Has anyone else had these problems with the game on XBox One?

I lost Preston as a follower after finishing Taking Independence. He prompted dialogue with me to thank me for helping him and went through the dialogue set, but after that he stopped interacting with me. Anytime I ask to talk to him, he just gives me generic one-liners. Can't open up trade or even ask him to follow me. I've gone so far as to open up artillery in the castle and unlock another settlement in hopes of snapping him out of it, but nothing seems to budge it.

In addition to that, I seem to have lost Dogmeat in the midst of the Reunions quest. I followed him all the way to Fort Hagen. After receiving my next objective to find a way in, the game told me Dogmeat was released from the quest(he was able to act normal again), but he didn't. He remained firmly parked atop the stairs. I wasn't ready to go into the building, so I picked up another follower to do some other stuff beforehand. When prompted, I wanted to send Dogmeat to Sanctuary. I hoped that finishing up with Fort Hagen would break him out of it, and he *was* gone from the stairs...but then he wasn't anywhere. I checked the Red Rocket where you first find him, and I checked Sanctuary where I originally sent him after I had to pick up another follower. Checked the doghouses but he wasn't there. I even checked Diamond city around Kellog's house just in case it went wonky.

My Pipboy says one thing while physically being there says another when it comes to Sanctuary settlement happiness. I've more than enough food, water, beds, and defense, and, while I'm there, their happiness will go up and everything will be stable(80% +); the moment I leave, however, happiness tanks below 80%, settler number drops, and either my number of beds or amount of water drops. I see this, panic, and fast travel back...but nothing is wrong. No attacks, nothing broken...the numbers return to normal. At first I wondered if, maybe, having Preston as a follower made their happiness dip. Maybe the missed their original "leader" being in town and rejoiced when he returned with me, but now it seems like something is bugged since numbers are changing. I'll go from 22 beds to 13 while I'm away for no reason, and like I said my water will randomly zero out even though nothing's been attacked or broken.

Losing two followers really has me quite steamed, especially since they were carrying stuff I wanted and they were my favored followers.

I've also experienced items sinking through the ground, lost to some abyss. I dropped some mirelurk eggs and melons to drop some weight in Castle. I went to move them to a nicer place by the fridge(green and above ground), but once I confirmed the move, it's like the stone ground became quicksand and they disappeared.

I've tried Googling to find solutions or maybe even find something I've overlooked in solving these problems, but nothing seems to work. I'm apparently especially SOL, since PC users have a way of commanding a follower's return or reset.

My settlements also getting wonky. Last night Pipboy said my Sanctuary has 19 settlers and I was unable to send a companion there, which made me wonder because I didn't even have a recruitment beacon active. However when I visited, the number went back to normal, which is 11 settlers.

I don't know about lost companion. Never experienced before. Some were gone, but that was because of mission purpose; Preston for castle take over, Piper for the McDonough mission.

Dogmeat finally showed up today in one of the doghouses in Sanctuary after a few more hours of game play, but Preston is still unavailable. I can get quests from him and I can talk to him after establishing a settlement, but I still don't have access to him as a companion. I know a lot of people gripe about the followers, but for the most part I can tolerate their hiccups. Silliest thing about Preston is his decision-making when it comes to throwing stuff like Molotov Cocktails. If I give them to him, he'll toss one at a guy that only has one hit left. Still, I don't mind his company.

Yeah, I know when they get tied up in a quest they dip out of their usual protocol, but these were both situations where they got stuck after completion. Luckily Dogmeat finally got freed up, but I'm not sure what more I can do for Preston to wiggle him.

Not sure what I can do about the settlement problem either. I kinda wanna go for the achievement, but with the issues I think the only way I'll accomplish it will be to just commit to it one day. Have everything ready and prepare to just sit my butt in Sanctuary until happiness maxes out.

I haven't gotten to unlock some of the other companions yet. So far I've got Danse, Piper, Cod, Preston, Nick, Strong, and Dogmeat. Danse is the only one with an annoying personality to me, and from what I've researched I doubt I'll ever get Strong to like me. I'm currently playing a character that's way too nice and diplomatic.

Glad that Dogmeat showed up for you, he usually takes his time going to Sanctuary from Fort Hagen, probably some nice trees on the way.

As to the settlement bugginess, scrap or store all of the TV's in Sanctuary, it will make your game tons better. Will still have occasional bugs but nowhere near as many as before. Try it, it works.

i lost dogmeat once, i found him in sanctuary hills first house on the right off the bridge around the back in his dog house, hope this helps

The Settlement glitch tends to cause the game to think you have double the number of settlers, this causes happiness to drop a huge amount if you then don't have the stats to account for twice the number of people that are really there.

I have found if you leave the settlement entirely before fast traveling away, it doesn't happen as much. (When leaving Sanctuary, I always cross the bridge before then using fast travel.)