Now, it might be a tad bit of coding, but maybe add markers to the World Map as to where the companions are? Or just fix the missing companion glitch. I can't do anymore quests, Boone is gone and I assume he is not coming back. Oh, and not sure if this has been suggested before.

i was going to go for companion trophy

but ever since seeing multiple users reporting about companions going missing

Going missing and not being able to be recruited. I haven't lost anybody, but I can only say "Goodbye" when speaking to Veronica (as oppose to "Hey, join me").

At the risk of spoilers, since finding her and trying to recruit her, I've completed the Brotherhood quests and destroyed their bunker. Did that stir dear Veronica out of her one line remark? Did it heck, she's unflinching, even in the face of her beloved Brotherhood going the way of the Dodo...

I read that in most cases if your companion is missing, go back to where they usually live when you dismiss them, wait 7 days in game, and they will be back home where you can then have them join again. I haven't had any of them disappear or make themselves inaccessible when I want to recruit them, so I haven't been able to confirm that this works personally. :unsure:

It's not mentioned here so I'll mention it just in case, you can't have more than two companions at once, one human, one something else...if you have two companions already you have to let one go to get another. But you can't have two human companions at once and you can't have two other (don't want to give any spoilers) types. Hope that helps.

Thanks for that tip. It worked in my case. I left Veronica in Camp McCarren, and she wasn't there when I returned. She had been gone for a few days already, so I only had to wait at the trading post for four days and she returned. When I woke up a message appeared saying that she had returned to the trading post, so that may have eventually happened whether I returned there or not. Regardless, I am beginning to think that the disappearing companion issue is not a bug, but they just get tired of waiting around and go home.

I also experienced a strange issue prior to this, that may or may not be related. I left Veronica at the air force base and went off to Vault 34. A few days later, I am down on the lower level of the vault and Veronica flies in out of nowhere and starts clobbering some ghouls. Scared the hell out of me... She saved my ass, so I'm not complaining, but I found it odd, nonetheless.

To be a bit clearer on my comment, I've talked to Veronica once, and I guess due to the options I selected the conversation ended. I tried a second conversation and she makes some remark about me coming back to talk to her, at which point my only option is to say "Goodbye" and end the conversation. It doesn't matter if I have companions, or I've dismissed them, or I've sent them to wait elsewhere, I can only ever say "Goodbye" to Veronica, I can't trigger any other conversation from her, even after multiple quests for multiple factions, checking in on her whenever I'm near enough to warrant a diversion.

Absolutely nothing has shaken her from her one liner and my inability to say anything else. We are stuck in a conversation loop that seems to make it impossible to talk to her full stop, let alone recruit her. I've had confirmation that her side quest has failed (no surprise, what with blowing up everything associated with the side quest), but I've never been able to recruit her to take her on it in the first place.

I do not see the situation changing unless there is a miracle, a patch, or I start a new game. And no, I don't have saves far back enough to reload and try from hours and hours earlier. I've just gone "Fine, be that way, I'll carry on without you."

I'm not incredibly annoyed and angered at the developers, its only a game and we've come to expect problems with them these days. We shouldn't have problems of course, we should be over these issues by now, but they happen, and we work around them as best we can. By taking the long route of restarting, it seems.

What i have seen happen with my minions is they get stuck behind a auto closing door. And they cant open it or any thing they just get stuck. For example i was in the Vault 19 basemant killing fire geckos for a quest and they have auto closing doors down there boone got stuck behind one and i had no idea where he when't thot i lost him. So i reloaded got him back and same thing happen i had no idea what was going on thot i lost him for ever So sad. so i left the vault whent to the khan camp then came back and when't back down and what you know there he was still trying to walk threw a closed door.

But what i don't get is i thot the game would reload him near me after i left a area.

If the companion has already been recruited and they get locked in a room or fall through the ground or just get lost. Try going to Vault 22 and using the elevator there. For some odd reason using the elevator there always makes my companions spawn right next to me, even if I told them to wait outside the place. As far as companions that go missing before you can even recruit them...no idea there.

interesting, i seem to have recalled the same thing with the Vault 22 elevator. Ed-E just came out of nowhere once i used it. But all the same he still cant return to Lucky 38 when i tell him to. and sometimes he just disappears into nowhere and this keeps me from having rex follow me when i want.

this companion things wigs me out

The problem I have with companions is that they lose their default weapon when you take them into a casino and you cant re-equip it on them, it wont work.

