(KOTFE) Do you really have to do PvP to recruit a PvE companion?

I just got 4X last night. 18 games, 2 wins, took the weekly and the daily each day for added coms. Got a 208 Weapon out of the bargin as well that's better than what I had.

I didn't really fight, I just went to the object and "defended". Got about 5-6 medals a match, the 4 vs 4 were my favorites as they were super fast. I just ran up to the enemy hit an aoe or hard hitting ability to get 1 medal for doing 3000+ damage and then got killed. 30 seconds later another point out of the 20.

For all the complaints it's incredibly easy to do even if you don't do any pvp. Sure I had some people hating me on my teams.. but I don't care. I said at the start I was just there for 4X.

Either way, like I said, I'm just gonna sit in 20 matches and just nudge the mouse every once in a while to stop from idling out. Free kills for someone.

This is exactly what I imagine some people will do and it is in no way surprising. Instead of encouraging people to actually PvP it will "force" them to simply log into a WZ and just put in the time, thus making the overall WZ experience worse for everyone. They have tried to make all kinds of changes to PvP to get people to do WZs (reduce prices, make WZ comms transferable, increase the comm cap to 200k), but if I wanted to PvP, I'd play a game which is actually PvP, not gear vs. gear.
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Okay, I've been reading forum posts and Dulfy guides, and it's said that to recruit a certain companion, I'd have to do warzone matches? Play PvP? Otherwise I won't be able to recruit them? Seriously?

I'm not doing PvP, ever - I just don't want to hurt other people; doesn't work for me; I don't like it. I got legendary status, legacy level 50, 20k achievements, but no PvP. Never. Not going to.

But I do want another companion, another friend. It just doesn't make sense in my head. Why would they introduce such a strange requirement instead of a normal solo PvE quest?

For the record, I don't like recruiting Dr Lokin through Rakghoul event only, either. I've got eight(or rather eighteen) high-level characters who will need him as a companion: I can't wait for months for each of them - again, that just doesn't make sense.

I hope they'll change it in the later patches. As it stands, it just seems a really bad idea.

Yeah, I don't like PvP I play this game for PvE purposes only so by putting content behind a PvP wall I think is a really stupid decision.

The only thing I can think of is that the devs can't decide how to make PvP more appealing so they are going to try to "force" people into trying PvP to get companions in KoTFE.

That's PvE thinking. Where all the players are on one side, and the other side is a computer. So if you're in an Operation with someone who is screwing up, no players get anything but grief. But when you have players on the other side, that's one team that gets some warm fuzzies as they destroy people pouting in the corner!

Yeah, I don't like PVE, I play this game for PVP purposes only so by putting content behind a PVE wall, I think is a really stupid decision.

Having fun killing the characters of players who don't even want to be there or fight back (which admittedly is their choice). Talk about being a carebear. This is what many PvPers seem to be about: wins, not challenge. These are the PvPers who give real PvPers (i.e., those who like actual competition) a bad name.

Having fun killing the characters of players who don't even want to be there or fight back (which admittedly is their choice). Talk about being a carebear. This is what many PvPers seem to be about: wins, not challenge. These are the PvPers who give real PvPers (i.e., those who like actual competition) a bad name.


It's a PvE, story-centered game. You play such a game for PvP? Does not compute.