How to beat deathclaws : Fallout: New Vegas

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:33 am

My friends and I are always fighting over what's best to defeat a deathclaw. One says anti material rife, one says brush gun special rounds, another says oh baby!. I'm just wondering what your favorite deathclaw disposer is?

» Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:08 pm

I attemped to kill one with nother but ranger armor and my bare hands on very hard ( I died)

I have a melee guy, explosive guy and a sniper woman, so really they are all good. Anti, oh baby, C4

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:29 am

A sharpened metal spoon.

....there is no best. Depends on your skills & your preferred approach/playstyle. Most of the top tier weapons are all going to be good.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:20 am

This really brilliant................ I really don t want to get close to anything. So I snipe them from way out of vats range with a scoped hunting rifle, or a sniper rifle with ap rounds. If there are several of them, and they find out where I am I pull a mini gun, or a LMG with ap rounds.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:26 am

Gauss rifle

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:49 pm

Oh, Baby! while on Turbo and Slasher.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:53 am

If you're from a distance, use the AMR with AP rounds; if you're, somewhat, up close, use a shotgun (preferably the Riot Shotgun or Dinner's Bell) with beanbag rounds, and then, when the Deathclaw is knocked out, use the slug rounds to finish him off. The Brush Gun, This Machine, and 12.7mm SMG are all good as well.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:23 am

I have always struggled with them then one playthrough I picked up the Anti-Material Rifle and suddenly they were a lot easier.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:42 am

The AMR is probably the most common Deathclaw killer. With the latest patch, the Brush Gun went down in usefulness a lot. For unarmed/melee characters, a ballistic fist and Ranger Takedown, or an Oh, Baby! with Mauler will also kill Deathclaws really fast.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:33 pm

displacer glove, with ranger takedown. Instance force palm kill.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:21 pm

I usually sneak crit them with my anti-material rifle. If that doesn't work then This Machine works wonders like it does on pretty much everything.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:29 am

Throwing spears don't just ask me Africa loves them.But holo rifle to the temple will do .

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:21 am

Plasma Caster Max Charge and an HS Electrode

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:21 am

An anti-material rifle, incendiary rounds, and a long gap between you and them.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:33 am

Super sledge / Rebar Club + Super Slam perk + Rad Child perk (with critical rad poisoning level for HP regen boost)

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:19 am

Taken them out with all manor of weapons. Personally I prefer to sit on top of the machinery around the quarry and pick them off with an AMR with AP rounds. One shot to the head in sneak normally does the trick for me.

If I get bored I normally pull out Mercy and go play with them.

Have been known in the past to take 30 odd mines of different sorts, lay them out and coak them towards me in waves. Replacing mines in the progress. That can create some interesting results.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:05 pm

AMR + Sneak attack head shot

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:54 am

Unarmed/Melee is good as well, obviously.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:49 pm

RCW+.
I cleared out Deathclaw Promotory with incredible ease.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:54 am

A Melee or Unarmed-focused build with Super Slam, Piercing Strike, and Purifier can annihilate Deathclaws (and Super Mutants) quickly with almost any high-end weapon.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:34 am

Holorifle FTW

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:12 am

Holorifle FTW

Yeah probably the best gun in the game against deathclaws.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:30 pm

Has no one here tried RCW+ against deathclaws?
I'm serious, it's a beast. (Or well, used to be, might not be now after the last patch if they changed anything, but pre-patch (newest one) deathclaws are ridiculously easy to kill with the RCW+ and OCMFC)
Go try it out.

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:14 pm

Has no one here tried RCW+ against deathclaws?
I'm serious, it's a beast. (Or well, used to be, might not be now after the last patch if they changed anything, but pre-patch (newest one) deathclaws are ridiculously easy to kill with the RCW+ and OCMFC)
Go try it out.

Why when theres a holo rifle ?

» Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:07 pm

Why when theres a holo rifle ?

It's better than the holorifle.
The holorifle only has 4 shots, you miss one or two and you've lost valuable time, missing a couple of shots with the RCW+ is of no real concern.
RCW+ also has some kinda "autotarget" with it which also helps.
And finally, holorifle's projectiles do travel slower.