Super Mutant Named (Strong)

[Mr. Hubble]

Just curious has anyone here besides me ever managed to find a sidekick named Strong? I found him at the top of one of the tall towers. It's been a couple of years so I forget exactly how I captured him. If you can capture him he'll be a much more useful companion when you're engaged in combat instead of the German Shepherd Dog. I like to use him to run interference for me when I'm getting ready to fight

[Castyles]

I think I murdered a Super Mutant called Strong yesterday. He was hostile (like all the others).

[TheFamousPoundy]

what?
strong is a possible companion

[Smoog]

Strong is a companion you get from helping out trinity tower, so I'm not sure why he would be hostile

[Mr. Hubble]

Originally posted by Pookie101:

Originally posted by Mr. Hubble:

Just curious has anyone here besides me ever managed to find a sidekick named Strong? I found him at the top of one of the tall towers. It's been a couple of years so I forget exactly how I captured him. If you can capture him he'll be a much better companion instead of the German Shepherd Dog.

A. no companion is better than Dogmeat who is the goodest good boy in the whole wide world

B. Strong hates pretty much everything you do from getting into power armour to picking a lock

You play the game the way you like and I'll play the game the way I like.

[Mr. Hubble]

Originally posted by Boeing:

Strong is a companion you get from helping out trinity tower, so I'm not sure why he would be hostile

Ah! Thanks for reminding me.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Castyles:

I think I murdered a Super Mutant called Strong yesterday. He was hostile (like all the others).

You may have shot him a few times in error, thinking he was an enemy. With companions, you get a couple of 'free shots' and then they turn hostile.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Pookie101:

B. Strong hates pretty much everything you do from getting into power armour to picking a lock

Strong does dislike picking locks (even when they don't belong to anyone, unlike a lot of other companions), but he comments negatively on things a lot more than they genuinely hurt his affinity rating.

Even his genuine dislike for power armour is a very weak dislike. Most dislikes will drop your affinity by around 7 affinity points, while Strong's dislike for power armour is only a 1 point drop.

Half the trouble with raising Strong's affinity is that he doesn't have a lot of common likes, so you're mostly relying on just hanging around with him to let it slowly climb on its own. My notes say he likes eating corpses (if you have the feat for that), murder (killing nonhostile people), and theft.

Avoiding picking locks is all you really need to do to manage him.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by Lady Aeleanor:

Originally posted by Castyles:

I think I murdered a Super Mutant called Strong yesterday. He was hostile (like all the others).

You may have shot him a few times in error, thinking he was an enemy. With companions, you get a couple of 'free shots' and then they turn hostile.

I don't even know if it was him, hence the "I think". Hopefully not.

I'm pretty sure I killed a unique, named, Super Mutant, though.

[Iron Knights]

Yeah, given you do the tower quest, everyone gets Strong (pun intended).
Strong dislikes you using power armor though.
I never tried to use him as Melee only, might do that in the future.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

Strong dislikes you using power armor though.

Yeah, but only a 1-point dislike. I wouldn't worry about it even if I used power armour much.

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

I never tried to use him as Melee only, might do that in the future.

I usually have him fight as melee, since being a big distracting wall seems like what he does best.

A fun little quirk with ranged weapons is that he can use lasers and Institute lasers, but can't be told to equip them. So you'll sometimes find he's using one he grabbed during a fight, but if you take it off him he won't accept it back.

[Iron Knights]

Interesting but institute lasers modded to the max do 50% less damage than a regular laser. I took the Ash Mini-gun and modded to .50 cal. (~180dps) and gave that to him.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

Interesting but institute lasers modded to the max do 50% less damage than a regular laser. I took the Ash Mini-gun and modded to .50 cal. (~180dps) and gave that to him.

As noted, it's also for regular lasers. He can use them, but not be instructed to equip them.

[Zes]

a noooiiisee.. ears play tricks on me again. hahaha you hit like a radroach

[jynx]

Originally posted by Pookie101:

Originally posted by Mr. Hubble:

Just curious has anyone here besides me ever managed to find a sidekick named Strong? I found him at the top of one of the tall towers. It's been a couple of years so I forget exactly how I captured him. If you can capture him he'll be a much better companion instead of the German Shepherd Dog.

A. no companion is better than Dogmeat who is the goodest good boy in the whole wide world

B. Strong hates pretty much everything you do from getting into power armour to picking a lock

A. completely agree

B. Skarbrand, no uh, Strong hates everything!

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Pookie101:

Originally posted by Mr. Hubble:

Just curious has anyone here besides me ever managed to find a sidekick named Strong? I found him at the top of one of the tall towers. It's been a couple of years so I forget exactly how I captured him. If you can capture him he'll be a much better companion instead of the German Shepherd Dog.

A. no companion is better than Dogmeat who is the goodest good boy in the whole wide world

B. Strong hates pretty much everything you do from getting into power armour to picking a lock

Na. Dogmeat falls waaay behind some other companions not only in terms of combat effectiveness, but in looks. I find Curie's Synth form, much more pleasing to the eyes. :)

And yes OP, Strong is available as a companion when you rescue the idiot at the top of the Trinity Towers. However, I get him mainly because he makes a good provisioner. Doing the quest can also get you a very nice charisma buff suit from the idiot.