I'm having too much fun with the Rock-It Launcher.

I know it's not the most effective weapon in the game...but there's just a lovely sense of absurdity as a tin can splatters a raider's head in slow motion. I basically used just that to clear out Evergreen Mill...and the Behemoth.

Well...that isn't to say I used just the Rock-It Launcher to kill that thing....I used some mines, too. And a laser rifle. And probably some other stuff. It was a lot easier to kill after I crippled a leg so I could run away better.

I am also utterly amazed at how much stuff I missed on my first play through. My first time through, I basically stuck to the main storyline. Didn't so much as see a mirelurk, only got jumped by bounty hunters once, didn't find any Super Mutant captives...this play through I'm finding all that stuff in spades.

There is one thing, however, that frustrates me about this game: The pathfinding of the follower characters. Or, that is to say, the lack there off. I stopped and reloaded my game about five times thanks to Dogmeat. I would work my way down what looked to be a reasonable incline, just to turn around, and find that I had lost Dogmeat. If I was lucky, he would reappear from some random direction, and things would continue. If I was unlucky, I would get the "Dogmeat has Died" pop-up, and reload my last save, going the long way to make sure there was no 3 inch drop that Dogmeat couldn't handle.

Finally, I just couldn't take it anymore. I was walking around the edges of the DC ruins, trying to find a way in to find Arlington Library, working my way down a broken roadway, fighting the occasional group of super mutants, when I realized I had lost Dogmeat yet again. After a few minutes of looking for him, I get the "Dogmeat is Dead" prompt once again. However, this time, I decide not to reload...I just let the poor dog rest. He was obviously suicidal, given the way he would wonder off and pick fights with super mutants and Yao Guai. My hopes of a Fable II-esque canine companion dashed by pitiful pathfinding.

In fact, the only companion I've had that carried their weight was Fawkes. Fawkes made traveling through the wasteland so much easier.

The Fallout wiki mentions that you can push the followers off of whatever cliff and then jump down yourself, but I've never tried it.

The thing I really hate is the piles of rubble with invisible walls, and especially Grayditch for the massive amount of that rubble. I spent so much of my first playthrough accidentally wandering in there and taking forever to get out.

Best Fawkes moments: finding bloatflies and having Fawkes gatling laser them to death and celebrating with "YOU LOSE!".

I just got my second companion, Clover. Just need to suit her up with some power armor, then me, her, charon, and possibly dogmeat can continue following me on the path of destruction. If you are wondering why I said possibly dogmeat, I'm playing a stealth character. granted I am now at the level I dont really need stealth, hence why the chance is open

You can only have two followers.

I had this way too much as well. It's not so bad out in the open wasteland (Dogmeat's only died once out there because of this), but when I started to explore the Arlington area he became more trouble than he was worth. Eventually I just told him to fuck off and wait by the vault. He died en route after he left me.

I reloaded afterwards and had to fast travel somewhere else so he could actually get to the vault without getting killed. Haven't seen him in about 10 hours.

I prefer going solo because A. Whenever a partner kills the enemy you get no XP and B. The pathfinding is stupid.

I just set Dogmeat as an essential character. He doesn't die anymore, just goes unconscious.

All the other followers can die in a fire.

Can you do that in the 360 version? Or is that only in PC?

That is the most brilliant thing ever, and no you can only do the console commands on the PC.

PC only.

Edit: God damn it you are fucking kidding me.