Forum:Deathclaw Stories

i just started F3 i have six fallout games but this was my first anyway did what i always do in beginning get jericho, get minigun or flamer, then i always take him to get alien gun after getting it my friend told me about a rifle in ROD so we go up near old olney i heard jericho say " im gonna tear u apart " then i hear growls turn around and see a deathclaw owning him he dyes and im like what a loser lets try alien blaster as i load it it started running i turn and run i run until i was about 40 yards from ROD missing about 4 alien shot then whack DECAPITATION i got owned but new on # 6 i FINNALY GOT REVENGE fawkes, charon, star cross, and i all wearing bos armor burge into olney with flamers HAHAHAHA 4 flamers burning everything when it was over at about 1230 at night

Just A Topic were you can share you're funny deathclaw experiences with other forum members!!!!! Once me and a brotherhood team were heading to the radio tower where wherner is we saw get this, supermutants,enclave,raiders and deathclaws in a fenced farm fighting so i got shorty(medic/packmule) to stay at the gate and gaurd so i took cross and charon and atacked the muties when a deathclaw pounced on a centar and killed it in a claw fury of death.It was geting too hot so i ran to the gate when shorty got hit in the back by a super slege held by a raider he went down and got back up i raised my gun to shoot when a deathclaw hit the raider then pounced on shorty shorty died.Me cross and charon ran the other way and got cut off by the enclave inferno troopers and a overlord so i chuncked a nade and boom three dead enclave then charon got hit by the deathclaw and went flying.So me and cross traped between a deathclaw and overlord when i saw a car by the fast runing deathclaw shot it with my gauss then boom!!!deathclaw chunks every where.so i saw the opening ran for it then when i got out cross got traped by the closing gate and got mauled by the overlord.She was gone...so was i.when i got back to megaton turns out i was stalked by aclaw and deputy weld raped it.

2nd February 2009:I was walking around the wasteland and a deathclaw jumps out of nowhere hits dogmeat kills him and dogmeat comes flying at me knocks me down and the deathclaw keeps ripping away at my guts when i finally get up i have like 10 hp left and no stimpaks so i turn around walk for 3 seconds then i get drilled by a enclave laser rifle funniest thing i've ever seen in Fallout 3 :-P...so far


 * I remember one time I was fooling around at around level 12-15 with no armor on in the middle of the wasteland. Well, apparantly I was near the Deatclaw santuary at the time (I never got close enough to discover it) and when I decided to run off, all I heard was footsteps. So I turn around and *WHAM* a death claw hits me, and well, I died. I remember being scared shitless at the time (I was doing this at around midnight) but I it was funny afterwards. XxInThRaXeDxX 21:33, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

At about level 6 I was exploring around by rockbreaker's last gas and two Brotherhood outcasts spawned and told me to continue on my way. I followed them to a deathclaw. Being new to F3 (my first F3 character) but not fallout, I was unaware as to just how strong the new deathclaws are. The deathclaw tore me a new one. luckily the brotherhood outcasts saved me. To return the favor, I exploded the pants on one exploiting the damage they took from the deathclaw and scored a nice flamer and assault rifle.Nerdychaz 03:47, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow good story Nerdychaz. --deathclaw killer

OK... I was walking home the other night, after doing what I do on thursdays afternoons and there was this deathclaw all leaning on my car on the other side of the road! first I thought ahh he didn't notice me but then he's all like looking at me sideways an' 'ting so I went up to him and went all yo cabron, joo got any bussiness 'round here? and he was like growling an' 'ting... I knew he was scared!

Got me real mad like I got my trusty nail clipper and he knew I was serious so he started backin' off all slow and shit... and that's just how it goes you know, in mah hood that's how we roll an' 'ting!

next day i see she got her pendecho family all strutin about waiting for me to come out... man that ain't gonna happen! 33stradale 15:35, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Wow, Deatchlaws, in the ghetto.

