Oh look, an NPC ESCORT MISSION... 

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The most painful part of any escort mission is the slower NPC speed compared to the player, resulting in this annoying back and forth dance to simply escort someone.

My immersion was lost seeing the mandalorian walking at the same speed as the droid. The NPCs are supposed to always be faster than your walking speed and slower than your running speed!

Poor droid’s body is backwards until the assassin droids show up - they must’ve spooked it so hard it fixed itself in a flash!

Always bring your high level gear, even for a seemingly easy Job/Quest.

The worst is when the NPC is faster than you're walking speed but slower than your running speed

It doesn't help that the person you're "protecting" walks into enemy fire constantly, and can only take 3 hits till you have to restart the mission.

Knowing it autosaves after mission complete, I relish in the subsequent assassination I commit on my escortee for all the bs it put me through.

I appreciate the classic star wars screen wipe lol

The voice acting in these is always hilarious. Keep up the great work Hoot.

Hoot trying not to sound like the most majestic British man ever while producing god tier animations

Yup, that's how it usually goes. But at least the droid moved at walking pace, most usually move at the in between pace that is impossible to match so it's just awkwardly running ahead before waiting for the escort to catch up. Also, always bring high level gear, regardless of carry weight or ammunition, just im case something like this happens.

Can we just appreciate the transition star wars style at 0:18 because that was cool dude. He is a man of culture.

One of the best NPC escort missions in any game was one in The Secret World, where the NPC keeps up and can't die and contributes competently to the battle -- but the challenge is that her contribution comes in the form of an AoE (with a long charge time) that can kill you along with the enemies if you don't protect yourself.

I imagine if you were to try to attack the NPC before hand ( for whatever reason) theyd be way stronger then when theyre in the actual escort mission

This is feels more Star Wars than Disney's Star Wars

"Translatorboy" But no serious that was a pain in the *Ars*-

You know I never noticed in ghost of Tsushima that’s as pointed out is that the NPCs always match your speed all the time, even once’s you follow.

This is torture on a whole new level. Look at how slow he has to walk.

In Warframe, there is an escort mission on the Plains of Eidolon - large open world area on Earth. The escorted drone is not badly slow, but, well, it is kinda slow, and you usually have to escort it like 1000-2000 meters through hills, caverns, lakes, rocks... While defending it from waves of enemies. Luckily, you can use a frame with a speed buff, so the drone flies forward faster than the enemies arrive... or you can use a frame with a switch teleport ability - to swap places with the drone for like 500m at a time. I wish more escort missions in the games were like those...

Plot twist: the droid is the player who hired an NPC for this exact battle

This skit reminds me of a level from Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (A great game from 2002). The droid had to be escorted across what was basically an outer walkway turned shooting range and the droid would slowly roll head first into trip mines places across the walkway. I remember the game fondly but that was a particularly frustrating section. Especially on the higher difficulties because you had to balance running ahead to blow up the mines for the droid while not getting shot and then shoot all of the enemies before they destroyed the droid. Great video that reminded me of many mission failures due to an exploding droid. 😂

plot twist: Those specific drones were reverse engineered by stormtroopers.

And this is why I always keep my high level gear unless I'm fully aware it is a low level mission I can do without it

Hear me out: escort mission but it's actually a assassination mission B)

Oh God, you did have to escort a droid in that one Tatooine Jedi Academy mission.

That door...

I am very impressed with your Star Wars models. Great video!

Missed the part of the NPC then zipping across the zone to fight a mob on the other side of the continent, allowing the enemies you had to blow cooldowns for to respawn.

Every time Hoot makes more Star Wars content, my day goes from meh, to good.

TRANSLATORBOY ;) Also, amazing work! Your animations make me appreciate lower frame counts as a choice more and more.

Ok Noot 1:04 that over the shoulder shot was smooth asf, i can tell that took a while to animate

I never got why people you escort in games have no form of self defense. Sure we were hired for that, but realism was thrown out of the window by being ambushed in every single one of them.

In the next mission: "Dude, why are you armed to the teeth? I just need some help getting a big package through." "OH OF COURSE IT'S THAT SIMPLE, RIGHT?!"

When you accepted mission where a guy said: "please help, someone is chasing me! He's totally unarmed and there is not an army of high armored people behind these shadows!"

yet another kneeslaper, you never disappoint also, translatorboy took me a while lol

Only part missing is the NPC being near suicidal and rushing headlong into the enemy oblivious to danger and "Mission failed, you forgot to protect the primary!" warnings blaring as your primary decides to swan dive onto the bad guys weaponry or projectiles.

1:35 Realising the situation your in, but you also realise you got no ammo or hiding place in the battle.

Okay. One IG-88, alone is intimidating. But 4-6? That Mando-Hunter must have balls of titanium, the size of a bantha!

Hoot does THE BEST voice acting and for some reason it really fits a mandolorian.

