Mercs become friendly after you save their life? Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

So I wounded a merc, allowed him to surrender & took his weapon. Then I dropped a few weapons on the ground, he picked em up, reloaded, and proceeded to not shoot me. I was actually able to talk to him, trade with him, and had the option of "team up" to go somewhere...

Hmmm???

Btw, I was continuing in a cycle of dropping weapons, letting him pick it up, wounding him, taking back the weapons, giving him medkits, then shooting him again...

Well that sounds rather exploitable

This might be retarded but...I can't get the option to "team" up, I think, since installing 2.1. I have Friend of Stalkers and One of Us etc. Was this removed, I know it was buggy, or has something went wrong?

For the mercs, you have to shoot him till he's wounded. You have to get him to surrender and then spare him. After that, he gets up and walks around. Drop a weapon so he walks towards you to pick it up (instead of trying to run away). Then you have to put away your weapon so you can talk to him. Then you can treat him like a normal stalker - talk, trade, teamup, etc

No I mean for ANYONE. I can ask stalkers, Duty, freedom etc what they're up to and go with them to wherever they're going, or I can pay them to take me somewhere. But I seem to remember in previous miseries being able to team up with them and they'd follow you about. Has that been done away with?

Oh and befriending a merc - that's pretty cool! My question is do other mercs become friendly too?

LOL, no it is then only that merc. I think that if other mercs fire on you he might actually join, someone confirm this?

Ah gutted! It would be lootsville if you could be neutral to mercs, just watch all the factions fight it out and hoover up after

Negotiator? I haven't bothered to try for it because I don't really want everyone being neutral to me. Though it would probably save me a brain aneurysm from getting headshotted by a mercenary half a kilometre away with a Skorpion.