I always clear Tixa before going to Alma, so I'm sure you don't have to do Alma first (although maybe low loyalty in Alma is worse than no loyalty there - I don't know).

Have you killed civilians anywhere in Arulco? If you do that, it seems that word gets around, and some mercs won't join you.

Have you tried recruiting Dynamo with another merc? Try all that you have. And make sure you use the Recruit dialogue option; he won't just offer to join during conversation.

Once Dynamo agrees to join your team, he'll ask for $50 a day to work for you, refuse his offer and then use recruit option again and he'll join for free

About Matt's quest, there's no need to bring Dynamo to Alma mine to complete the quest, simply free Dynamo and the loyalty in Alma will raise.

I too had difficulties to recruit Dynamo recently

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I too had difficulties to recruit Dynamo recently

I forgot to say that when I met him after the battle, he asked for first aid but the game printed something like "Dynamo doesn't require first aid but rather rest ..." on the screen (the sentence that you see when you try to heal a wounded militian after a battle) when I tried to heal him. He didn't want either a 1st aid kit or a medikit but, when given money, he said that he needed a doctor.

Recruiting him had always been straightforward for me and I don't remember if I really have to heal him or not. It may be a bug that he (or rather the game) rejected first aid.

That's the point:

Don't rush and let Dynamo tell ALL his story dude!!!!!!!!

I asked Dynamo to join me after he mentioned that his kid was murdered by deidranna's men.

That seemed to me like the most opportune time to get him to join me.


However. I'm not concerned with that. What I want to know, is how you recruit the other two guys in Tixa.

yeah dynamo's script sometimes is a bit unreliable.
it features some not really so very necessary triggers which might be the reason that sometimes even high leadership merc can't recruit him, even if first aid was given and his story was told
that does in fact matter, as there's a trigger "dynamo got to tell his story" or somesuch. Having this trigger set to true will easen the recruitment, but it seems that in many cases it's still not enough.
i guess i may have overlooked something.

Once Dynamo agrees to join your team, he'll ask for $50 a day to work for you, refuse his offer and then use recruit option again and he'll join for free

I can verify what Blue_Fox says as I just did it. Have someone with good leadership talk to him and get his whole story including about his brother and all. Then recruit him and when it asks "Recruit Dynamo for $50/day" he'll join for free. I'm going to have him try to recruit Shank and see what happens.

--update--

Shank wouldn't talk much to Dynamo, probably because Dynamo's leadership is too low. "I need time alone" is about all he'd say. When another merc talked to him he spilled his whole story. Then I switched to Dynamo and "I need time alone" when Dynamo tried to recruit him. So I switched back to the other merc and he could recruit Shank, albeit at the normal $20.

--update--

Heh. I had Shank totallyu load up with gear until he was at 621%. It took him almost a day to march to the next sector BUT he gained 15 strength and two levels!