When to do Minutemen missions for Preston's Perk?

[rocketprime]

I'm planning to join the Brotherhood as as my main faction. But when would be a good time to put the main story on hold and do Minutemen missions until I max out Preston's affinity and gain his Companion Perk? I haven't gone to Diamond City yet.

[tulle040657]

Minutemen missions do not make Preston like you more unless you take him along with you on them

[spared_life]

Basically keeping Preston as a companion is all you need even while continuing the BOS line. You can also get there if you dismiss him to whatever settlement you call home as long as you are there enough.

[Simple Man]

Lotta people that drop by seem to "im on the console version", as you're another one that doesn't own the game on PC.

Bethesda.net has both forums for these questions, as well as mods for the actual consoles. You'd probably get the same, perhaps even better help there.

[Bored Peon]

You get X companion affinity points for time spent with a companion. You can have them follow you while building a settlement and never take them anywhere and max them out. I have done this with the nuisance companions before, like Strong.

Although certain companions require a quest to reach the next affinity level. Nick, Danse, Cait, and McCready require a quest to max them out.

[mister_lobos]

here is a complete guide on how to get the different companions to like you.. and unlock their perk.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_companions

for preston, having him with you when you agree to help someone (doesn't matter if it's minute man related or not) is a great way to do it.. also modifying a weapon in front of him, BUT without mods you can only get credit for modding one weapon about once per day.

so if you don't want to get mods for affinity... mod a weapon in front of him (you can even just swap parts you already have) then go to somewhere that will get you asked to do something by an npc and say yes to do it.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by mister_lobos:

also modifying a weapon in front of him, BUT without mods you can only get credit for modding one weapon about once per day.

They do not need to be your companion when you use a workbench and get an affinity reaction. They can be sitting idle in that settlement and receive it.

[Zotliatlicor]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

You get X companion affinity points for time spent with a companion. You can have them follow you while building a settlement and never take them anywhere and max them out. I have done this with the nuisance companions before, like Strong.

Although certain companions require a quest to reach the next affinity level. Nick, Danse, Cait, and McCready require a quest to max them out.

Strong is Special as he gains Affinity when you Kill Enemies. It is in his profile and it is in my opinion the only good way to max him. As he has serious problems with a lot of the stuff most players do, like entering Power Armor or Picking Locks.

If one manage to get Strong early he will likely max out pretty fast as there is enemies around every corner of the Commonwealth. But i think he is the only Companion that gains Affinity this way, by killing.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Zotliatlicor:

Strong is Special as he gains Affinity when you Kill Enemies. It is in his profile and it is in my opinion the only good way to max him. As he has serious problems with a lot of the stuff most players do, like entering Power Armor or Picking Locks.

You left out he dislikes looting anything not in a corpse.

[Jo]

As others have said, gaining affinity with Preston is independent of the main Minutemen questline so just take him out on missions with you and you'll soon gain affinity, unless you do something to really p*** him off. :)
Personally I never attempted to get to max affinity with ol' Garvey though as I didn't fancy him following me around Sanctuary calling me "Babe". :P

[NecroMaster]

Do those when your recruiting for the Minutemen.

Or option b keep spam failing mama Murphy’s speech check to make her quit chems.
(Doing this allowed me to bypass the need to take companions everywhere I got codsworth, Piper, Preston, Curie, and Danse in sanctuary spamming this choice and all their affinity’s were maxed before I knew it)