I smashed a mutants arm off with Atoms Judgement clearing out the hotel in far harbor and he shouted "You hit like s radroach" with a missing arm and a 3rd of his hp
As a pest control technician in Arizona, believe me when I tell you, you'd rather have an angry Asian Hornet after you than a Tarantula Hawk. They're super aggressive and wildly territorial.
In a Fallout flavored tabletop game that I've been running set in the New York and New Jersey area I decided to try to make some unique monsters, one of which was something I decided to call a "Nightlight," which is a hybrid between a moth and a lightning bug. They're mostly harmless but like nibbling on electronics. So it's interesting to know that fireflies are an actual thing in game as well since I haven't had a chance to check out 76 yet. Honeybeasts are a really interesting design, so I might have to include them as well when I get the chance! Thanks again for more great content to keep me company while I work!
If you haven't played 76 yet, I recommend giving it a go. Same Fallout gameplay with a little more survival thrown in. The perk system is kind of the same, but you can't max every special out. The community is a mixed bag, but for the most part I've had really good experiences. I'm currently level 65 and I had a lovely level 1010 gift my brother and I matching custom painted T-60 sets just because he liked the prices at the vending machine in my base. Oh, yeah. You can build bases, there's a player economy, and....you can launch nukes across the map. Sorry, I went on a tangent. Honeybeasts are super cool, but absolute tanks if you're not running an energy or incendiary weapon. There are also Radtoads, which are about as horrifying as they sound. The fireflies are passive mobs, but do drop bioluminescent fluid when dispatched.
@BibliophileEmi Just keep all electronics off and stowed at night is my first reaction, I'm probably your worst nightmare as a DM. I will adopt the death claw and name him "spike"
Having gotten Dengue fever from mosquitos while in India for work, and almost dying from it within a day from severe dehydration I would be terrified what diseases Bloodbugs, and other insects would give
Damn, glad you made it through alive, my friend. I've always heard that mosquitos spread more diseases more than any animal in the world, but hearing how fast it took you is terrifying.
I was stung by a Tarantula Hawk once, one of the worst experiences of my life. They're relatively common where I live, so even though they're usually pretty docile towards humans, I tend to give them a wide berth. Super interesting and oddly beautiful insects, though. And an excellent fit for the Fallout universe.
@@KhrZygarde As someone who HATES roaches, Fallout 4 was a nightmare in some parts when I first started it. Especially when the legendary ones spawn as the variants as large as the player 😭
@@FriendlyArchpriest i know the bulls can barely fight back and drop 61 XP a pop going up to Jacobs Town after reaching new Vegas is a great way to level up
@@Gail-no9py I usually leave farming them to the endgame, after I finished most things in the Mojave before doing the DLCs, and so I clean the entire map over and over out of respawnable creatures, Bighorner Bulls and Fire Geckos are my favorite prey, although I end up hunting everything anyways.
Always reminds me of "Them!" An old black and white movie about giant radiation mutated ants. I feel like it is a very Fallout kind of movie. I could totally see the prewar US government finding giant ants and covering it up while either trying to destroy them or to weaponize them.
I remember I was fighting Shipbreaker in Far Harbor and I wasn't doing good damage, was getting heavily damaged and was using lots of medicine. The fight was very intense and I didn't think I was gonna win, then suddenly a group of raiders joined the fight. They surprised me and I thought it was going to lead to my death but as Shipbreaker killed the lesser raiders I was able to separate a legendary raider and kill him and he luckily dropped a legendary Gatling Laser (It might have been knee cappers or unlimited, I forgot) But it helped me take down shipbreaker and survive. This is one of my favorite memories of a fight in the Fallout games and is why i love Far Harbor.
Cazadors scare the hell out of me, makes me wonder if they're coming to the season 2 of The Fallout series. I'm also wondering if we find a new facility that has a unique bug like creature in the next Fallout game.
The fact that not only are beetles not the most common irradiated insect, but that there are NO beetles in ANY of the games (that I know of) is a crime.
Spitting up the blood, is like animals who throw up/soil themselves before fleeing from a predator. The blood bug realizes it didn't critically injure us and spits the blood in our face to stop us from hurting it. the full belly slows it down.
Was thinking the same thing, like how sea cucumbers will fire out their own intestines to escape predators. Nate/Nora and the seventysixers are just built different compared to the usual prey of the blood bugs!
