Warning: Minor spoilers for the opening few missions of Starfield Shattered Area lie forward.
Starfield‘s Shattered Area DLC arrived yesterday, and there is a good probability you have already began it, or binged it in a single evening should you’re nonplussed about sleep. Whereas I have never achieved the latter, I did convey alongside the one base sport companion that has a connection to Home Va’ruun for the bits I’ve performed thus far. Must you convey her alongside too? Effectively, kinda, and also you seemigly may find yourself operating right into a bug that makes it completely pointless.
Andreja’s the companion I am speaking about right here, since her complete factor is that she’s Constellation’s resident Home Va’ruuner and would absolutely be a very good candidate to convey again residence to Va’ruun’kai, proper? In any case, it’s her residence planet, and should you’ve ended up good mates together with her like my major Starfield character has, she’ll most likely be part of your crew anyway.
I am going to begin with the excellent news. I can verify that should you do convey Andreja alongside – which I am hardly the one individual to have determined to do – she does have an honest quantity of distinctive chatter within the early levels of you arriving in Home Va’ruun’s system and beginning to discover their capital metropolis, Dazra.
She’ll interject feedback into a few conversations, say a few issues as you discover Dazra, and have a little bit chat with you not lengthy after you arrive about how she feels returning to town and seeing its present predicament. What I am about to say will most likely be no surpise to Starfield veterans, however whereas she does present some good further perspective about Home Va’ruun, none of this really appears to substantively change how these occasions and quests close to the start of the DLC play out. When you flip up alone, as I additionally did, you will not see a lot of a distinction.
Whereas this can be a bit disappointing, some gamers are reporting having a a lot worse time of it after bringing Andreja alongside, taking to Reddit to voice how unusual they discover it that in her playthroughs, she hasn’t mentioned something distinctive in any respect. Of us appear to reckon this is because of a bug of some variety making the bits of dialogue I discussed not set off for some purpose, with one put up suggesting a long-running subject with the management perk or objects/consumables that increase how shortly you achieve companion afinity is in charge.
Fortunately, it appears like modder Deebz96 has already recognized the contemporary situations of this subject affecting Andreja, which appears to be attributable to a easy tweak to the companion’s actor worth examine code, and submitted a repair for it to the Starfield Neighborhood Patch undertaking.
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