Your character may be omnipotent, however they may want companions in The Outer Worlds 2. By having extra members in your celebration, you may request assist by activating their expertise or have somebody distract your enemies when you peacefully hearth away. Higher but, you may make them mad at you after taking a plan of action that goes in opposition to their private beliefs and make them need to go away your celebration.
However selection is the key to a enjoyable celebration, and that’s precisely why you need to have a full celebration with you. Beneath, we listing all companions in The Outer Worlds 2 and clarify learn how to recruit them.
[Ed. note: There are a few spoilers regarding some of the companions’ storylines. If you’d like to learn more about each companion naturally, bookmark this page and come back later.]
All companions in The Outer Worlds 2
There are six companions in The Outer Worlds 2, and you may have as much as two companions at a time. With a view to change your celebration members, you may be given the choice to regulate your celebration as you are leaving the Incognito. In fact, if you would like extra choices, you may must recruit extra companions, which principally entails finding them and selecting the best dialogue choices to persuade them that working with you is a good suggestion.
After you recruit a brand new companion, they will be part of you in your journey, however, if in case you have a full celebration, you may must ship them or considered one of your present celebration members again to the ship. Afterward, the companion’s quest line will begin. You don’t want to finish their quests to maintain them as companions, however doing so unlocks new upgrades. Simply understand that you should have a companion in your present celebration to finish their respective quests.
With out additional ado, right here’s a listing of all of the companions you’ll find in The Outer Worlds 2 together with the place you’ll find them:
- Niles —Paradise Island
- V.A.L.E.R.I.E —Paradise Island
- Inez —Paradise Island
- Aza —Golden Ridge
- Marisol —Golden Ridge
- Tristan —Free Market Station
Niles
You meet Niles proper originally of the sport, and he’s mechanically added as your companion. Nile’s principal skill is “Unfold Out, I’ll Maintain’em!”, which taunts enemies and makes him shoot three pictures at a selected goal.
Having Niles in your celebration additionally offers you entry to his two traits:
- Reflex Amplified: He has bonus evasion and a better probability to keep away from incoming assaults.
- Area Tinkering: Whereas within the celebration, you may speak to Niles and use the workbench with out having to go to an precise workbench to craft objects.
V.A.L.E.R.I.E.
Together with Niles, V.A.L.E.R.I.E. is without doubt one of the companions you get from the beginning in The Outer Worlds 2. This little flying robotic is primarily a healer, and its “Emergency Protocols” skill heals you over time and can scale back the quantity of harm you’re taking for a short while.
With VAL in your celebration, its two traits grow to be obtainable:
- Life Injection Module: When a celebration member’s well being will get low, Valerie will heal them. This trait has a cooldown.
- Built-in Bypass Restore: You could protect bypass shunts when hacking units if VAL is in your celebration.
Inez
A member of Auntie’s Alternative, Inez is a strong harm seller, however who may provide good help with a few of her perks, similar to “Area Drugs.” Her principal skill, “The Magic Bullet,” launches a volley of scorching plasma at an enemy.
By selecting to have Inez in your celebration, you might have entry to her two traits:
- Fight Medicine: At the start of fight, she receives a buff that will increase her hearth price and accuracy.
- Unlicensed Chemist: The quantity of Inhaler Prices you obtain is elevated.
She will be present in Fairfield, and also you recruit her after visiting Minister Milverstreet throughout “The Saboteur of Paradise” principal quest. You will discover her speaking to Milverstreet about her contract, and you may take the chance to make a greater job provide.
To make sure you can recruit her, we listed all of the dialogue choices we used to ask her to our celebration. Listed below are the choices it is best to select:
- “Minister, let Inez repair her graft. Then you definitely gained’t doubt her efficacy ever once more” (You unlock this feature by assembly with Inez earlier than the scene within the Ministry of Accuracy constructing, which is on the west facet of Paradise Island.)
- “Good for you, Inez.”
Subsequent, speak to Inez on the entrance of the constructing for her to current a proposition to you, the place you may choose “You bought a deal.”
Aza
The eccentric member of the Superb Daybreak cult, Aza is the silent murderer your workforce may want in The Outer Worlds 2.
As a result of she’s a melee fighter, Aza is extra prone to taking harm and needing some therapeutic. On the identical time, she will be able to simply enable you to in opposition to single or a number of targets — due to her skill “Unfold the Message” which is a frontal cone assault that damages and staggers enemies — making her probably the greatest harm sellers in your celebration. In addition to, she’s fairly humorous.
When in your celebration, you may benefit from Aza’s traits:
- A Chaotic Goal: Aza’s skill fees quicker than the opposite companions, and he or she has two fees.
- Hidden in Palin-Sight: Whereas Aza is within the celebration, factions with impartial or increased fame want a better bounty to contemplate you an Outlaw.
To recruit Aza, you have to be in Golden Ridge, the second main area within the sport, and go to the Decommissioned Autonomous Extractorium space, northwest of the touchdown pad. The constructing is crammed with enemies, so be ready for fight.
Aza is locked in a room upstairs. Open the door and choose the next dialogue choices to recruit her:
- “I’m Commander. What’s a ‘Superb Daybreak’?”
- “And that ‘fact’ could be…?”
- “And your now deceased fellow ‘enlightened people’ betrayed you? Any thought why?”
- “I at all times take pleasure in some good revenge killing. The rest you need assistance with?”
- “Positive, what may presumably go incorrect?”