I hear ya! I've never liked VATS ever since the first game (before it was named such), & I only really use it on Cazadors, Bloatflies, & sometimes Bloodbugs. The great majority of my VATS use is for scanning (usually for mines/ traps before I get the Light Step perk). Kind of a pisser that so many of the F4 perks are VATS oriented.
I wonder if Dr. Borous' mentioning creating Cazadors on a Tuesday is a reference to the Street Fighter Movie (Dialogue below for reference): "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."
I just realized there's no spider enemies in Fallout like RadSpiders or RadTarantulas I'm kinda glad but also kinda curious what they would look like. Thank you RadKing for doing these creature videos they awesome looking forward to the next one!
I really like the idea of insects with symbiotic relationships having deeper mechanics/lore. Honeybees evolved to be huge and display different hierarchies, but it’d be fascinating if that was caused by feeding on radioactive flowers or breathing radioactive smoke/fog. Butterflies are another cool example of symbiotic insects, as are dung beetles and silkworms!
cazadors are the reason I always rush Big MT, for the immune to poison perk. Oh and because its my fave DLC in the game.. but hey.. :D love the think tank.
A type of rolley polley that's just basically a bug version of an armadillo would be kinda neat. Probably docile, but still got the classic bug creepout factor with the spindly legs and antennae.
Cazadors really aren't all that bad if you remember to cripple their wings first. They lose a lot of that scary when they're stuck waddling on the ground like a radroach.
Idk man I feel like getting knocked out and getting a cutscene showing it drag you away then waking up in the nest and having to escape would be kinda crazy
Starting the video with the Cazadore was a brave choice. The built in trauma responce almost had me closing out immediately. Biggest threat to my usual sniping build. Too small, too fast, too erratic, too perceptive, and that venom does not care at all about silly damage reduction. You get like one VATS shot and if that missed its on top of you.
I'm kind of glad cazadors build nests. The idea of one of those things stinging someone to paralysis and laying an egg inside them would be genuine high octane nightmare fuel.
You should probably do a video on armor. I think that would be really interesting. Talk covering all the armor of fallout from the NCR Rangers to the legionnaires. You could be an interesting video
I'd like to mention that "THOSE!" is also apparently a movie in the Fallout universe, and you can hear clips from the movie as part of an ad via the Pirate Radio station.
Maybe its just me, but another thing I've noticed about cazadores is how quickly they can degrade your armor. It might be due to how many of them you fight at a given time and how quickly they can strike you, but it seems like my gear is always much worse off after I figut them than any other mob.
I thought that perhaps I must have imagined the following, until it happened a second time. There is an enraging fog crawler with 4500 armour resistance (4500 according to the perk that lets you see the various ratings when looking at an enemy in VATS). It might always be a legendary variant. Both times encountered was during the 'fog condensers down' attack on Longfellow's cabin island.
@@NorthRainProductions I recall not knowing what the actual name of them was when I first moved to El Paso, but once I found out that they are mostly harmless to us I couldn’t help but watch them when I had the opportunity.
Funny thing about Cazadors. You can unlock the recipe for turbo, a chem that makes you The Flash, through Yabba Dabba Honeymoon doing the Great Khans questline. And it is made with cazador poison glands and turpentine. I didn't just learn how to throw dirt from those homeless guys.
Two things on cazadors. One: I feel they're overhyped. Once you get solid access to Hollowpoint rounds, they die super quickly. And alot of the time they're in open spaces (such as the big area in front of vault 22), so you can just snipe them. Two: I really hope in futures installments cazadors get their parasitic traits shown. Imagine walking into a cazador nest only to see still alive, but paralyzed, geckos, humans, or even deathclaws with subtle movements from their insides showing that the larva has infested them. It would be fucking gnarly and terrifying. You could even have a unique gameplay element with it, where some times a young cazador could pop out of the creature and attack you.
About your first point, I think it’s fine that they aren’t tanky, they are glass cannons that swarm you and it’s good they have a weakness that we can exploit About your second point, agreed! I swore you could sometimes find corpses with their eggs inside them but I’m probably just misremembering things. Plus we already have code and animations for young bloodworms incubating (and exploding out of) Brahmin corpses so they could definitely add something like that for Cazadors!
I agree on both points. I think that they're so overhyped because people went north from Goodsprings and happened upon the road with cazadores instead of the one with deathclaws. Even without hollow points, they're fairly easy to deal with by level 10 or 15.
