For players looking to get an border in Fallout 4 so they can tackle some of the more difficult missions, they should consider earning one or more of the Companion perks available in the game. These perks give the Sole Survivor some kind of bonus, depending on the companion'southward skills, personality, and backstory.

All companion perks in Fallout four are earned by achieving maximum affinity with a detail companion, and each one is unique. The thespian should talk to their companion one time the game indicates that that companion "idolizes you" to unlock the perk. Once the Sole Survivor has earned their perk, it'southward permanent; they can't lose it fifty-fifty if the affinity level with that companion changes or they take another companion follow them.

Keeping Track of Affinity

Unfortunately, a companion'southward affinity level is hidden from the player and can only be seen through panel commands. Yet, in that location are a few tools that can be used to proceed track as well. Ordinarily, companions will begin with an affinity level of nada. The maximum possible affinity is thousand points, and the everyman possible is -k points.

If the role player isn't certain where they sit on the Companion'south affinity scale, they tin work towards earning affinity and wait for the game to permit them know when they've hit a major milestone.

-k Analogousness: Hatred

  • The game says that the Companion "hates you"

-500 Affinity: Disdain

0 Affinity: Neutral

  • The game says that the Companion "tolerates you"

250 Affinity: Friend

500 Affinity: Admiration

  • The game says that the Companion "admires you"

750 Affinity: Confidant

g Analogousness: Infatuation

  • The game says that the Companion "idolizes yous"

When players know how much analogousness they need to get, they can keep track of said affinity through the Companion's reactions to what the Sole Survivor says or does.

  • The game indicates the Companion "liked that": +15 Affinity
  • The game indicates the Companion "loved that": +35 Affinity
  • The game indicates the Companion "disliked that": -xv Analogousness
  • The game indicates the Companion "hated that": -35 Analogousness

Console Commands

If the player can employ console commands, they can apply the "GetAV CA_Affinity" control to check and meet where their Companion's affinity is at. Players can also use console commands to raise, lower, or reset a Companion's affinity, just should exist cautious — some panel commands can permanently affect or change the player's save file.

Accruing Affinity

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The role player can earn analogousness with unlike characters past performing deportment or choosing dialogue options that they agree with. Every action or dialogue line, big or small, could have an event on the companion'south opinion of the Sole Survivor.

A few things to proceed in mind...

  • Romance: Flirting with the Companion will aid increase their affinity, and the role player can romance more than one Companion at a time
  • Speech communication: Having a high spoken communication skill may help the role player flirt, get out of bad-mannered situations, and more than
  • Dialogue: Each dialogue option counts every bit its own action, so each selection over the form of a conversation tin provide analogousness points
  • Cooldown: Some actions are "repeatable," so they'll earn affinity points every time the player does them (like healing Dogmeat, drinking alcohol, hacking, murder, lockpicking, and more), but they take cooldown periods, so they can't be repeated over and over over again in one go
  • Modifiers: When a player receives or loses affinity points, the game may assign a modifier to it, meaning, for example, when a Companion "liked" a player'due south actions, information technology may exist slightly more or slightly less than +15 affinity — but it's a proficient gauge if the thespian can't use console commands

Cait - Trigger Blitz

Cait Speaking to Sole Survivor

Cait grew up in an Irish household and was abused by her family members. Cait'southward perk, Trigger Blitz, is a skill that means the Sole Survivor's Action Points regenerate 50% faster whenever the histrion falls below 25 Action Points. It's possible to earn maximum analogousness with Cait afterwards her personal quest, Beneficial Intervention.

Earn Affinity By...

  • Being generally mean and violent
  • Threatening people
  • Deciding not to join the Alliance of Steel
  • Generally approving of alcohol and drugs
  • Choosing sarcastic dialogue options
  • Healing Dogmeat
  • Stopping the Institute
  • Taking odd jobs
  • Inciting, enjoying, and approving of anarchy
  • Being brutally honest

Codsworth - Robot Sympathy

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Codsworth is a butler robot from the Sole Survivor's pre-war life. His perk is Robot Sympathy, which means that the Sole Survivor gets +ten Damage Resistance against any mechanical enemy'southward energy attacks.

Earn Affinity Past...

