As someone currently going for all stage completion checkmarks, it gave me ire when I saw that playing as Bonnie's duo skin gave checkmarks to Formina. Now, I understand why: the Formina companion is meant to be the same one as the Formina you play as. The selected weapon alt applies when playing as Bonnie, and I believe eggs do to. The logic here seems to be: "If Formina is already in the stage and surviving until the time limit, even though the player is playing as Bonnie, we might as well also give them to Formina." look. I get it. but at the same time: if I'm playing as Bonnie, I'm playing as Bonnie, and Formina just happens to be a companion. I'm not building her properly, because I'm here to play as Bonnie. Formina is a fun extra who shouldn't get checkmarks unless I am specifically playing as her. One of my favorite parts about getting checkmarks is how it makes me appreciate characters and/or weapons I looked over in the unlocking process. If it weren't for checkmarks, I wouldn't be using Valkyrie Turner and Time Wrap, my 2 favorite weapons in the game. Having Formina gain checkmarks alongside Bonnie just gives me no incentive to play her after I've gotten all my checkmarks w/ Bonnie. And yes, I know I can play just Bonnie by using the solo skin, but, like, that's just a nerf. I don't want to have to go out of my way to make a character worse or the sake of having more incentive to play the video game. And that's really what this is about: I'm already trying to get all checkmarks. I know how long this will take. If anything, it's just an excuse to play more of the game that I really like, while giving me something I can work towards. I don't need shortcuts, or duos giving extra checkmarks. I just wanna play more video game.
Sorry for the paragraph. if anyone is confused, or I worded something weirdly, I am willing to explain and/or clarify specific points.
#Remove the ability for partner characters to get checkmarks while not directly playing as them
digital tartan
frozen swallow
This is honestly a bug more than anything. All Duo characters suffer from the same issue,
limber nacelle
Not sure whether it should be removed or not... the multi-actor teams are riding on the multiplayer game mode's code and playing with a friend would make getting both checks at the same time desirable. Despite duo characters being two separate entries in the list, they're effectively a single character, which raises the question "Should the lead just be a skin swap instead?". The new free DLC muddies that further, since if I recall correctly you have to use Bonnie to unlock Formina instead of them both having the same criteria (or secret status). ...Tough call, tough call.
digital tartan
Not sure whether it should be removed or not... the multi-actor teams are riding...
I understand it uses the same code as multiplayer, but they could just: alter it for single-player? like I'm ok w/ multiplayer giving extra checkmarks, that is multiple characters being actively played as at the same time, but the Formina follower when playing as Bonnie is not actually a second player, and nobody is playing as her.