@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem That's almost verbatim of what I said when I made a tumblr post about it a few months ago. People went north and got shwacked and have been upset about it since.
I think the reason some people make a big deal out of them is the build they're running. A melee/unarmed or explosive build is definitely at a huge disadvantage against cazadors. I haven't been scared of them for a long time until I tried doing an explosive only run on very hard and hardcore mode. Theyre worse than even deathclaws under those conditions.
Your suggestion sounds similar to what they did with the bloodworms in nukaworld. I absolutely hated them, not in a bad way. They just kept scaring tf outta me
I remember playing New Vegas when it first came out, knowing nothing about the existence of Cazadors. Absolutely freaked me out when I was coming over a hill and three of them annihilated me.
someone made a mod combining a cazadore with a deathclaw, the Cazaclaw. The mod's initial comment posts were varieties of either "NOPE" or "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
I feel like young cazadores should have less physical damage and more poison damage since they’re young and can’t meter out their venom. They just dump it all at once.
That also makes me think that a cazador sting would be less (or at least no more) painful than a real world tarantula hawk sting, since there’s a correlation between insect size and venom potency
i fell asleep to this last night and all i remember is the cazadors, they were my friends in my dream about work. like they were my coworkers?? i think i need a vacation and another new vegas play through
The legendary cazador being difficult to fight... I guess I didn't actually "fight" it when I one-shotted it with a sneak attack critical (using Maria) in my latest run.
Just started a new game of New Vegas recently and the Entomologist perk is such a blessing. From Giant Radscorpions over the ant swarms of the dry lakes to of course the vnomous nightmares that are Cazadors, this perk is a must-have for survival in the Mojave!
It looks to me like those eyes on the glowing fog crawlers aren't eyes but pits (the organ that allows snakes to have "heat vision"), although why a crustacean has them, i don't know.
Cazador are easy to defeat with any explosive weapons, as they are not only high damage, but can hit a bunch at once, and can cripple with wings, antenna, and limbs quite easily if they survived.
Just imagine dying from a overgrown mutated tarantula hawk, all Aliens style, with the baby bugs eating their way out of you, that's just utterly horrifying 😅😂
Dr Boris' claims that the Cazadors are sterile and perfectly contained sounds a lot like the similar ignorance displayed by the scientists at Jurassic Park
Where are the Bloatflies? They are annoying, especially with they're range attacks, spitting and launching their larva at you. Which burrow in to the skin.
Only way I could handle cazadors was a super sledge and poison resistance. You charge them quickly before they disburse and vats/swing quickly. They die in 1 to 2 hits. I've never used melee so much in a fallout game but my favorite rifle couldn't do a thing to them except waste ammo so, gunbuild with only melee points from side stuff worked. For the big ones in the tunnels, I hugged a wall and unleashed my granade and mine stash. Hope this helps any but they were worse than anything I fought in the fallout series thus far 😂
man I cant even lie, that "damn nature, you scary" really caught me off guard. had to run it back like 4 times cuz it was just too funny. love the humor as always brother, keep on informing the masses of these wasteland oddities.
Pretty sure the vampiric bloodbug is called that because it usually uses the blood to heal itself. I've had them at literally one health, tanking combat shotgun rounds all because it got a bite in first.
Cazador's arent THAT bad when youre a higher level. However I still physically flinch when I hear them in game and see them coming for me. The venom and their swarming tactics makes me run through stimpacks like super mutants cant
Cazadors don’t have good flying characteristics. If you can get above them with a steep slope or cliff between them and yourself you can take care of them fairly quickly.
As a person who has a severe phobia of wasps, bees, yellow jackets, and hornets when I saw the cazador for the first time I literally freaked out but DON'T think that you can lead it to the quarry like I did 😂
I would imagine insects are a problem for feral ghouls, especially swarming ones. I could see a feral ghoul being dragged off by a swarm of giant ants.
Male Bloodbugs probably aren't seen very much because they are obligate herbivores. They subsist off of nectar. Only female mosquitoes suck blood and they only do it to get some extra protein for when they are laying eggs. So Male mosquitoes are (given the relative lack of flowers) either completely eradicated or exist in fairly small numbers. Reproduction would still be possible through females only if they can reproduce via Parthenogenesis (cloning of the self) so the males wouldn't be necessary. It might also promote increased sexual dimorphism since the males don't get any benefit from growing bigger and therefore requiring more energy, whereas the females might if they actually switched over to blood for nutrition. Though unlikely. Not the most genetically stable method but then again, I think highly irradiated bugs have other things to worry about in that regard.
