i love energy weapons especcially a fully modified laser rifle minus the beam splitter but every time i use an energy weapon be it plasma or laser and i get a critical finish which results in an opponent turning into a goo or ash pile i have noticed these piles do not disappear. is there any way i may fix this or is the mojave wasteland doomed to be covered in ash and goo piles eventually?

Doomed, unfortunately.

On computer you can use a mod that makes the piles disappear on cell reset the way corpses do. Not what you want to hear, it's just sad that it's actually a really easy change that the developers neglected. You just need a script attached to the piles with an OnReset block of Disable and MarkForDelete.

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damn you obsidian.

Least you got the company right

Try looting everything from the corpse and leaving the grid it is in for several days.
I'm saying thise because If you take everything from a normal corpse and leave it usually vanishes but leaving even a spork in the inventory will make it stay forever.
Hopefully this works for you because I don't seems to get permanent ash piles on my playthrough.

You don't need to loot bodies for them to vanish with a cell reset. Only non-respawning NPCs leave permanent corpses, and stripping them doesn't affect if their corpse vanishes (Cook Cook is a good example of a corpse that'll never go away). Ash and goo piles simply never vanish.

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