Companion hacking

[Lerrasien]

So, I've tried googling for a bit and can't seem to find an answer. I really don't want to waste points into hacking when I have a companion that can hack, but there are spaces in which you just... can't command them to do it, due to the wall being too close to the front of the computer, forcing the game to default to me doing the hacking, when I'm not capable of doing it... Is there any workaround for this or am I just stuck forcing points into hacking?

[Cor.]

Nick Valentine is the hacker.

Have them stand outside the door(stay there) then step far enough away to issue the command on the terminal.

will take a bit of wiggling to do it

[Longhaul]

You can pick up Heather Casdin... ls a hacker that actually "levels" her hacking skill... and she always finds a way to the console.. All the times I have had her at my side I may have corrected her a couple times. Has a quest line and every thing.

Heather Casdin - A Unique Companion Experience by llamaRCA
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/23273

[Lerrasien]

Originally posted by Cor.:

Nick Valentine is the hacker.

Have them stand outside the door(stay there) then step far enough away to issue the command on the terminal.

will take a bit of wiggling to do it

You're telling me to step far enough away when I literally stated that I can't due to a wall...

[Lerrasien]

Originally posted by Longhaul:

You can pick up Heather Casdin... ls a hacker that actually "levels" her hacking skill... and she always finds a way to the console.. All the times I have had her at my side I may have corrected her a couple times. Has a quest line and every thing.

Heather Casdin - A Unique Companion Experience by llamaRCA
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/23273

That's who I'm using, but the computer is facing a wall and I can't step back far enough to get it to change from me hacking to telling her to hack.

[Longhaul]

Originally posted by Lerrasien:

Originally posted by Longhaul:

You can pick up Heather Casdin... ls a hacker that actually "levels" her hacking skill... and she always finds a way to the console.. All the times I have had her at my side I may have corrected her a couple times. Has a quest line and every thing.

Heather Casdin - A Unique Companion Experience by llamaRCA
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/23273

That's who I'm using, but the computer is facing a wall and I can't step back far enough to get it to change from me hacking to telling her to hack.

What terminal... I have never had a problem with her. (yet?)

[Lerrasien]

Originally posted by Longhaul:

Originally posted by Lerrasien:

That's who I'm using, but the computer is facing a wall and I can't step back far enough to get it to change from me hacking to telling her to hack.

What terminal... I have never had a problem with her. (yet?)

I ran into one, I believe, at Beantown Brewery first (I could be misremembering where that first one was), but now I'm at BADTFL Regional Office and one of them was also facing a corner of 2 walls, too close for me to be able to get back far enough.

[Death Approaches]

then just cheat a little if you're not on survival w/o the console re-enable mod, just 'tcl' and move partially through the wall to get what you need done, you should be able to position yourself in such a way, and then she can walk right through you, and the chair, and the wall, etc. to get there, then 'tcl' again after she unlocks it to turn it off...

or just tag the terminal and 'unlock' it, and pretend she did it.

[Lerrasien]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

then just cheat a little if you're not on survival w/o the console re-enable mod, just 'tcl' and move partially through the wall to get what you need done, you should be able to position yourself in such a way, and then she can walk right through you, and the chair, and the wall, etc. to get there, then 'tcl' again after she unlocks it to turn it off...

or just tag the terminal and 'unlock' it, and pretend she did it.

I am, in fact, on survival. So, sadly, I am unable to do that.

[Bored Peon]

Heather Casdin companion mod is the best hacker. I only found a few terminals she could not reach or could not get the command in the space.

Not only that every 5 hacks she gains a level up to master hacker.

[Death Approaches]

then jump up on the desk, crouch then get on top of the computer, somewhere out of the way where you can see both companion and terminal... or, another trick, move way away, another room... tag companion, then go to within range of terminal, command her to investigate it, and move quickly out of the way before she walks there...

[PeaceMaker]

I'm on Survival too always leave hacking till quite late and don't have a Follower who hacks . I don't quite understand why Curie can't hack computers, but whatever.

I just take the loss, go away and come back later when I'm level 50 and have a few computer hacking skills by then.

[Cor.]

Originally posted by Lerrasien:

Originally posted by Cor.:

Nick Valentine is the hacker.

Have them stand outside the door(stay there) then step far enough away to issue the command on the terminal.

will take a bit of wiggling to do it

You're telling me to step far enough away when I literally stated that I can't due to a wall...

I told you you would have to do a bit of wiggling to get him to hack it.

[Lerrasien]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

then jump up on the desk, crouch then get on top of the computer, somewhere out of the way where you can see both companion and terminal... or, another trick, move way away, another room... tag companion, then go to within range of terminal, command her to investigate it, and move quickly out of the way before she walks there...

I'll try the crouching maneuver if I find another one. Luckily this one was just a Novice one, so I could do it without needing points into hacking. If it works, you're a lifesaver.

[Lerrasien]

Originally posted by Longhaul:

Originally posted by Lerrasien:

That's who I'm using, but the computer is facing a wall and I can't step back far enough to get it to change from me hacking to telling her to hack.

What terminal... I have never had a problem with her. (yet?)

Just found another she won't hack. Watt's Electronic. She refuses to go around, behind the desk to get to the front of the computer. I've even tried to force her to walk through the opening specifically and she just doesn't have 2 brain cells to rub together in order to do it, I guess.

[Longhaul]

Originally posted by Lerrasien:

Originally posted by Longhaul:

What terminal... I have never had a problem with her. (yet?)

Just found another she won't hack. Watt's Electronic. She refuses to go around, behind the desk to get to the front of the computer. I've even tried to force her to walk through the opening specifically and she just doesn't have 2 brain cells to rub together in order to do it, I guess.

hmm.. ima go take a looksie.. i have her with me now.