First of all, i am really relieved to see so many fellow sufferers. In love with the immersive experience of a real connections that panam also created for me, i rushed through her missions, just to get her as a companion. Now i am sad as you all are, that she is (instead of a fallout-like-companion), at least for now, a lifeless puppet. Sitting at the nomad ripperdoc and playing gameboy.
I have a, at least I hope, not to unrealistic wishlist and it is not to generate a love or sex-simulator, but to build on the great atmosphere-bonus the game presents with all these so well written (romance-) npc’s. So I guess (and hope) something like the following list could be done with all of them.
As a companion (in our case panam) could:
1. got our keys:
- and randomly show up at our apartment, sit on the couch and play her »gameboy« there or watch tv (animation allready in the game (as mentioned, see her at the nomad ripperdoc)
- after a long day she is allready lying in our bed and is simply sleeping there (animation allready in the game at the motel scene)
- i am sure my cat would love her too!
- to keep it easy, panam don’t need to get a shower animation... but that would (of course) also be nice
2. be a partner in crime:
- with all the dirty work for the NCPD i am kind of feel like Batman sometimes, protecting NC. It would be awesome if Panam would do the same as long as OUR adventure go in Night City (we don’t need to see, just to know that she is also »working« to make NC a better place or is helping her gang etc.)
- a perfect gimmick would be if she she could randomly call us and ask for help with a crime (her »please help me« - lines are kind of also allready in the game and i don’t mind too much, hearing them repetitively because I allready hear always the same police-women offering me money to do the work for them)
- also cool would be, if V could also call her for help, if she is randomly near by. So sometimes she drives by and opens fire with us, sometimes she is just unavailable and we have to envision that she is busy also killing gangsters or bad nomads (her lines for fight sequences with her are enough as well for this sidekick-function)
- also the idea (as i read here or on reddit), we could help her after a phone call, to get supplies for the aldecaldos. Therefore we even don’t need to see her. Just to do it would strengthens the immersion and the authenticity of the intended relationship. We could give the stuff to Mitch, Saul or simply drop it in some container in their camp - no money needed, just a call with a »thank you, V«
3. Bonus for beeing in a romance:
- if my good friend Judy leaves me breakfast, why can’t Panam drop some in our Apartment? Or call us, that she is allready there but we should get some food on our way home?
- in the meantime she could disassemble some stuff we left in a special container in our apartment. Therefore she visually just need to hang around in our storage room. Maybe curse sometimes with on of her lines...
- we could and should sleep sometimes with her! And here i am easy to please! I know, some animation of course would be great but a fade to black would also absolutely be okay for me. Again, i don’t need a sex-simulator, i just want to hang around with these great and loveable character.
- But: a sex-buff would be nice for the next ingame-day. Maybe 1% or 2% health bonus for the next 24h? Because a »well rested« V is a happy V!
Let's keep our hopes up and last but not least, thank CDPR for CP2077 and Panam in the first place... your game is already pretty awesome!