Fallout 4 Player Discovers Tactic For Killing Rare Enemy Years After Playing

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— as with the other games in the series — is full of bizarre mutated wildlife, most of which is also highly lethal. When exploring the Wasteland, it's common enough that players will be attacked by some of these creatures and will have to engage in some kind of fight for survival, with the likes of Bloatflies and Radroaches being easily defeated, while others such as Deathclaws pose far more of a challenge.

Redditor Worth-Caterpillar-90 took to the r/fo4 Subreddit to share an image of a "" version of the aforementioned Deathclaw, which they stumbled across after years of playing. The Mythic Deathclaw represents the Apex version of the species in the game, and although its resistances aren't higher than that of a regular Deathclaw, its impressive health pool in the thousands and high rate of damage make it a particularly intimidating foe to encounter.

Worth-Caterpillar-90's screenshot showed the creature in the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System (V.A.T.S.) mode, which displayed the percentage chances of hitting certain parts of the creature’s body, with all of its limbs and its head equally displaying as 95%, which may look easy enough, but as pointed out by Farabel, the Mythic Deathclaw has a particularly weak spot that wasn't suggested: its belly. This is because while targeting a Deathclaw's head does result in it taking extra damage compared to when it is hit in its limbs or back, the creature will take significantly more when hit in its stomach due to how soft it is.

Farabel also explains that this is why the Deathclaws are hunched over in general, as their tougher body parts will protect their weaker area and reduce how much of an easy target it is to hit.

Fallout 4 brought a lot of changes to a franchise trying to adapt to a modern audience, including improvements over Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.

Regular Deathclaws are fairly common in, with these creatures being engineered before the Great War with the intent of being used as cheap replacements