[Solved] Alexander missing

[Macro Tofu]

Isn't he suppose to appear at Red Fighter after certain areas are built? I finished them all and still never saw him. Are there any other prerequisite?

Solution: The skin worm random encounter is a prerequisite, it starts to trigger after PC is level 3 or higher.

[Shrike Alfare]

I don't really understand this either since apparently you're not the only one who has this problem.

In my case he appears right after I built all the rooms and provide fuel for the generator and stuff.

[Dorok]

In previous game version it was consistent, build Rest area (which means not ask for the build but get the information that the build is done), have perception 6 or more, then leave the house, dialog with him and pick the right dialog choices.

If you build the rest area and leave the house and don't have PER 6, then bye to Alexander he won't join, will leave and will disappear.

You can met him sooner in the game in start town, but in my experience you can't lost him at this point, he can't join either.

The problem is I don't know for last versions of the game.

[Macro Tofu]

Originally posted by Shriking Alf:

I don't really understand this either since apparently you're not the only one who has this problem.

In my case he appears right after I built all the rooms and provide fuel for the generator and stuff.

I searched a little bit, seems all people who had the same problem are in their second playthrough. So perhaps we missed something or we went to Red Fighter too quickly?

Beside that, there is one post mentioned that the random parasite/skin worm encounter is needed before Alex can appear at Red Fighter, I never triggered this encounter as well, I wonder why.

[Dorok]

The link with the Parasite was wrong in older version of the game, I had play without it and never without Alexander.

For rushing it, I did play trying get them fast, but probably never before level 10 if not a bit higher.

A few time I had to load back because it's easy to forget boost personality before leaving the house. In that case I don't remind how it works if there's a dialog with many questions or a quick dialog that can be skipped with a miss click.

This dialog is triggered for you, it's Alexander that starts it not you, there's perhaps a bug related to that mechanism.

[Macro Tofu]

Originally posted by Dorok:

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I have 10 per, so there should be no problem of that. Another thing that I noticed is that after I built the rest area the tech guy showed up, not Alex.

[Dorok]

Tech guy? Do you mean the ammo maker? He spawn when the workbench is done, no link with Rest area.

Moreover I'm not sure but I think he spawn inside the house, Alexander always spawn outside of house, just at right of exit door, the right of character leaving the house. He is sit on a bench if I remind well, but he stand up and talk to main character.

[Shrike Alfare]

Originally posted by Macro Tofu:

Originally posted by Dorok:

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I have 10 per, so there should be no problem of that. Another thing that I noticed is that after I built the rest area the tech guy showed up, not Alex.

If you mean the ammo making guy, I think he does appear before Alex. So I guess there's a chance you only need to wait out and continue the game.

FYI, Alex was in the later batch of the new visitors. I already got the ant guy and the couple from the factory and also the cow guy before he appears.

If you want to try, I got the worm event around the area of Otradnoye but I really don't think it's a prerequisite for getting him.

[Dorok]

Except if it's changed, Alexander spawn was always fix, after Rest build is finished, when you leave the house.

The ammo maker spawn when the Workbench is build, so the order of spawning between Alexander and the ammo maker is just coming from the order of building you choose.

[Macro Tofu]

Originally posted by Shriking Alf:

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I'll keep play and see when he'll show up then

[Macro Tofu]

Originally posted by Dorok:

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The ammo maker showed up after the first upgrade is finished (rest area, bathroom, etc.). At least in my game he is. He stay with the tinker and will move down stair after workbench is upgraded.

[Dorok]

I think it's been changed, or I don't remind well.

[Macro Tofu]

Can confirm that the skin worm random encounter is a prerequisite for Alex to appear. I got Alex at level 7 after the encounter.

[Dorok]

It's proving nothing if it's not right after the encounter. But it could be still true, I won't affirm anything.

[Shrike Alfare]

Originally posted by Macro Tofu:

Can confirm that the skin worm random encounter is a prerequisite for Alex to appear. I got Alex at level 7 after the encounter.

Wow. Seriously? Can you confirm one more thing?

Did you meet Alexander at Otradonye? If you did, was it before or after the skin worm random encounter?

[Dorok]

Pretty sure it changed then, I played like 15 times the game past getting Alexander, he always spawned right after Rest was build and main character leave the house, then forced dialog and no more chance it ever happen again.

For Otradonye, often I get Alexander event, often I didn't, when it happened it was always very soon in game.

For Worms event, I get it along a play quite more often than not, but it was always not much late in game, but later than Alexander at Otradonye, and quite sooner than freeing Red Fighter and building Rest Area.

As there's no way to force Worms event, it's quite a design bug to disable a companion because of it. There's perhaps now a link, but it could as well be report as a bug.