more like, thats the leader of Obsidian. He hated the Sentient Deathclaws so much he glitch-removed the way you can save their kind. Basically he was a Sneedclaver.
@@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme7 Can kind of see where he was coming from, Sentient deathclaw are kind of on the edge of a bit too silly even for fallout, which in every game from 1-4 has had silly elements alongside very serious ones, though on the other hand are also cool enough kind of wish the bethesda games had them, or at least an isolated deathclaw intelligent enough to speak, as Fawkes stands out among the eastern super mutants. The fallout 4 deathclaw design is so cool, just want a companion deathclaw, Bethesda, please
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 Sentient Deathclaws are 'too silly for Fallout' - even though in Fallout 2 we also had Skynet, an AI made from Alien Technology, a Psyker guiding your path, all the shit from New Reno... Oh, and Fallout 1 you fought an army of magically-mutated Mutants controlled by a psychic-blob of flesh and Cybernetics. Sentient Deathclaws are too silly. /s
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 In Fallout New Vegas, you literally do Elvis a favour by taking his robot dog (Who has the markings of Roman Cosplayers that do slavery and conquering on the side) to get brain surgery at a ski lodge run by big mutants. You also have a quest to go out prostitute scouting, of which you get an old man, a rotting ghoul dominatrix, and a robot literally named "Fisto" a job at a casino. Fuck ya talkin' bout too silly?
I like how the Templin Institute can afford to describe things like the Brotherhood- Enclave War as a “petty squabble” considering they’ve investigated the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, or the Galactic Civil War
@@anthemanatheme1638 China probably launched Nukes first, the Enclave are so bad because they never learned from that conflict. They are literally the American government if it went fascist. Hell, I think Fallout 2 straight-up calls them Republicans. This is why the Enclave are always the bad guys, they never learned from their path of violence and were actively trying to kill the survivors of the massacre.
You know, in every game franchise, there's always that one recurring enemy you always dread having to face. Malboros in Final Fantasy spring to mind instantly for me. And these guys? Oh yeah, definitely on that list 😏
@@dragonclaw4159 Dragons in D&D obviously. Giants in Skyrim, maybe Dragons too. Behemoths from Final Fantasy, and some dragons too. Ogers from Dragon Age...also Dragons. Just stay afraid of Dragons in video games, they are typically not easy.
@@mikeshogunlee Deathclaws could basically be defined as a bipedal, wingless dragon, since some older medieval sagas have those without. Albeit much smaller! That being said, some depictions of dragons are about the size of a knight on a steed, so, maybe not. Yeah i know they're not dragons but i'm having fun here.
It’s called Vault 13. Actually, there were Humans in that during Fallout 1 but were replaced by the intelligent deathclaws in Fallout 2. Some point between the 2 games the Enclave came and killed all the people who lived inside and started their deathclaw experiment that soon later resulted into the intelligent deathclaws.
I think Deathclaws have some kind of crocodilian DNA in them, explainign the scute types, the musculature of the tails, the back ridges, large teeth, etc. And I think they've got some kind of mammalian DNA, explaining defined head features such as brow, nose, snout, and forward-facing eyes, as well as intelligence, limb structure, the leaner body with more defined hips and rib cage. I also like the idea that the beefier, more reclusive deathclaws seen in Fallout are more akin to how deathclaws evolved in the wild, as megafauna hunters, whereas the lankier deathclaws seen in game 3 and New Vegas are more akin to those the Master claims to have furthered developed, being more a kind of ferocious pack hunter, better able to surround and wipe out groups of human infantry.
@@GritimoTheOdd I don't really care tbh, they clearly have a lot of traits that are not just hap-hazard genetically engineered distortions of chameleons, their deign is clearly inspired by other animals, and if you wanted to genetically engineer something, you would start by lifting genes from other animals. What else would you do, run a computer program that tries out random gene combinations and tries to simulate what the proteins they code for would do? If they have crocodile tails and scales, a mammal face, bird talons, the simplest explanation is that there is something of those critters in there. I will assume that they are hybrids until Bethesda definitively comes to my house and says they're not, at which point I will just get mad, and decide I am right and Bethesda are just wronger now that they've doubled down on it. Or they can redesign them to actually look like malformed chameleons, at which point I'll at least accept that's what they are, as silly as it would be.
They were genetically engineered by the military using Jackson chameleons before the bombs, in Fallout 3 the enclave even had camps trying to capture and control them, had some in vats in their bunker. Deathjaws are similar monsters that actually are mutated gators
@@tomleary508 Cazadores come in relatively small numbers, are very fast, and their poison hyper deadly. But besides that they are fairly weak (mid to late game of course).
Quite possibly one of the coolest original creature made in a video game! I love all the various deathclaw subspecies, and there insanely tough nature! Even the young ones scare me. Design wise it feels both grounded but fantastical at once and i love them. Wiukd be interesting seeing them go against dinosaurs
@@EmonWBKstudios animals can be quite monstrous in it of themselves depending on the species and temperament. Even if it’s an Unnatural one the deathclaws an animal too by that prospect.
