Immortal Animal Companion

[Kexby]

Quick question: I'd like to make my animal companion immortal (so that he never dies).

 

I've found the entries for animal companions in characters.gamedatabundle and I noticed this line:

 

"ImmuneToAttacks": "false",

 

If I change it to "true" will that make my companion immortal?

 

Cheers.

[Armakoir]

Does "attacks" refer to all possible damage? I'm not sure. If it does then, yes, technically it can't take damage and is immortal.

 

But you can learn more and have more fun than just changing that value.

 

How about the companion automatically reserects? Use the abilities associated with the Saint's Armor as a base template. Then add a buff when the reserect happens that represents a pissed off pet (something akin to my neurotic cat).

[Kexby]

Heheh I like that idea. But I'm just trying to keep things simple for now

 

If I can just stop him from taking any damage, then I'll be happy. Later on, I might try some experiments.

 

But I'm just a bit worried that if I make my animal companion immune to attacks, then enemies won't attack him at all and will just ignore him (and come after me instead!) which would be bad, cause I want him to act as a tank/distraction.

[Armakoir]

I haven't looked at the AI, but it is entirely possible they ignore impossible targets.

[Kexby]

Ha! It worked!

 

I decided to bite the bullet, make the changes and see what happened. It seems to have done the trick. My boar companion didn't take any damage (even when a wizard tried to blow him up ).

 

This is great!