  • Modifying weapons or armor at the workshop
  • Helping others (particularly the less fortunate)
  • Preventing unnecessary death
  • Obeying the law
  • Acting responsibly
  • Finding peaceful resolutions to problems
  • Healing Dogmeat
  • Showing empathy to others

Curie - Combat Medic

Fallout 4 Curie

Curie is a state-of-the-art robot that was designed to protect Vault 81. The Combat Medic perk that she provides at maximum affinity means that the role player tin can heal 100 hit points in one case per twenty-four hours (as long every bit their health is nether ten%). It can be unlocked afterward completing her quest, Emergent Behaviour.

Earn Affinity By...

  • Resolving issues and arguments peacefully
  • Acting selflessly
  • Using a stimpak on Dogmeat
  • Passing voice communication checks
  • Being honest
  • Expressing sympathy for others
  • Encouraging others not to lose hope
  • Helping others
  • Protecting human being settlements and rescuing people

Paladin Danse - Know Your Enemy

Paladin Danse

Danse is the commanding officer of a unit in the Brotherhood of Steel. His perk, Know Your Enemy, means that the Sole Survivor will deal 20% more harm against ghouls, super mutants. To earn this perk, the actor needs to consummate his personal quest, Bullheaded Betrayal, as well as reach maximum analogousness with him. If the actor joins the Minutemen or the Railroad before completing Blind Betrayal, the perk will be permanently locked.

Earn Analogousness By...

  • Supporting the Brotherhood of Steel
  • Completing the repeatable quests from the Brotherhood of Steel
  • Being reasonable in conversations with others
  • Helping the less fortunate
  • Agreeing to become the Full general of the Minutemen
  • Beingness sarcastic with members of the Church of the Children of Atom
  • Asserting that a civilized world needs rules to function
  • Crafting weapon, armor, or ability armor upgrades

Deacon - Cloak and Dagger

Fallout 4 Deacon

Deacon is an agent for the Railroad, an organization looking to liberate so-called "synths." His perk ways that the Sole Survivor has an extra 20% damage when sneaking, and any effects from Stealth Boys is increased 40%. This perk is known to take a few bugs associated with it.

Earn Affinity By...

  • Lock-picking
  • Hacking terminals
  • Bribing when needed to avert conflict
  • Promising to help others in need
  • Using a stimpak on Dogmeat
  • Successfully finding peaceful ways to solve disputes and issues
  • Helping synths
  • Talking positively virtually and vocally supporting synths
  • Joining the Railroad

Dogmeat - Assault Dog

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Dogmeat is a High german Shepard the Sole Survivor tin recruit in the Commonwealth toward the game's start. His perk, Assault Dog, is the simply companion perk that must be unlocked via leveling — all the others rely on affinity. It should be unlocked through the player'south perk chart and has four ranks (the final ane can be unlocked at level 31).

John Hancock - Isodoped

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John Hancock is a ghoul, someone who has been mutated or otherwise affected by prolonged exposure to radiation. When the player unlocks his perk, Isodoped, their critical hitting value increases 20% faster, so long as they besides take 250 Radiation points (about a quarter of the actor's health bar).

Earn Affinity By...

  • Using chems, and becoming fond
  • Giving other people chems
  • Being nude
  • Delivering justice to (harming) those who deserve information technology based on their actions
  • Joining the Minutemen
  • Talking down potential killers
  • Advocating for rights for the ghouls
  • Defending innocent people
  • Disavowing slavery

Robert MacCready - Killshot

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Robert MacCready is a mercenary who used to exist the mayor of a town chosen Picayune Lamplight. The thespian tin can unlock his perk, Killshot, afterward completing his quest Long Road Ahead. Killshot means that the Sole Survivor has a 20% greater chance to strike the enemy'southward head in V.A.T.S.

Earn Affinity By...

  • Stealing things
  • Picking locks
  • Lying, threatening, or asking for more money by passing a Charisma check
  • Behaving like a mercenary
  • Doing criminal actions
  • Choosing sarcastic, threatening, or cynical dialogue options
  • Taking bribes
  • Only working for money, never for gratuitous
Nick Valentine
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Nick Valentine is a individual detective and a synth who lives in Diamond City. To earn Close To Metal, Nick's perk, the player must reach maximum affinity with him and complete his personal quest Long Fourth dimension Coming. The perk means that the Sole Survivor will have an actress guess the dial the password into terminals, and the terminals take 50% less time to reset later on a failed hack attempt.

Earn Affinity By...