XD very funny story 33sradale--Deathclaw Killer 21:56, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I don’t have any funny death claw stories. Cause I murder those bitches and stuff my dirty socks with their nasty guts. You know, for mantel decorations and stuff. Sloanjones 04:50, 16 January 2009 (UTC) Sloanjones

I have little to no funny deathclaw stories. I do have a record of when Charon and I invaded Old Olney. Absolute fucking hell. D3V0NST8R 09:47, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

thanks D3VONST8R, cool story.--Deathclaw Killer 09:35, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

walkin through the capital wasteland with dogmeat when oh 2 deathclaw bitches show up, i pull out my rocket launcher and fire at the first one and it suddenly flew straight up in the air as soon as vats was over the other took flight too. (the probably heard about me and my badass dog on GNR Mr snip 10:23, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks MR snip.--Deathclaw Killer 22:05, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I do have a funny tale to tell. During our invasion of Old Olney to find a Nuka-Cola truck, I had saw a Deathclaw outside of it. He was on the outside of the wall, I was firing on him. Charon hadn't been doing shit. After shooting the Deathclaw enough, he went a bit out of range and was running around in circles until I killed him. D3V0NST8R 12:31, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Funny story, thanks D3VONST8R.;D--Deathclaw Killer 22:05, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Alright, Level 12 I'm at some cemetery, a little creeped out, when I notice its a Super Mutant hold up. I slaughtered the super mutants and when I walked over to the man who was bonded it said cannot untie character while in combat. What??? so I go out of the destroyed church, and see a super mutant centaur or whatever. Piece of cake right? It was until I get slashed in the back by DEATHCLAW! holy F***. I run into the destroyed church and the deathclaw's lardass can't fit in the rubble so I kill it slowly but surely with a chinese assault rifle. <---SMOGLYBILLY-

HaHaHaHA, Stupid fat deathclaws. Good story. Ha SMOGBILLY if you read this can you go to my user talk page and put this story under DEATHCLAW STORIES because that is really good.--Deathclaw Killer 08:46, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I spotted a group of Raiders a ways from Rockopolis, so I hid and pulled out my sniper rifle. As I lined up a shot and fired, I must have been just out of range, or maybe I didn't aim well enough because I missed and alerted the three raiders. The raider I was shooting at must have spotted me from a distance, or got the auto-detect from missing, anyway, they all turned to attack me, but before they got anywhere a Deathclaw ran over and savaged them all to death! I suppose the one I missed must have alerted him at the same time he alerted his Raider friends... poor buggers... they never had a chance... AshRandom (Talk) 15:19, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Ahhh, my first deathclaw experience...

I was a relatively low level, maybe 7 or so, and I had just left Dukov's place with one of his biatches. We were walking along the river and I thought, "I wanna be on the other side of the river." Luckily, I saved my game, probably because I didn't know if I could survive the swim across. I left the chicky on the shore, pulled out my sniper rifle and started scanning the other side to see what was there.

Well, I saw this dude in a uniform with a little cap (I'd never seen an enclave officer before.) I wanted to know what he was all about so I swam across the river. Well, the little line on my HUD turned red and I knew I was going to kill this dude. Well, I thought I was going to kill him, until he popped open a big crate with a deathclaw in it. I remember thinking, "What the hell is that crazy thing?" I got off maybe one shot and then I was dead.

Remember, save often. LVTDUDE 22:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks everyone for your really funny stories. When i started it i never thought it would get so many hits :D Thanks all.--Deathclaw Killer 05:04, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Heres one,i was walking around the area near rivet city,and i saw this funny little guy with blackish brown Armour on(i hadn't played fallout in years,and id never seen an enclave trooper before) So i walked over to him,hoping to engage in conversation,when the blip for him turns red,so i do the right thing...........and run away,straight into a family of deathclaws who used me as a clothing peg Werewolfhell 11:23, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Lol, unlucky.Deathclaw Killer 21:48, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

my first encounter was when i was wandering the wastes(at about 1130-12 am) and wanted to check out vault 92. i stumbled into old olney and saw that no one was there so i thought i was safe. as i finished thinking that my controller vibrates and i hear HWACK. i turned around and all i could do is just yell HOLY FUCK! i almost had a heart attack.- AHAB

Lol, cool story. thanks--Deathclaw Killer 10:39, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

My first encounter with a Deathclaw was at a really low level, I can't remember what level exactly but whatever, I was going to Smith Casey's Garage for the Main quest and I walked towards an edge, so I could see if I could see where I was meant to be heading. I saw a red blip on my radar and looked down to see this giant creature with a spitting image of Satan. But it ran away before I had a chance to V.A.T.S it to see what it was called, ( I had never come across a Deathclaw before obviosly! And it was probably there as part of a Random Event) but it scared the shit out of me! DipCheese 01:26, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I always thought that they looked like saten too. Good story.--Deathclaw Killer 10:39, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Hehe, ok I got another one, just happened before. I was in Old Olney sewers looking for the Medic Armour, as I am a low level I was using my Stealth Boyzz to sneak around, so far so good. I came across a room with a robot so I hacked the terminal and got it working. The robot came out and I turned around to loot some ammo crates. I heard the robot say "Scanni... BOOM!" so then I turned around and a Deathclaw had raped it. I laughed a bit then kept looting. On my way out I noticed a Deathclaw picking it's nose, or it's teeth whatever, then it started kneeling down with it's hands forward (like a cat when it's about to pounce) so I went to have a closer look, then guess what. My Stealth Boy ran out and then the sewers got painted with my character bodily organs. :'( DipCheese 01:58, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

