Companions latch on to certain conversation subjects.

[DarthDonut117]

I have encountered this bug many times throughout my various playthroughs. First was during one when my companions, both at my settlement and when following me, would not cease talking about the Children of Atom. It did not matter where we were, what the situation was, or how many of them I had killed, they, never, stopped. It was also all of my companions doing it too, even dlc ones and automatrons, like they all got together in some conspiracy to drive me insane, even ones I had not met yet. After installing Nuka-World, Gage started rambling on as well. The 2nd time was in another game, the topic of conversation this time was Super Mutants, but then changed to Robots later after installing Automatron and encountering some robots, and on my 3rd character it was raiders that was deemed to be the hot subject.

 

From what I have read about others who have encountered this seemingly rare glitch, and my own experiences as well, all had a few things in common.

• All companions, regardless of if they have been recruited or not, are active or not, or in some cases, even installed or not all talk about the same subject. Be it raiders, super mutants, Mirelurks, BoS, or any other.
• The favored subject can change, although I have only seen it happen once, after installing Automatron and encountering some of the Mechanist's bots.
• It does not override all of their random bits of dialogue, they will still talk about other subjects, it just seems that one certain topic captures most of their attention.
• the doesn't seem to be any known cause of solution for the bug. It has been speculated that it may be tied to settlement attacks, random encounters, or some other such event, but nothing has been proven.

This problem has long frustrated me and I have yet to find a solution from anyone else who has had this glitch. Any suggestions would be welcome.