So what you like him to use is just personal preference. He does fine with any bullet gun, doesn't really matter, although companions do have a different movement AI script for pistols/machine guns than for rifles. He can do ok with energy weapons if they're powerful enough but his energy skill is not very high & never goes up so his accuracy with them is lot lower.guns/rifles are his specialty.

His guns and melee skill are the highest & tagged skills so they eventually get to 100. Jah Allen Posts: 3444 Joined: Wed 2:09 am For instance, the weapon may stay in that new, slightly damaged condition for a long time before it happens again. But again, this is from splash damage/hits, not from 'wearing down' via use. I can give them a max repaired gun and at some point notice its condition has only slightly degraded. Not just the insta-broken weapon thing either.

All companions, for me at least, do take weapon damage. It's possible such use, even if available, is random and unpredictable (to keep them from being even more powerful). I've put all kinds of things in their inventory, keeping watch to see if the number goes down, but I've never seen them use an antivenom or other drug/effect. You can see enemy AI doing it too.they kind of bend over at the waist a bit and wave an arm like they're scooping something up. The 'taking something' animation does take a couple seconds. However I have taken advantage of it in non-hardcoe, either by healing them rapidly as soon as I see the animation, or simply because they pop back up again before long. However it's just like with stimpacks.they'll only ingest it when they've taken a great deal of damage, thus chances are good as soon as they pop the drug/stim, they'll be on the floor 2 seconds later. You can tell because their hitpoints will register it (365/300 or whatever). Tiffany Castillo Posts: 3429 Joined: Mon 7:09 am Upon using a stimpak, Cass's health would drop down to minus three hundred something because the Cazador poison took off all her health at once.

I thought a stimpak would prevent them from slowly getting killed by the poison, but I was wrong. I was recently fighting some Cazadores with Cass and Rex, and sometimes they would get poisoned and their health would drop. So the only thing you have to worry about is the weapons you gave them. Personally, I had to backtrack more than once to find the Paladin Toaster that was knocked out of Veronica's hands after she punched out another Deathclaw. Weapons and armor do not degrade on them, but it is possible for their weapons to get knocked out of their hands in melee combat. They probably won't use chems either, even though I haven't tried it, and I'm not sure about stimpaks. They won't consume food or drink that you put in their inventory, either. Companions are not affected by dehydration, starvation, sleep deprivation or radiation.

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