The main issue with more modern deathclaws in 4 and 76 is that they are just meant to “look scary” instead of being a big threat. Especially since they never seem to be in groups in the newer games
They spawn in max 2 at a time. Another issue is how slow they are (and how they constantly stop to throw dirt at you), if you have decent agility and aren't using a mobility restricting weapon, you can easily outrun the F:4/76 Deathclaws. Combined with the horrible weapons/armour progession, and they becometrivialto deal with once you have any experience. Whereas, unless you cripple their legs, you aren't out running any of the other games Deathclaws.
Oh boy, the "let's throw all the scary genes into a pot with some FEV and see how it goes!" Boys... Honestly given all the pre war experiments of animals that went horribly wrong, I would say that the death claws turned out surprisingly good in the fact they're not twisted cronenburg monstrosities...
"So he dresses up in this Deathclaw Suit, and then..." "Wanna pretend we're Deathclaws in mating Season?" -New Reno Hookers, *Fallout 2 predicting the future.*
Inspired _heavily_ by Dungeons & Dragons' Tarrasque, and originally conceptualized to have fur similar to the appearance of a werewolf. The most bizarre thing is that they are, apparently, forcefully evolved from horned chameleons. That is the original canon, that is my preferred canon. Goris is my favorite talking Deathclaw, an educated badass through and through.
I remember the Lone Wanderer was once able to clear out a Deathclaw infestation of a town north of DC. He used a special type of crossbow that fired darts that slowed them down dramatically and then once the Deathclaw, began to follow use Frag mines and Plasma mines to finish it off. Rinse and repeat.
My very first Deathclaw encounter was in Fallout 3. I saw it, took out a missile launcher, and slammed a missile into its head. I then promptly yelled “what the...” when it ignored the blast and promptly ripped me to shreds.
@@stevenblackwell4903Eh, if you're a noob, it's alright for starting the conversation, but you really should move on to a Fatman before it gets going (or take the easy way and bring a Dartgun). If you've got some experience under your belt you should able to carry the it using a shotgun or any rifle.
They are a disappointment to fight (despite technically being the best in everything but speed), but they are definitely the best looking by a long shot!
A nice wasteland classic for a sunny October day. I wonder if they’ll do another one for the 23rd. Edit: something I forgot about then because today felt so far away was that today, October the 23rd, 2022, my big sister got married and I got to walk my mother to our seats of honor and all the while seeing both of my parents be happy; so today’s date has become extra special to me.
Deathclaws in lore: will tear open power armor like it's nothing and not break a sweat Deathclaws in game: nooo don't shoot me with explosive anti material rifle rounds please
(Fallout 2 Spoilers ahead) Okay, isn't it canon that the Vault 13 Colony of Intellectually enhanced Deathclaws survive the Enclave? If you destroy the Enclave soon enough, they don't wipe out the Deathclaws and I believe that ending was made canon. Also, even if they got wiped out, there was one survivor of the Colony that is your companion while your out adventuring, and that Deathclaw breeding in other less intelligent variants of their kind would add some interesting genes to the gene pool. Also, let it be added that there was a "Secret Service" Agent who had been experimented on (I cannot remember his name) turned into an absolute beast (he was so big they had to just fit pieces of an especially enlarged suit of X-01/2 Power Armor onto him for armor) and was so powerful he could kill a fully grown Deathclaw in one punch (in the ending to the game where the Vault 13 Colony of Deathclaws are wiped out, he leads the assault...) Let that sink in. Edit: I also wish they had added to this video how the Deathclaws had saved a mother and child from a raider attack. A raider was just closing in on them, preparing to kill them or worse, when a giant, clawed hand reached form the darkness and tore him into pieces. The child and mother were even more terrified to find a pack of Deathclaws wiping out the raiders that had been killing them before realizing that the Deathclaw that had saved them was speaking to them, telling them they were safe, that nothing bad would happen to them now. The mother remained pretty scared of them (who wouldn't be...) but the child ended up loving them, it was cute... that would have been an amazing addition to this video.
They have changed. When the prototypes were created the progenitors they were sterile. And that was intentional. Down the years they have been able to overcome it breeding like rabbits.
I'd kinda love to see Templin Institute do Volitales from Dyling light franchise? Only 2 games so far so noy sure, but when it comes to terrifying creatures in pop culture Volitales Xenomorph/Alien The Thing and of course Deathclaws
Deathclaws: roughly humanoid , tall , angery, armoured killing machines made by biological science World eaters: roughly humanoid : tall, angry , armoured killing machines made in biological science Coincidence? I think not
@@megatronjenkins2473, Warhammer 40k. The World Eaters are a legion of traitor Astartes who worship the Blood God Khorne and kill in his name. They're also always really REALLY angry all the time, because they have spikes implanted into their brains.
