Hey, I just have a quick question... is it possible to sneak with companions?

I've got ED-E right now and the extra enemy spot distance is awesome for my character (who is based around sneak sniping).

However, I can never get close enough to see the enemy and fire from stealth before ED-E plays really loud duel music alerting them to my presence.

Maybe the robot secretly has it in for me and wants me to die like the meat-bag I am... but...

I've set him to passive, and he still does it...

Any solutions?

ED-E specifically is, in my experience, bugged to hell. He refuses, quite often, to listen to any order I give him and just flies around massacring everything. Or, more often, pulling the entire hostility of the wastes to us where WE get massacred.

I haven't personally had any problems with ED-E although I am playing on the PC version. You might want to pick up Rex in Freeside as he is considered a robot companion and thus still allows a human NPC to join you. The dog might sneak better than the floating eye bot-o-death. Kinda wish it was like Fallout 1&2 where your charisma determined how many followers you could have.

Well, a follower's enhanced mod for Fallout 3 came out that bases companion count on charisma, so I bet there will be one for Fallout New Vegas eventually.

In my experience Rex is even worse. During Vault something (the radioactive one) I told him to stay in Freeside, but suddenly he appeared on one of the levels with me. Despite telling him to "stay here" he growled and slowly moved towards enemies on the radar, attacked and got himself killed.

Despite setting enemies to passive, they still fire back as soon as someone fires on you, which makes them useless for sneaky players. I can easily be spotted someone/something and then cover behind a door or an obstacle and have them go away again, but not with a companion.

Companions need an ultra-passive setting.

What I started doing is usually leaving my companions outside before I enter a place I am going to be fighting. Which mean's Lily is the best companion for sneaking because you can leave her anywhere and you will still get her sneak attack bonus and stealth boy bonus.

Having Gannon and ED-E is by far the worst. Despite him apparently not trusting ED-E, the two have conspired against me such that whenever I try to sneak my attempt is destroyed by a light show of plasma and lasers going over my head.

What makes it truly awful is how Gannon gives me his "You know I svck at sneaking and if anything goes wrong its your fault for making me do this!" speech literally every time I crouch.