I've lost Rex before, but was able to recover him.
Lost Veronica, got her.
Now Ed-E is in my party, AND GONE.
I've retraced my steps, went to primm, went down vault 22, nothing.
Ok.
I'm over it.
I want Arcade in party instead of boone.
I let Boone go in the L38.
And when I talk to Arcade, NO OPTION FOR RECRUIT-ION, ZERO!
So I recruit Boone and talk to Gannon, NOW THE OPTION IS THERE?!
I let Boone go and it disappears.
Fix this now.

Yes they need to fix that! I keeps happening to me too.

Sometimes the Ai fails to follow you and they just stand around doing nothing almost like I told them to wait when I didn't.
When you have a companion or two always make sure that there following you at all times.

But now I can't recruit Rex, and I have no other saves.
I would have to start over.
And Ed-E has a butt-load of my Ammo.

You found Rex, but you can't recruit him anymore?
Is because of ED-E then cause the game still thinks you got him with you.
Check Primm or the lucky 38. Still not there? Then look where you saw him last.
Still nothing... Hmmm I guess you do have to start over. Sorry. I haven't lost anyone.
I have notice the Ai sometimes stops following you then continues to follow the path that you were at.
The companions are having slowdowns/delays when following the player.

I lost ED-E as well. He is still in my group, but nowhere to be found. I believe he got stuck down in a vault. I went down in that vault and he was nowhere to be found. I now play the game with one companion...

The funny thing is when I visit the boomers, they all say "I can take care of that robot problem for ya.... I'm just sayin". I know that's what they would normally say if the robot was indeed there, and I got a kick out of it... It's like some funny developer knew about the ED-E bug in advance, and had the folks in boomtown say that... Anyway, I play the game with one companion only now :cryvaultboy:

Me too...
Fix this now.
I want my ammo.
I want my ED-E.
I am tired of this.

heh, it raised a smile the first few times, now I want to scream at them "SO GO F***ING TAKE CARE OF IT!"

I've decided to keep playing for now, but avoiding making the story progress in any way in the slim hope of a patch to bring ED-E back... I realise I won't be able to complete the story for now, but I've invested too much time to start again and honestly don't think I could really bring myself to do that.

This next patch better do it.
Beth screws us PS3 owners over hard.
1. We don't get GECK, so no mods, even though Unreal T.3 had a modding feature, and I'm sure that Beth could make a PS3 geck that runs on the PC, which transfers over to PS3.
2. Our glitches can't be community patched.
3. Our graphics suffer.
So Beth should be treating US better.

Even if the Companion System is perfect, running this game on one save is just asking for trouble, especially if it is an autosave.

So i'm screwed?
Dear god.

i think an easy fix would be an option to see companions on the map somehow or another. I dismissed two companions at the same time in the mountains out side of cottonwood camp. i sent them back to the lucky 38. game time wise its been well over a month and neither one has shown up. i can't remember exactly in the mountains i was standing when i did it so i can't find them anywhere. they're fully dismissed so using the elevator in vault 22 isn't going to help. if they were just locatable on the map i think what ever problems arose out of them getting stuck somewhere we'd be able to resolve ourselves. I still have the E-DE my love quest to do. just by selecting that E-DE should be marked on my map so i can complete the quest. E-DE has a ton of my stuff but I don't think I'll ever see it again.

i did the same thing with Rex out side of the Legion Camp (the one all the south and east i dont remember its name)
but i sent him to the lucky 38 and he never made it back my best guess as to what happen is they start walking back to the lucky 38 and then get stuck on a rock or something somewhere in between where you told them go home and the lucky 38 its very frustrating

Companions are about the only thing I haven't had problems with, beside the fact that ED-E couldn't hit a barn door while floating beside it. Sure they get lost from time to time but, so far, they've always come back.

I know, I know... I shouldn't have said that, tempting fate and all that, but the game is that glitched at this moment I wouldn't care.

I found this on another part of the forums, it might help http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1141913-glitch/ read Stubs post.

Ya..it happens but usually if you fast travel somewhere they will follow.

One thing I found that was really pissing me off was that when you go into an area where companions can't follow you have to go back to them and tell them to follow again after exiting. I was ticked that Veronica was just standing there like a dumb ass in front of the Lucky 38 and wouldn't follow me for anything. Then I realized I had to actually go back up to her and tell her to follow me again before she would come. Seems like they should auto follow once you leave an area where they can't follow but they don't.

Maybe this is what you guys are getting too. But then there are other times when they do just seem to go off on their own path....although at those times I never had any trouble getting them back once I went into a new area.

Once I forgot to go back and tell Veronica to follow after leaving Caesar's tent and it was like 40 minutes later I noticed she wasn't following and had to retrace my steps all the way back to find her standing there in front of the tent as though she never saw me leave.

Ya...I keep about 6-7 saves at all times. Maybe a little overkill but I would hate to have to start all over. Only depending on the auto save is really a bad idea. Someone once suggested to me that I keep 3 save spots at all times in any RPG game and since then I've always tried to do just that, although I usually have at least 5 spots just to be sure. And I've never ran into any issue that I couldn't resolve with one or another save. I try to keep all my saves within a couple hours of each other so I don't have to re-play any more than an hour or 2 at any time.

Patch now.
Going to try the vault 22 thing.
I wish there was an optional patch that sent all your companions back to their homes.

Sometimes ED-E just disappears permanently, after you sent him back to Lucky 38 or Primm. If you can't find him anymore.

Sometimes when you try to get Arcade to rejoin you, there won't be an option in the dialog to do so. Sometimes asking Rex or ED-E to leave the party can fix this, and you can have them join up after.

The Wikia says I am screwed.

Vault 22 fix doenst work. I lost Ed in Boomerville and I lost Veronica on the strip in some hotel. So now I have no followers with me and I cant pick up anymore because the game thinks they are still with me. This is f'ing ridiculous. Patch the damn thing. PS3 should have the same priority as the PC version.

Fix this, Bethesda, please don't build a reputation as scammers.