36:58 Here in Sweden, they decided to translate the title of that movie to "spindlarna" or "the Spiders". I have no idea why, there are no giant spiders in said movie (it's almost like they couldn't be bothered to try cause they wanted to go home early).
Fun fact: tarantula hawk wasps are the second most painful stinging or biting insect in the world. The bullet ant has the most painful bite and third most painful sting in the world.
Listened to almost every video while driving 1400 miles last week. Could only listen for obvious reasons, but every one is superb, keep em coming!
The British mind can’t comprehend
Same here man always love listening to his videos on the drive
@@Dctctx 1400 miles =
2253.082 kilometers
@@rwm4604I was talking about driving 1400 miles
I listen to these vids when i lay down for bed 😅
The royal jelly being able to be broken down into antiseptic is probably a reference to Honey having some natural antibacterial traits to it.
I just left a Microsoft Teams meeting where one of the participants had to run off camera from a wasp that got in, so this is well-timed.
Wasp hitman
One of my favouritist lines ever involves these creepy crawlies. I just love the FO4 Super Mutant line "Ha! You hit like a Radroach."
I smashed a mutants arm off with Atoms Judgement clearing out the hotel in far harbor and he shouted "You hit like s radroach" with a missing arm and a 3rd of his hp
@@derianarce2686tis but a scratch
@@misteranthropy7082 A scratch? Your arm's off!
@@Shinyspddmnno it's not
It's just a flesh wound
@@derianarce2686 High confidence low intelligence.
As a pest control technician in Arizona, believe me when I tell you, you'd rather have an angry Asian Hornet after you than a Tarantula Hawk. They're super aggressive and wildly territorial.
@@BigBrotherThink1 damn they really the worst insects of the world 😱
@@BigBrotherThink1 This sounds like a choice of problems that would make me reconsider my preferred continent to live on.
In a Fallout flavored tabletop game that I've been running set in the New York and New Jersey area I decided to try to make some unique monsters, one of which was something I decided to call a "Nightlight," which is a hybrid between a moth and a lightning bug. They're mostly harmless but like nibbling on electronics.
So it's interesting to know that fireflies are an actual thing in game as well since I haven't had a chance to check out 76 yet. Honeybeasts are a really interesting design, so I might have to include them as well when I get the chance!
Thanks again for more great content to keep me company while I work!
If you haven't played 76 yet, I recommend giving it a go. Same Fallout gameplay with a little more survival thrown in. The perk system is kind of the same, but you can't max every special out. The community is a mixed bag, but for the most part I've had really good experiences. I'm currently level 65 and I had a lovely level 1010 gift my brother and I matching custom painted T-60 sets just because he liked the prices at the vending machine in my base. Oh, yeah. You can build bases, there's a player economy, and....you can launch nukes across the map. Sorry, I went on a tangent. Honeybeasts are super cool, but absolute tanks if you're not running an energy or incendiary weapon. There are also Radtoads, which are about as horrifying as they sound. The fireflies are passive mobs, but do drop bioluminescent fluid when dispatched.
The idea of this moth/lightning bug hybrid following me around trying to eat my flashlight and radio is both adorable and terrifying.
My players thought they were adorable until they started trying to nibble on the vault dweller's Pip Boy. Then their opinion changed VERY quickly.
@BibliophileEmi Just keep all electronics off and stowed at night is my first reaction, I'm probably your worst nightmare as a DM. I will adopt the death claw and name him "spike"
Having gotten Dengue fever from mosquitos while in India for work, and almost dying from it within a day from severe dehydration I would be terrified what diseases Bloodbugs, and other insects would give
Damn, glad you made it through alive, my friend. I've always heard that mosquitos spread more diseases more than any animal in the world, but hearing how fast it took you is terrifying.
That sounds genuinely terrible, DAMN
Cazadores...nothing scares me more than watching those red compass pips zip around. Thank the Gunrunners for 5mm JSP and Assault Carbines
@@hammerheadxray8152 It's just wrong to hate anything more than a cazadore
You just amit to thy harm of holy cazadors what unforgivable sin you rude person
@@GreatDoomer the Mothman Cult on the West coast has a much more extreme form of worship I see
Thank god for baseball bats
Brush gun is good against them, it's my go-to
I was stung by a Tarantula Hawk once, one of the worst experiences of my life. They're relatively common where I live, so even though they're usually pretty docile towards humans, I tend to give them a wide berth. Super interesting and oddly beautiful insects, though. And an excellent fit for the Fallout universe.
