fallout 4 send companion home instead of settlement

He has quite a big patrol radius, which you’ve no doubt encountered when travelling with him, so it may take you a little time to find him. So in order to find a lost Dogmeat, don’t head to nominal home Sanctuary Hills or the entrance to Vault 111 – you’re going to need to go to where you first met him – head instead to the Red Rocket gas station, south-east of Sanctuary Hills, on the road between there and Concord. It’s an odd departure from previous Fallout games, where your dog would either turn up at the entrance to the Vault or your in-game home, but because Fallout 4 has more options of homes than ever before, they’d not know where to begin. When you’ve lost Dogmeat and he’s not been given an instruction of where to go, he’s going to default to that standard NPC behaviour of “I will go back to the place we first met, and hope they come and look for me here”. I had lost Dogmeat, but I was also in the middle of a quest with Nick, so I dealt with the matter at hand and figured my hound would turn up at my home in Sanctuary Hills. Why didn’t Bethesda give us a damn whistle? I found myself calling his name at the screen like I was trying to take him for walkies. I got attacked while forlornly running after him and he, faithful stalwart, came back to fight at my side, but before I could interact with him after the fight was over, he was gone again. When you get to your destination, Nick remarks that Dogmeat looks a little tired, and he dismisses him for you – yes, that’s right, one of your companions dismisses one of your other companions – and that unfortunately circumnavigates your ability to tell the dismissed companion where they should return to.ĭogmeat trotted off into the distance and I couldn’t catch up with him before I lost him into the wasteland. It’s a brilliant moment in the game and a wonderful change of pace from fetch-quests, as your faithful hound bounds across the wasteland and you have to try and keep up every now and then he’ll lose the scent and you have to find him more clues, before he tears off into the distance again. When searching for a missing person with Private Detective Nick Valentine, you’ll be on the cold trail of a kidnapper when Nick makes an excellent suggestion: let’s use Dogmeat as an actual dog, and see if he can track the scent. Teaming up with Super Mutant Strong for a daring escape before he offers his services as a companion is one such example, or taking the toe-dipping Brotherhood quest with Paladin Danse before being offered to join the ranks you can take these quests with whoever you originally had in tow and this extra companion for added team firepower. There’s a certain point in the main story where he’s going to go missing it’s inevitable, and it stems from the brief sections where you can operate with more than one companion.Īt various points in the game, you can exceed the one companion limit in Fallout 4 for short periods of time when someone is enlisted as a temporary companion, or you are in fact following them for a change. Unfortunately, everybody’s going to have lost Dogmeat at some point in a Fallout 4 play-through (unless of course you’re a heartless monster and didn’t take him with you as a companion when you first met).

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Fallout 4 send companion home instead of settlement