This is truly an escort mission moment

Reminds me of the Bespin level from Jedi Outcast where you have to protect an R4 unit while he casually rolls his way through a terrace full of tripwire mines that will one hit him all the while being shot at by snipers on the roof top from across the way.

This is TOTALLY 100% not the way!😂

Oh no, it's much worse when the NPC pops out some kind of AOE weapon with friendly fire enabled. This was my first experience with an escort mission in Morrowind: "Look! A rat! Kill it with explosive fireballs!" **I die in molten agony**

great job, hoots got MORE convincing mando voice than the mando in the ACTUAL mando show

My favorite part of escort missions is when the NPC says "Hold on, I have to do a critical task here, please protect me!" before proceeding to take forever to open a door, lower a bridge, or perform some other menial task.... all while you proceed to reduce the enemy's payroll by twenty to thirty percent. Then it's "Hey we have to get moving, hurry up, are you going to just stand there all day?"

Irrational Games be like: We're going to make the whole game an NPC Escort mission and you all going to love it!

The best kind of NPC escort would be where the NPC himself is a juggernaut and assists in fighting while moving, or simply armored enough to take a beating. There is also the NPC shenanigans of them being a VIP and forgetting something very important and you have to bust your a** again to retrieve the item only for it to be a cigar case or something (Yes. Fast and Furious reference intended.)

I like to imagine this is how work goes for the other mandalorians

Need more MandoHoot content where he shares his biggest disappointments in that lovely voice of his.

The Geralt Fuck Training programme really paid off

This just made me really want a open world star wars game.

the voice acting, camera angles, timing, aesthetic, everything in hoot videos is gold

I feel this on a spiritual, emotional, and physical level

I love to imagine that the droid said "XD" while showing off the saw lmao

I love his comedically small circular saw you’ve got this buddy

That transition was perfect Clone Wars.

When the NPC is faster than your walking speed but slower than your running speed:

Reminds me of Rebel Galaxy. "Warp inhibited by stellar mass."

NPC: we must get to the location as quickly as possible! Also NPC: **Proceeds to move as fast as a snail**

Pay: 300 credits Cost of losing that gear: far more.

Translator boy, i love it when people actually put work into this stuff

I would love a mandalorian game being a badass bounty hunter chasing bounties and building the most deadly arsenal of weapons possible

-"Please, tell me you at leaat have some kind of a weapon." _Shows_ *comically small sawblade.*

hey look a star wars story 😂😅

Hoot has a knack for writing the dumbest jokes in the smartest way

Keeping content relatable in an age of utter insanity. You sir are a master.

It’s the “XD” that does it for me

If it’s enough money, then it’s worth it if you really need it.

You should do a mission and got into a scene where the "Autosave" function, just happened to conveniently saved your progress right there.

The equivalent of forgetting to put your armour back on after a social outing in Witcher 3.

the escort npc: *goes straight back to the start*

😂😂😂 "Please tell me you got somekind of a weapon"... ...Bzzzzzz "f!"

ffs the star wars like transitions between scenes is my big appreciate

*pulls out mini buzz saw* XD

I contend that Zone of the Enders 2 had the best escort missions: They stay still and you carry them to the location. If you happen upon an enemy whilst carrying your precious cargo, you are entirely within bounds to use said cargo to smack the enemy to death like a giant baseball bat. And if you're particularly low on health, you cargo doubles as a very good shield.

When ur not fully prepared for a fight during a escort:

Bro said “fuck” just like how Gerralt said it in the Witcher tv series 🤣🤣

Bro making his own Star Wars story better than Disney can.

Escort quests the only quest where the reward is the friends to accumulate along the way.

i love this "XD" and "Fuck" at the end

bro even got the starwars transitions!

🤣 ....the saw.... ....and smiley face.... ....can't.... ....breathe..... .....laughing.....

Unrealistic: Any experienced player would have turned this mission down at the mere mention of 'travelling' with an NPC.

the star wars transitions are top notch

He's a Mandalorian, he'll be fine.

Dammm, you made me think this was an actual Star Wars movie ưith the transistion

the walking anymation close up his back was very smooth 👌🏻

Literally every Escort Mission ever made by man:

You nailed the star wars -styled cut between scenes!

I think silent hill the room was probably the last time a big game studio made an escort NPC that was actually good. You could give them a weapon and they were fairly competent, not as good as you but not awful.

the most genuine f=== bomb I've ever heard

POV: THAT ONE Droid escort mission in JK2: Jedi Outcast

Warframe has the best NPC in escort mission. You can waltz to the exit leaving them behind and they just teleports to you

If that was a nod to Henry Cavill’s Witcher at the end there it was perfectly done

if this was r2d2 he wouldnt need an escort, he'd have killed them all easily

I didn't even notice the hole on the helmet until that text popped by 😅

The little XD haha So true though, they just do not help you during escort missions.. just run away and die immediately :I

Easily your best video yet, it was perfection.

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