Plus, they were carrying a bunch of loot for me. Even though the characters didn't have that much to say, I always felt like a dick letting them die.

It became such a chore to restart fights that I decided against taking a companion altogether. They can and will die, which leads to many reloads and grief. This happened a lot, thanks to the NPC's tendency to walk off high ledges. Can your companions be killed in Fallout 3 Yes, companions are not coded as essential in either Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas. Whenever my companion bit the dust, I'd reload the game. That was definitely how I played in Fallout 3. No one plays and the dog dies and they say, 'Fuck it, I'll just keep playing.' So we wanted to make him.when he's your follower, your actual companion in the game - there's a number of them, not just the dog - they can't be killed when they're in that state. Howard said in the interview with that they felt companion death disrupted the flow of the game because players would always restart the fight so they could keep their ally alive: He will stand at a medium distance, perhaps unnoticed by your followers, and lay down extraordinarily high damage with. However, you can help them return to the fight by using a stimpack on them. When an NPC companion takes a certain amount of damage, they'll be incapacitated.

Fallout 3 can companions die