http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6491/deathclawalphainsights.jpg Overwhelming firepower to the head is the only reliable way to kill a Deathclaw before it kills you. And if there's more than one at close range? Grab your ankles, put your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye. Not even the brutal close-range power of the Multiplas rifle will save you.

There is no such thing as overkill against NV deathclaws. Sometimes I load OC or MC MFCs into the Gauss to make absolutely certain that their entire head is reduced to a fine red mist. And then I shoot the corpse again to make sure I didn't just get a knockdown.

I used ARCHIMEDES II on the mother deathclaw in the quarry (after denerfing it and giving it the properly massive damage befitting an orbital frickin lazor).

So much agreement!

... worst beating I ever got was when I killed the baby deathclaws in Quary Junction (the Matron was not rendering, she was just out of range), and I got the message that she was Enraged. As soon as I made the mistake of moving a little closer to see if I could find the Matron, she found me - in just a few seconds of motion actually. One hit, one kill.

After that, I learned to love the Anti-Material rifle and have since eradicated the Mojave of the Deathclaw threat. Obsidian did such a good job on the bad guys in this game, I absolutely love how deadly these things are in Very Hard/hardcoe.

Did you now... I don't think that's the only Deathclaw nest, just the most intrusive.

Nevermind, I got a Super Sledge. I just crushed the NCR at Hoover Dam, Deathclaws aren't really a concern anymore

But pestering deathclaws with a varmint rifle is so much fun

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new outfit !

My character is in desperate need for new poses as you can see lol. So far I could only find one on nexus are there more?

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/imageshare/images/263027-1289253662.jpg

Should find out how to convert the Groovatron for NV, currently I cannot find a decent male pose mod. :shrug:

You can convert those from F3. Only one thing you need to do is rewriting the master file from 'Fallout3.esm' to FalloutNV.esm' in FO3Edit.

Obviously, there is no Groovatron in NV(yet) so you have to do the poses the old way. :laugh:

*looks at the stats of the Quary Junction deathclaws in the NVGECK*

I eagerly await your results of trying to supersledge the deathclaws in the Quarry Junction. :whistling: Tell me how many jump you at once, and how many seconds between the first hit and your death for each time you die. Also, tell me if the Mother and/or Alpha Male can kill you in one swipe or two. :rolleyes:

And then head off to the Gun Runners and get an Anti-Materiel Rifle, or swipe a Gauss Rifle off the Bros and do it the right way.

Hrm, great - now I have to lug this railroad tie and 200 of it's .50 spikes to avoid becoming lunch again. Thats the beauty of it though - in Fallout3 I was never Really afraid of the monsters, not even Beheamoths were "scary". Deathclaws in New Vegas? Cazadore swarms? That gets the blood going!

I know of only 1 place in the open wasteland that I could possibly http://www.newvegasnexus.com/imageshare/images/899612-1289254544.jpg - but I'm sure they would find a way...

The only other bad guy that was DeathClaw hard was Legate Lanius, but thanks to Tarrant and his awesome Phalanx mod, I had my friends with me for the show and http://www.newvegasnexus.com/imageshare/images/899612-1289254737.jpg. Yeah Lanius didn't like those Magnum rounds at all.

I'm bias as hell though, as Dinner Bell looks wonderfully close to the http://bit.ly/cVOhtD (my favorite RL gun), the joy I found/have wielding Dinner Bell is crazy. Almost every bad thing in the wasteland has met it's end to Dinner Bell! :chaos:

Thanks!
That would be awesome! Actually I've been wanting to somewhat of a comic for Akema, but there is no way until more pose mods are out.
Hmm...that's interesting that your character has the "dumb" responses only part of the time. Cool background though.
Seconded!
I soooo would be willing to do this if I could find a tutorial. Anyone know of one, or can explain the process well enough?

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The more observant of you may notice something interesting about Akema...

The worst thing is that i know that you wont share these.
Mine:
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I don't do anything as complicated as that. I guess I sort of cheat. That single pose mod that's out I just use that and switch out the poses with ones from Groovatron, and my own. Because, if I just put the files in the right folder and try them through the console ingame, they don't work. I don't know why. It did in FO3 as I was making and testing custom animations and poses.

