Cass is refusing to carry stuff

[expy777]

Good day,

I talk to my companion Cass, then select companion commands -> open inventory and want to transfer some armor to her. But it drops on the ground instead, saying "your companion is unable to wear that fraction armor".
But I don't want her to WEAR it, just want her to CARRY it in inventory.... want her simply to help me carrying the stuff.
Is there a way to resolve this?

Thanks.

[Amanoob105]

Unless you're trying to keep one of every faction outfit on your in case you need one, to which the best option is to realise you're never on any time limit in this game and just keep them all at one of your homes to just go get one if you think you will need it.

The easiest way to not have this problem is to just not pick them up in the first place. This works out best if the reason you were picking them up was to sell them, in which case the argument to leave them is the one of "weight to cost ratio".

Caesar's Legion make for an easy example with Legion recruit armor vs the Machete is perfect for this.
The armor has weight of '12' and a (max) sell price of '200'.
The Machete has a weight of '2' and a (max) sell price of '50'.
Bigger is not always better when trying to make the most caps in trade.

[expy777]

Yes that was exactly the reason of looting the fraction armor - the selling purpose )
I do pay attention on weight/price ratio. Nevertheless it's a bit pity when Cass has the load eg 30/200 and unable to grab couple of Legion armors.
Never had similar issue in Fallout 4 :)

[gloops]

Companions won't carry faction armour unless they're in the faction. This is to stop companions automatically wearing faction armour and turning enemies of that faction hostile while the player is neutral (apart from Boon, because he's hostile to Legion regardless of player status). You can change it, but it involves editing scripts in the GECK. I changed the robots to carry faction armour, because they don't wear anything anyway.