Skynet not accepting weapons

[telepathos]

Hey, kind of a veteran Fallout player here, well over 200 hours spent on the first 2 games alone (before I had Steam even).
I had never picked up Skynet until last night. I got the cybernetic brain for it and everything and planned on having him as a m72 gauss rifle sniper to go along with Sulik with p90, Cassidy with Pancor Jackhammer and myself with Mega Power Fist.

The problem is, whenever I try to use steal to give it the weapon there appears the message "There's no space left for that item" even though there is nothing in is inventory. I've tried using the backpack icon as well, thought it would be something strange like refuelling the car, but still "That does nothing".

I've tinkered with his combat settings, which came melee as default, set them to ranged, but can't fix it... Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong?

[CJOLL4]

Originally posted by untrue:

The problem is, whenever I try to use steal to give it the weapon

This is going to sound like a stupid question, but did you also try giving it the weapon normally, from the Trade menu?

[telepathos]

NOT A STUPID QUESTION! I'm the stupid one... I didn't even remember that existed, I always used steal to trade with npcs, jeez... Thank you so much, that works!

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by untrue:

NOT A STUPID QUESTION! I'm the stupid one... I didn't even remember that existed, I always used steal to trade with npcs, jeez... Thank you so much, that works!

I was thinking this too when I first read but figured you'd already tried that lol.

But not so stupid because the first fallout didn't have the same companion options as this one.

[wrighty565]

Originally posted by untrue:

Hey, kind of a veteran Fallout player here, well over 200 hours spent on the first 2 games alone (before I had Steam even).
I had never picked up Skynet until last night. I got the cybernetic brain for it and everything and planned on having him as a m72 gauss rifle sniper to go along with Sulik with p90, Cassidy with Pancor Jackhammer and myself with Mega Power Fist.

The problem is, whenever I try to use steal to give it the weapon there appears the message "There's no space left for that item" even though there is nothing in is inventory. I've tried using the backpack icon as well, thought it would be something strange like refuelling the car, but still "That does nothing".

I've tinkered with his combat settings, which came melee as default, set them to ranged, but can't fix it... Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong?

I gave him? it 20 weapons and he? it was unable to use any of them useless bot.

[CJOLL4]

Originally posted by untrue:

NOT A STUPID QUESTION! I'm the stupid one... I didn't even remember that existed, I always used steal to trade with npcs, jeez... Thank you so much, that works!

Happy to help!

Originally posted by wrighty565:

I gave him? it 20 weapons and he? it was unable to use any of them useless bot.

By default, Robobrain is set to the "unarmed" fighting style. Changing its weapon preference should fix it, allowing it to equip rifles and SMGs. Note that this only works with the Human Brain and the Cybernetic Brain; the other two brains are too stupid to use weapons.

[Dustin81]

It should be able to use any weapon that uses the same animations/sprite the other robobrains use.

[ogreballerina]

Give him a power fist..that's pretty funny to watch.
Enemy getting pummeled by a mutli armed trash can. lol