Do the mercenaries keep coming or if you kill all of them will it just end?

[Turbid TG1]

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[Lerch Addams]

So far for me at level 70 they've kept coming.

It's looks like they've all been unique which is impressive.

[Rarda]

I have killed 197 and they have not stopped and have all been unique

[CursedPanther]

Mercenaries are unlimited and always randomly generated.

[Turbid TG1]

Originally posted by CursedPanther:

Mercenaries are unlimited and always randomly generated.

Ah, so it's just easier to pay off your bounty then. I thought in the menu it shows all the ones you killed plus undiscovered and eventually they all just get checked off over time. It would make sense now since they are basically the police in the game.

[meme]

Are they the best ones to recruit to the ship ?

[UncivilS3rvant]

Originally posted by Rarda:

I have killed 197 and they have not stopped and have all been unique

I've killed 281 in 213 hours.

I did wonder if they stopped at some point but they just keep coming...

[kro32]

They seem to wear out in an area after you've been there for awhile.

The first five or so come really quick then they really slow down to a trickle until you jump to another area then it seems to reset.

All I do is farm them now since there is nothing left to do.

[Lerch Addams]

Originally posted by SaturnVuk:

Are they the best ones to recruit to the ship ?

I've got a couple legendary mercs that are beasts during ship boarding events.

Use Ikaros and scope them out before you engage.

You'll see their 'quality' level (Epic, Legendary) and what skills they have.

[Lerch Addams]

Originally posted by Turbid TG1:

Originally posted by CursedPanther:

Mercenaries are unlimited and always randomly generated.

Ah, so it's just easier to pay off your bounty then. I thought in the menu it shows all the ones you killed plus undiscovered and eventually they all just get checked off over time. It would make sense now since they are basically the police in the game.

It's up to you what you want to do.

I don't mind being tracked by a few while i'm running around causing trouble.

It can get hairy when you're attacking a fort and one or two show up though.

[CursedPanther]

Originally posted by kro32:

They seem to wear out in an area after you've been there for awhile.

Bounty level will lessen over a period of time(apart from that gated story mission region) unless you deliberately keep being naughty.

Bounty hunters is a good and steady source for epic gears though.

[EbonHawk]

I don't remember their names, but out of the more than hundred in my game only 2 have repeated. And I mean that one pair of them, their given names were the same ,but the descriptors were different. And another pair had the same descriptor, but different names.

[Darth Wadewilson]

Originally posted by Turbid TG1:

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Few months ago I killed all the mercenaries. So as long as I didn't fast travel out they stayed dead. I had level 5 bounty which reduced to zero and I built it back up and still no one came.

The mercenary pool was only refreshed once I fast travelled out and let some in-game days pass.

[Panzerlied]

2,050 Mercs killed and I've only ever seen nicknames or first names repeated. Descriptions, gender, weapon layout, skills, etc are all randomized. They usually come in waves if you cause some trouble in a location, but can be found wandering around main roads, towns, cities, and the sea.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by Lerch Addams:

Originally posted by Turbid TG1:

Ah, so it's just easier to pay off your bounty then. I thought in the menu it shows all the ones you killed plus undiscovered and eventually they all just get checked off over time. It would make sense now since they are basically the police in the game.

It's up to you what you want to do.

I don't mind being tracked by a few while i'm running around causing trouble.

It can get hairy when you're attacking a fort and one or two show up though.

Yeah, that gets annoying in a hurry. Busy sniping dudes from afar, only to have the *MERC MUSIC* blare, which takes me out of my hidden state. It's fun the first few times, trying to get out of situations like that, but after awhile it becomes too much like Black Friday sales at a shopping mall.

I like getting the individual mercs one at a time, mainly because some of their names are very amusing, and I miss a few if they show up en masse. Such-and-such the Greasy Camel is my favorite so far, because he looked like one. Good thing these games don't come with Smell-o-Vision.

[pokerhabs]

Originally posted by UncivilS3rvant:

Originally posted by Rarda:

I have killed 197 and they have not stopped and have all been unique

I've killed 281 in 213 hours.

I did wonder if they stopped at some point but they just keep coming...

Same here, took a while to understand they were randomly generated and infinite. I only wish that when you kill a certain amount, some kind of non-randomly genrated mercenary boss comes in, or a cyclop.