I rekt the legendary deathclaw with just that. Knocked it off its feet with the spinny attack, then pummelled it on the ground, then knocked it off its feet again and repeat until mush.
I first just mini nuked it but that was too easy so I reloaded. This way was much more fun.
Yeh, and you can get one at lvl 1 as well, with all DLC of course. Just head to the Lonesome Road DLC start, get as far as the part when you're about to leave the military bunker, retrace your steps and sell everything of work you can find. Leave and head to Primm pass, before you do that however you should loot the various tin can mines around Powder Gang territory. Then set the trap and lure the blind deathclaw in Primm pass into the pile of explosives, it legs should break and then you can back up and shoot constantly until its dead.
Then head to REPCONN headquarters and get the Q-35 matter modulator, then head to Durable Dunn's sacked caravan and loot everything of worth, then head to Gun Runner's and sell tons of **** and buy the rifle. And you might have enough left over to buy Riot Gear from the Lonesome Road DLC vendors.
I remember once in new vegas I was sitting at the quarry junction sniping deathclaws with my anti-material rifle.
I was scoped and all of a sudden I hear Boone shout "all mine" followed by a hunting rifle shot. Next thing I know, his lifeless body is flying past my scope with the "Boone is unconscious" message. I un-scope and there's an alpha male already halfway through his attack animation. I died.
Sort of a same thing happened to me. I tried making an EXPLOSION TRAIL - laying down mines, then runin' through them with a deathclaw on my tail. Seemed a descent plan, but half way through the trail, i heard an explosion behind me. And i only laid like 2 or 3 of them. That wasnt enough to stop a deathclaw comin' fo my booty.
a well placed ranger takedown is my usual strategy, if I'm not sniping.
man, I wish they could put faces, so I could remember the face they made as they fall to the ground
A scavenging nomad is the only set of the mind for me playing fallout series, but it lacks the weapons that can be crafted from junk, and it looks wierd, guess the only one i liked was the Railgun the only downfall was the CHOO CHOO every time you fired it...every god damned time
I started playin' fallout 3 when my friend was already 20 hours in, and he, being such a nice lad, told me about the fun time at the at the top left of the map.
Lol. I just remember that first giant mutant or w/e they were called. THAT was a fight. Coming up on that thing like "wait....is that.....SHIIIIIIIIIII-"
Supermutants are tough, but they can be matched with fairly medium gear and skills.
Deathclaws...well they're just there to make you're life miserable, fukboi
Not the regular version of super mutants, the giant ones that were like 3 stories tall. There was only 2-3 of them in the game if I remember correctly.
Oh, the Behemoths, yeah, there were 2 of which i remember - one was caged, the other attacked Galaxy News Radio place. Now those guys are something, and the only proper way to fight it was...you guessed it....AAAAALOOOOT OFF FUUUUKEEEEN EXPLOOOOSIOOONS!!!!!!
A sneak attack crit from a gauss rifle would one shot them if it was to the head,cleared out the quarry that way.Was still sweating the whole time because i could FEEL one of them breathing on my neck the whole time.
Nah nah nah, when I see a deathclaw charging at me wanting to make me his new pin cushion you bet your ass I'm running screaming profanities wishing I could shoot my own arm off to distract it
I just fast-traveled to the nearest doctor. But the achievement was all worth it in the end. Only achievements I have left are Desert Survivalist and Caravan Master. And I just know that they're gonna be a bitch to get. I hear that eating while drowning yourself is pretty effective for Desert Survivalist.
Yeah, I remember. I actually managed to do Deathclaw Pro Hunter. I went to the Thorn and killed three Deathclaws at a time with a .22 pistol after scaring them off with a Flare Gun and blowing their legs apart with Dinner Bell. And before that, I murdered a bunch of NCR higher-ups with a Ripper because I already killed all the Legionaires. Then I punched a bunch of robots to death. I just got done pickpocketing 40 people.
