Forum:Can Charon use a better weapon?

Can Charon use other little guns other than his default shortgun? When he is recruited, he has 20 shortgun shells with him. By taking away these shortgun shells and give him a better weapon than his default shortgun, like sydney's smg, will he use it? Anyone has tried before?


 * yes he will. i gave him a chinese rifle with like 100 ammo. i took it away from him though because wastes way too much ammo on targets that are too far away to hit. it's annoying as hell i want to punch him in the face sometimes but i love him too much. i give it back to him in confined areas.

I have found him quite weak recently. For couple times I fighted with 2-3 enclave soldiers and a deathclaw, he was already killed by the time I took out the small group of enclave bastards...The problem is, his default weapon has few ammos. After a few shots, he has to reload and give enemies a big chance to attack him. When fighting a deathclaw one to one, Charon is very likely to be killed (even having a full set of enclave power armour)--210.177.53.35 04:47, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Give Mr Charon a Fatman and he'll (almost) never miss a shot (nuke)

Play me Again says

Charon is one of the unique followers you get, since he will follow you no matter what karma. Giving Charon Power Armor is the best choice, let him keep his shotgun it's strong as hell. if you notice his life is low, you have to quickly talk to him, give him a stimpack and continue the fight. against enclave, you have to do a lot of the work for him, get in real close(unless they have a Death Claw, kill that first), don't let them focus on him, target their heads, charon will be there as support damage, having Dogmeat around also helps as he attracts aggro. enclave soldiers biggest weakness is their slow-rate of fire plasma weapons. giving him the shichkebab is also useful as he tends to come too close in combat and will immediately use it if necessary, if not he will just use a normal combat knife.

Charon is not immortal, like other followers, they can back you up efficiently, but can't do most of the fighting by themselves, having Dogmeat does improve thier chances in survival, but so far only Fawkes if the only valid follower that can handle a death claw by himself, and he appears in the near end of the game and will follow only with Good karma.

NOTE: Followers have been known to steal kills, removing the rightfully gained XP that you need. Try to get max level before getting a decent follower. Any area can be done alone, the follower/s is just there to back you up, while scavenging or traveling and carrying extra weight (important) !!!


 * Charon can use a better weapon, though not many small guns will be better than his shotguns. Off the top of my head, he will trade his shotgun for a Xuanlong Assault Rifle, a Scoped .44 Magnum, Blackhawk and the Railway Rifle.BSMaker 15:26, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Charon is a murder machine with the Blackhawk or a Sniper rifle. Just save up a lot of ammo for him as he likes to make sure his opponents are dead (he keeps shooting them after they fall). [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 20:55, 22 January 2009 (UTC)