Hi everyone. I'd like to ask about ED-E's armor and weapons. For example, what is his armor now, and what his armor will be after? (Will it change mutch, double, or not) And weapon - what's his damage now, and after the upgrade?

Are there screenshots of him somewhere with the weapon, without it and with armor, without it?

Thanks for answers.

I'm interested to find this out too. I just want to know which people think is more advantageous; the laser or armor upgrade.

There are screenshots of the two upgrades in the Strategy Guide but I haven't found any online.

I would think the Laser is more useful? Can anyone clarify?

I find the Laser\Flamer to be more useful but then again, my style has a Shooter behind me and a thumper in front

Currently I have Ed-E with the laser upgrade behind me and Veronica with improved armour and the Displacer in front

I cover veronica and Ed-E blasts things that are out of her range and that seems to keep us all safe & sound

The armor upgrade changes it looks, but also makes it quite slow. I prefer getting it the weapon upgrade. ED-E mainly is a floating storage to me anyway.

Laser is default weapon, upgrade weapon is the blue photon barrage.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/ED-E

Armor upgrade:

DT: 8 -> 20

Weapon upgrade:

The FotA upgrades ED-E's primary long range weapon to a blue energy projectile weapon (very similar to the alien blaster), with a damage of 30, damage-per-second of 262, and a high critical chance multiplier (2.5x).

I didn't find any hard data on the "zapper" his normal weapon but I'd say it's power is about laser pistol range?

He gets a new set of clothes with the weapon upgrade, too. It looks like a weathered version of the BOS armor, and he loses his bumper sticker and license plate, which is too bad - I thought he looked kind of cool with those.

I took his armor upgrade on my first playthrough, and will probably take the weapon upgrade on my second try. I also use him as a floating pack mule, but I really like his perk, too. My character is a sniper, so it's nice to have advance warning on any baddies out there.

Take him to the Followers for the weapon upgrade. It's much better than the armor. They clean him up a little too and he's very powerful if your Charisma number is high too. That number affects Companion Nerve and increases their damage from +5 at CHA1 to +50 at CHA10. You won't be sorry when you see him go off on Fiends and everything else...boom! boom! boom!

This is really useful; thanks. I'm getting the feeling that most people prefer the weapon upgrade so I think I'm going to go for that although I do like the look of him with the armor upgrade! Oh well, can't have it all.

Damage is so odd in this game. You'd think increasing his DT to 20 would make him really durable, but all of the truly dangerous enemies do far more damage than this. Maybe some modder could make his armor uprade give some DR, too. Since DR is percentage based it would actually do some good versus every type of enemy.

I gave ED-E the Brotherhood upgrade, because the Followers never asked me about it. Although he still shoots big blue bolts regardless

Maybe because I gave him the Alien Blaster?

Yeah, go for the weapon upgrade, and you'll have a Deathclaw vaporizing flying footlocker fella who's not be crossed.

I have found the laser incredibly useful. It's sooo powerful, much more powerful than I thought it would be. I was really worried that it wouldn't be a very big upgrade because it was a pretty easy quest to complete [with some internet help.]