Thank you Templin! You will not regret this! If you make a 3 part version of Death Claws I will watch! I will bring my friends to my house to watch! I will create more accounts just to watch!
Deathclaws are awesome, but it's hard to see them truly becoming a dominant species. Their physical abilities and capacity for cognition would probably require a HUGE number of calories, more than the blighted landscape of post-nuclear Earth could provide in the long-term...
I'm not afraid of nole rats. I'm not afraid of rad roaches. I'm not even afraid of super mutants. Deathclaws? Let's just say if I see or hear an OP deathclaw in the area I run as fast as I can in the opposite direction. Still it is my favorite mutant beast in the waste lands. If I were a raider I'd keep an arena fulled with death claws among other beasts to punish my rivals.
One deathclaw is easy enough to take take by a well equipped wastelander. Anti-material rifles, gauss rifles, or heavy duty energy weapons are preferred. However, a pack of deathclaws can prove to be a problem. Or being attacked while in the middle of a firefight with raiders can turn a bad situation into a nightmare. Worse still is an ambush in close quarters. In Fallout 1 and 2. Deathclaws are incredibly tough and never alone. Fallout 3 had easy mode on with the poison dart gun. New Vegas returned more to form of 1 and 2. Kill the bastards from a distance. Fallout 4 Deathclaws could be a problem if they caught you unaware. Fallout Tactics, though considered not canonical. The more intelligent subspecies of Midwestern Deathclaws could speak. Their high speed and sneak abilities made me choose my battles. Often forming my squad up into a firing line in front of a minefield. Weapons free. As the Midwestern Deathclaws could kill my squad quickly in close quarters.
I just wish big super duper biological monsters would make sense. Mutations in all glory, but there's just so much thick hide and muscles you can have before you become an elephant
This is a lot of praise for something that gets beaten easily by a dart gun made out of paint gun, a radscorpion poison glad, some surgical tubing, and a toy car. (Love the video though, Deathclaws are terrifying when I don't have the dart gun)
They're there, in the dark and secluded parts of the commonwealth, but not in the same social capacity as you may have seen in FO3/NV. They're more apex predators like a tiger, rather than pack hunters like wolves in FO4.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 nah, they're the humans, always is. It's more a behaviour description (solitary, big, tough, high dmg output), than a food chain position.
@@MortRotu More like Synths, in that case? Immune to Radiation, immortal, dont need to sleep or eat, has FEV in their blood without looking like monsters. Not to mention Coursers...
I feel sorry for the hapless schnooks who got sent into the wastelands just to capture dangerous creatures like the deathclaws. Are there gonna be more Bestiary videos for the next several weeks? I want to see Mewtwo featured on Bestiary soon.
I've never known a Deathclaw that couldn't be put down with a .308 round or a well placed shot from stealth by an Anti-Material Rifle. Carrying plenty of armor peircing rounds helps, but it isn't necessary. High or practically unassailable ground will help when dealing with Deathclaws but if you ever encounter one on more level ground, aim for the legs with a high caliber weapon. Slowing them down will help, but not guarantee, victory versus these hellspawn abominations.
Apparently, Deathclaws were originally conceptualized as mammalian creatures that were a cross between a brown bear and a wolverine. This was scrapped because the devs couldn't render their fur correctly, and so ended up using a rejected creature design from a different game, which became the Deathclaws we know today. That said, it's interesting to note that *Fallout Tactics* featured Deathclaws that, in addition to being intelligent, were described as being mammal-like. Though, it should be noted that *Tactics* is considered non-canon by Bethesda... The same Bethesda that went on to include references to that game in both *Fallout 3* and *4.* Assuming *Tactics* is at least partially canon, perhaps these creatures are descendents of a "prototype" race of Deathclaws that were created using the DNA of mammalian predators instead of that of reptiles. All the more reason Bethesda should remake *Tactics* to fit into modern Fallout lore. A fight between a devil lizard and roided up honey badger? Yes, please!
I'd say it would be something like Thanonychus Americanus with different subspecies getting different names for their locations like T. Bostonia or T. Nevada
There is one race which is far far deadlier than any of the Deathclaw types, and that is the race known as Player Character. A single Deathclaw can devistate a settlement. But a player can walk into a Deathclaw nest and eliminate them all singlehandedly, and for what? Just that "shiny unique weapon" that is hidden inside somewhere.
I mean, you're probably joking but in most of the fallout games your character is canonically an at least somewhat nonstandard human. the hero of fallout 1 in particular grows to be straight up capable of tanking a mininuke to the face just like the toughest deathclaws and matching them strength for strength all while being a jack of all trades and master of many. think supermutant capabilities but all packed into something still casually indistinguishable from a normal human.
The one thing I'm disappointed by regarding Deathclaw origins and physiology is the fact that they are descended from horned chameleons. Imagine a Deathclaw that had a ranged attack in the form of a barbed, extendable tongue that can pull you in range of its jaws and claws. Would have been a reaily crappy game mechanic (and glitchworthy beyond par due to Bethesda's stupidity) but it also would have been friggin badass.
