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Companions

Hiring

Talk to a friendly NPC. "Travel with me" appears when all of these are true:

  • the NPC is for hire and nobody else has hired them,
  • you carry their price in Dukes,
  • your standing with their faction is high enough (most want Liked, 600),
  • you have a free follower slot (usually 2 followers per player).

If one is missing you'll see "Could I hire you?" instead, and they'll tell you why. Some NPCs work for a number of game days per payment; they leave when the time runs out and you can hire them again.

Orders

Order What they do
Follow Stay 2-5 m behind you, run to catch up. Left more than 40 m behind (you on foot), they appear beside you.
Stay Walk back to where you gave the order and hold there.
Guard Hold the spot, look around it, and attack enemies that come within about 14 m.
Hold a position Keep a spot 4 m from you on a compass side (N, NE, E ... NW), move with you, face outward.
Regroup Drop the fight and come back to you now; anyone more than 25 m away appears beside you.
Attack my target Go after the enemy nearest your crosshair (within 80 m).

The order wheel

  • One NPC: hold E on them, move to Orders and keep holding. The wheel opens; release E over an order.
  • The whole squad: hold ; anywhere, release over an order. Every follower gets it.
  • Positions opens a second page with the eight compass points around you, and Back.
  • Orders reach your NPCs at any distance.

You can also give the basic orders from the dialog (Orders).

Squad panel

Your followers are listed on the left of the screen: a color per NPC, an icon for their current order (crosshair while fighting), their name, a health bar that turns yellow then red, the distance, and an arrow pointing at them.

Change the key or hide the panel

Open Mods/DSD_NPCUtilities/Settings.xml: squadKey takes a Unity key name (Semicolon, Quote, Comma, Period, Slash, Backslash, Mouse3, Mouse4, F5...), squadHud="false" hides the panel.

Gear

  • Any melee weapon or gun works, modded ones included. Hold it and pick "Take what I'm holding". Whatever they carried before comes back to you.
  • Guns need ammo. "Here's ammo for that" gives them every round of that gun's ammo you carry, up to 300. They use their own ammo, round by round. When it runs out they put the gun away and fight with their fists.
  • "Give me your weapon back" returns the weapon and the rounds left.
  • If a companion dies, their weapon and ammo drop on the body.

On their own

  • They fight whatever attacks you, then whatever hostile comes near.
  • They heal slowly when not fighting.
  • Their aim improves with every kill.
  • They talk: they greet you, answer orders, call out enemies, shout when reloading, and chat now and then.
  • They never despawn and are saved with the world. If you log out, they wait and pick you up again when you return.
  • Their shots can't hurt you or your party.

Letting them go

Pick "We're done. Go your own way." in the dialog. Their gear comes back to you and they go back to wandering.