fallout-4
An insight from Mama Murphy told me that when the time came I could talk my way out of the confrontation with Skinny Malone.
This allows us all to walk free with no deaths. During my first playthrough I killed everybody in the room.
What are the repercussions of letting Skinny Malone live?
The biggest direct impact to your character is that you will miss out on being rewarded with the Broadsider (A powerful weapon that fires cannonballs. Rewarded to you if you side with Ironsides.)
From a story standpoint, if you side with the scavengers Davies will sabotage the rockets so that the ship will explode. After the rockets explode the ship will remain landlocked and the robot crew will turn hostile. You will then have to storm the boat with the scavengers and defeat Ironsides. Regardless of what dialogue option you choose the scavengers must be defeated to complete the quest.
Below, you will find information on each companions general likes and dislikes. I have also included their respective companion perks, in case this is a deciding factor on which companions a particular user wishes to focus on a relationship with.
A majority of the information has been summarised from the companions respective Fallout Wiki page. A lot of it is self-explanatory. A companions perspective on chems will dictate their feelings towards giving chems to Mama Murphy, and convincing her to get off them.
In most cases, a companion approving or disapproving of a faction or general race (for example, favoring The Minutemen, or disapproving of Synths) will effect their corresponding reaction to dialogue, actions and interactions with members of the respective faction or general class.
In most cases, a companion approving of being helpful will favor charitable actions, while a companion disapproving of charitable actions will approve of greedy actions. For example, charitable companions do not like it when you ask for a reward.
For more information, check each companions linked page, under "Effects of player's actions".
Full approval grants the Trigger Rush perk, giving the player an increase in action point regeneration, when the player is below 25% health.
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Full approval grants the Robot Sympathy perk, giving the player a bonus of +10 energy resistance, against robots.
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Full approval grants the Combat Medic perk, which allows the player to heal 100 hit points once a day, if below 10% health.
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Full approval grants the Know Your Enemy perk, which gives the player a bonus of +20% damage, against ghouls, super mutants and synths.
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Full approval grants the Cloak & Dagger perk, which gives the player a bonus +40% to the duration of Stealth Boys, and a bonus +20% damage to sneak attacks.
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Dogmeat does not gain approval, and will love you, no matter what. As a result, there is no perk associated with gaining Dogmeat's approval. However, Dogmeat will benefit from the Attack Dog perk, and does not count as a companion for the purposes of the Lone Wanderer perk.
Full approval grants the Isodoped perk, which gives the player a bonus +20% to the fill rate of the critical meter, provided the player's rads are at 250 or higher.
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Full approval grants the Close to Metal perk, which gives the player an extra attempt when hacking, and reduces the lockout time for failing a terminal by 50%.
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Full approval grants the Gift of Gab perk, which gives the player doubled experience for finding locations, persuading people, and lock-picking.
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Full approval grants the United We Stand perk, which gives the player a bonus +20% damage, and increases damage resistance by 20, when facing 3 or more enemies at one.
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Full approval grants the Killshot perk, which gives the player a bonus +20% chance to perform a head shot in V.A.T.S.
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Full approval grants the Berserk perk, which gives the player a bonus +20% to melee damage, if they are below 25% health.
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Full approval grants the Shield Harmonics perk, which gives the player a bonus +20% to energy resistance.
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Best Answer
I had Piper as my companion and she liked my choice to "end peacefully" during the dialog options. I'm assuming this is the only benefit to letting him live. Guess I don't get to loot their corpses though, but I'm sure anything good they have would just get replaced soon.