So far in testing the companion out ive identified 6 major flaws but to prefice this update is cool as hell and is really awesome but does have issues
1: if you stand afk or still long enough the companion vanishes and can only be put back in your inventory or are via the companion bench
2 the companion ai is relatively competent thus far excluding for some reason semi regularly actively firing into objects whole aiming at enemies even if an object blocks every shot until it moves again to reposition
3: the rocket launcher add on is powerful but is almost comically ineffective if the enemy moves so the path tracking/aiming or projectile speed need to be bumped up several notches
4: the shotgun is very good on damage but suffers from the companions lacking ai understanding of distance engagement so it will often try to poorly snipe with the shotgun which is further compounded with the issues of flaw #2
5: the companion has no ability to have armor swapped out or replaced without the companion bench which semi limits combat utility and makes the companion more vulnerable especially with higher difficulty and higher grade enemies once the armor is cracked
6: the companion for some reason when a player on xbox one plays with someone one on xbox series s/x as soon as the dogs engage in combat the game will enter an odd state ive dubbed a false ghost crash where the xbox one player will crash out of the game either back to menu or hard crash to home but the series player will still see them in their game or “remain” remain in the crashed persons game on xbox one in spite of the session technically no longer existsing