- When I started my survival playthrough I took dogmeat because I needed all the help I could get. I tried to scavenge the area around to see if I could find some stuff of value and I managed to get some mines. We suddenly find a bunch of molerats, but in this game enemies run away, and molerats runaway when they go underground. I was weak as [censored], so I ran away as fast as I could and I left dogmeat handling them.
I reach concord and dogmeat is not around, but I didnt pay mind to that, I just focused on preparing the area for the deathclaw battle that was about to happen and started to position the mines carefully where I needed them the most for a tactical choice. When I am done, dogmeat suddenly appears out of nowhere through the minefield, I was scared that he would activate all the mines and kill me; but I was lucky dogmeat didn't activate the mines, however the molerats he was fighting appeared from the underground blowing us up into pieces. Dogmeat didn't even kill them. [censored] stupid dog, I dismissed him right after that and haven't used him ever since.
- Codsworth on the other hand, is really useful and funny, he not only says my real name, he also pleases me with his witty comments and his arsenal of jokes he seems to say for no reason; his last joke to me was "I was in a zoo with only 1 dog it was a zhit tsu" or something like that, so he constantly makes me chuckle.
But I also noticed that companions seem to be really strong in survival mode, while in normal difficulty dogmeat died all the time, in survival dogmeat can kill enemies by himself, codsworth too, he can defeat at least 2 or 3 enemies before going down if I don't attack at all. So I took him with me for the whole run. With that in mind I went to rescue a kidnapped villager, and I was trying to be really careful because only 1 hit could kill me.
The first thing I see is a turret, I see some raiders in the floor above, and I hear some others downstairs, my plan is to send codsworth to destroy the turret first because it will be the most problematic, so I talk to codsworth aim at the turret and I only get the option to "inspect turret" wtf, I think it's a glitch but I supose that sending codsworth will make it hostile towards and he will try to defend himself, Codsworth goes to the turret, turns all the enemies around hostile after him, and then comes back pulling the aggro of at least 4 raiders. They all kill me.
Knowing codsworth is useless agaisnt the turret, I try to order him to go to the area instead of inspecting the turret, it has worked before, so I command Codsworth to go in front of the raiders this time, hoping he would defend himself, but no, Codsworth simply says "as you say!" and goes there, but comes back pulling all the [censored] raiders to me again. They all one shot me. I die.
I think of a different approach this time since I remember reading on the forums that companions need extra commands, I send codsworth to the area in front of the raiders and after he's in the area I command him to stay. And he obeys. But he doesn't even [censored] attack!!, all the raiders, and turrets start [censored] his ass while he does absolutely nothing to fight back. They knock him down, and luckily for me since I was in the distance they didn't find me. I only needed to wait for codsworth to recover and try again. So I wait, and wait, and wait.... Until Codsworth is back to normal, then he suddenly returns!, and all enemies start following him. They all shoot me dead again.
So well it's not Codsworth's fault right?, he's just a robot programmed with a poor AI, I decide to fix my plan after dying so many times by placing mines in the way of the raiders that Codsworth will surely pull to me. So I get in the process of carefully placing mines, when suddenly the [censored] codsworth feels like wanting to attack them and he pulls one of the closest raiders that activates the mines and [censored] kill me. At that time I felt so pissed, why is Codsworth messing so much with me, he became even more annoying than dogmeat.
So well I say [censored] Codsworth you know what, go to that area and I will just blow up your ass, I send Codsworth to the raiders area and ask him to wait, but I join the raiders and throw a bunch of grenades to kill codsworth, the turret, the raiders, and everything else in the area. When Codsworth wakes up he wants to talk to me and he asks me if I even consider him family, I was just laughing my ass off.