I want to be completely done with New Vegas before I start 4. I can't even look at 3 anymore after realizing how much better New Vegas was. Now I have to go drown myself and eat 7000 HP worth of food, then beat Ringo 30 times in Caravan.
Well, I managed to get Desert Survivalist. I just had to spend all my money on enough food for 50 people then throw myself into the bottom of Lake Mead. After I murder Ringo (in Caravan), I'm probably just gonna uninstall the game now that there's nothing left to do.
The deathclaw end should be replaced with the deathclaw running from a spec on the horizon. They're not dangerous if you can kill them from the next town over.
I honestly don't get these stupid builds that people keep trying to come up with that limit themselves.
You think actual survivors in the wasteland are doing self limiting builds? No, they're adapting to each situation and using what works best. That's the only way they can survive.
People post stuff like this, but honestly it doesn't really make sense.
Deathclaws and Cazadores are dangerous for incompatible reasons. Cazadores erode your armor away to nothing and inflict a stacking DoT that will kill you extremely quickly if you don't counter it. Deathclaws are walking tanks that will outright cripple limbs in a single melee blow and kill you in two or three hits.
They aren't really compatible. Cazadores are dangerous because they sting you six, seven, eight times, and you can't avoid it and your armor is in ruins. Deathclaws just cruise on up to you and shove their arm up your ass. They're dangerous for different reasons.
What would be more scarcy is a Cazadore with Deathclaw DR, and without wings so they couldn't easily be crippled. Something like a Cazadore Spider/Scoripon.
quarry stories are damn good, I wanna hear it
I maxed an unarmed tankman, and beat the living crap out of every single deathclaw in the quarry and the cavern. may the blood upon my saturnite fist never dry.
But yeah, the quarry is too close to the low level areas, it kind agives you something to strive for.
"someday I'm killing every one of you, just as I get rid of this 9mm pistol and varmint rifle"
Well i'm just gonna assume that if Joshownsall wants to hear it, everyone does.
> Be 2013
> Dicking around New Vegas looking for **** to kill for funsies.
> Have lord of death perk x3 just from absolutely murdering everything.
> Stumble upon Sloan.
> Doing more quests n whatnot.
> Given a quest to rescue some chick (memory's fuzzy, bear with me)
> From Quarry Junction.
> **** .png
> Heard stories of how brutal a ******* you can receive from a death claw.
> Pack myself full with best armour, best guns and 2 stealth boys.
> I was poor as **** .
> Cont'd
> Stroll on over to the mouth of the quarry
> 4 deathclaws
> ************** .jpg
> Ohwait.png
> Pull out anti-materiel rifle.
> Blow 3 brains out, fire wildly and kill 4th.
> Wander further into Quarry.
>ACTIVATESTEALTHBOY.png
> Sneak my way up to the mill before feeling of being watched.
> Brush it off, speed up crotch walk.
> Make way to cave
> Blow mommy deachclaw to infinity with 4 Annabelle rockets.
> MINI NUKE ACQUIRED
> Begin exiting cave to make way up to cliff top.
> Ground starts a rumblin'
> Turn around
>Sothisiswhatdeathlookslike.png
> Right so.....at some point my stealthboy must have worn off and i didn't notice
> Might have forgotten about the alpha
> whip out Fat Man and fire wildly at alpha.
> Wasn't an alpha.
> No.
> Oh no.
>Oooohdddear.piglet
> Game thought it would be funny to glitch out on me and produce possibly the scariest creature i have ever seen.
>That or some really friggin bad RNG mixed with evil juju
>The game sent a legendary alpha male deathclaw after me.
>Lizardlordhasabandonedme.png
>MFW a goddamn Tyrannosaurus Rex saw my ass as a toy
>Me: "jokes on you, i'm wearing power armour"
>I-DOM REX: "Jokes on you, i don't give a **** "
>Initiate FatMan.EXE
>Fire wildly until i run out of mini nukes.