For that, you have to dismiss them back to wherever you recruited them from.

And here's the problem, I wasn't near any auto closing doors. I was on a mountain outside of New Vegas. I dropped down, suspected Boone's find path to just have him run all the way around. He isn't anywhere near the mountain, or on it. He isn't in any of the locations near or around New Vegas, and he isn't back in Novac (Boone). I will try this wait 7 days suggestion, but I'm skeptical.

Boone is ALWAYS gone!!!!
I have spent the last TWO HOURS just trying to get that guy to FOLLOW.. A SIMPLE, SIMPLE command. I don't want him to go anywhere and perform some strategic battleplan on a predesignated enemy, I JUST WANT HIM TO FOLLOW ME. You guys are a JOKE! How can you take yourselves seriously!? You Are NOT Developers... There are no words that I can post here to accurately describe what you are.. The closest I can think of is THIEVES!



What is WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!?

How long did your Beta Testers play for?!?!

This game is an embarrassment, a downright disgrace and you should be ASHAMED.

Obsidian, Bethesda and the Havoc Developers.. YOU are the CRIMINALS of Computer Gaming!!! You have robbed me of my TIME AND MONEY!!

And Don't PLEASE Even Get Me STARTED On Your So Called "200+ Fixes Patch"

HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?? Do You Not Realise How Many People You Have Let Down & Frustrated with this UNPLAYABLE MESS!!!

I'm am really pissed at this game i buy the collecters editon and the collecters stragey guide so i payed over 100$. once i get boone and rex i walk into Gommarrah and walk around abit suddenly rex and boone just freeze there is nothing in there way and they wont follow me. so i leaving thinking they would follow me but they aren't there. i think no biggy so i go back but there not there but when i talk to people they act like they are there and say stuff like "i dont think thats what they mean by doggy style and [censored]." then i try everything but they arent with me but are still with me cause i still have they're perks. i can't talk to them to get my stuff i made them hold they don't fight i cant recuit new people it svcks major ass.

Figured I would post in here since I have a bug regarding companions. I recently finished the quest for Veronica and fast traveled to Vegas Gate to notice she was not there. So I fast traveled back to Hidden Valley to see her outside the Bunker Door just standing there. Went into the companion interface to toggle wait then back to follow option. As soon as I exit the interface she automatically pops up a conversation menu and still stands there after I close that menu out. Figured I would send her to the Lucky 38 to see if it would fix the problem but no luck there. Does the same thing, I tell her to follow me and I get the ok message to follow. Then I get the auto conversation and back to not following me.

Slightly different problem, and based on Rex if i could find him it'd be fixed... i Told boone to go back to the lucky 38. he never arrived... and cause i can't remember where i left him i've no clue where he'd be either. trying that 7 days thing now... if he's still not here by the end, i may have to crush something. other bug was, i gave him NCR armour, Bandoleer i think... and he kept saying "Thanks for taking me back to bitter springs"... at that point i'd never been there, not even found it on the map.

I had the same with Lily, but she reappeared slightly outside of Jacobstown when the quest told me to find her.
Rex... told him to go back to the lucky 38 when he was In the kings school of impersonation. never showed up. i went back... he was just running past The King. so about 3 in-game days to get from the top to the bottom of the building.
so far, apart from Arcade cause i Told him to join his team, those're the only companions I've Lost.

...Ok, waiting 24 hours a time, the Week is up. January 5th 2282... if he's not in Novac Or in the lucky 38, with the ranger armour i gave him... he's Dead when i find him, and i'm taking that scoped hunting rifle of his... or at least the Scope, as i've found None since i got the rifle itself.

edit: nope, he's still not in the game, unless he's the friendly marked outside Caesar's camp who's never there when i go out.

I've had companions stop following me before, but I fixed it by walking up to them and telling them to wait then command them to follow again. Seems something is wrong with the path finding.