How do I get rid of Veronica's pistol?

[Rooker75]

Veronica is driving me nuts. She's tagged for energy weapons, but won't use one unless it's a Gauss rifle. She always uses that crappy 10mm pistol for which she has no skill. I remove it with the console and it magically reappears the next time we're in combat. I even edited her with the GECK to replace the pistol with a Laser RCW that uses companion ammo, and somehow that pistol shows up again the first time we go into combat and she uses that instead.

 

Where is that stupid pistol coming from and how do I get rid of it?

[XTgrndr]

You can't.

 

Basically, the companion weapons are attached to them, to make sure they can't get rid of them.

 

It's only if you give them a superior weapon of the same type that they use it.

 

 

And believe me, I know!

 

I've used the console endless times to delete their vanilla weapons and they just keep coming back!

[dangman4ever]

Did you edit the scripts that respawn those weapons?

 

Specifically, it's the VNPCFollowersQuestScript.

Edited August 22, 2013 by dangman4ever

[Rooker75]

Did you edit the scripts that respawn those weapons?

 

Specifically, it's the VNPCFollowersQuestScript.

ahah. No. I'll try that next. Thank you.

[jahgaminginc]

I'm sure there's a console command that you can use to force them to use a weapon but I don't know it.

[scissorhands]

Followers will only use a weapon that's better than their default one (at least they should). Its never been a problem for me, though in my case I gave her a gatling laser. A bit overkill for a follower but whatever, they're OP as hell anyway.

 

By the way; do followers look at the damage per shot or DPS when deciding which weapon to use? If its damage per shot that may have something to do with it.

 

Wouldn't you have thought Veronica's default weapon would be a laser pistol or something?