"they can speak and peacefully exist with humans? Clearly they're too dangerous to be left alive!" yep that's the enclave for ya
more like, thats the leader of Obsidian. He hated the Sentient Deathclaws so much he glitch-removed the way you can save their kind. Basically he was a Sneedclaver.
@@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme7 Can kind of see where he was coming from, Sentient deathclaw are kind of on the edge of a bit too silly even for fallout, which in every game from 1-4 has had silly elements alongside very serious ones, though on the other hand are also cool enough kind of wish the bethesda games had them, or at least an isolated deathclaw intelligent enough to speak, as Fawkes stands out among the eastern super mutants. The fallout 4 deathclaw design is so cool, just want a companion deathclaw, Bethesda, please
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 Sentient Deathclaws are 'too silly for Fallout' - even though in Fallout 2 we also had Skynet, an AI made from Alien Technology, a Psyker guiding your path, all the shit from New Reno...
Oh, and Fallout 1 you fought an army of magically-mutated Mutants controlled by a psychic-blob of flesh and Cybernetics.
Sentient Deathclaws are too silly. /s
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 we had a super mutant in a sundress in fallout new Vegas cmon Bruh
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 In Fallout New Vegas, you literally do Elvis a favour by taking his robot dog (Who has the markings of Roman Cosplayers that do slavery and conquering on the side) to get brain surgery at a ski lodge run by big mutants.
You also have a quest to go out prostitute scouting, of which you get an old man, a rotting ghoul dominatrix, and a robot literally named "Fisto" a job at a casino.
Fuck ya talkin' bout too silly?
I like how the Templin Institute can afford to describe things like the Brotherhood- Enclave War as a “petty squabble” considering they’ve investigated the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, or the Galactic Civil War
Even though it went on for years and the Enclave were literally the people who caused the Great War in the first place.
Enclave- literally genocidal purists
Brotherhood: we just want all the technology and don't care about much else
@@jakespacepiratee3740 debatable. Many sources point to the Chinese starting the Great War, not America.
@@anthemanatheme1638 China probably launched Nukes first, the Enclave are so bad because they never learned from that conflict. They are literally the American government if it went fascist. Hell, I think Fallout 2 straight-up calls them Republicans.
This is why the Enclave are always the bad guys, they never learned from their path of violence and were actively trying to kill the survivors of the massacre.
@@odg1190 "in the context of fallout" *uses an elder scrolls example* right understood Steven understood
Deathclaws: If the Devil got drunk and tried to recreate the dinosaurs.
Oh gosh.
More like tried to create a hybrid of a T-Rex and a raptor
Drunk, no.
High on meth, yes.
@@FredTheTruck And a bull and an alligator.
And damn near succeded
@5:05 "Though Deathclaws do not actively seek out human prey..."
Fallout Veterans: *"Bullshit!"*
I want a return of Intelligent Deathclaws. At least one breeding pair canonically survived the Enclave
Deathclaw waif.
@@darthjekyll3648 There's plenty of that out there if you know where to look. =P
@@darthjekyll3648 They have phat asses.
They were too intelligent for Toddout.
There's Goris, to be fair, and he might have found the means to create more Intelligent Deathclaws after the Enclave's destruction.
You know, in every game franchise, there's always that one recurring enemy you always dread having to face. Malboros in Final Fantasy spring to mind instantly for me. And these guys? Oh yeah, definitely on that list 😏
Hollow knight: screw primal aspids.
Undertale: sans is misery.
Fallout: this freaky beast.
Cazadores come to mind for me
Cazaclaws
@@dragonclaw4159
Dragons in D&D obviously.
Giants in Skyrim, maybe Dragons too.
Behemoths from Final Fantasy, and some dragons too.
Ogers from Dragon Age...also Dragons.
Just stay afraid of Dragons in video games, they are typically not easy.
@@mikeshogunlee Deathclaws could basically be defined as a bipedal, wingless dragon, since some older medieval sagas have those without. Albeit much smaller! That being said, some depictions of dragons are about the size of a knight on a steed, so, maybe not.
Yeah i know they're not dragons but i'm having fun here.
I would love to hear more about this Vault where humans and Deathclaws were coexisting
Frank Horrigan wiped it out in an effort to exterminate the race of abominable Mutants known as Furries.
It’s called Vault 13. Actually, there were Humans in that during Fallout 1 but were replaced by the intelligent deathclaws in Fallout 2. Some point between the 2 games the Enclave came and killed all the people who lived inside and started their deathclaw experiment that soon later resulted into the intelligent deathclaws.
@@alxporrini8563 after that?
@@alicorn3924 The Enclave came back and killed the Deathclaws as well.
