Who is best companion?

[Mari]

This is my first time playing- first choise was dog and it´s bad decision, I think. Who do you think is the best companion at all and why?

[Pure Mind Games]

The Good Boy allows you to use Lone Wanderer, though if memory serves Cait wasn't bad.

[goatfish]

probably best combat wise would either be Danse or Grimlock...... i mean Strong

[At-Las OS]

danse or human curie for non stealth, decon for stealth, pretty much everyone else is not worth it or complete trash

[Xenon The Noble]

I've come to hate companions. You take on a companion and your carry weight capacity drops like a rock. I've had to drop stuff because I took on a companion.
Companions block your way, shoot you in the back, and don't like what you do half the time. Most companions are very good at finding that albino glowing legendary Epic super-mutant Overlord that you just sneaked by, the one with three Super-mutant suiciders.
The only thing they're good for is that they give the baddies someone else to shoot at.

[Pure Mind Games]

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

The only thing they're good for is that they give the baddies someone else to shoot at.

If only Mass Effect(and other games but recently done ME2 on insanity so the hell is still fresh) used that strategy.

[Xenon The Noble]

The only reason why I don't take dogmeat as a companion is that hearing him welp when he's getting beat on just breaks my heart. I don't even like shooting guard dogs that are attacking me. Dogmeat is the best doggo. Anyone who hurts Dogmeat is going down. All the other companions? Meh.

[BickyMonster]

I recently spent a lot of time with Preston, to get the full approval achievement. I liked him. He had some interesting things to say and was good in a fight. And I like the guy.

[Alucard †]

Dogmeat or my custom built death machines.
There is no in between for me.

Also lifeless robots seem to have more personality than any of the supposed "human" characters.

Only difference is that i can't romance them.
Not that i would even want to..

[red255]

I take everyone for their companion perk, then ditch them for the dog.

Dog isn't great but it can carry some stuff and you can use lone wanderer with the dog

and its best point is it never says anything.

[Shadowrun]

i'm like Xenon The Noble. i feel bad when i charge in kamakaze and get my companion killed.

so i go with Ada. it doesn't bother me when a robot gets killed. she just powers down for a moment then rejoins the fight when she can.

also, ada can be modified as a pack mule so she can carry he fair share of weight.

and one more thing, you can put 2 weapons on ada's arms. not every companion will dual wield miniguns, for example. :D

but really, what companion you take depends on you. some companions offer perks that work with a player's particular play style

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

[Similar]

Originally posted by BickyMonster:

I recently spent a lot of time with Preston, to get the full approval achievement. I liked him. He had some interesting things to say and was good in a fight. And I like the guy.

ah, when I tried him he barely ever hit anything with his musket and he seems rather attached to it, so it felt wrong to give him something else.
Or, it kind of seemed like he could only hit stuff at a very specific range. Too close or too far and he'd constantly miss.

I like Cait, so I usually make my way to Combat Zone early in a game. She does need some kind of automatic rifle/SMG (Defense gun that, somehow, fires incendiary rounds in my current game) to be any good, but once she has that she can be pretty effective.
Cait can also somehow look remarkably offended sometimes while wearing power armor (especially the Vim one from Far Harbor or X-01). Not sure what it is, but it's pretty funny.

Piper is nice, but not much good in a fight in my experience.

Dogmeat drives me nuts, so I usually replace him with Codsworth as soon as possible. Codsworth isn't too shabby as long as he can get close to enemies. And he has a bunch of pretty terrible jokes too, plus you can upgrade him once you get the robot workbench.

I like Ada too, although it's always a problem figuring out which legs to give her; her AI doesn't seem to handle the faster ones very well, so she keeps running into me and past doors and such.

[jbokk9]

I am a Lone Wander and Dogmeat fan. Although if I go into a building requiring stealth, I will leave him behind.

[Iron Knights]

FML Cait with an Auto rifle ? She wasted my ammo like a whorses' money for crack. Can't hit anything. I like Hat Eating Codsworth (max. modded of course he can take a supermutant nuke and shake it off, no repairs) - "Oh, ho, ho ! Fancy a bit of fistacuffs ? I've got a BuzzSaw with Your Name on it ! Is that it ? He buggered off.". Rule of thumb, give your human companions sniper rifles and pistols, Robots can run Autos.

[Ommamar]

For the base game I would go with Curie, I like her voice and personality. You can keep her as a robot or finish her story so she becomes a synth. I always use a mod though that allows me to take both him and companion, I also have one that allows me to armor him up. I put the no fall damage legendary on dogmeats armor just because he does seem to have a problem with gravity. I have actually lost him for a time because he fell down to where I couldn't reach him then when he recovered just seemed to wander off.

it does depend though on the type of build I am always in sneak but if I am playing a build that is really dependent on sneakiness I will take lone wanderer then run the game with no companion. That is rare though as I do think the companions add to the game plus if you follow their stories you can get some good perks.

[goatfish]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Dogmeat or my custom built death machines.
There is no in between for me.

Also lifeless robots seem to have more personality than any of the supposed "human" characters.

i named it Tim-Tom

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