of characters. She simply melts with her squad things really fast.

[onieyez]

Levi's decisive battle signal makes all his teamates attack with him each time
and you only have 6 hours gameplay so i don't think you made it to True attack mode yet
True attack mode is where they are actually helpful in doing chip damage.

Guard is for when you want to go out and kill all the Titans, but don't want to defend those blue shields on the map.
But I don't use it, since I can always boost back to base and defend them.

[♥ Crimsy ♥]

I don't alomst never use the command maybe onec when I was playing as Armin and it work fine

[Saph]

Originally posted by Kurohamaru柔道:

Arlert is the only one who can make them useful with the order command

No, no he is not. Erwin also has the ability that changes the order to Attack and I have no doubt a couple of other characters can unlock it too.

[Harambe The Almighty]

Originally posted by Saph:

Originally posted by Kurohamaru柔道:

Arlert is the only one who can make them useful with the order command

No, no he is not. Erwin also has the ability that changes the order to Attack and I have no doubt a couple of other characters can unlock it too.

Yes but Armin can hold up to 6 canisters and 12 Grenades(not exactly sure about the grenades).

Armin's final ability increases the attack power of team mates the more that joins

Erwin can hold up to 5 canisters and 10 grenades.
Erwin's final ability increases the attack power of Decisive Battle.
Erwin is the only one with the order command that has chain attack.

Hange can also hold up to 4 canisters and 8 grenades.
Her ultimate is kinda meh, but the increase in Firebomb and Cannons to traps CAN come in handy. Her attack power does increase depending on how many limbs are off the titan which is a nice bonus.

[Anelyn]

I like Hange quite a lot for a squad leader since she at least gets swoop unlike Armin - which is quite important as far as your damage dealing goes, since you will spend a lot of time slicing normal titans as well, not just fighting bosses.

Also keep in mind that with the leader / resource type of characters you should make good use of cannons whenever they are available - that will save you a lot of gas and durability, since they can't compare with the fighters at speed of taking down targets vs resources invested.