>5 mini nukes to the chest and face.
> ************* .png
>Takes out less than 1/9th of its health
>It ******* tickles the legendary alpha male.
>Run out of VATS.
>Mybodyisready.jpeg
>LAMDC USED SLASH!
>takes out all but 8-10 health.
>MYBODYISNOTREADY.png
>LAMDC turns around.
>Tail bitch slaps me for the last 10 health.
>Stare in terrified disbelief for 5 minutes.
>Turn game off.
>Watch Top Gear
already have power armor, likely have some of the best weapons
what's a caravan have that you'll need that one of the cities wont have? i toy car? lunch box? a few extra stim packs though you already have 70 of those...
First time I ever encountered a deathclaw was in NV. Reasoned that Quarry Junction was the most direct route so off I went with a skip in my step and a varmint rifle for my troubles.
The NCR miners gave me warning but I paid them no heed, for I was the Mailman, bullets were an inconvenience and Powder Gangers my prey. The stories I'd heard about deathclaws from my friends were surely exaggerations.
I walked for a few moments before I started to hear troubling music playing. I stopped, drew my weapon and prepared for battle. Soon enough I saw the ugly creature coming for me. Counting on my skills I immediately began firing, targeting the head for maximum damage but to my dismay it did nothing to slow its advance, in fact it may have further angered the beast as it began attacking my low levelled character with disturbingly effective attacks. Reasoning that my rifle was ineffective against the beast I shot up with stimpacks and switched to my sawn off shotgun.
This time I resolved to shoot its legs and employ the novel strategy of running away and shooting at it. Much to my satisfaction a few shots to the left leg succeeded in crippling the beast and while its health remained substantial it was now slow enough that I could evade it. I began backing away and shooting it with every weapon in my arsenal. Eventually, with my back against a digger I managed to kill the creature.
The creature happened to be a "Young" deathclaw. At this point I began to suspect I might be out of my depth and dropped into stealth mode. Within moments a second red dot appeared on my radar, VATS informed me of a second Young Deathclaw, and to my dismay, a full sized nae-kidding, Deathclaw.
Resolving that discretion was the better part of valour I reasoned a tactical withdrawal was prudent. With the way I came blocked by my spiked friends I considered that the quarry itself might provide shelter long enough for me to get my bearings and perhaps plan a way past the remaining deathclaws I assumed would be further along the route to New Vegas.
Immediately, my movement alerted the two deathclaws and I broke all pretense of stealth and bolted towards the body of water I could see straight ahead of me, trying very hard not to think about the swathe of red that had appeared on my radar. I ran and I ran, fully aware that the deathclaws were gaining ground and that's when I saw it.
A Fatman.
I was saved.
Ducking into the water I grabbed the wonder weapon. To my surprise I found only one mini nuke immediately. Knowing I had only seconds to make my move I simply hoped there was more that I had missed. Brining my weapon to bare I whispered a prayer to Atom and fired, the satisfying explosion scattering baby deathclaws like leaves on a great wind.
My health severely depleted by my own doing, I looked upon what I had wrought, and I thought it good.
Unfortunately, the Deathclaw mother of the younglings I had just splattered disagreed with my assessment and she had brought a whole group of her pack to peer review.
Oh boy let me tell you about my first encounter with deathclaws
>be me
>christmas 2010
>Playing New vegas for the first time
>this was also my first fallout game but I got fallout 3 the same day
>also on hardcore mode because **** you
>Get a few hours in and meet boone help him do his ****
>Get him as a follower
>OHBOY.gif
>Friend tells me about how there's some nukes and **** i can get from Quarry junction
>Decide to go check out the place
>Immediately attacked by a ******* of deathclaws
>Boone dies a horrible death and i run off into the distance screaming and crying
>mfw
Deathclaws in New vegas were tougher than F3 version, but that its related to the change in the defensive armor and variety of new Deathclaws. They are super easy using dart gun.
