1) Look at companion

2) Press "E" (or w/e the console equivalent is - it'll prompt you)

3) Look away from the companion

4) Press "E" again

5) Watch as companion moves

That said, I've found the AI to be relatively smart. If they're blocking a doorway and I walk towards them, they're instinctively stepping back for me. And to be fair, the Command feature with companions isn't covered well (or possibly at all). On one hand, it's nice that BGS doens't hold your hand in this game, but on the other hand, there are a ton of hidden features/mechanics that most people don't know about.

OP was more than likely 4 years old in 2008, so cant really compare threw first hand experience

I have no idea what you're smoking bro, but this game is amazing and has very little bugs. I've encountered 4 in my 100+ hours of playing and Codsworth can be pushed out of the way. Did you even really play this game?

It works with Dogmeat so take the dog perk. It raises VATS headshot percentage.

The guy is gone... he just came to make you all rage. in his defence he did make one of the fastest trending threads on this forum since release

I'm personally loving it and I've played all the Fallout games.

HOW can you not like Morrowind ? It was literally the best RPG open world game Bethesda ever made. The originality was phenomenal. I will never forget that world.

If you want proof I'll post a screenshot when I get home from work... I hope thats not necessary

Exactly my point of view; if he really doesnt want to give this game a few playthroughs to get good at - or even just 10 hours - screw him.
He'll miss out on one of the biggest games of the year.. Just because hes having trouble with ranged combat (which isnt that hard, pahahah..)

Those issues eventually became fixed. I bought it months later after it's price plummeted below the price for Fallout 3 (both vanilla versions) and picked it up. The patch for it worked very nicely.

Though I never bought DLC for it, heard bad things.

ha I didn't say pics or didn't happen, I'm just amazed...that's 14 hours a day of Fallout.

I've pretty much played from the time I get home from work til the time I go to bed since it came out! And the weekends are pretty much dedicated to Fallout. My poor girlfriend :/

I think the Ai and the companion system are actualy great.
They travel not too close to me and have their own kind of rythm, making me feel like they have their own mind.
They are useful in combat and never ever really got in my way. (weapons I play are non automatic rifles and pistols)
Up to this point, Piper has varied dialogues and interacting with her is fun.

I can't imagine being bloked in a warehouse for 15 minutes.
First when you walk on them they seem to understand and move out of the way.
Second you can very easy tell them to go anywhere whenever you feel like it and they obey you on the spot.
But yeah being stuck in a warehouse for 15 whole minutes because of a follower must feel aweful.
Didn't happen to me and I know it won't happen though.

Eventhough it's not perfect, I actually love FO4's artificial intelligence. It keeps producing great moments and realistic moments of gameplay for me.

Its ben great so far....it would be awesome when bethasda fixes the framerate in certain areas but that's what updates are for....money worth spent in my opinion.

I totally agree the companion AI is beyond frustrating at times and needs some work. I do NOT agree that makes the game feces.

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Not sure how its taken out of context when it is simply showing an "example" of the frustration companions can be. The whole having to micro manage the companions behavior is rather overkill.

Bethesda's quality control is almost non-existent. They've been making massive games like this from the start, so that excuse doesn't cut it anymore.

They are literally making billions off their games. They can afford to hire more people to really playtest their games before release. They just choose not to. You can be optimistic all you'd like, but their past actions prove that Fallout 4 will be a buggy mess for a long time to come. Their latest release, Skyrim, still suffers from thousands of bugs that Bethesda refuses to fix or even acknowledge. That is what we are going to get with Fallout 4.

Obviously you are wrong about the "excuses not cutting it anymore" as the game is selling quite well and garnering rather high review marks (even from non-traditional reviewers). I'm not going to disagree that the game has flaws, but it also holds an absolutely huge amount of entertainment potential that outweighs the flaws in most players eyes.

I'm not saying you don't have things to gripe about (we all do), but your opinion that the entire game is a steaming pile is not a universally held belief...deal with it.

Yeah, Fallout 4 is selling really well. So did Angry Birds.

The only reason Fallout 4 is selling well is because it's no longer Fallout. Bethesda changed both the genre and attitude of the franchise to cater to a different audience. So many people are blinded by the hype that they can't honestly control themselves anymore.

I was just watching CohhCarnage stream Fallout 4 on Twitch. He's constantly finding bugs in the game and just laughing them off. How is that acceptable? If this were an Assassin's Creed game, a Battlefield game, or a Halo game, people would be rioting in the streets. But it's a Bethesda game, so people are, for whatever reason, okay with it.

And that isn't how it should be. Stop giving Bethesda excuses to churn out crap like this and they'll eventually stop doing it. There's absolutely no reason for many of the things we see in-game. None. Zero. But people are okay with it.

And you can't excuse something simply because the majority backs it. The majority of people in America believed the Jewish should be left to fend for themselves for most of World War II. That's how messed up "popular opinion" can be.

ha hear you there...been losing sleep over Fallout as nights are the only time I can play.

You know, this is all really simple if you think about it. For those of you who hate the game and are glad you didn't buy it, Great! Just keep it that way. Don't buy it, don't play it, and don't waste your time here trying to convince everyone else that the games svcks. Obviously those of us who are enjoying the game don't agree with you, and we will likely never agree with you. So... it's pointless to come here and fight this fight to convince everyone you're right regardless of how much they are enjoying the game. You lost this one before you ever started and nothing's gonna change that.

Go somewhere and play the perfect game and leave us poor happy fools to our supposed misery, eh?

@ Greed

You comparison with Jews in WWII doesn't hold up very well. You see, the majority of Jews did not enjoy the Holocaust, but the majority of players are enjoying FO4. You are trying to get the majority of people who enjoy the game to complain about something they enjoy.. Does that really make sense to you?

And as history would have it, if it were an Obsidian game in the same crappy, buggy engine suddenly it's the biggest travesty known to gaming.

Nobody is trying to convince anyone of anything, if you think this is what's going on, then you don't have a clue.

This is our feedback to Bethesda about this game, if you don't like it then don't read it. They are trying to single handedly destroy one of my favourite RPG franchises and being an avid fan of Fallout lore and universe, I have the right to vent out my feelings about this release.

The game is only selling well on the basis that it is associated with Fallout franchise and what Bethesda has accomplished previously with Elder Scroll games.

But if you see the overall PC user impressions and PC user reviews you will find that majority of RPG community is rating this game about 6/10................. to be precise the game is averaging 6.2/10 across the web based on 50k+ PC USER reviews.

I am only talking about the PC version, I do not know anything about console versions as I haven't played any console version of the game.

Thank satan i bought the game.