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bjoernr
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How does it work?
In the moment you reach lvl 15 a little window appears.
"New heroes could benefit from your experience. Check
the terminal in the renaissance Center for more informations!"
At this terminal you can create your first Sidekick/Companions.
A companions should get a maximum of five powers include the energy builder.
Energy Builder from start and powers with lvl 16/24/32/40.
Also your companion gets advantages Points. Enough to max all of his/her five powers.
Of course the game become easier when you have a sidekick so your hero gets a -30% HP and Damage Debuff
What does it need?
CO has already the Pet system, the powers and the costumes. I would love if they add different personalities like in the nemesis system. I think the system dont needs own missions and complex dialogues, but some one-liners would be nice. In SWTOR your companions say thigns when they get stunned in combat or have low HP.
Money!
++ Most things are already in CO and STO. Crytic "just" have to write codes.
++ Cryptic could sell a "Freeform Companion Token" for 10$ for silver players
++ Silver players would buy Archetypes for their sidekicks
++ Cryptic could sell more personalities like robot, Alien or ex-villain.
++ If you got a hideout you can have more sidekicks. Just one can follow you and the other are waiting in your hideout = peoples buy hideouts.
In the moment you reach lvl 15 a little window appears.
"New heroes could benefit from your experience. Check
the terminal in the renaissance Center for more informations!"
At this terminal you can create your first Sidekick/Companions.
A companions should get a maximum of five powers include the energy builder.
Energy Builder from start and powers with lvl 16/24/32/40.
Also your companion gets advantages Points. Enough to max all of his/her five powers.
Of course the game become easier when you have a sidekick so your hero gets a -30% HP and Damage Debuff
What does it need?
CO has already the Pet system, the powers and the costumes. I would love if they add different personalities like in the nemesis system. I think the system dont needs own missions and complex dialogues, but some one-liners would be nice. In SWTOR your companions say thigns when they get stunned in combat or have low HP.
Money!
++ Most things are already in CO and STO. Crytic "just" have to write codes.
++ Cryptic could sell a "Freeform Companion Token" for 10$ for silver players
++ Silver players would buy Archetypes for their sidekicks
++ Cryptic could sell more personalities like robot, Alien or ex-villain.
++ If you got a hideout you can have more sidekicks. Just one can follow you and the other are waiting in your hideout = peoples buy hideouts.
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I really HATE companions.
However if you were to call them Sidekicks, then it'd be alright.
In STO, you got Bridge Officers for Away Teams... Makes more sense, they also don't back talk or do anything at all, except kill things.
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Sorry I cant say anything nice about the OP's post because he has pretty much just lifted the explanation of companions from the TOR website.
I think its against rules to use that other mmo's full name here so I will stick with TOR if by some chance u dont know what that is google it then google TOR Companions then come back here and do this to the OP because he likes Star Wars.
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Sounds like it could be fun for some players but a "thorn in their side" for others to put it politely.
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second,the sidekick system(not companion) is being worked on by the devs,it was in the Until Field Report.The report also said it would function more like but not completly the same as the bridge officer thing in STO.
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it wasnt biowares first. it was on sto long before tor. however i will agree the op needed it to sound abit more co then tor.
but he does have some good ideas. imho i cant for my my sidekicks.
I would like it, if by companion play I could fill a team with my own characters from my own roster as NPC's, and they would lvl up at 10% of what the current PC levels up as.
That would give me a nerdgasm, but is unlikely to happen.
Even if I could fill a team with sidekicks that get made through something like the current nemesis system, that could be fun. (what? Batman totally has a team of sidekicks, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Huntress, Spoiler etc etc.
One thing though, I do not want to feel like a sidekick is mandatory for every character.
