Psychotic companions

Are you sure you're not thinking of EuroGamer?
The EuroGamer was stream was painful as they talked too much and, yes, ignored sidequest.
The IGN stream actually did all the sidequests.

Oh!
I guess they had multiple streams. The one I saw form IGN was different

Okay this might seem harsh but have you ever been in the situation where lives are on the line? You are more concerned with getting yourself and others out of the situation alive. Liam acts perfectly normal and shooting corpses isn't disrespectful, they're dead they don't feel shit. Cora is more up to opinion but shes not a marine so she likely doesn't have a no man left behind motto. Maybe I'm too cold of a person but everything I saw there was perfectly acceptable.

Calm down there Javik

Hey, for many of us punk-butch-lesbian is loveliness defined. Beauty isn't just contained in your eye, objective one.

I mean one is more trained soldier in a dangerous situation. In realistic situations, she made a pragmatic call.

Liam was off the cuff, but get that he was angry for losing someone, if he did it without that, I'd agree psychotic, but he's angry over a lot of stuff and his "story" seems to be about an idealist coming to grips with reality, so not necessarily psychotic just emotional.

Yes. In fact, the bar for respectful treatment of enemy dead is very high. There have been war crimes convictions for refusing to allow the burial of enemy dead, let alone deliberate mutilation or using enemy corpses to vent one's emotions.

Yeah, given that we've seen them shoot prisoners who were trying to surrender, as well as later kidnap, torture and attack civilian outposts on Eos, it's not like the laws of war are something the Kett are too concerned with following.

Not that it excuses Liam's behaviour, which it is why it's good that both Cora and Ryder can immediately call him out on it.

I like Liam, but it is a bit worrying that someone who was both a cop and specialised in crisis response of all things, could so quickly lose his temper and cool in an actual friggin' crisis.

I agree. And thank you for your service.

I like Liam (as a character) even more from this.

I wanna know what makes him his way.

I played through the first mission twice and never left Greer behind before meeting Cora -- but I'm more willing to defer to her behavior as being a situation where a character's motivations were effected by gameplay/storytelling requirements. Try heading the opposite direction of where Cora and Alec tell you to go? The lack of erected lightning rods leave you being zapped constantly. It's a bit of annoying railroading, sure, but with the fact that you're being hit by lightning in mind, Cora's feelings are completely understandable. Alec's message cuts off with him being spotted, and you're always going to go for the guy in immediate danger who you have a beat on as opposed to the guy who's MIA.

Liam's not psychotic. The guy was a cop, then a search and rescue.. er. He signed on to be a scout in a new galaxy; while he's talented, the guy isn't some hardened soldier. He was close with the other Pathfinders and knew them a little better than Scott/Sara. At least, it comes off that way. He watched one of his friends being beaten over the head, and after seeing another being shot in cold blood as he surrendered, he suffers a meltdown. He was emotional on top of an already high stress situation. His feelings got the better of him, but it's a fairly natural response for a human who perhaps isn't prepared or experienced in dealing with that kind of loss.

Also, pfft, why would you skip the sidequests? Greer is literally in a cave right next to the pass that leads to Cora.