Marisol
Marisol Delgado is a dwelling legend and a former member of the Division of Preemptive Causal Redirection. A grasp of devices, Marisol can provide help to you and the remainder of your workforce. Her skill “Torpifying Blast” shoots an enemy to stun them and make all of your assaults in opposition to that focus on important hits.
Marisol has two traits:
- Gadget Optimization: She improves your skill to generate power. Any kills carried out by the celebration restores a small portion of power.
- Risk Analyzer: Utilizing Tactical Time Dilation or the N-Ray scanner exhibits the enemy’s information, similar to well being, armor, and the weapon they’ve.
You will discover Marisol at the Zyranium Manufactory VII in Golden Ridge, a spot that you just inevitably go to through the principal quest “On the Path of the Traitor.” While you meet her as Alva, she is locked inside a room, and it’s essential to assist her show that she did not trigger an assault in opposition to members of Auntie’s Alternative. To recruit Marisol, you should assist her examine the ability and show who the actual perpetrator is.
These are the dialogue choices we selected so as to recruit Marisol:
- “Your Abbot despatched me to seek out out who induced the explosion.”
- “Svoboda appears certain you have been accountable.”
- “Inform me your facet, then.”
- “So that you’re saying Proctor Svoboda is falsely incriminating you?”
- “Say I’m inclined to imagine you, what then?”
- “I try this and also you’ll come out?”
After checking the lab terminal and investigating a bit, it’s essential to return to Marisol, who will probably be speaking to Issue Métadier. Beneath, you discover the dialogue choices we selected throughout this dialog:
- “You two appear unexpectedly cordial.”
- “Guess we’ll take all the assistance we will get.”
- “Data confirmed you fired the payload at Outpost Alternative. Paper smelled bizarre, although.”
- “That also doesn’t inform us who’s accountable. You assume it may be Svoboda?”
- “Can we show the launch was altered?”
- “Hm. Nonetheless can’t inform for those who’re mendacity or not, Alva, however guess I’ll play alongside.”
After you have progressed within the quest by investigating two buildings Marisol talks about, it’s time to get again to her and at last uncover who’s behind the assault.
- “Somebody rerouted the launch coordinates and pushed processing settings previous tolerances.”
- “You appear to be you’ve drawn a conclusion.”
- “Yeah, she does. It’s apparent she was framing you.”
- “Happy to fulfill you, uh, former Endpoint Delgado? I don’t know what to name you now.”
- “What’s a Division of Preemptive Causal Redirection?”
- “She’s proper. Sufficient pontificating. Time to decide.”
- “I say we drive the Proctor to disclose who she’s working with. With or with out your assist.”
- “All the time completely happy to avoid wasting lives. There anything?”
- “Uh-huh. If she doesn’t speak, shoot her.”
- “That’s that. Any ideas about what to do subsequent?”
The final a part of this quest entails investigating a hidden terminal. Marisol will speak to you after the top of the mission, and right here’s what it is best to inform her:
- “Sure, I’m pursuing the top of the conspiracy. Augustine de Vries.”
- “You alright? Can’t inform for those who’re shaken or euphoric proper now.”
- “Assist somebody such as you with mysterious ‘unfinished enterprise’? How may I say no?”
Tristan
Though loyal to the Protectorate, Tristan is able to work with different events if it means discovering the solutions he’s in search of. His heavy armor and suspiciously large hammer enable him to guard the celebration and apply some strong crowd management. Tristan’s principal skill, “Judgement,” not solely damages enemies hit by its blow but additionally taunts and knocks them away.
The Protectorate member has two traits energetic when he’s in your celebration:
- Supreme Arbiter Hammer: His weapon, Supreme Arbiter Hammer, may also be used as a grenade launcher.
- Observant Adjudicator: Tristan has 25% probability to disclose hidden objects round you. This trait solely procs for those who can’t reveal these things by your self.
Recruiting Tristan entails finishing the “Arbitrary Measures” facet quest first. To unlock it, you should journey to the Free Market Station utilizing your ship and go southwest from the touchdown pad to seek out the Free Market Bazaar. Enter the 2nd Alternative bar the place Tristan is speaking to the barman, Barney “Bruiser” Bass.
Listed below are all of the dialogue choices we selected that unlocked the “Arbitrary Measures” facet quest:
- “What appears to be the issue right here?”
- “Why not let him have an viewers with the Dealer? Least he wouldn’t trouble you any extra.”
- “Assembly the Dealer sounds prefer it might be helpful… one way or the other. Possibly we will work collectively.”
- “Identify. Ever labored with a associate earlier than?”
With this out of the way in which, you may journey to Golden Ridge and full the “Arbitrary Measures” mission. After speaking to the Dealer within the Free Market Station, you’ll find Tristan within the Free Market Bazaar. When speaking to him, right here’s what you should select:
- “Nice, however you need to observe my guidelines.”
- “I will probably be coping with individuals of a number of factions. No killing them with out my go-ahead.”
- “Appears cheap.”
For extra assist in your Arcadia journey, take a look at our Outer Worlds 2 newbie information and suggestions for the most effective expertise and greatest perks. Do not forget to seize your double leap when you’re nonetheless on Paradise Island, between serving to Milverstreet or Kaur and moving into the Fairfield armory. And talking of Eden, our information for learn how to deal with the ultimate Vox Relay Station alternative explains the outcomes of your actions and learn how to get round harming anybody.
