How do I make Curie happy?

[Charlemagne]

I thought the dog was the most annoying partner, and Codsworth the second, until I met Curie. Man I only want to get her to idolize me and give me the perk, make her into a synth and send her back to Vault 81. That French accent feels like cold honey sliding down my back. Smooth, too sweet, sticky and gives me shivers. I don't understand half of what she says. I don't even bother trying anymore. I hear something like oui monsieur, deja vu mon cheri in the background and don't care. In combat she's totally useless. She stands behind a wall and tries to shoot through it at the enemies. Or she stands behind ME and tries to shoot through me at the enemies. When she's not blocking my aim like Codsworth. I wonder if the synth version is less annoying?

The thing is, I've been with her quite a while and not once has "Curie liked that" come up. I know that she's supposed to like nice-boy conversation options. She also supposedly likes when you say good things of synths, but how many chances do you get of doing that in the game?

[Emilio]

I gave up on trying to do things curie likes, just travel with her when you play. You'll gain her trust slowly. Out of all companions her and strong where the worst.

Edit: Oh and the synth version is the worst of the ''human'' companions. Her AI still has the mr.handy behavior so she'll just start fighting with her fists when enemies come up close to her/it.

[Kyros]

Her character overall is indeed annoying, to like her, you must like naive and relatively weak girls that think the world is just black and white.

A few tips, if you haven't already go to the school in Diamond City and answer correctly to the miss Nanny then say to the teacher that "love is powerful blablabla". 1 like + 1 love I think, easy. The rest is indeed more complicated, what you can do is simply travel with her, the more time you spend, the more she likes you. Even if you don't see any notification.

[Two Bears High Fiving]

You have to make her a synth prior to maxing her out. Otherwise you'll be stuck halfway.

One option is just to console command the perk in.

Here is a link to her fallout wiki page. Look under range of interest to find what she likes/dislikes, etc...
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Curie

I usually just use a robot companion I build myself WHEN I use companions, but like some of you guys have said, they tend to get in the way. Being a super stealth based character tends to mean I can't use companions as they will also give away my position.

[Callum]

Wouldn't it be easier just to check the Fallout Wiki? It tells you every single action that pleases and displeases followers.

[Kethus]

She likes random Minutemen quests, it will take a while, but if you want to farm xp...

[Bored Peon]

All you have to do to gain favor with a companion is spend time with them as an active companion. It will increase over time.

Also keep in mind until you get Curie a new body your affinity is capped. The same applies to Nick, Macready, Danse, and Cait, you need to do their sidequest in order to unlock higher levels of affinity.

[DARKMATTER_497]

Curie , likes you when you help others

[Polyphemus]

Synth Curie will only use her fists if you haven't given her a melee weapon. Yes, she defaults to Mr Handy behaviour, but that's a circular saw. The Synth body doesn't have one, so she uses fists. Give her the most powerful melee waepon you can. She will use it in close-quarters combat.

Also, she's a terrible magpie. She will randomly pick up enemy's weapons during combat, and then use them. So you can equip her with an ultra-powerful plasma sniper rifle, then find her using a pipe pistol. You have to strip out her inventory of weapons every so often.

Make sure she has the right armour, and the right weapons, and she can be pretty devastating.

[Kyros]

Originally posted by Toadflax:

Make sure she has the right armour, and the right weapons, and she can be pretty devastating.

In terms of base damage, she isn't in the top 3.
Characters with highest special stats by order : X6-88 > Strong > Piper > rest of companions.

[Polyphemus]

Originally posted by The Trickster:

In terms of base damage, she isn't in the top 3.
Characters with highest special stats by order : X6-88 > Strong > Piper > rest of companions.

It's a single player RPG, not an MMO. It's not necessarily about achieving maximum DPS - it's about how you want to play the game. And on that basis, Curie is not the liability some people seem to think - you just need to understand how her character works. Yes, partnering with psychopathic killers will improve your combat. But perhaps it's not the way to build a new world.

[Kethus]

Apparently there is a way to fix her AI by recruiting another companion and getting back to her. I also heard she has the second most HP after Strong.

[Polyphemus]

Try this. Equip Curie with fully improved heavy combat armour, a fully improved plasma sniper rifle, and an electrified Chinese officer's sword. Remove all other weapons from her inventory. One mean fighting machine. Oh, and don't use power armour. It's junk.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Easiest way to push Curies affinity high enough to activate her quest, is to take her and do the Cambrige Polymer Labs quest. This will take from standard rep, immediately to rep high enough to start her quest.

[Nite69]

Strong is the most annoying to me, constantly says the same dialogs too often

[Tavman (4)]

Originally posted by Emilio:

I gave up on trying to do things curie likes, just travel with her when you play. You'll gain her trust slowly. Out of all companions her and strong where the worst.

Edit: Oh and the synth version is the worst of the ''human'' companions. Her AI still has the mr.handy behavior so she'll just start fighting with her fists when enemies come up close to her/it.

Strong was easy. Just do Minutemen quests and select the violent responses when in dialogue with an NPC.