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Beast Companion Suggestions
🕑 Added 2022-12-15 22:44:54 +0000 UTCHey! Running a bit behind on the update, but hopefully I'll manage to write enough over the weekend to release it around Monday ;)
Current word count is 108k.
While you wait, I want to gather your thoughts about a beast companion you want for the MC. It seems to be a very popular topic, so I decided to give it a proper thought. For now, I'm just deciding on what kind of creature it'd be, not sure when exactly it'll appear in the game.
You can suggest it here/in the discord (same as the items, which I hope I'll finally do in the next update), and then I'll put it to a vote. Depending on the creature, it'll either help MC in battle, be a mount or help in other ways.
Do keep in mind, It'll only be a singular beast - as I wish for it to have a proper polish - so no hard-feelings if your choice doesn't get picked. I also won't do a dragon/tiger as these animals have other representations in the game
I've seen a few interesting options on the CoG forum and a have some thoughts of my own, but I think I should you give the option to decide.
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thenamelessone
I want a peacock.
Nick
The uses of a pet depends on the beast that we choose. Naturally, if it's something like wolf/bear, I'll include some type of help from it during combat. If its a more 'mount' type, like a crane/qillin, then naturally it'd be along the lines of faster travelling/limited opportunities. If its more unique, like a panda, then I can give it a 'unique' use, something related to alchemy most likely. For now, we just have to choose which beast we want 😅
Someone already suggested Phoenix and I think it work's great for a "simple" mount-type animal. I'm not sure that having it help us out during battle is a good idea since it'll probably add some additional headache during writing process. I'm just trying to think of uses for a pet at the moment. Will it be a mandatory thing that everybody gets or will it be side-quest that we will have to work on? If it's something we will have to work for, what can the pet actually do to outside of it simply "being there" to justify the said side-quest ? Best I could think of is some timed missions that will be hard to accomplish without a proper mount to get us from point A to point B in a short time.