  • Hacking computer terminals
  • Healing Dogmeat
  • Doing selfless or kind things for others
  • Not choosing the Establish at the end of the main quest
  • Refusing bribes
  • Sympathizing with others
  • Supporting the Railroad
  • Vocalizing support for synths and comparing them to slaves
  • Killing super mutants threatening Diamond City
  • Abiding by the police force and encouraging others to exercise and so

Piper Wright - Gift of Gab

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Piper Wright is a journalist in Diamond City who runs her ain newspaper, "Publick Occurrences." When the player earns maximum affinity with her, they proceeds her perk: Gift of Gab. This doubles the amount of experience the Sole Survivor earns when they persuade someone or detect a new place.

Earn Affinity By...

  • Helping innocent people
  • Joining the Minutemen
  • Recruiting others into the Minutemen
  • Picking locks, then long as they're unowned
  • Joining the Railroad
  • Sarcastic dialogue choices
  • Killing super mutants threatening Diamond City
  • Encouraging people to come together and fight for a improve earth

Preston Garvey - United We Stand

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Preston Garvey is a leader in the Commonwealth Minutemen, a volunteer militia that defends the people in the Republic. His perk is chosen United We Stand. Information technology increases the player's harm resistance by 20 points and causes them to bargain twenty% more damage when they're outnumbered (past at to the lowest degree 3 to one).

Earn Affinity By...

  • Evacuating the Plant survivors
  • Offer to help the less fortunate
  • Choosing sarcastic dialogue options (so long as the player doesn't insult anyone)
  • Recruiting people for the Minutemen
  • Customizing weapons
  • Putting a Radio Freedom radio into settlements
  • Ending conflicts peacefully when possible
  • Helping Diamond City security officers
  • Never stealing
  • Letting Virgil live
  • Turn down bribes

Strong - Berserk

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Strong is a super mutant, a person who developed huge muscles and has become immune to radiations or disease because they were exposed to the Forced Evolutionary Virus. When the player reaches maximum affinity with Strong they receive his perk, Berserk. It means that the thespian deals 20% more than melee damage if their wellness is less than a quarter full.

Earn Affinity Past...

  • Killing enemies
  • Completing radiant quests (if the histrion chooses the lesser dialogue when accepting them)
  • Eating corpses
  • Threatening people
  • Never pickpocketing
  • Never stealing
  • Not using power armor
  • Buying dogs, wolves, or mutant hounds from Erickson
  • Being generally fierce and threatening
  • Killing the Railroad

X6-88 - Shield Harmonics

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X6-88 is a synth working for the Institute that was specifically designed for loftier-risk missions. His perk, Shield Harmonics, increases the Sole Survivor'south free energy resistance by twenty points.

Earn Affinity By...

  • Accepting side-missions from the Institute
  • Entering ability armor
  • Helping Found scientists
  • Hacking computer terminals
  • Modifying weapons and armor
  • Request for more money from quest-givers via successful Speech bank check
  • Threatening others
  • Non killing Virgil
  • Not using chems or becoming addicted
  • Not entering Diamond Urban center
  • Turning Acadia into the Institute

Former Longfellow - Hunter'south Wisdom

Fallout 4 Old longfellow

Old Longfellow is an experienced hunter living out of a cabin most Far Harbour. When the Sole Survivor reaches maximum affinity with him they volition unlock his perk, Hunter's Wisdom. Information technology ways that the free energy resistance and damage resistance of all animals and sea creatures goes down by 25%.

Earn Affinity Past...

  • Drinking alcohol (only not beer)
  • Requesting more money from quest-givers
  • Not using chems, and stopping/discouraging others from using them
  • Healing Dogmeat
  • Doing good deeds
  • Not being a cannibal
  • Accepting Minutemen quests that help out settlements
  • Buying a guard canis familiaris from Erickson
  • Being sarcastic
  • Killing raiders

Porter Cuff - Lessons In Blood

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Porter Gage is a raider who grew up on a small-scale farm with his parents. The perk that Porter Gage provides at maximum affinity is Lessons In Claret, which means that the Sole Survivor gets an extra ten points of damage resistance and earns 5% extra experience per kill. This perk is also associated with a few bugs in-game.

Earn Affinity Past...

  • Picking locks
  • Stealing items
  • Modifying weapons
  • Building settlements
  • Request quest-givers for more than money
  • Choosing sarcastic dialogue options
  • Wiping out the Railroad
  • Killing synths
  • Being generally tearing
  • Refusing radiant quests from settlers
  • Not joining the Minutemen
  • Not using chems

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