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The Prototype Sentry Robot as companion
By SmaugTheHobbit
People complain that the prototype sentry robot you find at the Robotic Disposal Ground doesn't do anything.
This guide explains how to make a friend of the sentry bot!!
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How to make the prototype sentry robot your companion! 
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How to make the prototype sentry robot your companion!
Prerequite: robotic expert perk.

1) go to the terminal in the little house, and activate the sentry bot.

2) come close to the robot and you'll have a hacking option. use it.

3) through hacking - shut it down.

4) through hacking - inject command

NOW the sentry will FOLLOW you!
You can issue 3 commands: STAY, FOLLOW, GO (somewhere you point to).


That way I brought it to my settlement in Sanctuary.
You can command him to STAY somewhere to guard a portion of your settlement, and he'll shoot any hostile.
or you can park him and desactivate him in front of your workshop in your settlement.

He can be used as a companion but there are severe limits:
- he doesn't much conversation
- you have to go through main roads. he often get stuck on anything else.

Funny tip: activate incite command, and the sentry gun will start shooting everyone (companions and hostiles alike) in the settlement.
At one moment, Codsworth the brave started fightin the Sentry bot, it was hilarious!!!
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Epic Dovahkiin 29 Jul, 2022 @ 5:28am 
i used automatron to make my own prototype sentry bot
Furykuiku'l 24 Apr, 2022 @ 8:57pm 
something that happened in my last run of the game with the 23rd century combat mod and and a random encounter of enemy robots was my little urbie follower i had fired off his Gauss rifle which missed its target and hit a truck behind said enemy the resulting explosion set off all explodeable things in the area killing all of us
Furykuiku'l 7 Dec, 2020 @ 11:06pm 
use the Mechout4 23rd Century Combat along with the Automatron dlc and some of the combos you can come up with are so op you never have to fire a shot for example my codsworth has 2 heavy machine guns on one arm and a lrmX5 and a small pulse laser on the other as well as the normal weapons he can get with the Automatron dlc plus it gives him arms to mount weapons to and also my settlements all have a group of 6 mechs defending them which also act as normal settlers and can be almost any known mech and range from small sized to massive hulking warmachines that are so big they would break buildings if it was something that could happen
Destruction126 28 Nov, 2020 @ 3:04am 
Or you can craft your own Sentry Bot companion with the Automatron DLC. You can even give it 2 legs to walk on so it doesn't get stuck on objects!
Sigma 15 Nov, 2020 @ 6:37pm 
Surprised there isn't a mod making it craftable robot.
Uncle Duckjob 1 Feb, 2017 @ 12:35am 
How can we heal him?
Ant Benno 26 Dec, 2015 @ 5:18pm 
For the geting stuck on teleporting. if you stand next to it and give the stay command then teleport it wil go with you.
TesLaisme 10 Dec, 2015 @ 7:23am 
Yeah i can feel it, the stucking is annoying. Maybe the modders will have some way to make a fully functional sentry bot companion in the future
Yhwach 9 Dec, 2015 @ 7:56pm 
You don't get it.
They:

Don't use getDistance, and moveto so that they use normal teleporting procedures, and they'll get stuck due to that.

Even if they're set and flagged as a PlayerTeammate, they still won't be a normal companion besides being able to open their inventory, and it also locks you out of the Hacking option.

In conclusion, they're more of a dumbed down version of a companion.
SmaugTheHobbit  [author] 9 Dec, 2015 @ 2:39am 
you can command them to STAY. and they will stay at the location you decide.
put your sentry in front of your settlement, it will kill almost everything.
The sentry is mortal though, unless you use console and make it a companion.