As a person with a phobia of most bugs, Fallout can be a challenge sometimes.
I had a friend legit use fallout 4 as exposure therapy. Results were... Mixed 😂
@@KhrZygarde As someone who HATES roaches, Fallout 4 was a nightmare in some parts when I first started it. Especially when the legendary ones spawn as the variants as large as the player 😭
@@Sike_Ward it's the man sised bloatflys for me seeing those things explode and multiply right in front of my eyes 😂
Makes me wonder how well do you with shotgunning cazadores.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Not well, My fear is mostly towards wasps, hornets and yellow jackets.
I don't remember exactly but I feel like Bighorner Bulls drop more XP than Cazadors which is kinda silly... Jsawyer was totally clowning on us...
@@FriendlyArchpriest i know the bulls can barely fight back and drop 61 XP a pop going up to Jacobs Town after reaching new Vegas is a great way to level up
@@Gail-no9py I usually leave farming them to the endgame, after I finished most things in the Mojave before doing the DLCs, and so I clean the entire map over and over out of respawnable creatures, Bighorner Bulls and Fire Geckos are my favorite prey, although I end up hunting everything anyways.
I always end up in the hills with a long rifle earning that bighorner xp
You monsters i never even knew what they were worth because i never killed them
Cheese
That pipboy sound as the picture came up was icing on the cake tbh you just keep raising the quality of already outstanding videos and I love it
Nice profile picture
I love Hendrix.
I've always loved the classic B movies with giant insects caused by some kind of atomic energy or radiation and Fallout really captures that feel
Always reminds me of "Them!" An old black and white movie about giant radiation mutated ants. I feel like it is a very Fallout kind of movie.
I could totally see the prewar US government finding giant ants and covering it up while either trying to destroy them or to weaponize them.
I remember I was fighting Shipbreaker in Far Harbor and I wasn't doing good damage, was getting heavily damaged and was using lots of medicine. The fight was very intense and I didn't think I was gonna win, then suddenly a group of raiders joined the fight. They surprised me and I thought it was going to lead to my death but as Shipbreaker killed the lesser raiders I was able to separate a legendary raider and kill him and he luckily dropped a legendary Gatling Laser (It might have been knee cappers or unlimited, I forgot) But it helped me take down shipbreaker and survive. This is one of my favorite memories of a fight in the Fallout games and is why i love Far Harbor.
Cazadors scare the hell out of me, makes me wonder if they're coming to the season 2 of The Fallout series. I'm also wondering if we find a new facility that has a unique bug like creature in the next Fallout game.
The fact that not only are beetles not the most common irradiated insect, but that there are NO beetles in ANY of the games (that I know of) is a crime.
I’m still haunted by the sound of Cave Crickets
Spitting up the blood, is like animals who throw up/soil themselves before fleeing from a predator. The blood bug realizes it didn't critically injure us and spits the blood in our face to stop us from hurting it. the full belly slows it down.
Was thinking the same thing, like how sea cucumbers will fire out their own intestines to escape predators. Nate/Nora and the seventysixers are just built different compared to the usual prey of the blood bugs!
radking on a rainy day, thank god
Such a good vibe
The Cazadore is one of the only creatures I always use VATS for.
Spastic creatures.
Yeah, they're so hard to hit even from stealth. They zoomie all over like a hyperactive toddler on red bull and crack.
I combine shotguns with a companion that is really into melee...
Yeah my brother says not to use vats but I think he was messing with me but I use vats all the time
I hear ya! I've never liked VATS ever since the first game (before it was named such), & I only really use it on Cazadors, Bloatflies, & sometimes Bloodbugs. The great majority of my VATS use is for scanning (usually for mines/ traps before I get the Light Step perk). Kind of a pisser that so many of the F4 perks are VATS oriented.
I wonder if Dr. Borous' mentioning creating Cazadors on a Tuesday is a reference to the Street Fighter Movie (Dialogue below for reference):
"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."
As someone who lives in a state with yellow jackets, mutated yellow jackets should be much more terrifying.
