Dogmeat - A True Companion

I can't believe that Dogmeat: ATC made it to hotfiles and it's all thanks to everyone's interest and support so thank you very much!!

Also a big thanks to BlindJudge for choosing this mod for staff pick of April 2017!!

If you are anything like me and you have tried using Dogmeat as a companion you would have seen his downfalls and the sad amount of detail that was paid when it comes to combat. He is most likely the weakest companion added to any Bethesda game and his usefulness past distracting simple raiders is immediately apparent. Even then in the start of the game he doesn't manage to kill a single raider half the time before being gunned down and wasting valuable stimpacks. This is unacceptable in every way and makes it so the average player leaves him to permanently hang out in their settlement doghouse over using him as a companion.

I've spent over a year tweaking him through multiple saves to turn him into the true companion everyone deserved and I hope to turn him once again into the Sole Survivor's best friend. All the work I've done on this mod has been based off of multiple things, special stats are based off of what real life dogs are capable of and what the raider owned dogs have. Damage and defense are based off of raider owned dogs have except they are improved all around, additionally I've added the abilities of Rex from Fallout 3 to his arsenal. Movement speed and combat AI have been based off of footage from German Shepherd police dogs in action as well as their possible carry weight. Everything has been carefully balanced for lore, enjoyment, and beginning to endgame gameplay.

Do note that the 1. 3 updates have changed Dogmeat dramatically so be sure to read below!

EDITS MADE:

[]Increased Dogmeat's base health from 150 to 200 since he has a lack of armor in the base game.

[]Buffed Dogmeat's damage by a large amount on each version compared to the "Heel licks" he gave enemies beforehand. His running lunge attacks now cause knockdown similar to what Rex could do from Fallout 3 allowing you to take out enemies when they are temporarily on the ground. All of his attacks also trigger various amounts of stagger on enemies; power attacks cause more naturally. Each difficulty from Insanity and down scales damage dealt lower to balance out Dogmeat for each appropriate difficulty. (Previous versions had knockdown on all power attacks that is now replaced with forward moving power attack knockdowns only! Knockdown are now uncommon occurrences and should not ruin important battles by stun locking enemies like before. If you still feel like they are overpowered versions without knockdowns are available.)

[*]Increased Dogmeat's movement speed to mimic real dogs and how they move faster than humans, no more slowly trodding up to enemies and lagging b