She's not Boone, but she's much better as a character than him to have around, if you ask me. My last build ended with it having roughly 141 dps. If you don't mind about the Cheevos, get Cass. It has respectable damage and speed, weights almost nothing, is repaired by relatively cheap and easily looted Combat Knives and every perk in this build increases its damage output. You can even go solo or just with ED-E in Normal. Still, stealth crits are awesome :P If you are worried about these Achievements and don't want your companion stealing too many kills, go with Veronica or Lily. I got them naturally through the course of the game, I didn't need to grind or anything. I finished a melee/unarmed playthrough with an 'evil' character on Hardcore some days ago and, to be honest, I didn't have much trouble getting the 10.000 damage Achievements.

At what point will Boone cry tears and abandon me? Or can I just tell him to wait when I go murdering NCR like woah? 'Are you playing on PC? If so, you can disable his faction check with a mod or through the console, though it can be seen as cheating (also, using the console disables Achievements, AFAIK). Said: ' That's a lot of Boone love! The problem is, with the evil run, I'm planning to side with Caesar's Legion.

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