And Rex too. Ever since I got my hands on a Ballistic fist the game has turned me into some sort of abusive spouse, it's rather distressing. I never mean to hit them but in real-time or in VATS, they have a habit of getting in the way, and they can't survive more than one hit now. I had to reload about twenty times when fighting ghouls in the sewers. The perk that negates damage to companions seems an awfully long way away at the moment.

My wider question for you: what do you do if a companion dies? Do you just reload? Under what circumstances would you not reload? If we're all reloading every time a companion dies then is there any point in having companion death anyway?

Given that Veronica's bugged and won't level up, I've accepted that she's gonna die eventually, but I want her to die a suitably dramatic death fighting a horde of deathclaws or something, so I shall keep travelling the world with her, inadvertantly beating her to death repeatedly as I go.

Veronic does not level? I watched her take down a deathclaw with one punch once? (Level was Normal Difficulty, Non Hard Core Mode)
Deathclaws are plenty tough even in this mode though.
Most of us have had to reload when our companions were taken down by friendly fire though, this seems to be one area where they are killable, unless one mods them to essential.
I had one turn into an ash pile during a fight once when they crossed my line of fire. Reload time.

Do they die if you kill them in normal mode?

No, they just get knocked unconcious.



No, she's been stuck at about 200HP for ages now. With power armour and a decent weapon she can still fend for herself, but I fear for her safety anytime I go somewhere populated with high-end nasties.

They should not...

I too spent ages killing Veronica with a sneak crit from a rebar club, everytime she would place herself just behind the npc, so I would swing aparently right through their body and whack Veronica with a head shot!

Removing critical hits when striking a companion would go a long way to keeping those silly blue on blue moments A.I can crop up imo.

Three people attacking the same target at the same time.

They're supposed to be fixing her here pretty soon.

Veronica's health never goes up, for now anyways.

Without PC getting close, Rex and Veronica would get in each others way.....

Lily also have the habit or running up close to shoot.......meltdown always gets her....