@@runningcommentary2125 ah, I see
I think Deathclaws have some kind of crocodilian DNA in them, explainign the scute types, the musculature of the tails, the back ridges, large teeth, etc. And I think they've got some kind of mammalian DNA, explaining defined head features such as brow, nose, snout, and forward-facing eyes, as well as intelligence, limb structure, the leaner body with more defined hips and rib cage.
I also like the idea that the beefier, more reclusive deathclaws seen in Fallout are more akin to how deathclaws evolved in the wild, as megafauna hunters, whereas the lankier deathclaws seen in game 3 and New Vegas are more akin to those the Master claims to have furthered developed, being more a kind of ferocious pack hunter, better able to surround and wipe out groups of human infantry.
I reckon that deathclaws have a bit of human DNA in them
I believe the official lore has it they descended from certain types of Chameleons mutated by FEV, but I'm not 100% on that.
@@GritimoTheOdd I don't really care tbh, they clearly have a lot of traits that are not just hap-hazard genetically engineered distortions of chameleons, their deign is clearly inspired by other animals, and if you wanted to genetically engineer something, you would start by lifting genes from other animals. What else would you do, run a computer program that tries out random gene combinations and tries to simulate what the proteins they code for would do? If they have crocodile tails and scales, a mammal face, bird talons, the simplest explanation is that there is something of those critters in there. I will assume that they are hybrids until Bethesda definitively comes to my house and says they're not, at which point I will just get mad, and decide I am right and Bethesda are just wronger now that they've doubled down on it. Or they can redesign them to actually look like malformed chameleons, at which point I'll at least accept that's what they are, as silly as it would be.
@@thebasedspectre3048 seem logical by how smart they are and their skeleton
They were genetically engineered by the military using Jackson chameleons before the bombs, in Fallout 3 the enclave even had camps trying to capture and control them, had some in vats in their bunker. Deathjaws are similar monsters that actually are mutated gators
I used to dread Deathclaws… and then New Vegas introduced me to Cazadores.
I haven’t complained about a Deathclaw nest since.
What about Fog Crawlers?
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Compared to Cazadores? Unless it sneaks up on you it's weaksause compared to the horror of Cazadores.
@@tomleary508 Cazadores come in relatively small numbers, are very fast, and their poison hyper deadly. But besides that they are fairly weak (mid to late game of course).
@@tomleary508 Fog Crawlers are the strongest animals in FO4 and their stronger variants can tank Mini-Nukes.
What about Deathjaws?
Quite possibly one of the coolest original creature made in a video game! I love all the various deathclaw subspecies, and there insanely tough nature! Even the young ones scare me. Design wise it feels both grounded but fantastical at once and i love them. Wiukd be interesting seeing them go against dinosaurs
Dinosaurs were just animals, not monsters
@@EmonWBKstudios animals can be quite monstrous in it of themselves depending on the species and temperament. Even if it’s an Unnatural one the deathclaws an animal too by that prospect.
Everyone: "Terrifying creatures of death."
Frank Horrigan: "Pathetic."
I see the institute found new field agents willing to do Beastiary investigations, it's going to be another year until they find enough to do another.
The institute send a lot.... But only few return
Several institute personnel were DEFINITELY harmed in the making of this video...
Would love to see some cyberpunk corporate war lore now that it’s getting popular again 🔥
The main issue with more modern deathclaws in 4 and 76 is that they are just meant to “look scary” instead of being a big threat. Especially since they never seem to be in groups in the newer games
They spawn in max 2 at a time. Another issue is how slow they are (and how they constantly stop to throw dirt at you), if you have decent agility and aren't using a mobility restricting weapon, you can easily outrun the F:4/76 Deathclaws. Combined with the horrible weapons/armour progession, and they becometrivialto deal with once you have any experience. Whereas, unless you cripple their legs, you aren't out running any of the other games Deathclaws.
I remember a friend who introduced fallout to me said this is what chickens evolved into in this universe
Oh boy, the "let's throw all the scary genes into a pot with some FEV and see how it goes!" Boys...
Honestly given all the pre war experiments of animals that went horribly wrong, I would say that the death claws turned out surprisingly good in the fact they're not twisted cronenburg monstrosities...
"So he dresses up in this Deathclaw Suit, and then..."
"Wanna pretend we're Deathclaws in mating Season?"
-New Reno Hookers, *Fallout 2 predicting the future.*
Post apocalyptic furries, because of course that would be a thing. lol
Fallout the frontier
@@L_mattox*Scalies (Deathclaws don't have fur). I hate that I know the difference.
Inspired _heavily_ by Dungeons & Dragons' Tarrasque, and originally conceptualized to have fur similar to the appearance of a werewolf.
The most bizarre thing is that they are, apparently, forcefully evolved from horned chameleons. That is the original canon, that is my preferred canon.
Goris is my favorite talking Deathclaw, an educated badass through and through.
I remember the Lone Wanderer was once able to clear out a Deathclaw infestation of a town north of DC. He used a special type of crossbow that fired darts that slowed them down dramatically and then once the Deathclaw, began to follow use Frag mines and Plasma mines to finish it off. Rinse and repeat.
