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Nightingale: How to recruit SurvivorsHere’s how to recruit NPCs in Nightingale and where to find them
Here’s how to recruit NPCs in Nightingale and where to find them
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Inflexion Games
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Inflexion Games
Want to know how to recruit Survivors in Nightingale?Survivors are NPCs that you can acquire inNightingaleto help you at your base and gather materials. These loyal recruits will also lend a hand in combat and can be a useful deterrent against Bound enemies.
Although these fellow Realmwalkers can occasionally get in your way, they are valuable assets to accrue, especially early on in aNightingalegame and if you are playing solo, rather thanmultiplayer. Below, we’ve detailed how to find these recruitable NPCs in Nightingale and how to add them to your party.
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How to recruit Survivors in Nightingale
Survivor NPCs will have the word’Recruitable’in orange text above their heads. Simply approach and talk to them and choose the option to add them to your party. Once they’re allied with you, they’ll haveRecruitedabove their heads instead.
Where to get Survivors in Nightingale
A glimpse of the Nightingale map. Notice the various points of interest, including the Essence Trader location. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Inflexion Games
What can Survivors do in Nightingale?
The trusty Survivor Joe helps a party take on a giant tree in Nightingale’s multiplayer mode. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Inflexion Games
Survivors are great for aiding in combat, especially if you’re playing solo and dealing with a few too enemies at once. Depending on the weapons that you give them, they can hold their own when it comes to tanking large groups of Bound - but be wary of their Health. As of this writing, youcannot transfer Healing Salvesto Survivors. You can, however, revive them if they are downed during combat. As such, it’s worth keeping an eye on them during encounters, as they will generally jump right into the thick of fighting even if they only have rudimentary tools equipped.
Other than combat, these trusty NPCs can also help you gather building materials and will default to gathering Wood or mining Stone whilst you meander through the Faewilds. They don’t seem to have the same status conditions or hunger meters as the player, so you won’t have to worry aboutcookingmeals for Survivors as well as yourself.
Can you have more than one Recruit?
In terms ofmultiplayer, every player can bring one Survivor along with them to a session and it does not count towards the party limit.
For solo players, as far as we’ve experienced, you can only have one active Survivor at a time.
That rounds off our guide to everything you need to know about recruiting Survivors in Nightingale. For more Nightingale coverage, check out our guide on how tofast travelas well as our peek at how todestroy and move structures. And if you’ve just logged into Nightingale for the first time and are wondering where to begin, we also have a guide to thebest starting biomein the game.
