Lol! I think you need to slow down man. And read the release notes. Old mercs have been removed and the dev is currently working his ass of adding an upgraded version. They were better than before? How can a mindless meat wall be better than mercenaries you can now spend countless hours doing scavenger missions, bar tours? And the fact that you can change their weapons and train their skills is a major upgrade.nothing avail in warrior hall;
BTW: Planning to do separate post, but quick QN, current avail Mercs (811, New game) Suck!
Anyone else (NOT "Soldier" route, anything else, 811 NEW GAME) keep getting their butt kicked in combat?
1) HEALTH isn't listed anymore for Mercs
2) Mercs no longer have weapons (large added expense for early game!) [Loren does, but Ansel no longer does, inconsistency]
3) Keep in mind, pretty much *EVERY* quest involves some degree of combat
4) ANsel (for example,) MORE $, LESS R (range skills) compared to last version!
5) If mercs are (current in 811) going to be household "followers" need to know their other skills (current hidden) Scavenge, Guard, Janitor, etc
6) formatting (info panel) WORSE, & more confusing.
Only mercs found so far (all other places empty!) Ansel, & Peasant. (BTw, new pics suck, old were better, please bring back)
Most of the changes of this update are *GOOD*, but 99% of the Merc changes are *BAD*.
[1 new game, w 811, ready to give up, going back to those started in earlier versions!
Some used to advise lots of early combat---get *RESPECT* for girls, but now is disaster; (loosing = loose stats, hard to get anyway)
811 is fine for *RICH* & hi XP chars, but really sucks for newbies
Ansils lack of weapon is part of his tutorial quest. Again, read the texts and everything will be more clear for you.
And the 2400% steel increase? You're talking about a batch of steel as a single unit. Again, read the in-game texts.
I know he did some changes to material costs for next ver. though so that might balance i better. I agree crafting doesn't make you rich but it's still too early to bash and cry about it.