Followers: An Idea.

[Apis4]

OK... so time to be a critic....  Starfields companions and followers are a step backwards....   if Starfield made the same leap between it and Fallout 4 re followers/companions.... that FO4 made compared to Skyrim... the games indigenous vanilla companions/followers would be, natively, as is, out the box.... on the level of Vilja, Serana-SDA, I'm Darlene or Heather Casdin. 

 

THAT is how vastly improved Cait, or Curie or Hancock etc etc, are from Lydia et al. That was the VERY first thing which jumped out at me playing FO4, after meeting Piper.... I assumed Preston was just a fluke because he was the entry to the MM arc.... but then Piper and Nick Valentine made it clear that no, this was not just a revolution, but whole new era, a genesis moment, in BSG followers. More complex radiant dialogue, relevant quest dialogue with multiple conversation trees, and even the ability to ask their thoughts randomly any time, and sometimes it lead to some little conversations, plus their own story arcs and quests? 

 

C'est Magnifique!!!!!

 

So I was expecting the leap in Starfield to be equal to the one made between Skyrim and FO4. I did not truly hope that I could have followers on par with a Vilja or SDA Serana, an I'm Darlene, or a Healther Casdin... but I hoped we'd get close.... maybe a Xelzaz, or Sofia, or Inigo or Lucien, from jot, as indigenous vanilla companions. 

 

Now,. not only was I WRONG....but more... there feels like they left gaps themselves in the follower area. 

 

You get a follower for the Vanguard story.... and you get one for the Freestar Rangers.... you only get one for the SysDef arc, IF you side with the Crimson Fleet though.... Jesamine does not count... as she is available back on Gagarin if you take the good path.... but you get NO companion for completing the SysDef Arc on THEIR SIDE. 

 

Why? 

 

Likewise, you get no follower for the Ryujin Arc either, do you?

 

Why not? 

 

Wee cannot say what the Tackers Alliance will eventually become... but I doubt it will give us one either. 

 

So my mod idea/suggestion is to correct this. 

 

Make followers for those three factions, and make them followers which live up to what they SHOULD have been. If anyone is up for the challenge that is. 

 

But it is not as much work as you think... because there's THREE candidates, one for each faction, as faction companions already there.... now that is not much of reduction in work... but at least they are extant characters in game. 

 

Namely....  after you complete the Ryujin Arc, Imogene Salzo basically has no more role in the game... but you saved her life, you redeemed her, you exposed the person trying to frame her, and at best have her fired, and imprisoned, at worst... and more likely, taken out by operatives, or just tossed screaming off the Neon platform in to the deep to die. Is it not strange thereafter you are not even close friends, or she is open to a being a love interest? That she basically foists you off to a terminal, and maybe has a little small talk at best thereafter? 

 

Right there is a perfect candidate to become an immersive, deep, complex companion for the Ryujin faction Arc. 

 

As for the Trackers... the nameless woman on Cydonia, who gets your help with something, because she has been 'sat at a desk' after ... well she is bat sh*t crazy, so did something BSC....is easily replaceable by anyone, once you have explored her mini mission and all her dialogue.. there is no reason that any Tracker clones from one of the other TA recruiters in the game could not do her job.. Now, they do NOT at all HAVE to be females.... you could use one of the Trackers at the TA HQ... but that would only be for people who paid for the DLC.....the Cydonia recruiter could be someone anyone can help, and earn the favour of, right? 

 

She would be perfect for the TA companion

 

As for SysDef, there's that stand off-ish Pilot that eventually comes around .... who is always in the hall as you exit the lift... right there ready to be your best buddy once you earn it, right? Again... he does nothing... or seems not to... and having  space ace fighter pilot on team could be real handy!!!!  OR you could make an entirely new, fresh, companion, earnt through that faction. That goes for the previous two, too of course. 

 

But going flyboy, well again, he'd be perfect. 

 

All three just there, waiting, to be recoded, revoiced, reskilled, and made in to the ultimate companions that should have always been in the damn game!!!

 

Meh... just an idea, tossing seeds. 

 

 

Edited June 28 by Apis4