@MadCat: Seeing as you know the best weapons to take on Deathclaws, how about Cazadore's? I hate them more than Deathclaws. I usually burn them with incendary (sp?) rounds in my grenade gun, then watch as they back away burning to death. It's a slow death, unfortunately.

Better post something to be on topic.

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I fiddled with that image for ages but couldn't get rid of the over-brightness and orangeness. So, it's not edited. Not even to hide that terrible armor texture.

Haven't really gone up against Cazadores much, I just leave them be after getting poisoned way too many times.

Something that sprays. Machine guns are good... Go for the wings.

The ideal thing is just to leave them alone. They dance all over the freakin' place.

The Flamethrower is probably your best bet, it sprays all over the place.

Be sure to loot antivenoms off of Legion mooks whenever you knock some of their heads together.

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I'm still undecided how I want to do this play through. I'm not enamored going NCR again, and going by my character's personality he's likely to side with Mister House out of a sense of gratitude, feeling he "owes him one".

At the same time, being the Lone Wanderer, dispenser of Justice, makes the Independent Route also tempting...

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9100/todayisagooddayb.jpg

http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/5206/forkillingsomesavages.jpg

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3073/saycheeseyoupeacockhead.jpg

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7425/centurionsnipe.jpg

I wish I had your talent or directions on how to do what you did so awesome I always come here looking for more of yours so i can go jerk.. hes so talented

So, maybe a stupid observation, but has anyone else realized there are no more invisible walls at the borders of the map?

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/GuardConvoy/WoW/ScreenShot41.jpg
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See that mountain range in the distance? Keep that in mind.

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The Ground is completely solid as far as I can tell, and the Colorado River continues all the way to this point of the map, then curves around a natural mountain chain. The Mountains seem to be the physical "barrier" to the map, and otherwise that's all open real estate. This is a lot of empty game world that could give rise to a heckuva lot of DLC, or just be a modders paradise to set down towns and quests without interfering with the vanilla game world.

Due note I went South from Camp Searchlight/Searclight Airport. Given the Colorado River extension, however, I'm assuming this landmass wraps all around the game map.

Now, the above screens are as far as one can go (at least South) without cheating. With help from the Console, http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/GuardConvoy/WoW/ScreenShot46.jpg? Holy Crap, MORE landmass! Granted this stuff is featureless and only the barest bone texture, but it's still solid. It goes on all the way to the horizon. At the horizon?

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/GuardConvoy/WoW/ScreenShot47.jpg.

Well, okay not the technical end of the world. There's still a little patch of landmass below the cut off before it drops into oblivion, but for all intents and purposes I walked off the game map, into undeveloped terrain till I hit the point of "Here There Be Dragons". Still though, this section was only accessible via the Console. Up to that Mountain, that's all vanilla access.

DLC, Modder's Paradise, the reason these games have invisible walls that proclaim "You Can Go No Further"? Whatever the reason, I felt the desire to share the discovery.

http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv233/itsmead/ScreenShot5-1.jpg

o_o .... holy flying monkeys batman....he is just... just... GAH :bowdown: :cookie:

Just some of my character, Tobias. Nothing fancy.

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Or we can do it the easy way while I send you the PM with those converted poses.

@MystykStar
They do work, but you may be missing the .esp file. A single meshes folder won't do.

http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv233/itsmead/ScreenShot6-2.jpg

I went out hunting Deathclaws armed with a scoped Varmint Rifle. Shot 'em in the head.



Then when they got close, pulled out the Alien Blaster and turned them into dust. What, you didn't expect me to have a better plan than that?

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/9248/vanillan.jpg ... http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9467/98771466.jpg :celebration:

I'm not sure why I couldn't get them to work before, but now they do. Just a case of installing the HD files in the New Vegas Data folder instead of the FO3 Data folder. Sweet!

Srsly, don't tell me you've just realized http://newvegasnexus.com/imageshare/images/582010-1289151839.jpg ? :celebration:

The first thing I did after installing NV was pasting the Project Beauty Textures(and erm... the ArchiveInvalidation.bsa) to the New Vegas folder. Worked as a charm.