I’ve been sheltering an NPC companion for about 3 days and I don’t know how to make her trust me.
I’ve saved her from infection multiple times by giving her antibiotics (also completing the initial quest she gave me), fed her when she was hungry, and kept her safe when she needed to rest. I’ve equipped her with better weaponry and gave her better clothing, both of which she gladly equipped, but nothing helps with the trust issue. She’s nearly 3 times as strong as I am and I need her to teach me how to handle weapons like she does. Problem is, the percentage to succeed always stays at 0.
- NPC needs are on and I’ve tended to hers quite well so far.
- I have the Pretty trait, but the broken Robot Voice CBM seems to counter it (random gen char).
- Both speaking and bartering are at 0.
- Most of the time she’s posted as a guard in our shelter while I go scavenging (I hear converting NPC to guard/neutral mode freezes current cooldowns?).
I’ve got a book which could increase my speaking to 3. Would that help? Otherwise, what can I do to increase trust? It’s at the point where she won’t take painkillers when at pain because she doesn’t think I genuinely wanna help.
P.S. I’ve never had a friendly NPC survive this long. They’re always so slow and clumsy, but this one managed to tank everything I threw at her so far. Are there any tricks to handling NPCs? I’d really love to tell her to follow me more closely because she’s slow and attracts unwanted zombie attention, but I can’t find that dialogue option. Basically I gave her a crowbar (melee 6, bashing 5) and told her not to do anything but kill anything that gets close. Encumbrance levels are decent. Is that the optimal way to go about this? We’re early-game, 3 days in.
