SWtOR companion Expansion rant
Nothing new and probably said before, but I’m still gonna ramble.
I do like Theron and Lana very much, it gives a lot of dynamic strengths and struggle potential (mostly in fanfic because I don’t feel it’s fully utilized in game oOP), however, I still don’t like how original companions are sort of…. Forgotten.
Now KotFE and relating Zakuul DLC did pretty well brining in original class companions. A good portion brought something to the table when involved in the main story, and, they could potentially die. I also was lucky since my main toon is my female trooper. Although I realize a lot of original companions have far less content (rip to people like me who stick to romancing one character per toon).
However, in prior DLCs (haven’t played new ones yet. I only finished up the traitor arc end) when, say, first meeting Theron and Lana, your companions got nothing to add on. Granted it could be availability of VA, but the switch from fully involved to lack of agency is jarring.
All of the mumbo-jumbo is a long way to say it feels we went from having unique companions with different dynamics for each class to “everybody gets Theron and Lana and the difference is a slightly different reaction depending on class, LS or DS, and romanced or not.”