My very first Deathclaw encounter was in Fallout 3. I saw it, took out a missile launcher, and slammed a missile into its head. I then promptly yelled “what the...” when it ignored the blast and promptly ripped me to shreds.
A rocket launcher is about the only way to have a conversation with one tho. 😉
@@stevenblackwell4903Eh, if you're a noob, it's alright for starting the conversation, but you really should move on to a Fatman before it gets going (or take the easy way and bring a Dartgun). If you've got some experience under your belt you should able to carry the it using a shotgun or any rifle.
Fallout 4 design really brings home the big lizard idea of it
They are a disappointment to fight (despite technically being the best in everything but speed), but they are definitely the best looking by a long shot!
The feeling of trying to book it in Fallout 2 and having that sudden encounter with no good armor or weapons.
Deathclaw: Ich nocht daemon, Herr!
The Enclave: It speaks. IT SPEAKS!
Science: “Lets make an unstoppable, super monster.”
“But let’s make it smart. And can reproduce on their own.”
“You’re a genius.”
They were smarter than planned and they didn’t sterilize the before the bombs went off
*NOTE:THE GOVERNMENT HAS STOP SUPPORTING YOU AND YOUR RESEARCH*
To be fair Deathclaws are like the only thing made with FEV that didn't go sterile
Remember kids! Never leave your settlement without a Fatman!
Templin: They are really hard to kill
Me with a 10mm pistol and using sneak: WATCH ME
Bruh, are you Arthur Maxson?
@@WarbossR0kt00fSant0s Yes. Ad Victoriam.
Me, with my bare hands (in F:4), difficult? Ha!
In NV I'm gonna need a lead pipe and maybe a Recharger pistol.
@hanzzel6086 Or that sweeping maneuver the old NCR ranger can teach you. Even Deathclaws go flying.
@@ezequielmorales4221 Never actually tried using that on Deathclaws, probably because I've never done a proper Unarmed build.
A nice wasteland classic for a sunny October day. I wonder if they’ll do another one for the 23rd.
Edit: something I forgot about then because today felt so far away was that today, October the 23rd, 2022, my big sister got married and I got to walk my mother to our seats of honor and all the while seeing both of my parents be happy; so today’s date has become extra special to me.
The enclave also put mind control helmets on them and used them as weapons. You find that out in a cave in fallout 3
And also with the SPAV if you destroy that helmet you will bring back the violent irrational beast, forcing them to attacking their overlord
This makes you wonder which Templin agents screwed up so badly, that they were assigned to this Op.
Camouflage is a trait that we're grateful for the Deathclaw to lose
My first fallout game was fo3 and yes, the deathclaw was dangerous, but nothing to fear. That changed when i started with fonv...
It's amazing just how big a difference 10% change in running speed can have.
Deathclaws are one things you shouldnt encounter in the wasteland
Me with an anti material rifle and power armour about to be obliterated: 0__0
Deathclaws in lore: will tear open power armor like it's nothing and not break a sweat
Deathclaws in game: nooo don't shoot me with explosive anti material rifle rounds please
(Fallout 2 Spoilers ahead)
Okay, isn't it canon that the Vault 13 Colony of Intellectually enhanced Deathclaws survive the Enclave? If you destroy the Enclave soon enough, they don't wipe out the Deathclaws and I believe that ending was made canon. Also, even if they got wiped out, there was one survivor of the Colony that is your companion while your out adventuring, and that Deathclaw breeding in other less intelligent variants of their kind would add some interesting genes to the gene pool.
Also, let it be added that there was a "Secret Service" Agent who had been experimented on (I cannot remember his name) turned into an absolute beast (he was so big they had to just fit pieces of an especially enlarged suit of X-01/2 Power Armor onto him for armor) and was so powerful he could kill a fully grown Deathclaw in one punch (in the ending to the game where the Vault 13 Colony of Deathclaws are wiped out, he leads the assault...) Let that sink in.
Edit: I also wish they had added to this video how the Deathclaws had saved a mother and child from a raider attack. A raider was just closing in on them, preparing to kill them or worse, when a giant, clawed hand reached form the darkness and tore him into pieces. The child and mother were even more terrified to find a pack of Deathclaws wiping out the raiders that had been killing them before realizing that the Deathclaw that had saved them was speaking to them, telling them they were safe, that nothing bad would happen to them now. The mother remained pretty scared of them (who wouldn't be...) but the child ended up loving them, it was cute... that would have been an amazing addition to this video.
Heroic deathclaws sound bad ass as fuck.
Damn, this was incredible. Well done.
Patrolling the Frontier almost makes you wish Deathclaws didnt exist...
A apex predator design to fight in the worst conditions imaginable, and one that remains unchanged in the modern day wasteland.
They have changed. When the prototypes were created the progenitors they were sterile. And that was intentional. Down the years they have been able to overcome it breeding like rabbits.
