When you take an action in front of a companion, that companion may like or dislike that action which affects your relationship with them. This is accompanied with a message stating something like "[xy liked that.]". Depending on the companion, they can react to actions such as stealing, entering Power Armour, Picking a lock etc, but recently whenever I performed any such actions, there was no pop up.
This issue has been present for two days, nor is occurring due to an affinity change cooldown.
- I have picked two locks in front of Piper in close time intervals, and neither such actions resulted in a popup.
- This is not caused by any cooldown, and occurs with any of my companions regardless of affinity status.
- Restarting my game and even my console DID NOT fix anything.
I have read the Companion affinity change notification question however it is asking about the cooldown and doesn't address this bug.
I am playing Fallout 4 for the Xbox One. Is there any way I can fix this issue?
Best Answer
The scripting engine for Fallout 4 is a right pain, and this shows more than anything with companions now that the dreaded "cell reset bug" is dead. Things that can go wrong include:
It sounds like all of your companions have hit the settler script, which isn't good. That's a thing that can happen if a companion breaks, and happens to Danse most often due to his changing factions during the game. It starts like this, then eventually they only take settler commands when you see them in settlements and won't follow you anymore. If you have installed a mod that overhauls the AI for companions, this can be the cause. Unfortunately, restoring an earlier save is usually the fix. On PC, sometimes the "resurrect" command fixes it, but that doesn't do you any good.