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Hi Everyone: I am new at this forum and I like some help with Veteran level character. My question is, I finish the game on Mercenary level, then started a veteran level and I notice there 2 npc character, one for my old game and a new level up npc character in this level. Is there away to start without your npc characters from your old game? Is this a bug or something? Is there a mod where you can have 6 - 8 characters traveling with you?

I'm not sure I understood your problem correctly. Do you mean that the npc you played with on mercenary level are still with you, just like they were at the end of mercenary? If so, it is meant to be that way.

As to your second question, I don't know about mods, but generally the number of companions allowed depends on the difficulty level. Mercenary allows max of three companions (npc/pets, no difference), so your entire party is max four people - one place for you. Veteran allows to add a fifth place, and Elite a sixth.

One word of note.

Do NOT try to add two of the same NPC's to your party. Ie Deru from Merc mod AND Deru from Vet mode.

If you try, make sure you save the game and possibly back up the files as well. I tried it once and my game locked up with all these pretty colors and lines through the screen and the dire need to reboot the PC and never load that saved game again *Sighs*

Might have just been a glitch on my side, but I'm not taking that chance again

~Jessy

mikew35 wrote:Hi Everyone: I am new at this forum and I like some help with Veteran level character. My question is, I finish the game on Mercenary level, then started a veteran level and I notice there 2 npc character, one for my old game and a new level up npc character in this level. Is there away to start without your npc characters from your old game? Is this a bug or something? Is there a mod where you can have 6 - 8 characters traveling with you?

the game uses whatever party members ya had in merc in veteran. ya can change them out by going to the inn and releasing them (make sure to put items someplace first just in case they disapeer) and go get veteran Lothar or Deru for example. If your Lothar uses melee and Deru uses ranged probably better off with the merc versions however. Ya can have a 5th party member in vet and 6th in elite by paying the woman in the inn some gold.

there is a mod for inn that allows 6 characters in merc, but ya got to have lots of gold to get 5th and 6th in merc or vet for that matter. - Siegecore › Downloads › View Details › 6 Members on Merc/Vet to download the file ya would have to create an account at the site, there is lots of other mods there as well.

Hi again: I thought when you start new level, everything will start anew and your character will have this equipment for the last level. I wished the people who made this game would have delete your npc characters when starting the new level because there are 2 of them now. Is there away to delete your old level npc characters?

Thanks Darkelven for that web site !

All you need is...

Well try once the Hotfix Mod for v2.2 or the Aranna Legacy Mod for v2.3/BW.
They will allow you to kick party members form the inn storage as you can send pets away.
Well if not familar with mods then don't forget to install the correct version of 'All*Saves' - you would find the appropriate link at the top of the mod page.

By this occasion may talk to the inn keeper to increase your party size - as long as you are able to afford the fee you instantly can have the maximum of party members independing on merc/vet/elite mode.
Note that more than 6 party members are not/hardly possible, eg. 8 could cause problems with start/elevator standing positions, moreover there is just no space left on 800x600 resp. it would also afford a resolution-dynamic GUI.

Also keep in mind by tendency the game subjectively becomes easier if you increase the number of party members, in particular for a well-equipped elite party at maximum size the challange often is gone - and this additional to the current impression that mercenary mode paradoxically would be the most difficult of all...
That's why each of the mods above will introduce a soft rebalancing, please see the readme how to influence or disable it supposed you don't like it.