Dogmeat is a stupid, worthless, rage inducing piece of ♥♥♥♥.

[Torvosaurus]

Seriously? Did anybody playtest this game and said to himself. Yeah this companion AI is perfect, there is nothing we could improve about this. Dog meat? More like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! I hate this furry ♥♥♥♥ with a passion. He is absolutely useless in fights, so i just use him to carry junk for me. But even in this regard, he is absolutely terrible. Every time i try to talk to him in order to start trading with him, he starts looking behind him and then proceeds to walk away from you, making you waste your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time. Same thing when you get back to your base and you want to take the items from his inventory. He does this every time, especially when you are carrying to many items and you are forced to walk to him slowly, and he just starts running away from you. F U C K this idiotic, useless, pathetic joke of a companion. I just want to shoot his head off and play football with it. Worthless ♥♥♥♥ dog. I hope there is a mod that lets you kill him permanently.

[sdack]

Never ever get a pet, son.

[Charon]

Dogmeat is a good boy as long as you build a doghouse and let him stay in a settlement.

[Material Defender]

When he's actively following you, he always goes towards where you're aiming at. One thing you can do is command him to stay (press e when aimed at him, then e again to stay, regardless of distance), then talk to him.

[🆄🅽🅲🅻🅴 🅹🅾]

Lol, yes, as companions go, DM is by far the most irritating of them all. One moment you're looting a corpse, the next click you're talking to DM, cause he's right under your feet. Want to walk down the stairs? There he is, blocking your way. Get into a fight, he gets swiped once and goes down before the first Ghoul dies.

Now he lives on Spectacle Island, in his doghouse, retired and out of sight.

[jerrypocalypse]

Dogmeat is great in combat with his perks. He will grab and hold enemies, making it easy to get up close for some headshots with a shotgun.

[the molded]

i tried to kill it but i couldnt why cant it die?

[Death Approaches]

meet dog at RR; want to come with me boy? hey boy, time to go home. and keep walking!

[Ffabbia]

Lone Wanderer perk says 'hi'.

[jynx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODV2M1iGxM&list=PLLP59SDcBnoKaW6GKVlrBTZQAl-B1nFxE&index=2

[Dr.Abscondus]

There are no bad dogs, just bad owners.

[dbond1]

I've never called for a ban on another player or poster but I am doing so now.

He's a good boy and don't you forget it.

[steven1mac]

I just leave him at the red rocket, along with the rest of the companions I collect.

[Goof]

wait, people use companions for things other than just mules? i had no idea

[Sikklid]

My 11 year old lab mix acts just like dogmeat. Gets right under my feet when I'm walking, makes noise when I dont want him to, and is essentially "his own man" as Mama Murphy says. He's a good boy and listens when I'm firm with him but damn he loves to play. We know he's basically a mutt which explains a lot, but we dont care. We love him.

As far as the "mechanics" of Dogmeat, well, BGS has never been the pioneers of game mechanics. Most of whats great about FO's identity wasn't done by BGS. They do did immersive sims and open worlds amazingly back then though.

I want to say there's mods to make Dogmeat better but I could be wrong. I just play with Everyone's Best Friend and and run around with him and another companion. It's broken as hell but I think it's far more immersive for me personally since we run around with our dog irl.

[jynx]

Originally posted by Sikklid:

My 11 year old lab mix acts just like dogmeat. Gets right under my feet when I'm walking, makes noise when I dont want him to, and is essentially "his own man" as Mama Murphy says. He's a good boy and listens when I'm firm with him but damn he loves to play. We know he's basically a mutt which explains a lot, but we dont care. We love him.

There's nothing like a Lab to make you quit taking yourself so seriously.