Piper/Companion Not Attacking DURING Firefight/Combat?

[Tesityr]

Just wondering if anyone's run into where Piper (or any Companion) just, literally, Stands There. As in, actually just stands, with her arms at her sides, yelling at the enemy... It's kind of funny actually; she'll tell me to "WATCH OUT" and "THEY'RE BAAACK!" but then proceeds to stand, arms at her sides, and let the enemy fill her full of holes.
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I've tried to Reload an earlier Save, but she still does it. I can try one further back, so we are in a totally different area - and I've thought about switching Companions for a while to see if that helps - but before doing too much, I just wanted to ask if anyone has seen this, or knows how to fix it?

I've done some searching, but I seem to only be finding stories of "companion attacked me" not "companion thinks they are a god/dess", heh

Thanks for any input

[Chompman]

When in doubt check your mods that cause issues.

Also make sure you have not taken her gun without giving her another and the ammo to use it.

[Eminem]

Ammo?

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Chompman:

When in doubt check your mods that cause issues.

Also make sure you have not taken her gun without giving her another and the ammo to use it.

I don't run Mods but thanks for thinking of that.

Originally posted by soge99:

Ammo?

I did give her a different gun and gave her about 300 Ammo at the time - lol she might be out of ammo? Dang, either I'll have to give her a lot more, or let her use her own 10mm...

Thanks for that, you two!

[Tesityr]

Ammo: CHECK

She has ammo, almost 200 units of 10mm for the silenced, upgraded 10mm I gave her. Hmmm, any other ideas?

[Chompman]

If it is indeed an ammo issue either just give her the original gun type she used or better yet use this mod to fix this issue so companions are actually useful:

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/6233

[Chompman]

Originally posted by Tesityr:

Ammo: CHECK

She has ammo, almost 200 units of 10mm for the silenced, upgraded 10mm I gave her. Hmmm, any other ideas?

Did you equip it on her or just give it to her?

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Chompman:

Originally posted by Tesityr:

Ammo: CHECK

She has ammo, almost 200 units of 10mm for the silenced, upgraded 10mm I gave her. Hmmm, any other ideas?

Did you equip it on her or just give it to her?

Gun is given then Equipped (little green box next to it) - she actually used it for a while before we went into Fort Hagen.

Should I try Travelling or an earlier Save, outside of this building? It could be bugged in that one place, but that's a pretty big bug to have till now, and I'm sure other people have taken Piper on this Quest...

[Eminem]

As a final check....Give her a melee weapon and see if she attacks stuff with it.

[Tesityr]

Ok I fixed her; but I'm not sure which part did it... HEre's what I did:

- I Fast Travelled back to a Settlement, where she fought some Mutants with me that were attacking it (Piper = OK then)
- I also Reloaded an earlier Save, to see if NOT Fast Travelling would do anything (if something else could work), but then I went to Talk to her, and she Talked, as in, she Progressed her Affinity to me with a little interaction/Story...

The thing is, she didn't say "I want to talk" earlier, and when I Talked to her earlier she Traded and everything, as in, there was no "I need to Talk" blocking anything (so I didn't know she needed to Talk to me [and progress the Affinity]). Usually, with a Companion, they'll say "I need to Talk" in some way, and you can't do anything else with them, they'll not Trade/etc [that I have seen] - but Piper here, was letting me do everything, so I didn't know she 'wanted to have a Talk'.

Anyway, it's 'fixed' now, and she attacks and shoots, runnin'n'gunnin' nicely once again...

Thanks again for the input, ya'll - pizza for everybody

[Comestibles]

ok

[whovianlord]

what worked for me was taking the gun an ammo dismissing the companion in this case Preston then fast traveling back an picking him up then got into a fight i fired some rounds at him then he used his laser musket then gave him back the gun mid combat using openactorcontainer 1