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Do a video on the Think Tank! That would be radical!
Rather fight a Deathclaw then a Cazador, at least you can hit the Deathclaw.
I'd kinda love to see Templin Institute do Volitales from Dyling light franchise? Only 2 games so far so noy sure, but when it comes to terrifying creatures in pop culture
Volitales
Xenomorph/Alien
The Thing and of course
Deathclaws
My first time facing them was the most scared I've been in my life, same with death claws, now they are a joke to me
Only firearms or energyweapons are reliable against their hide.
Laughs in 6250 per hit with a Hammer
Deathclaws: roughly humanoid , tall , angery, armoured killing machines made by biological science
World eaters: roughly humanoid : tall, angry , armoured killing machines made in biological science
Coincidence? I think not
What's a world eater? Not familiar.
They both also have horns.
@@megatronjenkins2473, Warhammer 40k. The World Eaters are a legion of traitor Astartes who worship the Blood God Khorne and kill in his name. They're also always really REALLY angry all the time, because they have spikes implanted into their brains.
The World Eaters would adopt the Deathclaws as pets, even Khorne would corrupt them into daemonic killing machines.
So, let's call this a catastrophic success, shall we?
Fallout 1, 2, 3, NV: Oh no Deathclaws are dangerous!
Fallout 4, 76: Heh heh explodey energy gun pew pew
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Fog Crawlers are the real Deathclaws of Fallout 4
So they are like dragons of the wastelands
Thank you Templin! You will not regret this! If you make a 3 part version of Death Claws I will watch! I will bring my friends to my house to watch! I will create more accounts just to watch!
I absolutely love it when you guys do fallout stuff, amazing video!
Deathclaws are awesome, but it's hard to see them truly becoming a dominant species. Their physical abilities and capacity for cognition would probably require a HUGE number of calories, more than the blighted landscape of post-nuclear Earth could provide in the long-term...
I'm not afraid of nole rats. I'm not afraid of rad roaches. I'm not even afraid of super mutants. Deathclaws? Let's just say if I see or hear an OP deathclaw in the area I run as fast as I can in the opposite direction. Still it is my favorite mutant beast in the waste lands. If I were a raider I'd keep an arena fulled with death claws among other beasts to punish my rivals.
One deathclaw is easy enough to take take by a well equipped wastelander. Anti-material rifles, gauss rifles, or heavy duty energy weapons are preferred. However, a pack of deathclaws can prove to be a problem. Or being attacked while in the middle of a firefight with raiders can turn a bad situation into a nightmare. Worse still is an ambush in close quarters. In Fallout 1 and 2. Deathclaws are incredibly tough and never alone. Fallout 3 had easy mode on with the poison dart gun. New Vegas returned more to form of 1 and 2. Kill the bastards from a distance. Fallout 4 Deathclaws could be a problem if they caught you unaware. Fallout Tactics, though considered not canonical. The more intelligent subspecies of Midwestern Deathclaws could speak. Their high speed and sneak abilities made me choose my battles. Often forming my squad up into a firing line in front of a minefield. Weapons free. As the Midwestern Deathclaws could kill my squad quickly in close quarters.
Up to 20ft tall? Maybe long, but few are ever more than 8ft tall.
I just wish big super duper biological monsters would make sense.
Mutations in all glory, but there's just so much thick hide and muscles you can have before you become an elephant
This is a lot of praise for something that gets beaten easily by a dart gun made out of paint gun, a radscorpion poison glad, some surgical tubing, and a toy car. (Love the video though, Deathclaws are terrifying when I don't have the dart gun)
I always picture them from fallout tactics, they were more fur coated.
good job, as always!!!
You know another word for pack? Family.
perfect timing on this video. I just started playing fallout 4 and was wondering out deathclaws.
They're there, in the dark and secluded parts of the commonwealth, but not in the same social capacity as you may have seen in FO3/NV. They're more apex predators like a tiger, rather than pack hunters like wolves in FO4.
@@MortRotu The real Apex Predators in FO4 are the Fog Crawlers.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 nah, they're the humans, always is. It's more a behaviour description (solitary, big, tough, high dmg output), than a food chain position.
@@MortRotu More like Synths, in that case? Immune to Radiation, immortal, dont need to sleep or eat, has FEV in their blood without looking like monsters. Not to mention Coursers...
@@jakespacepiratee3740 perhaps, never really struggled with coursers in my play thrus tho
There is no problem in the wasteland that the Big Boy with a MIRV launcher mod won't fix!
I feel sorry for the hapless schnooks who got sent into the wastelands just to capture dangerous creatures like the deathclaws.
Are there gonna be more Bestiary videos for the next several weeks? I want to see Mewtwo featured on Bestiary soon.
Naw he’d be in bios
Kind of disappointed there was no mention of Goris when talking about the intelligent Deathclaws.
wonder if they were able to tear into a vault of a shelter ?
