F1 - Getting Dogmeat to stop following you

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dagorkan

First time out of the vault
Copy/pasted from another forum:

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OK this is the situation.

I'm at the Cathedral, I've got all the info and I feel just about ready to take out the Master. Due to so weird bug I couldn't get the Children's symbol legitimately so I murdered the shop keeper and everyone on the ground floor to get a robe.

I know that if anybody sees me with a companion I'll be attacked so I have left my crew at the Hub. I didn't think Dogmeat would be a problem (what's so suspcious about a dog?). I just checked, going up two floors with my robes, no weapon in sight and the symbol I get attacked. I saved and shot Dogmeat in the head, go up there's no problem. Of course you can't just tell him to stop following you...

The game has millions of bugs and exploits. There must be a one that lets you get rid of Dogmeat for a while? I thought of trapping him behind a closed door but each time you access a new map he teleports with you.

What about knocking him unconscious? Any drugs or anything that do that?

Alternatively would there be a way to kill him and then 'resurrect' afterwards, maybe by hex editing the savegame?

[edit: I wouldn't have a problem with killing him early on in the game but somehow I've managed to keep all my followers alive so far. I want to try to keep them to the end of the game or at least die heroically as cannon fodder for the mutants at the military base]
 
dogmeat is not the reason your being attacked - its because you killed everyone on the ground floor.
there is another place where you are supposed to get the robes to enter the cathedral stealthily - i wont say where as it sounds like your first time playing.
hope that helps...
 
It's "you're", Englishman.

Dagorkan: There's no way to tell Dogmeat to stay. You can only attempt to lock him behind doors. Or try to boost your Sneak skill considerably.

And no, it's not Arcanum, you can't knock creatures unconcious.

You'll have to use force or try attack-mode to walk past the guards who try to attack you.
 
Caveman said:
dogmeat is not the reason your being attacked - its because you killed everyone on the ground floor.
there is another place where you are supposed to get the robes to enter the cathedral stealthily - i wont say where as it sounds like your first time playing.
hope that helps...
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It is since I walked past the ghost-mutant guys without any problem once I killed Dogmeat. Killing people on one floor makes no difference to other floors.

Thanks Silencer, I think I'll just have to use force.
 
You can get rid of dogmeat by locking him in a room somewhere. Just find a room with a closeable door and no other exits, go in there, wait for him to follow, then run out and close the door behind you before he can follow.
If you fail to do it fast enough, you could also press A to enter combat mode when walking out to close the door - that way he won't be able to follow.

When he's locked in a room he won't be able to follow you anymore, so basically you can get rid of him for the rest of the game that way, as long as you don't go back and open the door again.
 
Have you read the thread? Dagorkan already tried that, but Dogmeat will magically teleport right next to you when you change maps.
 
There is no way to make it stop following you, other than to kill it. But there aren't really any big benefits to be gained by not starting to kill everyone off directly, expect for some chats (in one discussion you can actually claim 750exp...which I would consider more than enough to get rid of that dog :D).
 
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