how do you kill the motha trucking legendary bloatfly!? it kills me in 2shots and survives endless barrages of elijahs tesla cannon

Max Charge Holorifle shots killed it for me in 3 shots all in VATS so it didn't land a single shot on me, or a sneak attack crit. from a high powered weapon such as the Alien Blaster, or Elijah's Advanced L.A.E.R.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSf9aEETnvE

I'm betting a brush gun with hollow points will make short work of the thing.

it has 20dt so your hollows will be up against 60dt good luck

I stayed on the upper path and used the FIDO. Also the Survivalists Rifle is useful on it too. If you think killing that thing is hard, wait till you find the Giant Robo-scorpion. That thing could kill 5 legendary deathclaws. With 3000hp, that thing is one tough MF, able to kill the player in 2 hits, and I had Gannon Family Tesla armor and 500hp.

i killed it in seconds with proton axe

I used Dinner bell, And stay back!, and shotgun surgeon. When you enter the room there will be a rock right to the right of the opening. If you stay crouch behind that every so often while still shooting him, he won't be able to shoot you.

2 hits? I took like 7 before I died, and I killed it with one clip of Alien Blaster. Shouldn't be too difficult unless you use a crappy gun like a brush gun or something, dont use any Guns based weapons because it has a shell that resists even AP rounds. Stick with Energy Weapons, like the Pulse Gun for an easy kill.

Sure you did, even with 100 melee and Slayer perk, that thing only goes 65dmg, while the Giant Robo-scorpion does 250dmg PER hit, as it has DT ignore.

I used the FIBO on the Bloatfly, not the Robo scorp, I used Elijahs Advanced LAER and took it down with about 7-10 shots. My courier has 100 in both guns and laser weps so I can use any firearm out there with maximum lethalty.

Sneak mode useing stealth suit, and christines silenced sniper rifle. Takes awhile, so bring plenty of ammo, but the stealth suit kept me hidden with only 50 base sneak skill.

Just because you killed something with the Alien Blaster doesn't mean its not a difficult fight. I could grab the alien blaster and just walk into a Deathclaw nest with a Legendary Deathclaw and not get scratched because its stupidly overpowered (like its supposed to be). Alien blaster = easy mode so its really no accomplishment to kill anything with it.
Also calling the Brush gun weak when it has some of the best DPS in the entire game with the right ammo and perks means you obviously don't understand guns in this game.
Also the Giant Scorpion doesn't have a shell that resists AP rounds (nothing resists AP rounds) it just happens to have a DT higher than what AP-rounds deduct.
(Example: AP- Round is -15 DT but the Scorpion has 20 DT or 25 DT).

The only correct thing you said was to stick to energy weapons (aka Pulse Gun).



I would disagree with the fact that you can use any firearm with maximum lethality (unless you happened to have picked up all relevant Gun AND Energy Weapon PERKS as well as raised both skills to 100).

I do have them all, I've focused my Courier as a weapon master, focusing on all weapons and weapon perks, as well as the skills to keep them maintained in the field uch as repair. Basically my tags were Guns, energy, and repair, wiith melee as a fourth tag and unarmed as a fifth unofficial tag. Theres not a weapon in NV my Courier doesnt know how to use. :gun:

You just said it took multiple shots from an Alien Blaster and referred to the Brush Gun as crappy.

Clearly, it's a tough opponent.

Agreed with the post on the giant scorpion I also killed that thing with the proton axe . Ran In And Hacked It to pieces with only 6 stimpacks to my name . and god help me i nearly died when it exploded ! Didnt Like That Surprise 1 Bit

I introduced him to the holy handgrenade, which by the way was the same thing I did to the giant roboscorpion. The mech survived the bug did not, I blame the entmonologist perk.

i am currently asking this question too. i just died 6 times in a row, barely taking off a tenth of it's hp. it hits me with one shot, limb dismembered, insta-kill. lvl 35, 21 dt, 465hp, and i'm getting slaughtered. playing on hard/hardcoe. i didn't bring much in the way of weapons with me (45 silenced pistol and an anti material rifle) and not even the amr is making any headway. i picked up a gauss rifle and it's a little better, but the one hit kills from that thing is making this near impossible. i have the necessary weapons' levels to wield all the weapons, but man, it's not looking good. in fact i'm getting beat up pretty good from everything but normal bloatflies and the spore plants. i'll try the stealth angle, maybe i can peck it to death with the 45. i was hoping for some better advice, but, i'll give it another shot.

I had gone up and shoot it while crouching and try to evade fly's poison, honestly I didn't had any real problems with it...

About 10 rounds from the Holorifle from behind a rock. Didn't take a hit, but didn't get close enough to know what it was. I saw something glowing and floating around so I shot at it until it wasn't. Shoot first - investigate later. :woot:

Throw mugs at it, that should do the job.

Ever heard of very easy? :gun: :turtle:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pulse_gun_%28Fallout:_New_Vegas%29

Personally, my first run through of OWB led to my taking advantage of And Stay Back! to just paralyze the Legendary Bloatfly while I pumped it full of shot pellets. My first attempt, using the YCS-86 didn't work out so great because of those plasma shots the bloatfly returns... and I definitely wasn't expecting it to explode in plasma after I managed to put it down. Holy feck is the Big Empty messed up. :disguise:

Aren't Bloatflies prone to turning around VERY slowly? Is the Legendary one an exception? If not, just circle strafe.