I just realized there's no spider enemies in Fallout like RadSpiders or RadTarantulas I'm kinda glad but also kinda curious what they would look like. Thank you RadKing for doing these creature videos they awesome looking forward to the next one!
I really like the idea of insects with symbiotic relationships having deeper mechanics/lore. Honeybees evolved to be huge and display different hierarchies, but it’d be fascinating if that was caused by feeding on radioactive flowers or breathing radioactive smoke/fog. Butterflies are another cool example of symbiotic insects, as are dung beetles and silkworms!
cazadors are the reason I always rush Big MT, for the immune to poison perk. Oh and because its my fave DLC in the game.. but hey.. :D love the think tank.
Since I don't have time to play these days I can enjoy listening to these . Can't wait to get back to fallout
A type of rolley polley that's just basically a bug version of an armadillo would be kinda neat. Probably docile, but still got the classic bug creepout factor with the spindly legs and antennae.
Cazadors really aren't all that bad if you remember to cripple their wings first. They lose a lot of that scary when they're stuck waddling on the ground like a radroach.
Idk man I feel like getting knocked out and getting a cutscene showing it drag you away then waking up in the nest and having to escape would be kinda crazy
I need a mod of this now.
Starting the video with the Cazadore was a brave choice. The built in trauma responce almost had me closing out immediately. Biggest threat to my usual sniping build. Too small, too fast, too erratic, too perceptive, and that venom does not care at all about silly damage reduction. You get like one VATS shot and if that missed its on top of you.
I'm kind of glad cazadors build nests.
The idea of one of those things stinging someone to paralysis and laying an egg inside them would be genuine high octane nightmare fuel.
You should probably do a video on armor. I think that would be really interesting. Talk covering all the armor of fallout from the NCR Rangers to the legionnaires. You could be an interesting video
"Ah, fire ants. because they're red and their bite burns like fire?"
"No"
"What do you mean, no?"
"they breath fire"
I tend to listen to your vids while I take walks, keep me entertained the whole time.
I'd like to mention that "THOSE!" is also apparently a movie in the Fallout universe, and you can hear clips from the movie as part of an ad via the Pirate Radio station.
Shoutout to Dr. Lesko's Voice actor performance. Man crushed that role
I like the pip boy sfx with the background changes
Maybe its just me, but another thing I've noticed about cazadores is how quickly they can degrade your armor. It might be due to how many of them you fight at a given time and how quickly they can strike you, but it seems like my gear is always much worse off after I figut them than any other mob.
I thought that perhaps I must have imagined the following, until it happened a second time. There is an enraging fog crawler with 4500 armour resistance (4500 according to the perk that lets you see the various ratings when looking at an enemy in VATS). It might always be a legendary variant. Both times encountered was during the 'fog condensers down' attack on Longfellow's cabin island.
I always thought that they somehow added an extra zero and never noticed it.
I live in the Mojave, I see tarantula hawks a lot out here, just saw one at sunset tonight. I love em, pretty docile until they're agitated.
@@NorthRainProductions I recall not knowing what the actual name of them was when I first moved to El Paso, but once I found out that they are mostly harmless to us I couldn’t help but watch them when I had the opportunity.
Bro forgot to mention the fact that “Heartless” makes you completely immune to poison, which just makes cazadors a complete joke.
a new radking video to watch at work?? perfect
Funny thing about Cazadors. You can unlock the recipe for turbo, a chem that makes you The Flash, through Yabba Dabba Honeymoon doing the Great Khans questline. And it is made with cazador poison glands and turpentine.
I didn't just learn how to throw dirt from those homeless guys.
Two things on cazadors.
One: I feel they're overhyped. Once you get solid access to Hollowpoint rounds, they die super quickly. And alot of the time they're in open spaces (such as the big area in front of vault 22), so you can just snipe them.
Two: I really hope in futures installments cazadors get their parasitic traits shown. Imagine walking into a cazador nest only to see still alive, but paralyzed, geckos, humans, or even deathclaws with subtle movements from their insides showing that the larva has infested them. It would be fucking gnarly and terrifying. You could even have a unique gameplay element with it, where some times a young cazador could pop out of the creature and attack you.
About your first point, I think it’s fine that they aren’t tanky, they are glass cannons that swarm you and it’s good they have a weakness that we can exploit
About your second point, agreed! I swore you could sometimes find corpses with their eggs inside them but I’m probably just misremembering things. Plus we already have code and animations for young bloodworms incubating (and exploding out of) Brahmin corpses so they could definitely add something like that for Cazadors!
