What is the best Companion Mod?

Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:55 pm

What is the best in your opinion? Are there any that ad in depth Character quests? (Like Dragon Age Origins style)
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Charlotte Buckley
 
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:04 pm

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/Kateri.htm and http://lovkullen.net/Emma/Constance.htm are great.
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Damien Mulvenna
 
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:44 pm

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/Packguar.htm

She never talks back or gets me into trouble - best not to walk behind her though
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Post » Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:22 am

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/Kateri.htm and http://lovkullen.net/Emma/Constance.htm are great.

Indeed.
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Miguel
 
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:55 pm

Instead of creating new thread, I'll ask here: is there any female Dunmer companion? Eventually Breton, but Im' lookin specifically for a Dark Elf.
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:39 pm

Instead of creating new thread, I'll ask here: is there any female Dunmer companion? Eventually Breton, but Im' lookin specifically for a Dark Elf.


http://lovkullen.net/Emma/Asgard.htm#Asgard_v33 - she doesn't say much but is pretty sturdy in a fight
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:35 pm

Julan never leaves my mod list. :)

I'm embarrassed to admit that I still haven't tried Constance. I definitely will soon.
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:44 pm

I'm nearing the end of my first ever play-through of Morrowind, with Constance, Jasmine and Julan as companions. Depending on future character builds, I would consider playing with both Constance and Jasmine again at some point. On the other hand, I honestly don't WANT to know what the game would be like without Julan around... he's spectacularly well written, is probably as much fun (and as deeply tragic) any pixel-person has a right to be, and comes with a heck of a quest that I found to be both believable and compelling.
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:22 pm

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/Asgard.htm#Asgard_v33 - she doesn't say much but is pretty sturdy in a fight


Thanks, but I came up with even better idea - I'm making my own companion using Grumpy's tmplate. :)
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Leanne Molloy
 
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:09 pm

If you will excuse the self-advertisemant, http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=8557 was made to help ease companion care. :) It requires MGE, though.
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Mark Churchman
 
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Post » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:03 am

Thanks, I'm probably going to use it. MGE requirement is not a problem.
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GRAEME
 
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Post » Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:03 am

I've always enjoyed the company of a http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=5019 Dremora.
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Post » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:28 am

Julan, Constance and Jasmine are the way to go if you want companions with character, but you should give a try to some of the more “generic” companions too. I kinda like the http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=815 and (thanks to http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1077437-wipz-mca-companions-enhanced/) the MCA companions.

Make sure to drop by http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/907946-companion-thread/page__p__13198031 for more suggestions.
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:56 pm

Huh. Funny, I never thought about Constance before, but since she's been put up on the same pedestal as Julan in this thread I'm beginning to get curious about her.

As for my two cents concerning companions... Julan is the only one I've ever tried, because I'd correctly heard he is BLOODY FANTASTIC. You want Dragon Age style quests? Yeah, Kateri (the modder) is a pretty big BioWare fan, and it shows. If you're looking to inject some BioWare style into Morrowind, you want Julan. There's a bonus female companion that you can pick up, too, as part of the same mod, though I haven't been playing Morrowind enough to get that far.
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:27 pm

There are lots of good companion mods, but Julan is the best hands down. Constance is quite good, too, though her personality can be grating at times--which is part of her charm, actually. And Laura's other companions are all quite good, of course. I've heard good things about Westly's Markynaz, though I haven't tried it myself--about the only Westly mod I haven't tried, I might add. It's Westly, so it must be good. ;)
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:59 pm

I have the Ring Teleport mod, I just found out your companions wont tele with you, anyway to make them do so?
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:30 pm

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=5767
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Post » Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:40 am

If you will excuse the self-advertisemant, http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=8557 was made to help ease companion care. :) It requires MGE, though.


