As the Ed-E quest slowly unfolds itself, I was trying to decide who to let dig into his memory....Followers or BoS? I decided to let the Followers have him for a few days. Only, I forgot to take my inventory back from him, I had Ed-E carrying a bunch of armor and weapons....BoS power armor to be exact. Of course he came back empty. So I had to reload a previous save and start the last quest over.

Remove ANY and ALL inventory from Ed-E before letting any faction take him.

Hmm I guess I will have to test this again but I was thinking that ED like all other companions will not carry faction based armor. If true then he dropped it on the ground right after you gave it too him. If I am wrong that will make me sad cause that stuff sells very well.

Yeah this happened to me. I gave him all of my miscellaneous junk and parts I might have needed for making stuff. I raged.

No, Ed-E will carry it, he just won't USE it. After I reloaded a save, I went home to my room in Novac and unloaded the power armor before taking him to the Followers.


Here's the wiki entry:

If you attempt to place any faction armor into ED-E it will state that he cannot wear that armor and it will be placed on the ground. If you are in an owned building at the time, such as a house then that armor will become their property. It will be classified as stealing to pick it back up.needs verification

But he has carried BoS powered armor for me...although it does give the message that he cannot wear it.

NO, ED-E wont carry armor of any type (im guessing PC players got mods to change this) but on a console or PC gamer who doesnt use the GECK Ed-E cant carry that at all. NO ARMOR! Even says so online on many other sites... besides the many people here that have brought this to our attention a LONG time before now

I just too 3 sets of armor off of him....so this isn't 100% true.

Maybe the BoS power armor he is talking about is the non-faction version?
Also ED-E and Rex CANNOT carry any type of faction armor of any sort. PERIOD. They will always drop it if you put it in their inventory.

Some companions can carry or wear certain faction armor:
1. Boone can wear NCR faction armor
2. Veronica can wear Brotherhood of Steel Faction armor

Im unsure about other characters though.

There is type 51d armor that is not faction armor . I am using it .You get it when you get the enclave power armor from all the death claws .They will carry it and I know for sure boone will use it as armor.

He and other companions ONLY make you lose fraction armor if it given to them I know this because when I give them fraction armor to them it disappears all the time best bet is to keep fraction armor on you or in safe house. It says they cannot wear it then it either disappears or they drop it most of the time it disappears for me so I just keep fraction armor to myself. Boon and Veronica can only wear Fraction armor that they have connections with but any other it will disappear all companions can hold any other armor without problems just fraction armor that disappears if they not friends with the fraction.

"Faction". :grad:
I don't like correcting people, but you said fraction 6 times and it's making my brain hurt inside!

I didn't let the companions carry anything but cooked steaks and stimpacks. Actually I send them to Lucky 38 as soon as I unlock it, because they always disappear or go running after Deathclaws and basically everything even when I put them on friendly mode. I get tired of them specially Rex, go running off when I get into a battle. They don't use stimpacks or food during the fight either so they just end up dieing if the pack of bad guys aren't focusing on me. I hate the companions really......they're more of a burden then an helpful companion.

I gave REX T45D and he used it as a person would. Glitches glitches glitches... :huh:

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