I agree on both points. I think that they're so overhyped because people went north from Goodsprings and happened upon the road with cazadores instead of the one with deathclaws. Even without hollow points, they're fairly easy to deal with by level 10 or 15.
@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem That's almost verbatim of what I said when I made a tumblr post about it a few months ago. People went north and got shwacked and have been upset about it since.
I think the reason some people make a big deal out of them is the build they're running. A melee/unarmed or explosive build is definitely at a huge disadvantage against cazadors. I haven't been scared of them for a long time until I tried doing an explosive only run on very hard and hardcore mode. Theyre worse than even deathclaws under those conditions.
Your suggestion sounds similar to what they did with the bloodworms in nukaworld. I absolutely hated them, not in a bad way. They just kept scaring tf outta me
I remember playing New Vegas when it first came out, knowing nothing about the existence of Cazadors. Absolutely freaked me out when I was coming over a hill and three of them annihilated me.
May Atom ⚛️ radiate ur paths
I read this as radiate your pants at first
@@AdminAbuse May our holy Atom shit your pants. 🙏
May the wise one’s wings shelter you on your journey
Those dang cazadores sure are a nuisance!
4:30 that slap fight was so hilarious I had to make note of it
Babe wake up new RadKing video just dropped
What i ask me all the time, when i play Fallout. Where are the Spiders?
someone made a mod combining a cazadore with a deathclaw, the Cazaclaw. The mod's initial comment posts were varieties of either "NOPE" or "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
The Honeybeast was an awesome addition. Caught me totally off guard the first time.
Fire ants could've evolved on their own in New Vegas because of something in their diet/environment since there are also fire geckos in the area
30:15 ants throwing it back
I was like AYO is the ant getting backshots?? 😩😩
5:56. Damn, those Cazador's look like they've been fed a cocktail of chems.
I feel like young cazadores should have less physical damage and more poison damage since they’re young and can’t meter out their venom. They just dump it all at once.
That also makes me think that a cazador sting would be less (or at least no more) painful than a real world tarantula hawk sting, since there’s a correlation between insect size and venom potency
@@mrziiz6893 Makes a lot of sense. Don't need the poison as much if your stinger is large enough to be crippling (if not lethal) on its own.
wonderful as usual, Rad. keep it up.
I have an intense fear of bugs, why the hell am I watching this lmao
I love bugs that's why I'm watching
Because it’s not that deep.
Learn thy enemy!!
Exposure therapy maybe?
Have you ever thought about doing a series on Fallout's fractions??? Oh and what are your thoughts on Fallout London???
My favourite fraction is 5 over 10! Jk. But I would love to see a fallout faction vid too
Listening to rad king while I work is always so helpful. Keeps the distractible part of my brain busy so I can work
50:55 the “wha..?” Killed me
My fellow Child of Atom! What a glorious, glowing day it is to see you again.
Looking forward to part 2, which will no doubt feature my least favorite creepy crawler from Fallout 76, the Tick
i fell asleep to this last night and all i remember is the cazadors, they were my friends in my dream about work. like they were my coworkers?? i think i need a vacation and another new vegas play through
I am very interrested in ants and its refreshing to see a youtuber did his homework for the video.
What if... The 76 Fogcrawlers are the result of escaped and mutated grocery store seafood. Like how we would see live lobsters? 🤯
The legendary cazador being difficult to fight... I guess I didn't actually "fight" it when I one-shotted it with a sneak attack critical (using Maria) in my latest run.
Fun fact about the cazador, if you cripple both wings it kills them.
That's my go-to move, and I don't remember them ever outright dying from it 🤔
I'm a simple follower of Atom. I see RadKing: i click.
@@Crackmiser what do you mean?
Does not compute
@@Crackmiser bro what?
Yeah... Its the Cazador. They just move so creepily. Good luck hitting those in a panic. And there will be panic.
Just started a new game of New Vegas recently and the Entomologist perk is such a blessing. From Giant Radscorpions over the ant swarms of the dry lakes to of course the vnomous nightmares that are Cazadors, this perk is a must-have for survival in the Mojave!
It looks to me like those eyes on the glowing fog crawlers aren't eyes but pits (the organ that allows snakes to have "heat vision"), although why a crustacean has them, i don't know.
likely to see reasonably in the fog.
