Multiplayer/Co-Op & Frictional Games? NO!!!

[spukrian]

Ummm...I'm...not so sure about that. I can't remember a single game where NPC followers weren't a constant source of annoyance and ragequits for me. Mostly due to their bad AI. I mean the monster AI was already bad enough in Amnesia and while that didn't hurt gameplay - do you really need an NPC follower that gets stuck on ledges, annoys you with constantly repeated lines of monologue, misinterprets your commands and makes you lose the game every time he obliviously stumbles into the arms of some Lovecraftian monstrosity?

But that's the point, if you get tired of them you could sacrifice them, without getting game over.

Of course, if you go out of your way to get your companions killed, the game should reflect this somehow.

I've played the thing, and I have to tell you although the system is there, it doesn't really impact gameplay that much. You're much better off milking every NPC's "support fire" as much you can, than using a blood test on them to expose them. If you expose them, you have to kill them, and you lose a gunner, as opposed to just letting them come with you, and continue helping you until the very last second when the thing decides to try to transform, and jump you.

Also, the system is also a bit flawed in the fact that EVERYONE eventually will become a thing.

Then the system is pointless, at least in that game, I still think the system might work in other types of games where your companions don't turn into monsters...