With the latest update for Fallout 76, there came a small but interesting change for NPCs. You can now dress your companions in different outfits. Many role players and creative gamers have already come up with cool ideas for this.
What is this feature? With the update from May 19, 2020, which fixed over 20 bugs, a new feature for customizing companions was introduced. This allows you to dress the NPCs in your camp in different clothing.
The companions that you can recruit since Wastelanders in Fallout 76 keep you company in your camp. Usually, they always wear the clothing with which you recruited them.
With the new update, you can dress the NPCs in anything you could also wear yourself. Through the new “Customize” option as an interaction with the respective companion, you can change their clothing.
What does this bring? The companion does not gain any stats from this. They will continue to simply stay in your camp – only their appearance changes. The selected clothing disappears when you destroy the respective camp item of the companion and is not visible when you are in an instantiated area with them.
Slaves, Horror Clowns, and … Merman?
This is what players are doing with it: Since the update, many players have created cool costumes for their companions. Some have shared them with the community on reddit.
The user JRockPSU has transformed Becket into a horror clown with torn, dirty clothes and oversized shoes. Even the developers found this outfit interesting and requested pictures.
Redditor Daemoni73, on the other hand, stripped the Wanderer of all her clothes and instead put a prison collar on her. He now keeps her as a slave – which fits well with his roleplay. He embodies a true Raider in Fallout 76.
For Sofia, there is also an outfit – user I_make_things quickly transforms her into a witch. Another user turned his Raider punk into the real merman from Spongebob – just with a skeleton head as a little extra.
MeinMMO reader Luripu has already used the feature as well. He writes: “It works anyway. I made Sofia into a Nuka Girl. She looks more like a Space Girl than her silver overall.”
What else can be done with it? These are just a few examples of what players have already started with the new feature. You can let your imagination run wild and dress your companions however you want. If you have started a romantic relationship with one of the companions, why not give them a wedding dress or a suit!
The companions and their costumes are a cool detail that should especially excite role players and those who like to spend time in their camp. However, Fallout 76 now offers significantly more. With the huge Wastelanders update in April 2020, the whole game was turned upside down – a look at the survival MMO is worth it again.
