[LIGHT SPOILERS] Squadmates issue

[Duran Duran - INVISIBLE]

Hey guys, I've been handling the desert fine thanks to light armor and high agility build but my squadmates can't hit for ♥♥♥♥ and keep dying, even high level ones (I had level 12 guys from Rennes). Anyone know how to improve their survivability?

[MurderDethKillz]

So it's extreme fatigue that is killing your guys and their abilities. It's punishing your whole team round after round and even if you take water, they can't. Basically they turn into meat shields so enemy is hitting something else besides you.

This is a bit of a spoiler but you asked.... not everyone that goes in desert is coming back... no matter what you do. It's albino white folks from normally cloudy Europe going into completely foreign desert environment in armor / human cooking shells. In RL they didn't do very well either.

[Duran Duran - INVISIBLE]

oh yeah sorry for the spoiler I'll change the title

[Duran Duran - INVISIBLE]

Originally posted by MurderDethKillz:

So it's extreme fatigue that is killing your guys and their abilities. It's punishing your whole team round after round and even if you take water, they can't. Basically they turn into meat shields so enemy is hitting something else besides you.

This is a bit of a spoiler but you asked.... not everyone that goes in desert is coming back... no matter what you do. It's albino white folks from normally cloudy Europe going into completely foreign desert environment in armor / human cooking shells. In RL they didn't do very well either.

I see, so I'm better off focusing on my character and keeping some cheap allies as human shields. Thanks for the advice!

[death and rebirth]

Originally posted by cannelloni steeple:

Originally posted by MurderDethKillz:

So it's extreme fatigue that is killing your guys and their abilities. It's punishing your whole team round after round and even if you take water, they can't. Basically they turn into meat shields so enemy is hitting something else besides you.

This is a bit of a spoiler but you asked.... not everyone that goes in desert is coming back... no matter what you do. It's albino white folks from normally cloudy Europe going into completely foreign desert environment in armor / human cooking shells. In RL they didn't do very well either.

I see, so I'm better off focusing on my character and keeping some cheap allies as human shields. Thanks for the advice!

In patch 1.09 (should be coming in a couple of weeks) I'll introduce some new squad-related stuff that might help your men to perform better in the desert. But generally speaking there isn't any real solution to this problem other than general recommendations like - recruit more capable allies (knights, men-at-arms, highwaymen), level them up and try to keep them alive in battle by rotating them in time and neutralizing major threats yourself.

Some time after new year's holidays I intend to do a major update to the squad mechanics that would allow the player to manually select the squadmates' gear and weapons. That would give you more freedom in improving their suvivability.