One time when i was playing fallout new vegas.
i was wandering the desert heading to a mission marker with Rex low on ammo, bottle caps and stempax
On the top left of the screen it said "Rex fell unconscious"
So i turned around to see what happened. One big large ******* deathclaw was charging at me. i **** myself, i was only at the minimal level when deathsclaws start spawning.
I use up all nearly all my ammo and all my supplies that could heal me. I just win with little health left.
While i waited for Rex to wake up i turned again... another deathclaw jumps (or ran, cant remember) at me I **** myself so hard, i fire my last bullet. The Mysterious Stranger shows up and saves me.
And from that day onward i always worshiped the stanger, to me, he is my hero.
Why wouldn't you? Best DT in the game. Gives STR bonuses. Looks badass. So what if it's heavy? You've got a massive supply of Stims for healing, and you can use the rest for weapons.
I never use power armor and always have a **** ton of stimpacks. Armor means nothing to me. If I start to come under heavy fire I map pop a med-X, but usually I manage. I don't like power armor. It's far too heavy. Most of my weight ends up going towards misc loot to sell.
I don't ever need caps. I always have thousands. I just get them for ***** and giggles and I have mods to make everything more expensive and mods to pour money into.
Armor is useless to me. I wear what is light. If the armor or clothing I choose to wear has armor rating then woopdy doo.
"past midgame, armor as a whole is almost completely worthless."
I never wear armor. Beginning, middle, or end. I don't wear them. I think most of the vanilla armors look pretty ****** aside from Veteran Ranger armor. Power armor looks cool on NPCs, but I like to look at my characters.
I like the legion armor with the black+red feathers, and the dusters.
I say pastmidgame because Deathclaws do still pack a punch, and random grenade bouquets are pretty annoying.
I wonder if you'll be able to dual wield in Fallout 4. I
Deathclaws still are a threat in lategame, but I always take them out before they get near me so I never have to worry about them.
I hope you can dual wield in 4. It would be amazing to dual wield pistols or smgs. Though, I don't think they will have it in. If they had it in, they would probably have to figure a way to make a gun and melee weapon combo work. Personally, I would love to have a pistol/flashlight combo.
Skyrim is a bit different. Skyrim is heavily melee based. Fallout is more ranged weapon based. In Skyrim you can't wield a bow and a melee weapon at the same time. I don't see them combining them. As for dual wielding melee, it should be possible and it'd be nice, but I don't think any Fallout game has done it before so they may try to stay away.
You cant use a bow and a sword at the same time because a bow is a two handed weapon. I'm not saying use a rifle and a super sledge, I'm saying like a combat knife and a pistol. As I said, they already have 1 and 2 handed weapon subcategories.
I know a bow is a two handed weapon. I'm saying that I don't think Fallout 4 will combine melee and ranged at the same time. Ironsights would probably be an issue. Plus you would have to factor in the programming needed to register different guns with different ammo types. I'm not talking about a rifle and hammer either. I'm talking basic 1 handed weapons. I'm aware they have 1 handed and 2 handed categories. I'm saying I don't think they will include dual wielding melee/ranged. They may do dual wielding melee, but that's a big if. None of the trailer showed dual wielding of any kind and that would be a big feature they would show off if they included it. If they took the time to mention the change to VATS, then they would take the time to mention dual wielding.
It looks ****** first off all. I dress for looks. Second, that agility penalty some has. Third, its heavy, so it slows you down and makes you less sneaky. If you're doing any playstyle other than 'stand out in the open with a minigun' or 'melee build that doesnt understand how to block', its not really ideal.
My very first playthrough of Fallout 3, there was a deathclaw waiting right outside Vault 101 for me. ****** only had about half health but it didn't stop him tearing little old me (with my ****** pistol) several shiny new assholes.
You get gud and get a few levels under your belt and you delight in the fight with a deathclaw. Two titans of man and monster battling it out, with on winner, me.