Is there a point to try to get companions as soon as possible?
Do companions have a fixed levels when I first meet them in game or do they receive experience based on main character's experience when they are added to the roster? Should I try to acquire companions as soon as possible and then finishing all the side quests/clearing areas to give them more experience? For example if I rush search for Bastila and then clear sidequests will she have more experience when I will finish Taris?
Best Answer
I have made two runs myself while I was offline and I think its results will be useful for anyone who will need more information. I have wrote down levels of my characters after talking to Bastila and returning to a hideout.
Run 1 - more or less straight for getting Bastila: All characters were at level 6.
- Main character had 19595 experience
- Karth had 17957 experience
- Mission, Zaalbar and Bastila had 15676 experience
Run 2 - cleared everything I could before winning a swoop race. Main character was at level 8, everybody else were at level 7
- Main character had 28165 experience
- Karth had 24165 experience
- Mission, Zaalbar and Bastila had 22532 experience
In both cases I have been levelling up Bastila to above written level from level 3, I had a prompt to level her up as soon as I had her in party outside of hideout. All levelups were manual, so everything was spent as I wanted. T3-M4 also gets the same level and experience as Mission, Zaalbar and Bastila after I buy it and can be levelled up manually from level 3. So most companions seem to always have a 80% of main character's experience.
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