LOL,poor robot,thanks.--Deathclaw Killer 21:23, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

When searching the deathclaw sanctuary for any loot (i had only got fallout 3 at this time) i sstumbled upon the massive cavern system,when i looked over at the shadows, and thought i saw satan,but it walked away down a nearby tunnell before i could kill it,so when i went to kill it,i couldnt find it,then i saw it on a cliff,but it walked away,i was almost pissing myself with fear,so i continue down and find a ton of remains and a pool of blood,along with a gatling laser so i think"woo hoo free gatling laser" so i pick up the special "vengeance" gatling laser,and continue out my way,and then i come upon "it" the deathclaw,large and powerful,and probably related to satan,it charges at me and i prepare to kill it with a 10mm pistol,and i unload a whole clip magazine into its chest,releasing the fucker was made out of kevlar i run away down a tunnel to hide,right into 3 deathclaws who played "kick the asshole" with me Werewolfhell 16:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

cool story, thanks.--Deathclaw Killer 21:23, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Searching the Deathclaw Sanctuary, only ran into a single Deathclaw. Anyhow, I finally found the Endurance Bobblehead, and stood there for a while. WHACK!! Running around the sanctuary, I'd managed to avoid seeing, but managed to kite another 3 Deathclaws. The Satan lookalikes made balloon animals with my guts. Run4urLife! 12:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Since I'm at lv20 already, deathclaw is not really a threat to me. However, it's definitely a nightmare to my companion, Charon. It happened to me several times that Charon was killed in 1 to 1 combat with deathclaw. I actually equipped Charon pretty well - Full set of Tesla Armour and Harkness's Plasma Rifle; but he was just way too slow compared with deathclaw's fast moving attack. Anyway, little tips to deal with this kind of funny animal - Use Dart guns to shoot both of its legs, then it would be fun to play with it around^^