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Back in AD&D 1e (it's a pencil-and-paper tabletop RPG, kids - ask your parents), when your character hit 10th level, they could acquire an appropriate "home base" - a warrior might have a keep, a wizard his tower, a cleric his temple, etc. This would automatically attract a certain (random) number of followers, some of whom could be minor characters in their own right; these minor characters could then accompany you on further adventures. Many Dungeon Masters ignored this part, as it was found that many players simply could not keep track of what three or four different characters were doing, especially without metagaming, while DMs tended to have too much to do themselves to run everyone's followers as NPCs.
So while this might have been used in TOR (wouldn't know, haven't played it), the concept certainly has a long, respected provenance in RPGs.
That being said, given the nature of this game, I'd much rather it worked along the lines of BOFFs, or even DOFFs (STO's Duty OFFicer system) than treating the Sidekicks as loyal hirelings who come along ALL THE TIME. Can you imagine a Takofanes fight with not only all those heroes, but every one having a Sidekick or two?
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Guild Wars did this so it's not out of the question, though it required the characters to be max level.
:rolleyes:
I've only played the game briefly, and then never past tutorial.
I just curled into a ball upon imagining having Iron Clad following me around like in the MI Crisis and talking me to death. That could make me leave this game... I couldn't take it.
But a custom, unlimited sidekick would be a cool Z-Store item. Or maybe you could unlock one when your hero turns lvl 40. I feel like lvl 15 is too early.
Id make my pet shout "We must shut down all the beacons!"
Id be the most popular person in the group, me thinks :biggrin:
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ether the game adjusts when you have your sidekick or everything falls out of proportion.
true, they could adjust the spawn count for indoor missions. like they do for sto, 4 sks and you could count as a full team. and we can get a full team spawn count of enemies.
Bridge Officers. Duty Officers are a completely different system.
They're pretty standard MMO pets. They follow you around and fight with you. CO already has that in summonable pets and sidekick devices.
The difference is that they're customizable. Bridge Officers begin as items. You can either activate them to add the officer to your roster (Where you can edit their costume and name, but not race, gender or Officer type but that's probably not relevant to CO) or you can consume the item to teach one of their skills to an existing Bridge Officer on your roster.
Alongside regular experience you also gain Bridge Officer points which allow you to level up their skills and eventually ranks.
I play STO more than CO there isnt anything like that in STO >_>
Ive also played TOR theres a big difference between duty officers and idiot AI's that are dumber than Natalya from Goldeneye 64.
At least you could head shot Natalya.
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no agruement there, all i was saying is sto had sidekicks long before tor came out.
It did? *scratches head* Uh...
Trying to remember just one...
Nope... nothing's coming up... Unless you mean animals and droids... Do you mean animals and droids?
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Which is hilarious since STO seems to pretty much be phasing BOffs out. 19th February, 2011 was the last time there was a mission released that actually allowed you to use a full away team, and since then there's been a grand total of one mission where you could use one BOff released. The rest of the events and missions (of which admittedly there haven't been many) have all been Captains only...
Actually I am sooooo hoping it's a port of STO's Duty Officer system. I think sending my own "Justice League" superhero sidekicks out into the world on their own crime-fighting missions would be ultra cool.
Oh please, oh please, oh please.... :biggrin:
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Anyways depending on how cryptic roll on what sidekicks actually 'do' within that STO lifted officer system they coudl use reading some of these ideas, just not the debuff one.
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Bah, we had companions as far back as Zork. You heard me. ZORK!
Only problem was the dang Gru companion keep trying to eat me.
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Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
I have no idea what LARP is.
Have do admit that i never played baldurs gate I and II. First Bioware RPG was Kotor.
On an unrelated note: KOTOR was awesome!!!!
But I don't think CO needs anything more than Sidekicks and pets. If you want a companion, you just spam "LFM 4 NemCon" in zone chat...
Or you could of looked it up
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Depends on from which country he is. In Germany i can't watch that video, because of the
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You're at least a year out as I was able to take a full compliment of BoFFs with me on the mission to retrieve the captured changeling from the federation prision.
EDIT-Quoted wrong post
Would actually say do play it ,theres a remake in the works or done or something so its a good time to have a look.
Its still BIOWARES best game.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!