I was over by the Southern Nevada Wind Farm, fighting Cazadors, and Boone took some damage. He started grunting so I figured I would give him a stimpak (first time I have done this). His health was something like 170 of 265, but when I gave him the stimpak it went down to -114, and then he died.

Luckily I save pretty often, so it's not a big problem, but definitely something to watch out for. Has anyone else had this happen to a follower, or Boone specifically?

I couldn't find a bug-reporting section of the forum, but if this is the wrong place to post, please let me know.

KrazySwede

Cazador poison and stimpacks seems to be bugged.
Once a companion get's hit and you try to heal them with a stimpack their health goes down to -1.
Which is strange, because when we, the players, get stung by a cazador and uses a stimpack our health don't go down, it goes up, fighting the poison.

Btw, ?ru svensk?

It seems to happen to me with Giant Radscorpions and bark scorpion as well as Cazador poison.

Maybe stimpacks and cazador poison doesn't go together, like an allergic reaction or alcohol + pills


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Then why doesn't it affect the players the same way?

Han f?rs?ker s?kert infiltrera oss. :ninja:

Because we're just that awesome?

Yeah, those pesky swedes.......... wait

They don't just seem to be, they are :hehe:

Giving the stimpak causes the entire poison load to be dumped at once. IIRC from reading the Wiki Notes, you can switch off hardcoe and give the companion stims (if necessary. In casual they should recover their health after combat stops.) Then just go back to hardcoe.

of course on the PC you can get them back with Console Commands.

I think it's a result of the way stimpaks work with companions.

Even in hardcoe mode, stimpaks do instant healing - so maybe when a stimpak is applied, the game forcibly makes all health calculations "finish" by applying what it has left to do to the character?

Wow that's a lot of replies in such a short time, thanks for all the input . I guess I'll load up a past save and tell him to hold back while I take them out.
I was totally unprepared for the Cazadors. I marched in there with a caravan shotgun and an NCR recon guy as backup, but he got owned by a couple of wasps on steroids :nope: . I loaded up again, and just checked his health after our little engagement, about 150, then closed his companion wheel, opened it back up and his health was down to 24 . Those advlt Cazadors are no joke lol.



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I think it's intentional. The health you added with the stim wasn't enough for the poison, and the poison still killed the companion.

Then why don't we die?

Instantly? I think not.

Besides, I spam stimpaks when I get poisoned and it all works out in the end.

I wasn't on hardcoe and after a battle with Cazadors, it was clear Boone was hurt. His health was low so I gave him a Stimpak and he passed out. I was horrified but luckily, he got up again after a few seconds. It happened with another companion too. I'd see the health go in the wrong direction after medicating. I'm not giving Stimpaks anymore for poison but I think it's safe to put Stimpaks in their inventory so they can self-medicate. Unless someone knows different on that? It suggests that in the game guide but I don't know if patch 1.2 has changed something though.

I don't know, the only times I have observed this was after they were stung several times. Plus, I almost always have antivenom on me and usually use the wing cripple technique, so I guess I wouldn't know how fast it works.

I've seen my companions be stung "once" by a young cazador and quickly gave him/her a stimpack and they still died.
If the poison is meant to be like this then we, the players, should die as well unless we use an anti-venom.
So I call bug or handhold game design.

Bug. If you watch the companions health it will go from a positive number to some huge negative value. I recall trying to heal boone when he had something like 65 health left and when i manually made him use a stimpack he went to like -250.

Doesn't make any sense.

That's what I thought. Because when my Boone got poisoned by Cazadors and I gave him a stimpack he died. The next time it happened I gave him more than one stimpack and he still died. This was NOT in hardcoe mode.

I havent had this happen before, BUT I have gave him a stimpack, with poisining, and his health went PAST the regualer amount and he died for some reason. I call bug on this one. Plus, when I got rex and he got poisined, I gave him a stim and the game froze.

Them needles are sharp, yo.

There is no companion dying in Casual Mode. It's bugged when that's happening. Good idea to report it in the Problems forums to help another patch along.