Well I finished the Novac Boone quest with ED-E along for the ride and I asked Boone to come along. Well last time I did that, last patch, he said I already had a companion (in so many words). But this time I now have both .. ED-E and Boone!! Ummm ... is this a bug??? I didn't notice anything in the patch verbage to say we now can have more than one companion.

You can have 1 humanoid companion (e.g Boone) and 1 non- humanoid companion (Rex or ED-E) at the same time.

It's always been like that.

Ah, Thanks ...

Though I would have liked if you could have two humanoid companions that would follow you (but not in a line after you, feels like I'm taking out a class on a school trip when I have a mod that enables infinite follower) and that they would talk to eachother while you're out in the wasteland and walking, and they'd either like each other or dislike eachother and may have verbal fights with eachother where they disagree about things, and they may even talk to you about they dislike the other guy and wants you to do something about it or he/she leave. Would make them feel even more alive. I would guess a pro-CL and a pro-NCR wouldn't go so well together in the long run. Of course, even if they like eachother due to their ideologies, they might fight joke/argue about each others personalities or skills, like Arcade is a four-eyes and a nerd (dunno who would call him that, all followers are too nice.) Raul and Lily might talk about the pre-war old days. Boone and Cass might talk about NCR politics, where they might differ and argue, or Boone will be mostly brief or not talk about it at all.

Sorry for kinda going off-topic but I was reminded of this.

You can have more than one Human Companion at one time. However the second human has to be one of the temporary companions (NCR Emergency Soldier or a Freeside Gaurd). You can even have both of the Temps if you do things right and you are in Freeside.