Forum:A not so good combination

Hardcore Mode, companions, and explosives like frags, mines, grenade launchers of any kind, etc... These make a bad combination. Especially Veronica, and Rex. They get right up on top of the enemy, while your trying to blow them to hello, and they die right along with the enemy. I have to tell them to wait while I go take care of business, and I wonder, "What is the point of dragging these pain in the ass' around if I can't have them fight with me.Pappy002 05:19, April 8, 2011 (UTC)

That is a bad combo. Personally, I hate Rex. He's no where near as strong as the rest. I just go with ED-E for my non-human companion. Veronica on the other hand, my favorite companion next to Boone. She usually handles business with that Ballistics Fist I pried out of Ceaser's cold dead hands. Anyways, to address your issue, I'd say that picking two melee based companions to work with your specialty of explosives is where you went wrong. Rex can't really stand up to any kind of punishment (at least in my experience) so I'd say if you really want a melee based companion, go with Veronica. Give her some Brotherhood Power Armor or Remnants armor if you have access to it. She should hold up fine, especially if you upgrade your Charisma to up your Nerve stat. Otherwise, go with a Boone/ED-E or Lily/ED-E companion combo. All of them can stand punishment well. There's also a perk (the name escapes me at the moment) that lowers the amount of friendly fire damage your companions take. Hope it helps. Thedarkscythe 07:32, April 8, 2011 (UTC) (Forgot to login)

I had Veronica, but i dismissed her after the third time this happened. Now I have Raul, but he's almost as bad. I didn't have Rex in this game, but I know how he his, and I know it'll be pointless to get him. I have Ed-e with the brotherhood upgrade, but even then, I have to keep feeding him stims. I forgot to mention I'm also playing on very hard, I know that's not a huge factor, but it does make enemies harder to kill, in turn makes me have to shoot or throw more grenades/mines/missles, and the longer companions are in the line of fire. I would use Boone, but I'm helping the legion.Pappy002 08:26, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * My prefered build is exactly hardcore mode + explosives + unarmed as secondary skill, this rocks! My prefered weapon is the Grenade Machinegun with 25mm HE grenades or the grenade launcher. If using missiles I like the High Velocity type, the greater cost hugelly pays itself, since missile launchers have slow reloading. Veronica is one hell of a companion for this build, but you need to change her to ranged weapons when using explosives, then when charging the enemy you set her to unarmed. She is a beast with the Q-35 at long range. I prefer ED-E instead of REX because of this, he charge the enemy and you end hit him a lot. The perk for lowering the damage of your companions is Spray ‘n Pray and if you have DM, Heavyweight is great choice, because you can carry more ammo or two different explosives weapons (the grenade machine gun weighs only 7.50 lbs with this perk). This build is fun because you can play a straigh foward attacker or a stealth one, creating traps and such. And there's nothing more satisfying than using a lot of explosives on Cazadors and then watching them attack their pairs. :D 189.110.216.189 09:29, April 11, 2011 (UTC)

The grenade machine gun is bad ass, but when its time to go light, I like the Thump Thump. Raul is pretty good with this setup, just as long as you give him a shotgun or rifle. ED-E is glitched and I don't think I'll ever use him again.Pappy002 21:32, April 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * Why did you say ED-E is glitched? Brfritos 22:52, April 11, 2011 (UTC)

Read in the gameplay help ED-E Dissapeared.

You know, I'm on a PC running the lastest 1.2.0.352 patch and never had ANY of the bugs described on his page or his quest page. And I did a lot of things that is supposed to break him, like applying the 14th january patch while he's a companion and upgraded by the BoS, going to Sierra Madre while he's a companion and Bloodborn Cave or the Thorn, having the Followers upgrade (he was upgraded by them in level 16 and I'm in level 27 in my current playhtrough, no problems so far), bring him to Black Mountain and so on. He never turned hostile on me either in any previous playthrough.

I have the bugs realated to the game world, like Lorenzo calling you and his voice change (but the quest don't brake AFAIK), bringing him to the NCR embassy turns the MPs hostile or losing his weapons when entering Gomorrah (this is a bug not related to ED-E, but with every NPC). Maybe I'm luck, but I've never experienced ED-E disappearence, what is needed for this to happen? Brfritos 06:36, April 13, 2011 (UTC)
 * In most playthroughs I only use followers for extra inventory space myself. Great Mara 06:41, April 13, 2011 (UTC)

This is the second game ED-E messed up on me, first time, he just sat there not moving, not fighting, nothing, I had to dismiss him. Now he's gone, but it still registers him as one of my companions, I still have the perk. But I can't get Rex, and the only way I could enter Caesar's tent was to blow up the guards skirt (his pants) while using one of my last 3 stealth boys. If the guard ends up respawning, then I'm screwed, cause i now have one stealth boy left, and they aren't easy to find.Pappy002 07:47, April 13, 2011 (UTC)