Solved - Nick Valentine's "Affinity" 'stuck' at Zero? [Light Spoilers]

[Tesityr]

Some light Plot Spoilers Within, Careful........
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I was trying out Nick as a Companion (I usually didn't use him heh) and I am on a Character where I chose the Institute. Boy, did he fill my ears once he heard about that one...

Now, his Affinity is Zero - but it doesn't look like it's going back up... I took him on a few Quests now, but it's still "0" when checked.
I utilized the "getav ca_affinity" command, and it works on other Companions on the same Character (eg. Piper is at about 500).
I haven't 'purposefully' done things he specifically Likes yet, but I was wondering, will he 'hate' me forever now? lol

I have not done his Personal Quest yet

Thanks

[Tesityr]

If I may Update my own Thread, it seems to have 'solved itself'...

Just now, Nick came up to me and gave me a bit of his Life Story. Neat.

Anyway, I re-checked his Affinity and it is now at 778, so it seems that it rebounded without issue and whatever I'm doing (did some Quests, Building up a couple of Settlements) he seems to Like it and the game is working 'OK' now.

Just in case it helps anyone else, just wait a bit if this happens to you - perhaps there was something in the game that needed it at Zero for a time, perhaps it was the Plot Point of what I did with the Institute, and that triggered a 0 setting, which might have been needed for triggering the Talking Point [of him giving me crap heh] - I don't know for sure of course, but in case anyone ever runs into Companion Affinity showing up as Zero; just wait a bit, perhaps it will iron itself out.

Marking as Solved (..and leaving it up, if that's alright with the Mods). HTH

[ronr42]

Your thread looks So empty/lonely, I thought I'd post.

In case you're not aware, you must do Nick's personal quest before you can reach max affinity with him and get his perk.

I figure you already know that but, it was all I could think of to post on the subject.

*In my game Nick is still in DC waiting for me to take him as a companion. I'm gonna have to get around to that one of these days. :)

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by ronr42:

Your thread looks So empty/lonely, I thought I'd post.

In case you're not aware, you must do Nick's personal quest before you can reach max affinity with him and get his perk.

I figure you already know that but, it was all I could think of to post on the subject.

*In my game Nick is still in DC waiting for me to take him as a companion. I'm gonna have to get around to that one of these days. :)

Hehe no it's ok - I figured noone had the exact answer/knowledge for this specific problem, so I just left it at the fact its' working now - but that's nice of you :)

To fill things in, Nick was already at about 500'ish - then he got after me for choosing the Institute... I hadn't seen Nick for a while, but I took him back on as a Companion and boy did he get upset for a second.

I just had the idea to 'check' what the Affinity was for him at that time. It read as Zero lol

I assume now that it is just a temporary thing, as it went up/was back to over 700 a while later. Just now, I finished his Storyline Quest and got his Perk! Thanks for that reminder though, mate

[ronr42]

You're welcome. :)