i started a new game,headed towards novac i stop to kill some vipers near the large train tunnel which u cannot enter. later in games i move my stuff from wolfhorn ranch to harpers shack 4 the ammo and workbenches. so i stop inside harpers shack neverminding the deathclaws from the dead wind cavern entrance which have never bothered me before EVER!!! im go inside drop off some ammo and other weight SAVE (bcuz i usually base here later) and i emerge to no less then 3 deathclaws all advlts 1 blind. waiting at the door ,they slaughter me. i reload inside im level 6 with a .357 a plasma pistol,a service rifle and a caravan shotgun no explosives 3stealth boys which did nothing ive waited 4 dayyyys but they still wait outside my door im running out of water and food how do i escape

If you are on PC, open console and type TGM.
If you are on 360/PS3, consider this a punishment for your carelessness.

Sigged

OT: Reload save or see above.

On PC, yup, TGM and then target the DC and type KILL in the console!
If on console - yea SOL if you don't have a save BEFORE you got to Harper's Shack.

damn im on playstation. but the deathclaws have never done that before, im loading up past playthroughs to assasinate them all before they get the jump on me again

FML now theres 5

I MADE IT!!!!! ede is stuck inside he was 2 noisy i had 2 turn off hardcoe and set 2 very easy but i freakin made it. with the stealth boy they couldnt c me til i moved i just ran and ran the vipers had respawned at the tunnel and held the deathclaws attention while i stimpacked my way 2 ranger station charlie. ede is screwed i guess il get him later i also turned my settings back to hardcoe and hard

Try staying away from the area for at least three in-game days, to give that cell a chance to reset. If it does then the Deathclaws should be gone. After waiting, make a save and then carefully go back and see if you can retrieve ED-E. He'll be okay if he's inside the shack - the Deathclaws or Vipers won't go in after him.

If that doesn't work, go to the Gun Runners and use the terminal there to dismiss ED-E (assuming your game is fully patched up). He'll be transported back to Primm, and you can pick him back up there.

If you don't retrieve ED-E in some amount of time - two days? - you should get a message that ED-E has returned to Primm. Might be safer to retrieve him in Primm if you don't want to risk encountering the deathclaws again.

i retrieved ede from primm after dismissing him via the terminal outside gun runners. thanx for the help even though half of u laughed and said i was screwed looking back it was one of the biggest challenges ive faced in new vegas and i actually kinda enjoied it

Haha yeah. Sounds like the core of a rather good story, actually, like the ones you find on computer terminal journal entries.

ok i laughed at this, but not cause of your stupidiness (ironic coming from me ) but just for the fact that you actually didnt take the deathclaws as a warning (ok i kinda laughed at your stupidiness) and took some other safehouse. Look stay away from that place till u got a grenade machinegun and/or anti material rifle LOL or something that can kill a deathclaw easily.

Nice story, i salute u, and feel bad for you going through all this. PEACE

Personally, I'd never describe this situation as someone's "stupidiness" which isn't even a word. To the OP, thanks for sharing as it's happened to all of us at some time or another. Just out of curiosity, did you have any turbo on you? It's possible, that you may have been able to get away by reducing armor to no more than light or naked, taking a med-x and turbo, weapons holstered, and making a run for it.

SOME of us. If you decide staying in a shack that is just a couple feet from a DEATHCLAW NEST, you deserve any ill that falls your way. You might be able to handle yourself midway through the game, but moving there in the near beginning of the game? Seriously?

Something like that happened to me actually. Only that i had a big bomer and they were inside

You are saying that even when you were new in the game you were completely clairvoyant and had the map memorized and you never made a mistake? I find that unlikely but then maybe you are one of those who has a hard copy map in front of you and never take a chance. The OP stated that he had never experienced a problem before hence no reason to expect deathclaw camping at his door. But, gratz on your superiority /bow.

i choose harpers shack because of the ammo/workbenches and campfire outside, the fact that is a rural area (im a hillbilly in real life) so my charecters always have a high survival, i take every part from the animals i kill, and use them. I liked the fact that i could live so close to deathclaws without them bothering me and vise versa it made the charecter seem like a bad ass. AND legion assasains would be cut down before i knew they were coming because they would attack the vipers that respawn close to here and then attract the deathclaws attention u can also fast travel right to my front door unlike the lucky38

Speak for yourself. Never happened to me. I have never made saves that completely screwed me over. Also, one should learn to respect the Deathclaws of the Mojave Wastes. It is their territory until you can wipe out a family of them with a single weapon.

Was still a good story OP. Glad you got out of there okay. Also if you had Ed-E, why didn't you use him as a distraction to get away?

hardcoe mode would kill him i didnt change my settings till i needed instant health from stims i have a new respect for those bastards i didnt realize how weak most early level charecters are

Okay here is what you are going to do.
1) I have been in problems like this before and I have killed them all before or just plain run away.
2) walk out your door.
3) right as it is done loading you can do one of two things: pull up your pipboy and teleport away, or pull up your pipboy and use a stealth boy.
4) BEAR IN MIND RIGHT WHEN THE SCREEN GOES BLACK START PUSHING THE B BUTTON, OR IT WON'T WORK.
5) If you teleported away, come back with more firepower.
6) if you used the stealth boy, they will not be hostile (They won't show up as red ticks, they will show up as blue ticks) until you get to close to them.
7) Next time, invest in a better house.

hope this helped!

or you can try to cripple their legs. Deathclaws are so much slower when there legs are crippled. and the funny thing is it doesn't even have to be both legs. if you cripple one leg he will still start to walk not run.
The only problem is: how you going to cripple three advlt deathclaws?