stealth and escorts

[boggo2300]

41 minutes ago, Roderick said:

There are tons of combat NPCs that you have to escort either out, or to a specific place in the mission. Lady Jane in Montague Castanella's arc immediately springs to mind.

 

Perception 0 also means that, when you ditch the NPC that you're supposed to be protecting and an ambush or patrol stumbles on them, they are guaranteed dead, because with no Perception, they can't target the enemies that are attacking them, so they'll just stand there and die. Hell, if they were standing in a hazard, like the red Circle of Thorns crystals or a pool of Lava, they wouldn't even be able to see that, and would just sit there until dead.

If you don't activate them, then they don't con as enemies to the mobs (I always leap over Lady Jane and leave her there until I've cleared the map, she had more of a deathwish than most of them! though yeah the leading them to a location bit does come up a bit, damn