[What will be your first team?]

4 hours ago, Solaris_Wave said:

Is it just money that unlocks availability of high level mercs or does your overall reputation affect it too?

The overall reputation is a tricky one because there would be things like, how good you are as an employer, your successes in the campaign and whether you have tried to gain favour with any gangs in Grand Chien.

Possibly both. At least one streamer got the offer to unlock A.I.M. Gold by the end of day 1. He had almost $40k — so maybe it was the trigger.

At the same time the offer was described as "one-time". I assume if you decline it — you will have to wait for one of your mercs to recommend you. Just an assumption though, not really sure how it works.

By the way money seems to be easy to get in the very beginning and not so easy a little further on. The guy declined the offer to save money and still went bankrupt soon after reaching the mainland.

[DevDiary 8 - Quest Creation]

1 hour ago, Solaris_Wave said:

That does seem to be the Heckler & Koch PSG1. However, with the screenshot being low resolution, I can't tell what that stock is on the rifle, other than it being something different. It looks wooden and almost like an early CETME rifle stock. Why that would replace the existing one on the PSG1, I don't know.

It isn't even the cheaper MSG90 rifle.

Yep, the buttstock caused a lot of confusion for me as well. But I believe now we can say for sure it is indeed a PSG1 thanks to the last screenshot. Buns has a 3d model of the rifle on her back — and it features the regular PSG1 stock. I bet they decided to introduce a different stock as a default option in order to make it more fun for us to modify the rifle. Always sad to swap a weapon part for something that look worse instead of looking cooler 😉

[List of AIM Mercenaries]

7 hours ago, LoboNocturno said:

Lobo was most likely a IMP, you can't name a female as Lobo anyway as it's masculine. For female it suppose to be loba.

Thanks! At last I can stop wondering who she is 😁

 

6 hours ago, DougS2K said:

On that note, I've started adding weapons and armor as well to the spreadsheet if anyone is interested. 😉 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14JcHKZscRWZ5onz2O_4hWE-K-_tHFPYtig4ppovH2n0/edit#gid=0

If anyone has info for other mercs or weapons not on the spreadsheet, leave a message at the following subreddit link and I'll add the info to the spreadsheet. 

 

Incredible 🤩 I've seen screenshots with Galil and FAMAS but seems they lack some stats — no info on AP cost for single shot and long burst. And they are unlikely to be burst-fire only. Galil is featured in Steam and FAMAS — in showcase trailer (1:50). Also noticed a G36KV and a PSG1/MSG90-looking sniper rifle (not sure what exactly it is) but with no stats at all unfortunately 😕

[List of AIM Mercenaries]

9 hours ago, DougS2K said:

I don't believe so but I could be wrong. I'm not really sure on the hireable mercs from the game world other than Smiley as he was in the devs streams in the past. I listed those mercs as RPC in my spreadsheet based on what others have said but have no real details on them.

Well time to stroll through the valley of death. Thats's what I've found so far:

Flay is definitely recruitable — the whole way is shown in this stream by DrProof. The recruitment dialogue itself is at 2:29:06. Flay seems to be a controversial character though and DrProof chose not to recruit him — so we don't know his stats yet.

Smiley is likely to be a new M.E.R.C. guy. I noticed the quest to find him in the same video at 20:16 — and it is marked as a M.E.R.C. quest. There are two more M.E.R.C. quests there btw — and I believe at least one of the guys mentioned there might be recruitable (see below).

Pierre is heavily featured as an NPC in almost every stream but I've never seen the option to actually hire him. Still his model is present in the feature trailer among playable characters — he's standing between Meltdown and MD and right behind Scope. Since every other character in this part of the trailer is playable — I believe so is Pierre.

 

I strongly believe we might have an opportunity to hire yet another old friend but I lack strong evidence. The guy was seen here and the same character is present in the feature trailer standing alongside our regular mercs. There is no UI in this part of the video though so zero proof that he is actually a part of the squad and thus that he is recruitable or at least playable.

I don't actually know who Lobo is — never seen her anywhere. If someone can give me a hint — it would be much appreciated.

And many, many thanks to you for compiling all this data for us and especially for the spreadsheet with all the stats and prices. It is incredibely helpful and absolutely priceless!