Honestly pretty angry about this. Hands down my best crew mate since my build is all about minimal casualties. So stealth, persuasion and lockpicking are perfect for talking my way out of situations or unlocking alternate routes to bypass guards.
EXCEPT, during the final mission he just decided to leave my squad because I wanted to change Phineas's rebel status so that he could work more freely and better help Halcyon. That skill check was absolute bull****. 100 for both determination and inspiration? Determination is such a **** skill too! If you're going to have a double barrelled check like that then at least lower the individual values. I could easily have made the check if it were 50/50. Or even more like 75/75. Just throw on some gear and take a drink or two to boost my stats.
How about some ****ing options? God forbid I use my actual ****ing 'persuasion' skill to PERSUADE someone of something! How about 'lying' to him and whispering that we're just taking advantage of the chairman and that he'll get what's coming to him? 'Intimidating' him by telling him to stop being so brash and childish all the time?
How about an option for if you've finished his loyalty mission, asking him to trust you? (Yeah, I'm calling them loyalty missions because they feel very much like the Mass Effect loyalty missions.)
Nah. You'll just take away one of my companions mid-final-mission. Great plan.
I get that he's anti-authority and working with the board is something he'd hate, but come on. Controlling the board from the shadows for the betterment of Halcyon is entirely different and you could far more easily convince him of that. A persuasive speech about how there always has to be some kind of government and it would be better to take advantage of the system that's already in place rather than trying to create a whole new one, while waging a war on the old one, with very limited time before everyone starves!
Especially after his loyalty mission where you could point out how the guy that taught him his anti-establishment mentality turned out to be a manipulative scumbag working for the people he pretended to hate! Something like: "You know, maybe you should ****ing question what he taught you, you stupid asshat."
Honestly, I wish a different crew member had his skills cause he's just such a whiny, dense, difficult character.
What a bull**** move. I can't have my game-long companion without a 100/100 skill check for skills that rarely ever come up as skill checks, with one of them being almost entirely useless otherwise.