Are there any mods to have additional party members out?

[carebearcutie]

I am looking for a mod that lets me have more than 4 party members out in battle. Is there such a thing? Thanks :3.

[Thandal]

Welcome, carebearcutie!

 

For truly adding more Companions to your Party, no. There are no mods that let you expand the fully interactive party size beyond four. It appears to be hard-coded that way into the Eclipse game engine, so no modder can do anything about it.

 

There are two partial exceptions to this:

 

1. The mod "Extra Dog Slot" will let you add your Mabari hound to the party using the "Summoned Creature" slot. Full control is possible, just as if Dog were add to your party the usual way. (Although you do have to select him directly before seeing his inventory/talent specs.)

 

2. The console command "runscript zz_addparty [NPCName]" will immediately add the named Companion to your party. But you will NOT have full control. You can select the character's movement desinations and attack targets, but you cannot choose tactics or adjust inventory, (they will have default armour/weapons, and use the AI for actions) and they will not participate in conversations or party banter. While this DOES allow you to break the 4-member rule, (5-member, using EDS above) it's not much fun.

 

One additional warning about using "zz_addparty", if you add a Companion whom you have not yet recruited in the game, it can break plot-flag settings so that you're stuck. You will never be able to advance the story beyond certain points because you can no longer trigger the events to do so.

[carebearcutie]

Welcome, carebearcutie!

 

For truly adding more Companions to your Party, no. There are no mods that let you expand the fully interactive party size beyond four. It appears to be hard-coded that way into the Eclipse game engine, so no modder can do anything about it.

 

There are two partial exceptions to this:

 

1. The mod "Extra Dog Slot" will let you add your Mabari hound to the party using the "Summoned Creature" slot. Full control is possible, just as if Dog were add to your party the usual way. (Although you do have to select him directly before seeing his inventory/talent specs.)

 

2. The console command "runscript zz_addparty [NPCName]" will immediately add the named Companion to your party. But you will NOT have full control. You can select the character's movement desinations and attack targets, but you cannot choose tactics or adjust inventory, (they will have default armour/weapons, and use the AI for actions) and they will not participate in conversations or party banter. While this DOES allow you to break the 4-member rule, (5-member, using EDS above) it's not much fun.

 

One additional warning about using "zz_addparty", if you add a Companion whom you have not yet recruited in the game, it can break plot-flag settings so that you're stuck. You will never be able to advance the story beyond certain points because you can no longer trigger the events to do so.

 

Thank you, Thandal. May the Maker watch over you. xD

[Thandal]

One add-on note:

 

I haven't used the Console Command method except when my party was already full. (I've had parties of up to 8, with Dog! :tongue: )

 

So if you're under the 4-member limit, it may just add the Companion normally and you can control them just fine. Don't know...

[TwistedHax]

This games been out for years and no ones made a mod to add more party members besides the dog? cmon

[LadyHonor]

Oops....I misunderstood what you meant. As far as allowing you to add more to your current party dog is the only one I'm aware of. I at first thought you meant adding new followers.

[Thandal]

@TwistedHax; See my initial response (Post #2 in this thread) from almost six ago: The interactive party-size limit is HARD CODED in the game engine. Several mods add completely new followers (most famously, Ser Gllmore), but none can give you more than three, fully participating, members in the same party. (EDS doesn't count.)

 

Given the length of time the Eclipse engine has been out, and the number of incredibly talented people building mods for DAO, if it were possible I think it would have been done.