Howard is quite correct in that I’d probably reload on companion death, unless I’m mentally playing an “Ironman” game where whatever happens, happens. Teeth will only get you so far.Īs for companions being immortal, I’m not sure how I feel. He’s still dancing around the issue of whether or not these companions will level up, but I’m going to assume there’ll be some way of doing so, because a dog is going to have a hard time dealing with Deathclaws, super-mutants, and soldiers clad in power-armour. It could be other characters we haven’t shown yet. If you want to tell the dog to piss off and go through the game by yourself, you can! It does sound like you can only have one companion at a time, though: “You can have a companion with you and it can be the dog. That said, companions are totally optional. “So, we’ve got to handle all failstates and some of those we have to do like, ‘Okay, the dog can’t die, because you’re just going to reload.'” “A lot of open-world games, they’ll have it where ‘you failed this mission, go ahead and press A to redo it.’ We don’t ever want to do that,” said Howard. “ does not die, because we realised that’s an automatic reload.”

Speaking to IGN, Howard said that it comes about from only wanting you to reload when the player character dies. Which, I suppose, explains how they’ve lasted this long in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. According to Bethesda’s Todd Howard, Fallout 4‘s companions are immortal.

Fallout 3 can companions die