It's just for you. Some companions won't even carry faction armor if they don't like the faction. For example, Boone will carry and wear any NCR armor, but he won't wear, much less even carry Legion stuff.

Along the lines of what mookie said, you can't peacefully enter any Legion settlement or camp without them going hostile if you have Boone as your companion, as he will shoot them on sight. Either send him back to Novac or the Lucky 38 if you want to walk into Fortification Hill without dodging spears.

I'm a loaner...I shoot them all and take what I want. :arrgh!:

Ditto with the Khans I believe, spent a good long while fighting my way into a deathclaw infested quarry (actually I just blasted them all with the alien blaster, but whatever it was still tedious), only to have Boone attack the Khan that I was trying to get to. :damn:

You're right, Boone and the Khans don't mix either. I should have mentioned that too.

I do not have a companion yet. Currently I entered Lipton to find the Legion up to no good. I was not attacked. However, I have done some eliminating of some Powder Gangers. Needless to say I'm on their hit list! I was left alone by the Legion and agreed to tell others of their bad deeds. I mostly agreed to save my hide. I was outnumbered like a mofo! :o

i just had a companion for a few days now and one thing i learned fast was companions go through ammo like a gatlin gun so dont give them anything but hand weapons or you'll spend ALL your time looking for ammo for them and run out of your own supply.

they come in real handy as pack mules too :D

my biggest problem was the people i meet shoot me first and MAKE themselves my enemy then I get vilified for killing them in self defence :o :damn: (powder gangers, jackles, fiends)

lots of times i go into new areas with "plain settlers outfit" or "wasteland wonderers outfit" yet they blast away at me on sight before i have ever killed a single person in the game. a perfect example is the "fiends" where you "HAVE TO" kill every one in the area just to get to the vault, but once you do get inside its "hi, do you want to trade?" :06:

everyone gets vilified sooner or later in places (i dont think it can be avoided if your going to complete all the quests) but often in some places i never had a choice after im forced to kill someone only to get "bad karma" for taking their stuff after their dead so wtf is that?

i do find talking to some people they give you these little side tasks that dont seam to be real tasks so if its not real why include the task dialog? but then maybe its something they just left it in to be used as "karma" boosting tasks as something to be added to the game later in a patch or by modders.

i also wish you can always get to complete the whole dialog where you ask a question then all dialog ends (not all characters do this). sometimes you can re-engage them and restart the dialog to finish the unasked questions but sometimes you cant get them to talk anymore and just get the "hello" stuff


EDIT: as a FYI to new players like me, if you teleport into a new area and forget your in the wrong outfit you just let them kill you so you respawn where you were before teleporting so you dont have to fight friends and get vilified over a simple wardrobe mistake :up: (sorry if thats a spoiler for you but i thought it was just a good game tip)

I hit them with the incinerator (found in Primm) before they can even start talking. :yeah:

I use Ed-e for the perception boost. Who's the best for a secondary companion?

then you fail the "find out about what happened in Nipton" quest so if you wanted to do that then kill them "after" you let them tell you what happened in Nipton so you get to complete that quest :up:




so far i only have Cassidy Rose (at the NCR Mojave Outpost) and i think she is great so i cant say anything bad about her but she does talk too much lol (wish there was a way to turn off the repeated things she says)

I'm still playing the loaner. I have not and will not join any group. Currently only NCR does not target me. Powder Gangers and now the Legion have me on the hit list. I had one quest that was to release captive Powder Gangers from The Legion. I used my stealth aid and waltzed into the camp undetected. I untied the captives and completed the quest. The Powder Gangers kind of like me now that I released their captives. I probably should have popped them and just taken whatever they had. :arrgh!: Off into the wastelands I go for more unbridled carnage. :D

Kill'em all! Let The Glow sort em out! :O:

I prefered the story line of the first game. This one is a little befuddling to me. I do not want to join any band of hoodlums. I carry on getting stronger becoming a wastland God. :D

I can agree with that to an extent. It doesn't feel like such a post-apocalypic experience, as I am not constantly struggling for survival as I was in F3. What makes up for that is the western theme, as I just love cowboy stuff.

Overall I do like the game very much. New places to explore and new creatures to dismember. I have yet to hit Vegas. It is the storyline. It was not developed very well like the first. The first was quite lengthy in developing the story line. This one not so much.

You don't have to join any of them really.