I find that the hunting shotgun with the modified choke and double oot buck shot works best against cazadores
I grew up in AZ, tarantula hawks as almost as terrifying in real life as in FNV. I’ve never seen people SCATTER the way they do when someone sees one
I found that thrown explosives often disabled cazador wings, making them a lot less mobile and easier to deal with.
the fog crawler is a mutated bullet shrimp
Cazador are easy to defeat with any explosive weapons, as they are not only high damage, but can hit a bunch at once, and can cripple with wings, antenna, and limbs quite easily if they survived.
I feel like the courier succumbing to the cazador's sting actually is them being paralyzed
Just imagine dying from a overgrown mutated tarantula hawk, all Aliens style, with the baby bugs eating their way out of you, that's just utterly horrifying 😅😂
Thank you for your content brother. Always 100/100
I believe it is explained in lore that the Fog Crawlers are mutated Mantis Shrimp.
Dr Boris' claims that the Cazadors are sterile and perfectly contained sounds a lot like the similar ignorance displayed by the scientists at Jurassic Park
thats the point
Now I want a fallout jurrasic park crossover. Imagine mutated dinos!!
Where are the Bloatflies? They are annoying, especially with they're range attacks, spitting and launching their larva at you. Which burrow in to the skin.
Liking and commenting before watching video so I can boost it again when I do come back to fully watch it
Only way I could handle cazadors was a super sledge and poison resistance. You charge them quickly before they disburse and vats/swing quickly. They die in 1 to 2 hits. I've never used melee so much in a fallout game but my favorite rifle couldn't do a thing to them except waste ammo so, gunbuild with only melee points from side stuff worked. For the big ones in the tunnels, I hugged a wall and unleashed my granade and mine stash. Hope this helps any but they were worse than anything I fought in the fallout series thus far 😂
What makes Cazadors extra hard to hit is when they glitch in and out of the terrain due to the shoddy engine.
man I cant even lie, that "damn nature, you scary" really caught me off guard. had to run it back like 4 times cuz it was just too funny. love the humor as always brother, keep on informing the masses of these wasteland oddities.
New Vegas was my first fallout game. Damn those cazadors!
Pretty sure the vampiric bloodbug is called that because it usually uses the blood to heal itself. I've had them at literally one health, tanking combat shotgun rounds all because it got a bite in first.
if dr boris isn't mistaken or lying, if cazadors were made on a tuesday in may 2003, they might have been created on the day i was born
Cazador's arent THAT bad when youre a higher level. However I still physically flinch when I hear them in game and see them coming for me. The venom and their swarming tactics makes me run through stimpacks like super mutants cant
Cazadors don’t have good flying characteristics. If you can get above them with a steep slope or cliff between them and yourself you can take care of them fairly quickly.
As a person who has a severe phobia of wasps, bees, yellow jackets, and hornets when I saw the cazador for the first time I literally freaked out but DON'T think that you can lead it to the quarry like I did 😂
The flying bugs were always the worst
I would imagine insects are a problem for feral ghouls, especially swarming ones.
I could see a feral ghoul being dragged off by a swarm of giant ants.
Male Bloodbugs probably aren't seen very much because they are obligate herbivores. They subsist off of nectar. Only female mosquitoes suck blood and they only do it to get some extra protein for when they are laying eggs.
So Male mosquitoes are (given the relative lack of flowers) either completely eradicated or exist in fairly small numbers. Reproduction would still be possible through females only if they can reproduce via Parthenogenesis (cloning of the self) so the males wouldn't be necessary. It might also promote increased sexual dimorphism since the males don't get any benefit from growing bigger and therefore requiring more energy, whereas the females might if they actually switched over to blood for nutrition. Though unlikely.
Not the most genetically stable method but then again, I think highly irradiated bugs have other things to worry about in that regard.
more people need to sub to this guy
36:58 Here in Sweden, they decided to translate the title of that movie to "spindlarna" or "the Spiders". I have no idea why, there are no giant spiders in said movie (it's almost like they couldn't be bothered to try cause they wanted to go home early).
Fun fact: tarantula hawk wasps are the second most painful stinging or biting insect in the world. The bullet ant has the most painful bite and third most painful sting in the world.
oh no... they accidentally added an extra zero in the enraged fog crawler's DR didn't they.....
Wow I've never caught a video this early before, hell yeah.