Companion carrying weight glitch

[Andy_M1919]

My companions are Veronica and Ed-E. I've noticed that after every time I give them something and take it back later, the amount of weight they're holding after emptying their inventory increases! Veronica had a weight of 209/210. I take back everything she had, so she's holding nothing. After a while I needed her to hold stuff for me again, but this time I noticed that she had 49/210 despite having nothing. Same story with Ed-E, only he has 6/210 (originally it's 1/210). I don't why this is happening, my items aren't disappearing because I remember everything I gave them.

[barfbag69fartmachine]

They have items you can't take away
Veronica has her outfit and her powerfist
You can't get those items by killing them but they exist in the game's code and can be taken through the console.
ED-E is probably holding a laser gun which functions as his primary fire.
The code is very flimsy as this game was built from ground-up in just over a year

[JDC UK]

If you've been to the fort with ED-E he'll be given extra copies of his weapon from both of the other upgraded versions of his "Creature" whenever you leave. This happens every single time.

I'm not familar with Veronica being affected by any similar bugs.

You could use console commands to check your companion's inventories for duplicate weapons.
Bring up the console, click on the companion, then enter the command: inv

[Andy_M1919]

Originally posted by The Supreme Paragon of Gun:

They have items you can't take away
Veronica has her outfit and her powerfist
You can't get those items by killing them but they exist in the game's code and can be taken through the console.
ED-E is probably holding a laser gun which functions as his primary fire.
The code is very flimsy as this game was built from ground-up in just over a year

Originally Veronica has 13/210 when you first meet her, I'm aware that companions do have things I can't take away. I'm pointing out that this weight had increased out of nowhere.

[Phlojem.TTV]

I've the same problem, but with Boone, Rex and ED-E. When I first meet Boone, he has a Merc Grunt outfit, Sunglases and a 1st Recon Beret. That goes to about 9 Weight. Now it's about 50, even without those items... I don't know what's going on.

[Skrunky the Ass Rat]

Boone only has one item he normally doesn't, and it doesn't show up in his inventory. I've given him stuff before but took it all back, and he's at 220/220 carry weight right now. The item he has weighs under five units. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

[onebunchmugen]

open up console then click on your companion and type "modav carryweight 100" this will solve your problems

[pillumagneetti420]

i know this is old but i have the same companions, carry weight went from 230 to 25

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.