1. Better AI
2. Better Situational awareness ( If I see a mine, the dog sees it and stays away from it)
3. The ability to clip through the dog, because I don't want to turn around and run away from a super mutant suicider only to be blocked by the damn dog
Not sure about auto-detect, but I've literally had Piper run over a mine and it didn't trigger, so I think that traps won't be triggered by companions.
Honestly it makes total sense to me that the dog doesn't understand mines. I mean, he's a dog, how the **** is he supposed to understand what a land mine is? Of course he's gonna walk right over it.
While gameplay can make up for bad graphics, it is 2015 and the competition for Fallout has been releasing games with better and better graphics. Even if its not needed, i expect quality graphics.
Every Fallout and Elder Scrolls game is becoming more and more the exact opposite of what made those IPs good to begin with. We started with incredibly high quality game design with mediocre graphics and the occasional mechanic that was a little irritating, and we've moved to the complete opposite of that: games that are all style and zero substance.
To someone who is braindead and doesn't know anything about any of the games, sure.
People like you, who are actually stupid enough to believe that quality and content are subjective, are the reason the industry can get away with peddling ever lower standards of gaming for the same 60 USD pricetag.
I said Fallout 4 would be a ******** Fallout 3 with unnessary gimmicks (i.e. modding and the power armor). That's exactly what it turned out to be.
It's going to be the same story for the next Elder Scrolls game. It's going to be a casualized sack of **** that makes Skyrim look great by comparison, but dumbasses like you will defend it because it has pretty graphics and in-flight arrow dynamic physics and QUALITY IS SUBJECTIVE.
I bet it will "just work" too. You having fun with those day one gamebreaking bugs and glitches? Are they "just working" for you?
Game companies lie to sell you products that aren't worth the money you're paying for them, and you're not only letting them get away with it, you're actively aiding and abetting them because of battered wife syndrome.
I was playing earlier with Preston as my companion, and he told me to stay cool right as I threw a cryo grenade. Unfortunately, I have voice commands off and wasn't able to record it. What a shame, because it was funny as hell.
**** man. I gave Preston a bunch of molotovs and next thing I know I'm surrounded by ghouls and fire.
Funny thing was when he got a flamethrower from an enemy (didnt know he could do that) and started frying every enemy before I could ever move a muscle. Minutemen bringing the heat! Fun times.
From that moment on he gets every flame fuel I find.