Favorite companions?

[jsalemi]

The thread about killing Preston got me wondering who everyone's favorite companions are. I mean the ones you like to run with (if any) beyond running with someone just to get their perk and then banishing them forever to an outpost somewhere (or back home, if you have the mod that sends them there).

Mine are, in order:
1) Dogmeat: of course, especially in later parts of the game when I have my LW buffed up, or if I'm going to do something I know one of my regular companions won't like (assassination, anyone? )
2) Cait: something about her appeals to me -- she's a great fighter, and I love her snarkiness and lines overall. Generally my go-to for romance, too, for male or female chars
3)Deacon/Nick: A tie -- both are good fighters (keep Nick away from grenades, though), have great lines and comments, and of course Nick is important to Far Harbor stuff. Which one I take depends on my mood.
4) Hancock: also a good fighter, but I mostly use him when running to the Glowing Sea

So, who are yours?

 

[Yagisan]

In order:

1. ADA
2. Piper
3. Nick
4. Preston
5. Curie
6. Codsworth
7. Dogmeat
8. Everyone else sits around here as I don't really get to use them. I don't really "play" enough.

 

[RayBo]

The thread about killing Preston got me wondering who everyone's favorite companions are. I mean the ones you like to run with (if any) beyond running with someone just to get their perk and then banishing them forever to an outpost somewhere (or back home, if you have the mod that sends them there).

Mine are, in order:
1) Dogmeat: of course, especially in later parts of the game when I have my LW buffed up, or if I'm going to do something I know one of my regular companions won't like (assassination, anyone? )
2) Cait: something about her appeals to me -- she's a great fighter, and I love her snarkiness and lines overall. Generally my go-to for romance, too, for male or female chars
3)Deacon/Nick: A tie -- both are good fighters (keep Nick away from grenades, though), have great lines and comments, and of course Nick is important to Far Harbor stuff. Which one I take depends on my mood.
4) Hancock: also a good fighter, but I mostly use him when running to the Glowing Sea

So, who are yours?

Dogmeat - modded + CC sometimes a boxer dog or other breed
Heather - mod, yep like her more than the vanilla
ADA - modded Ada to human, super well done mod!
Piper
Curie
Passion, or whatever vipervenom is calling her in the current version
Barb - mod, MCM supported, simple and to the point
nick
nat / Natalie - mod https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/31774 a lot of fun give her a big gun hilarious!!
Cait
Ivy - adult mod
hancock

 

[woodfuzzy]

Cait, Piper, Synth Curie.
If you seen em.. you wouldn't as why. LMAO!
I generally dismiss them to Woodfuzzy's Place. Keeps them in one place and making caps.

 

[Brygo]

Ran Cait a few times & liked her well enough for vanilla, then i found out about Heather Casdin & I'm traveling with her currently & blown away by the improvements over the vanilla companions in general.

 

[Jonnan]

I like both Deacon and Nick for snarky commentary, Deacon has the considerable advantage of being pretty stealthy. But I tend to run solo a lot, so I haven't really tested all of them out.

 

[Khatsworth]

I've never actually finished Fallout 4 (working on it now! xD ) so I haven't met all the companions yet, but so far I enjoyed my time running around with Piper & MacCready. I'm slowly raising all of their affinities up and doing their quests; I really liked Cait's final quest; done the aforementioned 3, Preston and Codsworth so far :D

However, once I've spent some time with all the companions I'll probably switch back to Piper for a very specific reason: me and my GF are both playing Fallout 4 simultaneously, but since it's not multiplayer, we found a workaround (ish). We wrote down all the settings we used for character creation for both our characters, and then after getting Piper, we used the command console to customise her with the LooksMenu to look like each other's character, respectively, and then give her the same clothes/armour and use Rename Anything to change her name.
It's not the same as straight up multiplayer, but I still love basically having an NPC version of her character helping me explore the Commonwealth!

Oh and Dogmeat, because I use the Everyone's Best Friend mod, so I always have Dogmeat with me. He's a total badass who ain't afraid of no deathclaws.

 

[Jonnan]

That is annoyingly cute. I hate you, but in the best possible way.

 

[Khatsworth]

That is annoyingly cute. I hate you, but in the best possible way.

Hehe.
Maintaining a long-distance relationship can be rough, so little things like this help us get by.
In about a week we'll be picking up Monster Hunter World on PC to play together~

In the meantime though,

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And my character in her game:

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