Realistically what would stop fallout monsters?

New Vegas lists Deathclaw's Damage Threshold at 15, Fallout 1 and 2 list it at 6. That's roughly the same level as Combat Armour.

Although, the first 2 only list that against Normal and Explosive damage, with ever so slightly lower for Fire, Plasma and Lasers, which have roughly the same as Metal Armour has against physical.

So basically shooting Deathclaws with ordinary weapons would be the same as trying to shoot a soldier in advanced, military-grade armour. Shooting Deathclaws with Lasers or Fire or Plasma would be roughly the same as trying to pierce metal armour with bullets.

Or alternatively Deathclaw's have a spot behind there eyes, that if wounded will cause them to run away in terror(First pointed out by Harold in Fallout 1)

 

First of all, it's not "utah raptor" it's "Utahraptor", it's a scientific generic name, these are written as one single word.

Secondly, eh, what? What would kill them in reality? Using Utahraptor as an example - I'm guessing ANY hunting rifle? Utahraptor would be the size and mass of a large horse, so... what kills large horses? Rifles I guess, probably handguns too.
Aligator hunters also use rifles, the armored skin offer next-to-nul protection against high speed projectiles.

 

I'd like to see a deathclaw try and take one of these on.

I think it would be rather interesting.

 

Humans have been hunting large beasts on the savanna for over two million years.

Personally, I would be far more afraid of taking on a Mammoth with a stone tipped spear than taking potshots at a raptor with a Remington.

 

A single human with stone age technology is a pretty terrible big game hunter. It is speculated (I think with some archaeological evidence) that when humans were hunting mammoths they mostly tried to isolate a straggler from the herd and then drive it off of a cliff (at night) using spears and torches. They let gravity do the killing.

 

Of course someone would hunt with a group, and even if you'd be simply driving the mammoth off of a cliff, that's still a mother of a beast to contend with.

My point is, humanity has been hunting and killing dangerous prey for countless millennia, and seeing as the Fallout setting has quite the vast arsenal of weaponry to provide the wasteland with, I think it would be quite feasible for a wastelander to find a way to kill a deathclaw.

 

Large caliber guns like elephant guns loaded with solid bronze rounds should work.

 

even advanced armor isn't really amazing when facing high caliber/rifle rounds. Getting hit by 5.56 or .308 rounds is more than enough to topple most critters, and the Deathclaw is no exception, though in reality, it would probably be labeled close to that of the gators and crocs, meaning hunters would ignore hitting the back section and aim for the eyes/ribcage/part of the skull where it will be inevitably softer than the rest of the hard, thick bone. .44 magnum would be more than enough to kill a beast like that, though any smaller than revolver rounds and it would be like shooting pistol rounds against a grizzly: it'll probably just piss it off even further.

Now cazadors on the other hand is probably more terrifying than a Deathclaw. If there's one thing that irks humans, it's fast, jittery motion that's faster than the human eye can lock on efficiently. Definitely a task for a legit napalm flamethrower or high-powered pesticide that attacks the nervous system of cazadors in seconds.

 

Deathclaws are basically covered head to toe with combat armour level skin/scales/plates, which are in Fallout, compable to level III plate.

You'll need AP rounds to put them down, ball rifle ammo is unlikely to affect them much.

 

A deathclaw probably has sufficient mass that you need big game rounds to be effective. Its basically the same question as what you would use if jurrasic park was a real thing.

It kind of bothered me that deathclaws in NV were so easy to kill...you only had issues if there were enough deathclaws to tank your damage to get in close (or if you melee). Realistically speaking though, you cant just do VATs + headshots in real life and getting headshots on a charging deathclaw would probably be pure luck. And backpedaling doesnt work in real life either.

 

Deathclaws in NV are tougher and nastier than the ones in Fallout 1-2.

If anything I think they were wanked too hard in Fallout NV.

 

NV allows you to very easily hit 500+ damage per shot without even using the most powerful guns in the game. Largely because it is very easy to stack critical chance in NV with things like critical multipliers and items that boost critical chance. The lack of DR also means that everything takes a lot of damage from high powered weapons like sniper rifles, brush guns, etc because DT mainly affects automatic weapons (or HP rounds).

Killing deathclaws before they get into melee range is a lot harder in FO2, but they arent as effective vs power armor as in NV.

 

That's more an issue of the critical systems and certain weapon damages though.

Also, the lack of DR...

 

Uh, no. That's not how that works. If we're going with realistically, the newest edition of the Deathclaw, whether ya like it or not, is like that of the croc. Combat armor is akin to modern armor, albeit overkill with shoulder pads and whatnot, but again, that's not really going to protect you from Rifle rounds. Polymer armor tends to absorb one rifle shot or a high powered magnum and then after that, you're on your own. Deathclaw's thick hide and overall thicker bone mass on the back is what would stop hunters from trying to hit it there, and ATTACK the ribcage/belly and eyes/nose. There, like any croc or large reptile, would belly up if hit there, thus why a .44 magnum and up is highly suggested, with the .44 magnum as a backup once it begins to charge at you and rear up for his belly to be exposed.

 

The DR and DT of Deathclaws is comparable to combat armour.

Deathclaws aren't normal creatures, they're not only FEV mutated, they were further refined by the master, who's super mutants can have DOZENS of embedded bullets in them without irritation.

 

Dude...Fallout 1-2...Deathclaws basically have combat armour level armour.

Not only are deathclaws hard to put down even with direct shots which penetrate, due to their mass and biology, they're simply fucking hard to damage in the first place.