Freezing shatters potions and forces them to go off . I actually died to that once . Stepped on a freeze trap at half health , paralysis potion went off , got electrocuted by a shaman . nbspGood thing that Strength and Might pots don ' t freeze at least , but it still hurts to lose an Experience or some healing . <| sep |> Do you have any experience with MacCready ' s affinity perk ? My current plan is to do his quest and try to max him out , then switch back to Dogmeat and pick up the Charisma bobblehead and start sinking points into Lone Wanderer . I ' m just not sure how early I can expect to max out MacCready . <| sep |> Are you getting wear marks on the bluing on the bolt ? If it lines up with the SERE , you ' ve got your answer