Companion dossier · Urban Shelter
Billy Bo Hicks
The third starting survivor, a sharp-tongued local lawman who rounds out your first squad.
Who he is
Billy Bo Hicks completes the trio of survivors you start with at Urban Shelter. He is written as a local lawman with a redneck streak and a habit of needling the county's better-off families, which fits the game's cast of ordinary, slightly deranged locals rather than trained soldiers. As a starting member he is available from the opening mission, so he shares the early workload with Kaylee and Lucy before you recruit anyone else.
How to use him
Because the game grows attributes and specializations through use, Billy is flexible early on: whatever weapon class you hand him and keep using is the one he improves at. Many players slot him into a frontline or utility role while Kaylee handles range and Lucy handles medicine, then specialize him once you see which gaps your squad has. Keeping all three starters alive through the prologue suburbs is the foundation of a stable Act 1 run, since companions do not come back once lost.