"Give Grandama some sugar!" - God, she's great. I know the companions can't die of radiation overdose, but cleaning out that radioactive ghoul-filled vault (34?) is so much easier with her in melee. And I feel guilty draggin my fellow wastelanders down there. Immune to hard rads, so no guilt.
I just wish she'd use the missile-launcher, heavy flamer, minigun, improved rifles, sharp sticks(Thermal Lance) , Fatman (Oh yes I did.) that I tossed to her.

Vic with Oh Baby or Punchy is sick. Uppercut! Explosion! Hammer blow, EXPLOSION!

Boone didn't want my tricked out rifles, which sorta sucked. I wish I could give them the 400k rounds of lovingly-crafted ammo I made.

The Whiskey Rose is death when given a tricked-out shotgun though, odd. She didn't like the combat shotgun (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

Arcade will stick with the Plasma Defender, which is ok as it HURTS at close-range. Just stick some Power armour on him that a Brother of Steel doesn't need anymore. The NCR "power armour" is best described as "Frenchware". Avoid.

I liked Rex - he's great if you need to recover more parts of the baddies that met with violent death. Terrible if not on passive though. Note: Rock caches will show up on "Rex-O-Vision", there's quite a few out there!

Raul is...well, broken. He can fix stuff good, but I'd have like the chance to unleash his mighty gunskill on something. Maybe with the Mysterious Revolver (That thing takes HEADS.) if I could bear to pass it along. (.44 hand-loads FTW)

EdE...I wish I could have hooked up a plasma caster to that little trooper. Still, EdE & Boone = non-stop carnage; We ran out of thing to kill before we ran out of ammo.
<Bleep: Music> Zap, Zap, CRACK, "Boone makes a quip" <End combat music>

Note: Cassidy & Grandma Lilly are rather decent in close quarters. Get Cass into some combat armour though as she's pretty soft versus the 8-feet of blue-skinned Schitzo Grandma. "Ohh, I'm going to give you such a smacking!"
This might be due to better perception of both NPCs, or something, as Vici can get lost when running behind you across the flat desert.

-Tir

I enjoyed Cassidy most. I had a mod running that made shotguns actually handy, so she's very nice in combat. She drinks a lot, which is fun when roleplaying. And she has a swing to her hips you just can't get anywhere else.

I totally wouldn't mind Red though, if she asked.

By the way, for anyone who hasn't read it, this is a hoot:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-ways-fallout...worse-person_p2

There's two game bugs with Veronica.

A) She doesn't level up with you like the other companions do.

B) She does not get her "essential" flag activated when she's traveling with you. So even in normal mode she can die, instead of just getting knocked unconscious.

If you have the PC version there's a ton of mods out there that will fix the bugs.



-k

So, anyone want to discuss broken builds in Fallout New Vegas? Heh. I'll start: 10 Strength and a full unarmed skill is deadly. Also funny if you have piercing strike and bloody mess because then you just become Fist of The North Star.

Just maxed out Energy Weapons is pretty much broken, because you simply don't need ANYTHING ELSE in combat . .
Secondary Skills high science and lockpick . . You can pretty much ignore Attributes with these skills. And if you have sneak high enough, there is nothing that's going to bother you most of the time.

High Sneak, lockpick and science? You're right, that is broken. XD

No Lock will stop you.
No Pocket will hold on to it's contents.
No Foe will see the Kancho coming.

XD that has to be the most disturbing prank ever. But an accurate description of how evil sneak attack criticals are.

*Slips on Deathclaw Gauntlet*
come here legate!

Which is very appropriate for a post apocalyptic setting.

I did a Bloody Mess / Cowboy / Better Criticals / Center of Mass / Gunslinger chain with a Sheriff's Duster (close as I could come at the time) to make a Vash the Stampede. Stuff explodes nice with that revolver.

Which revolver? That Gun?

Which is why I did it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

I was actually using a standard .357 with JSP Handloads. I never did find the uniques for the revolver family.

"That Gun" isn't a revolver - it's a pared down 5.56 rifle, I thought.

Which gun?

That Gun!

I know its that gun! You keep saying it! What gun is it?

Which gun?

That Gun is like This Machine, pared down to one hand.

That Gun is awesome, but it is trumped by the 12.5mm Pistol. That thing is a one handed death machine.

12,5mm Pistol?
i only found a 12,7mm SMG O.o

That gun you guys keep talking about!

This gun?

Whoops, sorry, typo. Heh. 12.7mm pistol I mean. 40 damage per shot for a pistol is awesome. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/12.7mm_pistol

It this gun that gun?