I can't use this because it crashes a lot. For example, I cast Companion Insight on Constance the thief, and it doesn't work; so I cast it a second time and then the game crashes. I'm using MGE 3.82 SVN rev 178.
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:29 pm

I can't use this because it crashes a lot. For example, I cast Companion Insight on Constance the thief, and it doesn't work; so I cast it a second time and then the game crashes. I'm using MGE 3.82 SVN rev 178.



Same here. AAG CTDs as soon as I use it on the red-haired female in Sedya (I think she's an MCA companion). It works intermittently with the CM_Partners companions hanging out there, but not reliably.

I'm using the latest version (12/11/2010)
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Post » Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:32 am

I have the Ring Teleport mod, I just found out your companions wont tele with you, anyway to make them do so?


*Clears throat loudly*
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Jason Wolf
 
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Post » Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:51 am

*Clears throat loudly*

Console them in?
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Phillip Hamilton
 
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:03 pm

I have the Ring Teleport mod, I just found out your companions wont tele with you, anyway to make them do so?


There's a Companion Teleportation mod out there - that ought to fix your woes. If they ever fail to follow you when you're using that (some scripted teleports don't make them follow automatically, but they do with Mark, Recall, and Intervention) then you can just cast the zero-cost Companion Teleport spell to pull 'em right to you.
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:09 pm

If MWSE isn't a problem, I'm a big fan of http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=8153, which is very handy for companion teleportation. It's also a well-done multimark mod, to boot.
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Heather Dawson
 
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Post » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:46 pm

Huge fan of companions.

I love Emma and Grumpy's fare, such as the staff of the Dome Home and the Lokken peoples, and the WitchGirl Morgana and Laura Craft, because they are scripted to acknowedge one another and have dialogue that triggers when in proximity. That makes them gold because it is kind of sad when you have a companion and few to none acknowledge that they are really there. Kind of like how the Romance Mod's aspect of having children just make the parents cognizant of the childs life, not anyone else. I would love to see a tweak to such mods that make your marriages and births trigger a global, such as how Emma made your marriage to her Lokken folks. Even the King of Morrowind had a trigger and acknowledged your marriage. That's some sweet coding there.


The MCA companions have interesting backstories, which add so much to having them around. CM Partners are another set that surprise me every time I engage one to accompany my characters across the lands.

Jac's Jasmine and the Ninja Girl Mod with Kumiko also offer a very detailed companion to have. Like the above poster said, there are also some en masse companions such as the Nevena's Clubs and Courtiers that are excellent, because these companions have well thought out and detailed scripts for entertainment, as well as dialogue. There are even a few Slave related mods that are far much more than just meat shields and two legged donkeys.


Westly/Princess Stomper's Gatanas Dremora companion is as tough as Grumpy's Ingred Rems, and she has a global where whenever you are in a different town without her, you can have her "snap" to a location there just by engaging the conversation option of "Where is Gatanas?" The only thing I wish could be done for some of these companions are the linking them to voice files, even if you piggy back them to an existing race. I love how Emma handled Laura Craft, because she is a Breton using an Imperial voice file that makes her genuinely unique. MCA's Shareel has her very own voice file, that to this day many of us are wondering just who voiced it because it is unique and very interesting.

That is why me and the Mrs. decided to start a voice repository. We always run into very interesting people with even more interesting voices, and with a sample script sheet of common terms such as "Ho Outlander", "Well Met", "Thank You" and so forth, we hope to create a nice bank of voices that can add so much to the games.
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Post » Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:14 am

I can't use this because it crashes a lot. For example, I cast Companion Insight on Constance the thief, and it doesn't work; so I cast it a second time and then the game crashes. I'm using MGE 3.82 SVN rev 178.


Same here. AAG CTDs as soon as I use it on the red-haired female in Sedya (I think she's an MCA companion). It works intermittently with the CM_Partners companions hanging out there, but not reliably.

I'm using the latest version (12/11/2010)

It just flat-out refuses to work? I'm sorry to hear that, and I apologize for the crashes. I would like to see your mod lists, and I'll check out Constance and the MCA companions to see if something is throwing a wrench in there. It seems I can't escape the CTDs...
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