Forum:Fallout 3 follower weapons

Add them to the wiki or not?

The weapons of your possible followers are only available through console. You can add them to your inventory but most of the firearms (except for Butch's 10mm pistol) are useless since they don't fire; they are set to a different ammo type than their regular counterparts, ammo types which are not available to the player (probably part of what keeps them from running out of ammo). The melee weapons on the other hand can be used just fine.

They don't degrade and appear in your inventory as their regular counterparts (Butch's 10mm pistol, for example, shows up as "10mm pistol").

Personally I tend towards not adding them, we do have an article on one of those already though (Charon's Shotgun).

By the way, I wouldn't count Clover's Cleaver and Fawkes' Super Sledge as follower weapons since they differ from their regular follower weapons, Chinese Officer Sword and Sledgehammer. Clover's Cleaver is a console-only weapon (does not appear ingame unless you spawn it manually) and Fawkes' Super Sledge can be got regularly (through trading with him during Finding the Garden of Eden, opposed to the follower weapons which appear ingame on your followers.

--Porter21 (Talk) 17:24, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * We do have a hack-only section, I don't see why we shouldn't put it there, in case you want to give Fawke's gattling laser to Clover or something. Or perhaps Charon's Shotgun to Clover would be less dumb, heh. --DarkJeff 17:44, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Funny enough, I don't think giving the firearms to other followers would work either - maybe the melee weapons though. The way the firearms are set up is basically having them use their own "ammo type" (say, AmmoShotgunShellRobot - whereas AmmoShotgunShell is the regular ammo) and put that ammo type in the NPCs inventory. So, Charon has that ammo type I mentioned in his inventory but Fawkes doesn't - she has AmmoElectronChargePackRobot. Clover and Charon are the only ones whose firearms should be interchangeable - well picked example you got there :)

My main point though is that the weapons currently in the "hack-only" section (except for Charon's Shotgun) may only be obtainable via console but work just like regular weapons: they have their own names, you can use them, drop them, they degrade etc. Whereas the follower weapons behave differently: they show up as regular weapons, don't degrade, you can't even use the firearms and I think they'll probably vanish if you drop them. Hence I wouldn't put them in the same category as the others. --Porter21 (Talk) 17:58, 18 December 2008 (UTC)