after becoming pissed with the deathclaws for stalking my team and slaughtering them one by one,i was the only one left,so in an attempt for revenge,i lured every deathclaws i could find in the waste land to springvalegot up on the cliff nearby vault 1010,and started killing them with a chinese assault rifle,they swarmed me,but i jumped off the cliff,broke my life,and slaguhtered all 50 of them,and as i walked away from the seen,hellbent on more revenge,A familiar face walked up from the sunset,it was a highly wounded charon,still wearing the tesla armor i gave him,but missing the helmet,but i didnt mind,i had re-acquired my first followeer who i got at level 3 and had for ages,so i healed him,gave him a fresh set of armor,added a few more 308. rounds for his sniper rifle,and took him to the deathclaw sanctuary,where i remembered why i should have removed deathclaws queen from the infernus,i encountered one of the walking tanks in the deathclaw sanctuary,and it actually turned on the deathclaws and started using her tailwhip attack to kill them,as well as using her razor sharp claws to kill the offspring(the small deathclaws)the deathclaws put up a heavy fight and wore down the queen,a bit,but in the end they lay dead,killed by their own mother,i may have hated them,but i was stunned to see so many killed,so me and charon equipped out gauss rifles and layed into the queen,eventually blowing her head apart and watch hell fall into the pools of blood left by her offspring,me and charon celebrated with drinks up at moriartys,and i went outside to survey megaton,when i noticed the deathclaw queens,accompanied by two deathclaw guardians,seeing as it was nighttime and a bit stormy(another new infernus feature) the megaton citizen ignored the 3 deathclaws,and carried on with their business,so upon spotting the queen,i pull out the gauss rifle and fire a shot into the queens head,it didnt kill her but it stunned her for a while,so that was good,however,moriarty stupidly run's into me and pushes me over the cliff,badly wounding me and cripling a leg,however after my character regains their vision,they were surrounded by the corpses slain by the deathclaw guardians,which have black shadowy hides,i stepped back against a wall,then walked towards the bomb,which still hadnt been detonated or disarmed,before i plant the detonator on it,in order to cleanse the deathclaw guardians and queen from the area,i notice a corpse wearing outcast power armor,i walk over to the corpse and loot it,obtaining an unscoped 44,magnum,some ammo,and some small energy conduits for my gauss rifle and "viper" railgun,and when i go to plant the detonator on the bomb,a guardian jumps me and cripples my arm,so in an attempt to survive,i try to run up the the gate and pick up lucas simms legitamely added dart gun and ammo,and upon doing so and reaching lucas's corpse at the front gate,i find no ammo,and the dart gun is broken,so i rush to craterside supply,and try to open the door,but the lock is broken and i dont have a key,so i turn around and face the guardians,which moves in to finish me,when it gets close enough for swiping distance,a hail of bullet's swarm from moriartys,and i see charon and the megaton drunks, firing on the guardian,so it ignores me and runs towards moriartys,before it can even get close to reach them,some idiot runs towards the guardian and attacks it with a 32.pistol,blatently ignoring the desert eagle someone had on their corpse,but to my suprise,he crippled the guardians leg,slowing its fast run to a very slow walk,so in atempt to avenge megaton,i pick up a nearby desert eagle along with ammo,and kill the guardian,with the help of charons V60(an M249 SAW really) and the megatownies gunfire,i finally kill the guardian,but as soon as it falls over a balcony,a swarm of normal deathclaws,attack megaton,headed by the guardian and commanded by the queen,so me and the megatownies,along with charon,run into moriartys saloon and take cover,by flipping over some objects(again,inferus feature),when the deathclaws attack moriartys saloon,the suprise sneak attacks from the whole team kill a lot of deathclaws,but two people are killed,so i run over to their corpse,obtaining two desert eagle,and using them to repair my unique version,which has a high critical chance,and i open fire on the deathclaws again,driving most of them out and leaving on the queen,the guardian and the 3 normals to kill,however the queen regenerated full health when she was hiding,so she would be a bitch to kill,however,releasing the threat,i leave charon behind and heavily equip the megatownies with heavy armor and weapons,as to survive,i then order charon to stay where he is and defend the town with the megatownies,and then run past the deathcalws,onto the bomb,planting the fusion charge and then punning away to tenpenny tower,where it is again swarmed by deathclaws,and only herbert dashwood has a V60,so i run up to tenpennys suite and watch as the guard,and anthony ling futilly attempt to defend tenpennys suite,the guard lets me in,and i go in and then hear the two men being slaughtered,i run into the balcony,and detonate megaton,thus sacrificng the megatownies and charon to cleanse the infesttation,and afterwards,i walk out of tenpennys suite and see it empty of deathclaws,so i walk down nd out of tenpenny tower,to see that damn queen waiting to challenge me,i do so,and after a long tedious fight,i finish the bitch of with a desert eagle round to the skull,and thus the deathclaws nearby watching walk away,no longer hostile Werewolfhell 16:00, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * PARAGRAPHS AND PERIODS. PlasmaFox 00:00, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Impressive story. Somehow the lack of paragraphs and periods makes it more thrilling. This whole thread is genius. This type of discussion is always surprisingly strong and refreshing.there is no such thing as death 05:37, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

First time I saw a deathclaw was today. I was by the power station (by the crashed alien) and saw a red thing on my radar, I crouched and it showed danger, so I quickly entered the power station. Now I just at the terminal or picking up abraxo or something when I hear something I had never heard before (+combat music) I turn around and it's my first deathclaw! (and I was level 17). Now I think this was a glitch, but I quickly whipped out my shishkebab and VATS'd him, two hits and he was dead, but I am pretty sure I heard the mysterious stranger sound (which would explain why he died so easily) but my 'mysterious stranger visits' in my stats wasn't updated. Either way, saw my first deathclaw, found out they could open doors (even to new areas), killed it, and got my first hand :) - Ashran111 05:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

i saw a weird deathclaw glitch, one kept appearing and flying up in the air. I wasn't sure what it was so targetted in VATS and hit it. the shot and camera followed the deathclaw up into the air, must have been a couple of hundred metres up and stayed like that post VATS pause for 5 mins or so with the deathclaw speaking in slowmo devil speech

I was in old oleney when this happened me and my stall ward muti-manservant Fawkes just laid down one of them in a flash of disintegrating loveliness when one of them just jumps though the falling ash and made me wee a little.. it was really scary:'-( user:weber134

IMPORTANT: Thanks to everyone who has contributed. i never thought this would be so popular.^^ from your friend DEATHCLAW KILLER

I was in the Olney sewers, looking for medic armor. I open a door, and there's one right there. I get a couple faceshots with my terrible shotgun, and its head comes off, but IT'S STILL STANDING UP. God, that was freaky.

