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In the games decription it says : "Solo or Group Play | Neverwinter will allow players to go it alone, with AI-controlled henchmen, or with a group of other players."
Is this like Star Trek online were you choose permanent team members and they come with you on all your journeys ?
How much control do you have over them ?
Can you gear them out ?
I burned out quik on STO but I always loved the away team aspect of the game and lvling / gearing them out.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can
be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can
be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard
The link given is a good video so I will agree that you should watch it..
You will not have a team of hinchmen.. its 1 active at a time, however you will be able to have 3 to pull from.
Overall you will have a collection of hinchmen but only 1 can be active at a time. The amount of control you have over them is: NONE.
The hinchmen do have equipment slots but its not the same equipment as the players use, I think they use the runes in the open equipment slots on the hinchmen.
They have thier own minds and act independently of you and not like a pet. They do tend to stay very close as far as I could tell and my dog did attack fairly quickly when I agroed stuff. Overall it seemed to work well for me and I am hopeful that it continues to work like this.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can
be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard
To be specific. 3 runestone slots, 2 accesory slots (think it was ring and belt) and 1 offhand slot that's specific to henchmen class. The fun thing, at least last beta, was that the class restriction on accesory didn't seem to apply to henchmen so I was able to put a "class: wizard" ring on my warrior henchmen.
Nope, it's much more like LotRO's skirmish soldiers. I wouldn't say 1:1 copy, but very similar