No mention of Jackson's Chameleons?
fun stuff, the first times you stumble into their "nests"
First rime I encountered one was in Fallout 4. I mowed it down with a mini gun lol.
It will be always and only the King of the Waste.
I've never known a Deathclaw that couldn't be put down with a .308 round or a well placed shot from stealth by an Anti-Material Rifle. Carrying plenty of armor peircing rounds helps, but it isn't necessary. High or practically unassailable ground will help when dealing with Deathclaws but if you ever encounter one on more level ground, aim for the legs with a high caliber weapon. Slowing them down will help, but not guarantee, victory versus these hellspawn abominations.
True, but the Player Character is far beyond the average NPC. Put a deathclaw against a group of NPC soldiers, and my money is on the Deathclaw.
@@shorewall Too true, unfortunately. Now, put a squad of NCR First Recon mixed with some Rangers… I'm saying odds are even.
And yet, I'd still rather take the road through Quarry Junction than go north from Goodsprings and face what's lurking there.
Nice little reference to Godzilla 1998.
I loathed, hated, admire and feared that beast.
UNTIL I had the weapon to melt it like butter!
"Big! Big! The size of three men! Claws as long as my forearm! Ripped apart! Ripped apart!" -- Trent Barrister, Fallout
As a furry, the amount of deathclaw r34 I’ve seen is excessive.
Wait WHAT!?
@@rogaldorn3525 You read correctly…
@@L_mattox Fallout: The Frontier moment.
I know, right? It' amazing 😻
@@John7Wirth Horrific more like
Right off the bat, a clip of soldiers marching.
"i would go for the eyes"
Awesome work 👏 👌
Grois is my favorite deathclaw in fallout 2
Uh, you accidently left notes for Shorts in the subtitles near the end lol.
Apparently, Deathclaws were originally conceptualized as mammalian creatures that were a cross between a brown bear and a wolverine. This was scrapped because the devs couldn't render their fur correctly, and so ended up using a rejected creature design from a different game, which became the Deathclaws we know today.
That said, it's interesting to note that *Fallout Tactics* featured Deathclaws that, in addition to being intelligent, were described as being mammal-like. Though, it should be noted that *Tactics* is considered non-canon by Bethesda... The same Bethesda that went on to include references to that game in both *Fallout 3* and *4.*
Assuming *Tactics* is at least partially canon, perhaps these creatures are descendents of a "prototype" race of Deathclaws that were created using the DNA of mammalian predators instead of that of reptiles.
All the more reason Bethesda should remake *Tactics* to fit into modern Fallout lore.
A fight between a devil lizard and roided up honey badger? Yes, please!
I wonder what the scientific name for deathclaw would be if they had one? How about Alligator diabolus?
I'd say it would be something like Thanonychus Americanus with different subspecies getting different names for their locations like T. Bostonia or T. Nevada
Damn. Running out of omelettes. *Looks at the nearby Deathclaw nest*
In my experience, an animal that can reach a human 8 year old level of reasoning and understanding is already smarter than a baseline human
Big friendly lizards.
Its unfortunate Frank Horrigan isn't still alive, he'd slap them around.
But can I smooch the talking deathclaws?
The Deathclaws are absolute monsters. They are large and intelligent, though they have a pack mentality
Deathclaws are a Enemy in the wasteland you should run away from unless you have a FatMan then you are covered also Power Armor.
I miss the talking Deathclaws.
Just went on lunch break, so perfect timing lol.
Do the tripods/Martians from war of the worlds 2005
Deathclaws - demonic dinosaurs of Fallout
I’m just always happy to bestiary videos
And whenever templin covers fallout
Ah yes, the big stupid radioactive lizards. Lovely.
Enclave: "pet"
I just cheese them with the dart gun. 💀💀💀
Thank you the Video and the English subtitle.
There is one race which is far far deadlier than any of the Deathclaw types, and that is the race known as Player Character. A single Deathclaw can devistate a settlement. But a player can walk into a Deathclaw nest and eliminate them all singlehandedly, and for what? Just that "shiny unique weapon" that is hidden inside somewhere.
I mean, you're probably joking but in most of the fallout games your character is canonically an at least somewhat nonstandard human. the hero of fallout 1 in particular grows to be straight up capable of tanking a mininuke to the face just like the toughest deathclaws and matching them strength for strength all while being a jack of all trades and master of many.
think supermutant capabilities but all packed into something still casually indistinguishable from a normal human.
The one thing I'm disappointed by regarding Deathclaw origins and physiology is the fact that they are descended from horned chameleons. Imagine a Deathclaw that had a ranged attack in the form of a barbed, extendable tongue that can pull you in range of its jaws and claws. Would have been a reaily crappy game mechanic (and glitchworthy beyond par due to Bethesda's stupidity) but it also would have been friggin badass.
These are the most dangerous creatures in the wasteland. Pray that you never encounter one.
The scariest and hardest thing to kill in the wastes
theyre just big dogs
I was here before the First War