Heres anotheer infernus deathclaw story

After defeating one of the four deathclaw queens even though i had to make large sacrifices to do so,i eventually went back to megaton(well whats left of it) to see if it had changed,and it hadnt,just a ton of deathclaw corpses,along with the corpses of megaton settlers,colin moriarty,but no charon,suspicous,anyway,i walk forawrd to whats left of the door,and spot charon,alivbe and seriously wounded sitting up against the wall,i heal him with a stimpak,and repair his hei gui stealth armor with my spare copy,and then we're off on our way,so we walk to the republic of dave,we discover two deathclaw guardians attacking the republic of dave,i was too busy noticing the attack to realize the deathclaw right behind me,so when it takes off my head i swear VERY VERY loudly at the screen,shortly before i witness charon have his organs made into candy floss Werewolfhell 18:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Yo Werewolfhell its not hat i dont believe you but can u explain these deathclaw queens in fallout 3 to me?--Deathclaw Killer 11:14, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Imagine fifty nucllear bombs,the deathclaw queen is worse than that,shes a boss fight from the still in development inferus mod,but be warned,upon downloading this,make sure you always have some good gear,as the deathclaw queens have a whopping 5000 health on very hard,and 3500 on very easy,in short,running away like a coward is a good idea,uless you think suicide has a good reward,even though it does,as some of the loot from deathclaw queen is very valuable,you can find gauss rifles,suits of power armor,and even a deathclaw queens hand that will net you 500-1000 caps upon selling,but dont think you can farm these things,as theyre are only 4,and they dont respawn Werewolfhell 15:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah? Whatever... :) Lets get back to funny stories.

My personal experience with deathclaws started out not-so funny. At least not for me. I was in Old Olney, alone. After finding out that crippling their legs (with massive plasma spamming) renders them mostly harmless, I carefully fought the deathclaws one by one. However I underestimated their perception, so more than once I was jumped from behind by my target's not-so-crippled buddy, ripping me to shreds just when I got out of VATS. Much like the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park.

That made me quite edgy, especially after falling into that sewer pit you can't climb out of (since I made it a principle NOT to quickload such things). So I carefully proceeded to the room with the protectron and activated it, curious what it would do. I would never know, because just when I hit the quicksave button, the bars on the reinforced steel door suddenly went 'ka-plunk' and it opened to reveal a widely grinning deathclaw!! (Fucking Velociraptors again...) Needless to say, it ripped apart the poor robot in his bay (with a single jump), and splattered my unprepared guts on the wall. Took me two more tries to bring it down instead.

On a more funny note, I know a girl who is easily scared. It once took me an hour to make her walk through the first level of 'Alien vs Predator' because as the suspense grew, she was reluctant to open any doors. So I told her that in Fallout 3 there is nothing to worry, since the enemies scale with your level. Well... guess whom she met in front of Super-Duper Mart, at level 2, as a random encounter... :D 131.188.120.74 15:48, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

After testing out and fixing some deathclaw glitchesa for infernus,i took a wander to old olney,just for a morning jog,when i saw a deathclaw charging at me,i quickly turn around and then fall ass first into that damn sewer grid,seeing as i couldnt go back up there,or fast travel since a deathclaw was right above me,i pick up an assault rifle and chinese stealth armor from an infernus only random encounteer,and walk into the sewers,after walking down a little,i walk into a door and see some ammo and a protectron,so i activate the protectron and loot the ammo,when a highly ticked off deathclaw appears and makes baloon animals out of the protectrons insides,upon seeing this,i pull out my assault rifle and try to kill the deathclaw,when another jumps me from behind and using my organs as a piano Werewolfhell 15:56, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Yo Werewolfhell no offense but are u like advertising the infernus mod or something? You mention it over and over again, and it seems like your trying to highlight its features. Broeman 01:55, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

