MacCready's Perk

[Brechnor]

Grrr this guy, has any one managed to get his perk without committing a crime?

[lpnlizard27]

You need to pick red locks, or steal stuff.

Sorry but if your trying to be a "Good Guy" your not going to get along with MacReady.

[Fargoth]

you can steal stuff in the goodneighbor warehouses in whitechapel charlie's quest.
quicksave once you get the [MacCready Liked That] box and then quickload back. this will remove the affinity cooldown and you can steal another thing and do it again until he loves you.

[Crimsomrider]

You can't level up with him without being a bad guy... fortunately there is a workaround.

What you can do however, is download this mod No Negative Affinity and No Affinity Cooldown by ricky horror [www.nexusmods.com].

I personally use just No Affinity Cooldown, but you can use the option so that they like everything. That way you don't have to be a criminal. Not to mention it saves you a lot of time.

[Thatdude]

I think you can gain a small amount of affinity by killing enemies?

[hisey606]

I did but it takes a really long time to do it and by then your sick of him!

[Brechnor]

Originally posted by hisey606:

I did but it takes a really long time to do it and by then your sick of him!

Without crime? doing what? ^^

[Crimsomrider]

Originally posted by Brechnor:

Originally posted by hisey606:

I did but it takes a really long time to do it and by then your sick of him!

Without crime? doing what? ^^

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_4_companions

He likes when you help the Minutemen or being sarcastic in conversations. Also persuade helps I think.

You can check all about it at the Wiki.

[karmavirus]

What about plain old fashioned sex?

[hisey606]

Originally posted by Brechnor:

Originally posted by hisey606:

I did but it takes a really long time to do it and by then your sick of him!

Without crime? doing what? ^^

Help him when he asks for help and just bring him along on every mission. I don't steal or take anything in red or pick red locks, just doing the "right" thing and he'll come around. For me strong was the worst to get the perk because he hates everything except smashing stuff.

[DEVOLVE MINHA CACHAÇA!]

Originally posted by lpnlizard27:

You need to pick red locks, or steal stuff.

Sorry but if your trying to be a "Good Guy" your not going to get along with MacReady.

According to the wiki, he likes when you stay in your settlements for long periods, and when you build stuff, so no, you don't need to be evil to get him to idolize you.

[Jollyfingers]

Originally posted by UNiT Keys of the Eighth Dawn:

Originally posted by lpnlizard27:

You need to pick red locks, or steal stuff.

Sorry but if your trying to be a "Good Guy" your not going to get along with MacReady.

According to the wiki, he likes when you stay in your settlements for long periods, and when you build stuff, so no, you don't need to be evil to get him to idolize you.

that's just because every companions level will rise just by spending time with him.
be it in settlements or while doing quests, it doesn't matter.
it's just a very slow process ;)
if you are a bad guy (and not afraid of using "exploits") he is very easy to get to max.

just do a certain quest in GN (warehouses), steal everything you find in there and do a quicksave/quickload after every theft.
he'll talk to you the first time before the first third of the quest is over ;)
if you interrupt the quest to do his, he'll be yours before the GN quest is over.

since it's not what the OP is asking for, i put it in spoiler tags ;)

[CloudSeeker]

MacReady isn't really a good guy you know.

[Jo]

I got his perk without committing any crimes.. just did his personal questline and a few side quests with him. No problem. Easiest companion to gain affinity with in my experience.

[Brechnor]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

MacReady isn't really a good guy you know.

I know that and about the exploit too but the problem is his perk is useful for my good guy sniper, which isn't best when having a loose RP character :D

[Brandybuck]

I got his perk and never committed any "crimes" that I know of while with him. I don't recall having to do anything special.