Outer Worlds 2: All companions and how to get them

One of the best parts of The Outer Worlds 2 is the cast of companions that you can bring on your adventures. All of them have unique personalities along with their own stories and questlines that you can complete to change their fate once you complete the game. However, to do that, you’ve got to find them all, so we’ve gone through every companion in the game and explained how you can get them to join your crew.

Niles

Niles is the rookie Earth Directorate agent that you’ll meet in the opening mission of the game. That mission doesn’t go well, and Niles will get seriously injured; however, he’ll survive and find you ten years later when you’re pulled out of cryostasis. He is unmissable as a companion and will be by your side from the very start of the game.

VAL

VAL is your ship’s helpful robot that supports you as an Earth Directorate agent. Niles and VAL spend a lot of time searching the universe for you between the opening mission and the proper start of the game. VAL is also unmissable as part of the story.

Inez

Inez is a grafted soldier who works for Aunty’s Choice, but unfortunately, her graft is faulty and slowly killing her. A short while into the game, when you first reach Fairfield, you’ll be sent by the mayor to clear out a nearby station after the first person he sent there hasn’t returned. When you get there, you’ll discover that Inez is that person, and she won’t be happy about her job being handed over to someone else.

In the confrontation that ensues when you return, you can push Inez to quit Aunty’s Choice and then offer her a position on your crew.

Tristan

You can meet Tristan once you leave Eden for the first time, as you’ll have the option to head over to Free Market Station. In the south of this area, you’ll find the 2nd Choice bar, where Tristan is talking to the barkeep about Protectorate business. Talk to him and offer to help out with his situation, and you can complete the side quest "Arbitrary Measures" to get the option to recruit him onto your crew.

Marisol

Marisol is a deadly assassin with a great reputation among the Order of Ascendants. You’ll also find her as you push along the main storyline. When you’re contacted by the Order after leaving Eden and go to the next planet, you’ll be tasked with working out why an Order-controlled station fired on Aunty’s Choice despite there being a ceasefire in place. There you’ll encounter an older woman who is supposedly behind the sabotage.

She’ll press her innocence and insist you investigate the place. Listen to her and you’ll eventually learn her true identity, and siding with her against those running the base will let you offer her a spot in your crew.

Aza

Aza is a murder-happy cultist from the Glorious Dawn, who you can pick up after her fellow cultists betrayed her for some reason. You can find her in the Decommissioned Autonomous Extractorium in the west of Dorado – you’ll likely have to pass by there to reach the N-Ray Range as part of the main story.

Kill the cultists there and free her from the room she’s locked in upstairs and her quest, “The Dawn of Glorious Betrayal” will begin, at which point, you can offer to have her join your crew as she asks to help you wipe out the people at the N-Ray Range (or take her there to prove it if you’ve already done it).

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