To Broeman:i mention that some features are infernus in order to prevent those rampant smart-ass kids SAYING "dats nut in teh gayme u dum noob LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL" Werewolfhell 17:33, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

right so my first visit to old oldney i see all these death claws figuring i fairly safe with 100 sneak and recon armour+shady hat i decided to try and sneak through the town and all was going well until i fall into the floor looking up i realised i was trapped well forced to enter the sewers and into the deathclaws trap well i kill the first one and enter into this small room and see a protectron so i activate it as you do and its talking saying something like 'abnormally large creature detected activating protocol kill' and the thing walks off so i follow being curious and it gets to the right hand corner (in the sewers) and all of a sudden this huge fudgeing hand appears and destroys the poor procetron and seeing as i had no red ticks on my compass i wasn't expecting it and actually jumped. well you might think that that is the end of the tale well no because straight after the procetron is well everywhere i notice a head on my left then the danger symbol starts flashing so im on my own with two deathclaws and decide the best thing to do is run back to the little room and i turn round and shut the door thinking i'm safe to wait for the 'hidden' sign to appear when the door opens and somehow the deathclaw gets in and well catches me with a missile launcher in my hands unable to fight back that was my first and last date with a death claw --Killer of death 00:38, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

--- I was exploring the area between Fairfax Ruins and Grayditch with my new level 6 character (my 2nd time through the game) when I walked past a trio of Outcast mocking me with their arrogant greetings ("Oh, look local wildlife"). I rounded the corner and came face to face with 2 Deathclaws in the ruins. I quickly turned around and ran back toward the Outcast I had just passed.

The two groups came face to face and there was a quick decisive fight -- the Deathclaws shredded the Outcast like cans of tuna. Only one Deathclaw survived, which I quickly dispatched with aimed shots to the head. In the end, my lowly level 6 character gained 3 full sets of power armor, 2 Deathclaw hands, a flamer, and 2 assault rifles. Too bad I wouldn't be able to use that power armor right away. --Ayumix 19:17, 2 February 2009 (UTC) ---

flyin deathclaw
well i had just recived the Experimental MIRV and i wanted to test it ,so i went hiking around tempenny tower when i saw a deathclaw from a distance i was about to fire un till HE FLEW UP INTO THE AIR. being as angery as i was i continued walking till i saw a vicious doq of couarse i had the animals friend perk so the dog would not fight me i was on the vurge of fireing untill the magic flying deathclaw landed infront of the poor dog and killed him with one swipe yet his victory did not end well because of the pull of the mirvs trigger By:Cd95 v2 (pardon if my articals ant up to par, i am new at this)

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During my second visit to the Deathclaw Sanctuary, I noticed an Enclave satellite thing on the landing above me ( with respect to the sanctuary door) when i turned around to run back up the hill, they were all gone and i noticed some odd looking cubicle shaped structures along with some other enclave gadgets. I just looted my fill and started back towards the sanctuary, ( i was actually on my way to get Vengeance ). However on my return to the sanctuary door I find an all out Deathclaw brawl with what i was thinking was three preset deathclaws which spawned outside the door, and two enclave-mind-controlled Deathclaws. It was pretty funny a couple of dead enclave soldiers and seeing an enclave officer get gang raped by two of them who then resumed fighting each other. I decided to get in on it, who wouldn't? Yes i did die and it was awesome The only thing i regret was the enclave that happened to already be dead, had full suits of tesla armor >.> And of course i still have yet to get vengeance Xdarkdragonx 22:50, 1 February 2009 (UTC) Dragon

My first Deathclaw experience was so weird. So, I meet this guy online, says his name is Dave and he is a 20 year old Brazilian model. We chat, get to know each other, and decide to meet at a restaurant for dinner. So I get to the restaurant, and sitting there is a 9 foot tall Deathclaw, eating bread. He looks at least 20 years older than me, so I go up to him and tell him that he is a lyer. He says, "Us deathclaws gotta lie to get laid, cos no one gives us a chance". So, i feel sorry for him and decide to stay. And it turns out he is an amazing guy, funny, romantic, cute for a deathclaw. So, after dinner and watching I am Legend at the cinema, we go back to my place and I say "wanna come in for coffee... OR SEX WITH MY VAGINA" and he says ok. We have passionate love making for 7 hours. When I wake up, i roll over, and the deathclaw isnt there. Also, £100 is missing from my purse.

Dam deathclaws.

