Craig Boone

 is a companion who resides in Novac, located in the Mojave Wasteland. He specializes in sniper rifles and carries a Scoped Hunting Rifle, his own.

Background
Born in 2255, Boone is a town guard and former NCR sharpshooter in the 1st Recon Sniper Battalion, a unit which has a reputation for being the best of the best. He is bitterly whiling away the hours until he can find out who's responsible for the death of his wife, Carla, and kill them. Hardened and psychologically troubled from his time in the NCR military, Boone vacillates between being a stone-cold killer and a decent human being. Venturing out from the relative safety of Novac brings Boone into close contact with his old life until he is forced to deal with the tragic events that caused him to leave the military.

After completing several quests with Boone as a follower, it is possible to gain more information about Boone's wife. When she was kidnapped, he tracked down the slaving party in hopes of rescuing her, only to find her being auctioned off with hundreds of other slaves to Legion soldiers. All he had was his rifle and the distance between them. Instead of subjecting her to the horrors of Legion slavery, he chose to take her life in a mercy killing. As a result of the psychological trauma of having to kill his own wife, he has become suicidal. He has no goal, purpose, or desire in life but to euthanize Legionnaires (preferably by assisting with cranial perforation) until the Legion finally catches up to and murders him. It is also revealed he was part of the NCR attack on Bitter Springs, where he and his squad were ordered to shoot members of the Great Khans, including women and children.

There are multiple possible endings for Boone at the end of New Vegas. One ending discusses how at some point after travelling with the Courier, Boone returned to California, killed the NCR officer who was in charge of the Bitter Springs attack, then killed himself. Another ending describes Boone as having found inner peace and re-enlisting with his old sniper battalion.

Quests

 * One for My Baby: help Craig take care of the person responsible for his wife's kidnapping. The successful completion of this quest makes him available as a follower for the Courier.
 * I Forgot to Remember to Forget

Inventory
Boone can be equipped with Power Armor and any gun you give him with higher stats than his own and ammo.

He is very accurate and has a high critical hit head shot chance. Boone performs best when equiped with a powerful conventional rifle, though his default hunting rifle will still output immense fire power.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the Scenes
Oddly, by his appearance Craig Boone very much resembles Milorad Ulemek, known as Legija. Now imprisoned, Ulemek led a secret Serbian police/paramilitary unit accountable for numerous war crimes, political assassinations, etc. He is also marked as one of the leaders of organised crime in Serbia in the early 2000s.

Bugs

 * Boone while swimming may drown himself and will subsequently die/vanish. Leaving everything he was carrying at the time where he disappeared.


 * Due to a glitch regarding armor with stats, every time Boone switches equipment, the perception bonus from his beret gets added again and again, which leads to Boone having over 10 perception. This can be reset by taking his beret away, and then giving it back to him. (Use console and getav perception to verify).


 * Boone might lose his rifle upon exiting one of the casinos with the player character getting it instead, when accessing Boone's inventory screen you will not be able to give it back to him. If you drop the rifle, it appears on the ground as a an item that can be stolen, but you can never pick it back up.  He can also lose the rifle elsewhere, and it may not appear in the player's inventory. verified: workaround kill/resurrect per console seems to work.


 * Boone may periodically switch to melee mode without prompting even when enemies are far away. To correct this open up his companion wheel, initiate melee mode, then re-initiate ranged mode. (Confirmed, verified)

To fix this, bring Boone to a place where he approaches you to talk (for example, Nelson, Cottonwood Cove, or Bitter Springs) and allow him to approach and talk to you. He should say something other than "What is it?" now, and go back to being a follower. This appears to have been fixed by the patch.
 * Boone may become glitched after talking to you about your involvement with the legion. He will start to talk to you as if you clicked on him saying, "What is it?" Essentially opening up the conversation window as long as you are near him. He takes an inordinately long time to follow you.


 * Boone may vanish altogether if you send him to your suite at the lucky 38, appearing neither at lucky 38 nor Novac. Sometimes He is still in the area. If you wander around you may find him)


 * Boone might not upgrade his armor right away after completing One for My Baby for him. may take a day or so/entering exiting few buildings.


 * If the player takes Boone's beret, then give it back to him, it may disappear from his inventory. If you give him the one remaining in your inventory, it will disappear upon transfer.


 * If you take Boone's beret and replace it with the generic NCR green beret(just labeled as "Beret"), he will not reply "I would like my beret back please". He will wear it as if it is his 1st Recon Beret. If you take that beret away, he will reply with "I would like my beret back please", as if it was his 1st Recon Beret.


 * Boone will sometimes get stuck staring at, or running into a wall. If you fast travel, he will fast travel with you, but continue to face the direction in the same direction, not moving. The spotter perk will still stay with you, indicating that the game still considers him an active companion, but if you are attacked he will not fight, even if he sees you being attacked. It is possible to travel large distances on foot and not realize Boone has become stuck. If you talk to him he will become unstuck. Just ask him a question, exit, and he should be back to normal.


 * Sending Boone to the lucky 38, and later killing him will cause a Hunting revolver to appear in his inventory. Taking it will cause the same Slot to be filled with "Magical Companion Ammo (10)".
 * This can be done with any type of weapon.


 * Taking Boone's beret and returning it may result in a duplicate appearing in the players inventory, either one of which can be given to Boone while the other can be worn by the player.


 * When bombarded with explosives (Such as when you are outside the boomer stronghold) Boone may become permanently crippled. With no amount of stimpacks or rest fixing this issue. If kept in you party he tends to run as far from the player as he can only to return during combat.
 * Boone will keep saying "What is it" repeating over and over and will not stop, and sometimes won't talk to you at all.


 * While in Freeside, Boone may completely vanish. Strangely, his Scoped Hunting Rifle will be in your inventory. However, quick-traveling and running great distances will either warp Boone to you, or a message will pop up, telling you that he has returned to Novac.


 * If you give boone the Recompense of the Fallen, he will equip it even if he is set for ranged combat. Accessing the companion wheel and switching him from ranged to melee will cause him to say "not my strong suit but, ok." even though he had already switched on his own. switching him back to ranged will cause him to re-equip his rifle.


 * While indoors, Boone may not engage combat at all, even if he is being fired at by multiple hostiles. The bug may fix itself resulting Boone to attack the hostiles, but not always.


 * Once Boone has become your companion if you select text options the text will appear for the option you select but Boone won't say it, he will remain silent and the chat box will remain visible, this problem is easily fixed by simply pressing the x button. (This won't occur after every conversation.)

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