Cassidy has started running away in every encounter now and is completley useless so Ive had to go and get Marcus again. Problem is he is getting hit too badly now as I approach the end game.

Any ideas how I can stop Cassidy acting like this? He has full health, a decent weapon and power armour on!!!!

*Full health maybe, but he may have a broken leg or broken arms or something else, you'd better check.

Agreed: damaged limbs/eyes will do that.

You didn't tell him to flee by accident in the combat controls?

yeah, DJ Rebel is also right. When I take a NPC like Cassidy or Marcus, I don't allow them to flee( anyway, it's stupid, 'cause the time the NPC is gonna use to flee could be used to kill an ennemy ( and if your ennemy has a sniper gun you'd better stay to kill him first, or it's gonna be a bullet in the ass...no cowards allowed, good name for a F3 website, don't you think :foodndrink: ).

I reckon itll be the damaged limb, dogmeat used to do that for me in fallout 1 and I couldn't work it out while I contemplated shooting him so the coward didnt follow me and then I found the damaged limb problem. And well I'm rather glad I didn't shoot him :hubbahubba: .

OMG - School Boy Error there by me! Shows how long since I last played lol

Thanks all

I'm having a different problem with Cassidy. It appears to be completely random.

I always have him set to "Stay Close to Me" and "Shoot the Closest Person". But, every now and then, he reverts to "Stay On Your Own" and "Shoot Whoever You Want". The only way I discover this is when we enter combat and he goes running forward like a nut.

I end up having to reload and change his settings before entering combat. It's as if his combat settings are completely reset.

I'm not sure if he is supposed to do this (personality), or if it's just a bug.

He enters combat fully healed btw. Just randomly likes to do his own thing.

Anyone know why this is?

Are you patched?

Yup

For me, sometimes he puts away his weapons and decides to punch the super mutants to death.

*I can understand that, I also cannot stand mutants, so I would probably put my gun away just for the pleasure of kicking a mutant's ass off :toughninja:
Anyway, you say you're patched, but it may have a link with the fact that cassidy gets a level. I remember, before my game was patched, everytime Cassidy got a level, he lost his armor... and you can easily imagine how pissed I was. Well, just check if there's a link with Cassidy having fresh XP.

Cool. I'll look into that.

Thanks Butch!

Yeah, I had the same problem with Cassidy just up and deciding to reset his AI as he saw fit. I actually put a post-it on my monitor noting to "talk to cassidy before fighting" ><

Sorry, I should have posted back here to say he DID have crippled limbs. He is now happily in the Enclave with me

Next time he flees you might wanna give him some drugs instead. The green pills for example

cassidy's skill turns to unarmed (instead of small guns) for a few lvs after he wears PA, which would explain the punching or running towards ur enemy like a nut

This is the kind of thread that makes you want to play Fallout again. Kudos!