You're such a liar. I've seen plenty of deathclaws, and none of them have boy parts. LVTDUDE 20:22, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, Deathclaws in Fallout 3 are exclusively male. Their "reproductive parts" are stored in an internal area, only coming out when about to be used, and that's why it doesn't look like they have any parts externally. PlasmaFox 00:45, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Lol, well I don't think that i've ever had a real "Deathclaw Experiense", i just know they scared the hell out of me when i first came across them on my very first character...Although I did end up having a dream that one was chasing me, and I went and hid inside a house thinking I was safe, and I saw the door handle turn and about pissed myself...then I woke up, lmao. They still freak me out if I'm wandering around old olney at night and go downstairs at like 1:00am for a drink. --Esscex 05:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Ok, so i made the mistake of playing through the game fast the first time and i missed all the really cool exploration. so, for my second playthrough i decided to start with exploration and fill my map with locations and such. well, i couldnt have been level 5 and i saw a city in the distance. naturally, i went to investigated and find what treasures could be found. the town turned out to be Old olney. ya, im sure you already know whats coming. also i must mention that i was new to fallout and unaware of the hell on earth known as Deathclaws. well, i saw a cool little figure in the distance and went to investigate(surely my .44 magnum will best any lame wasteland beast) and i vats-ed it. two shots into its face and i regretted it. in one leap it was all over me and tearing me a new one. ahh! run. i did and before i knew it three were chasing me.i actually ran all the way to the temple of the union where te slaves distracted them. even they couldnt help me much except to give me distance. well one kept chasing me and i used all of my ammo and stimpacks just trying to survive. finally, like a miracle the brotherhood outcasts appeard out of nowhere with gatling lasers and missle launchers and a robobrain. the deathclaw managed to take out their robobrain before i smote it with my last grenade. i actually leveled up from just the one fight to level 6. that was the most adrenaline pumping half hour of my life and i was very lucky to survive the encounter. needless to say i didnt return to Old Olney until i was level 20 when i exacted super sweet revenge and even cleaned out the deathclaw sanctuary with my trusty Deathclaw gauntlet in a most brutal and poetic fashion!-cha chi

My first visit to Old Olney with Charon. Let's leave it at that.

Don't kill the Overseer!--72.65.220.244 22:17, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Today I was exploring the western side of the wasteland, and I realize thaat Charon isn't following. So i turn around and you can guess what I saw him fighting. Sadly, It killed Charon, which just made me mad. So I pulled out my only nuka-grenade. Bad idea, because as I found out, the only thing scarier than a deathclaw is a deathclaw on fire... Needless to say, I fragged it to death with another grenade.

well i was just walking into of a vault when i see a deathclaw running towards me so i turn to fawkes and ask him if he could pass me my gatling laser. he passes it to me and just as i'm about to shoot, the deathclaw suddenly FLIES INTO THE SKY!!! I t actually goes so high that i couldn't see it anymore and then on the horizon i see another four deathclaws go flying up into the sky. laughing my head off, i enter the vault. then, about five minutes later or so i re-emerge from the vault and just as i'm walking away a deathclaw falls out of the sky and lands right in front of me! (this is not a mod or cheat, and it seems that i'm not the only one who has seen this).

Holy C### when i made this i had no idea it would be so popular. thx all!!!!!!!--Deathclaw Killer 11:10, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

I was a level 4 noob out wandering the wastes - I think near Fordham Flash Memorial Field - when I saw two blips appear on my compass: one red and one green. As I began making my way towards the blip, pulling out my trusty hunting rifle in preparation to lay down the law, the green blip immediately disappeared. That's about the time I realized the red blip was no mole rat. Since it had already detected me by this point, and having nowhere to run, I entered V.A.T.S. and began unloading into the beast's head. After my AP ran out, I continued firing shots at its head as it began closing in...fast. Realizing the seriousness of the shitstorm I'd gotten myself into, I began running backwards as I fired, moaning out loud in desperation as if the thing was in my living room. Then, just as it was only a few yards away, I heard from behind me in the most casual of tones, "It's not stopping." Unbeknownst to me, my wife had been watching the encounter and decided this was the perfect time to inform me of the obvious, seconds before I was to have my entrails torn out and made into a hat. Luckily for me, however, this was the random encounter and Mr. Grumpykins was already low on health when I found him, and I was able to deliver the fatal shot just as he fell to my feet.
 * --Mwsku83 01:13, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

When i was hunting deathclaw with the items i got from operation anchorage(by glitching)i came across i small canyon of people fighting a few deathclaws,i decide to just watch the battle unfold,and unfortunately,neither side wins,cause the brotherhood outcasts storm the place with gatling lasers and make organ pies out of everyone nearby,even me.Werewolfhell 18:49, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

