Summary
AFallout 4player has shared a bizarre clip that shows Nick Valentine running across the landscape as quickly as The Flash. Nick Valentine is among the NPCs that can joinFallout 4players in their adventures, but the detective may have abandoned their ally in this footage.
Fallout 4companionsare located around the Boston Commonwealth and beyond, and they can be helpful in combat. There are 13 companions in the base game, with the DLC unlocking another four. Each of these NPCs has its own unique traits and dialogue options, and Dogmeat, the first one that players may group up with, can even locate nearby loot. Because of their helpful nature, many players roam the open world with a companion, barring those that use the Lone Wanderer trait. Players can meet Nick Valentine in Diamond City where he does detective work for its residents. However, one gamer who was patrolling the wasteland with Nick Valentine has discovered that he can apparently run like The Flash.
Reddit user Devious_creecher recently shared aFallout 4clip in which they’re exploring the open world near General Atomics Galleria. The video begins with the player opening the map on theirFallout 4Pip-Boyto locate the direction of their destination. After course correcting, the player switches to the third-person perspective to highlight their Minutemen Enforcer armor. As the player looks around for potential hazards, their companion, Nick Valentine, sprints right past them and disappears into the draw-distance fog. As Valentine is running quicker than he ever does in his storyline, this moment is unexpected and may be the result of a glitch.
What Caused Nick Valentine to Run So Quickly?
While issues like this can often be attributed to glitches, there could also be something attached to this player’s save messing with the data. According to Devious_creecher, they have some mods enabled, including Boston Natural Surrounding and Better Graphics and Weather. Although these are intended to enhance the aesthetic oftheFallout 4Boston Commonwealth, they could somehow be affecting Nick Valentine’s actions. NPCs are programmed to be able to run fast enough to keep up with players that are running, but the speed that Valentine runs at in this clip is significantly faster than that. Valentine’s animation doesn’t stutter while sprinting so quickly, potentially hinting that developers expected this to happen occasionally.
AsBethesda continues to updateFallout 4, this bug may be fixed in a future patch. Alternatively, because a mod may be causing the bug, perhaps it could be repaired by the mod creator. It’s currently unclear if Nick Valentine ever returned to this player, but fast-traveling somewhere would likely reunite the two.
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