Man's Best Friend

Man's Best Friend is a Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel skill (skills in this game work like perks do in other Fallout games). It was also going to appear in the canceled Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2.

Effects
Learn this skill and you'll acquire a canine companion to aid you in your battles, named "Dogmeat" like a homage to the original Dogmeat.

Dogmeat appears for the first time when you reach a save point. It works well in Chapter 2, and isn't bad for Chapter 3, packing a nice punch with its attack. It follows you all the time and it may divert enemies into running toward it rather than you.

Unfortunately, Dogmeat may run right into explosives, killing itself in a fate not unlike the original Dogmeat in the Military Base. However, It will respawn when you reach the next save point.

Points requirements

 * 1 Rank : 20 Points

Behind the scenes

 * The Vault Girl version of the Man's Best Friend skill can be seen in the trailer of the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
 * Dogmeat is a reference to Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior) and A Boy and His Dog. Both movies featured a lone wanderer and his dog-companion in a post-apocalyptic world, and in the latter movie, the main character uses "Dogmeat" as a disparaging nickname for his companion.