can't dismiss companion

[twinsenstwinsens]

everytime i hit talk it just makes a little beep noise.

[Tsskies]

I'm able to get into the talk menu my spam clicking talk, it sucks but until I see I fix it's all I can do
edit: this doesn't always work

[MPB]

I found out what causes this. The bug happens when you have walked away from a conversation without finishing it. I did this because I didn't like any of the answers. Someone else posted the solution on reddit, and by going back and finishing the conversation I'd walked away from I was then again able to talk to my companions.

[twinsenstwinsens]

yeah, that sounds about right. I was given an option to kill someone or go along with their plan. neither of which I liked so... guess I'll have to go and do some out of character stuff I guess. muh immershun!1!. Thanks for the replies hope you all are enjoying the game.

[Captain Planets]

Is there any way to work out which dialogue might have been missed? For all I know it was some random NPC that I passed in Diamond City.

I generally don't have companions but just got stuck with one and now can't dismiss him. It's been about 20 hours of play since I last had one (and, incidentally, this glitch came up then, also) and I truly don't feel like retracing 20 hours of gameplay on the off chance that it'll fix it again.

[Captain Planets]

Better still, is anyone aware of a console command to just dismiss them? Nothing to that effect on the wiki.