Notes from New Vegas: On Deathclaws

[camwyn]

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

Remember how in Fallout 3, the Deathclaws were terrifying and scary and the first few times you found yourself in Old Olney you ran out screaming into the Wasteland? And how eventually you came back at level 18 or 19 or so and happily ran through the place popping the damn things like they were oversized leaping chickens from Calaveras County?

THEY ARE NOT LIKE THAT ANY MORE.

Jesus, Mary, Buddha and Turok, if you find yourself in an area where a sign says 'WARNING- DEATHCLAWS', turn around and leave. And don't come back until you have weapons that cost at least three or four thousand caps and ammo that sets things on fire at your disposal. Just run, before they see you.

Seriously. Just run.

Comments

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

Do flaming grenades work? Because I have some of those. I can't find anything that seems to be all that effective, although the sniper rifle works pretty well on Young Deathclaws.

[mmexlibris]

Sniper rifles are my favouritest thing ever. ~plink plink plink~

[camwyn]

At some point I have to upgrade Boone's. he's still on his original and I spent all my caps on getting my power armor repaired.

[camwyn]

I don't know. I didn't have any when I got there. One thing I found out is that if you can get up on the canyon walls or the quarry equipment when the Deathclaws can't see you- crouch and make sure it says HIDDEN first- they won't chase you up there. It just doesn't occur to them to go over to the place you climbed up and follow you. If you do it when it says CAUTION or DANGER, they'll follow you, but you can shoot them safely from high up if they don't see you go up there to begin with.

It took me nearly all game-night and literally more than a hundred and twenty microfusion cells to wipe out the deathclaws in that quarry that way, and that was with Boone and his sniper rifle and me using the Q-35 Matter Modulator. But at least I didn't die.