When my current character reached 10th she received the radio while at the Mojave Outpost. My first character never used it, so I decided to give it a go. She summoned trooper support. A trooper shows up and reports, then promptly runs off at top speed. Flash forward 10 levels and many game hours late she reaches Fort McCarren. Standing out front is a trooper with a lame leg. It is the one she summoned all those hours before. He follows me into to McCarren and I start calling him Gimpy. Leave McCarren and go to Westside. He disappears again. A while later I make it Camp Forlorn Hope and there he is and no longer Gimpy. He has vanished again. He has done nothing, not even die so I can get his stuff. Are they all this useless?

The AI behind them is truly puzzling, but they do help...except for this one time. I called in an NCR Ranger to help eliminate a merc base, and then she promptly disappeared...I went to Red Rock to begin the Great Khan negotiation, but she followed me and slaughtered the lot of the,..... :laugh: