New Player.

Just gave a Plasma gun to that girl that likes to punch things and told her to use ranged weapons. She is now carrying the Plasma gun.

So how does this work? I gave her all the plasma ammo I have, will it run out and she'll switch back to punching? Will the condition of her gun decrease so I'll have to take it from her and repair it all the time?

Just really not sure how this will work.

Thanks.

She does use the ammo so it does need to be re-supplied, but the gun itself won't lose condition or break (unless you accidentally shoot it, which can happen).

Veronica however prefers punching, and as such, she might be better at it. Can't say for certain, I just remember telling her to use her pistol one time and she immediately started complaining about how much she hated it. Lily and Veronica will both prefer melee combat, and to be honest I see no reason to discourage Lily from doing so since she runs fast as hell, has lots of HP and can close the gap on the enemy quick.


For the most part though, only give companions new weapons if you have cash to burn. It can be kind of expensive and most of them have good weapons as their defaults anyways. Lily or Veronica are worth upgrading since upgrading melee fighters is as simple as giving them a new weapon (no ammo needed), but aside from that everyone has good default weapons. The exception is Cass; give her something cause he default weapon svcks balls.

Well what is a good upgrade weapon for Veronica?

Veronica gripes about using any weapons besides melee, but she's actually very good with energy weapons as long as you keep her supplied with ammo for them. I've gotten very good results with her using the Q-35 Matter Modulator, and giving her Elijah's Advanced LAER would be one way to get around its ridiculous degradation rate, though I haven't tried her out on that one myself.

As far as her melee weapon goes, I always give her Pushy once I get it. Some people give her a Ballistic Fist, but she doesn't meet the Strength requirement (9) to use it to its fullest potential.

One thing to NOT give her (or any companion besides ED-E or Rex, for that matter) is explosives. Bad, bad, bad idea.

Something that punches. I always give her one of the unique power fists. The one from that mine (Ruby Hill?) I don't remember. She destroys stuff with that thing.

Edit: Yeah Pushy, that's it. Sends people flying. It's awesome.

Power fists mostly. If I remember correctly, she will choose whatever weapon has the most DPS and the one with the most damage. So if you give her weaker, but faster weapons, she will use that instead of whatever else you gave her. So if you give her something, and she uses it, then it is better that whatever she was using before. Most of the time.

Do you think she'll meet the requirement if you give her power armor? I don't know what her strength is at normally.

Her unbuffed STR is 7; the BoS power armor would boost that to 8. There may be other power armors that boost it more, but I don't remember.