I was lv.4 at the time and I was outside the death claw sanctuary, I saw one, It was around a corner so by the time it noticed me I set 5 frag mines, then it ran over all of them, apparently it's legs became crippled because it was moving really slow, I set the last 4 frag mines while staying out of reach, Lured it over the mines, threw 3 frag grenades at it, then it's health was low enough that I killed it with 2 blasts with a laser pistol. .kill the overseer! 11:38, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

flying deathclaw then it attacks from the ground as im looking up to see were it went!this is my site! 04:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

I was level 6 just exploring the wasteland, i do save a lot but i mainly just use the one save file. I just came out of the republic of Dave and was on my way to Oasis, came across Old Olney and once i got the message you have discovered old olney i saved my game. As soon as i hit resume game, i turned around and seen this massive monster running at me, before i had a chance to react i was dead. . I had to reload the save, not knowing what this thing was, my plan was to quickly equip my combat shotgun and lay this fcuker out with a couple of close quarter headshots, i spun around entered vats and bam. . .don't even think it even realised it was shot. .dead again. repeat this step maybe 100 times with different combinations of weapons and tactics. . . my only option was to load my only back up save file, which was 4 hours of exploration earlier. damn. On my second time trying to find republic of dave i came across the alien blaster though, so revenge was mine!!!!

Okay, I was scouring the wasteland for assholes to pwn, when I come across an enclave camp. I see a large crate in the middle but I think nothing of it. Soon I massacre the enclave and walk up to the crate. I see "open Deathclaw Cage" so I realize there is a Deathclaw in it. Since I had nothing else to do, I put down something like 30 frag mines, 10 bottlecap mines, and 2 plasma mines at the entrance.As soon as he walked out, I shot him once to make him attack me and watch him get his ass blown sky high in BLOODY,GORY piecesBolo33 22:54, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I was at level 15 or so, and I was going to explore raven rock. I thought there was a entrance upstairs, so I climbed up the rocks. After about a minute or so, I looked behind me to see if star paladin cross was still following me, but I saw a deathclaw instead. So first thing I did was being scared, than pulled out the terrible shotgun and hit him in the face like 4 times or so, then he was dead. After all that, cross came back.

I was at the deathclaw sanctuary at lv. 4. I saw my first deathclaw and it didn't look very nice, so I shot him with a hunting rifle (sneak attack) in the face. He wasn't dead. So figure out what happened. I had to shoot him like 30 times or so with my hunting rifle.


 * Hmm. Fortunately they're not a TERRIBLE thread to me (Because I'm not a failure, I guess.) They take some hits and they take chunks off me but by the time I -ever- encounter them, I'm swimming in stimpaks.CagedinSanity 00:38, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I used vats to shoot a Deathclaw in the face three times with my shot gun. Then it did this thing where it zoomed into the right side of his face and after the third shot he just slowly turned his head, as if he were saying "Seriously? That's all you have?" and then he just tried to own me.... Also, first time I ever saw a Deathclaw, I was like level two just out of 101. I was on my way to the Super Duper Mart for Moria and the "Wounded Deathclaw" event trigger but since I was still level two and all I had was a 10mm Pistol, he still ripped my face off...

i was after the medic power armour and so snuck into old olney, got in, grabbed the armour and the fat man, thus becoming overencumbered. i decided to try and sneak out anyway. i got away from the main area and was down by the houses outside, i crouched and my sensor said 'hidden' but turned to check anyway, nothing, i turned back and there were 2 deathclaws right in front of me heading towards old olney- lets just say i survived but used a hell of a lot of stimpacks! 61.95.37.225 03:24, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Is it just me... or am i like the only person on this wiki that has never been killed by a deathclaw??? my 1st encounter was at i think about lvl 7, i was going 2 super-duper mart and i waited 1 hour a couple of times until it was daylight, when it was, i hear gunshots so i go to 2 investigate, i see a couple of raiders shooting some poor wastelander. so i ice the 2 raiders and when i talked 2 the wastelander he said something about a deathclaw, and i turned around and saw the body of a deathclaw with it's head blown off and not seen anywhere and a couple of dead raiders next 2 it. boy am i glad i didn't decide 2 go to super-duper mart an hour earlier. i didn't encounter a deathclaw until about lvl 16. i had already read just about 98% of the pages for fallout 3 on this wiki so i knew about everything. i decided 2 go to old olney and me, along with charon in his T51b and fawkes slaughtered old olney,got the prototype medic armour and then went 2 vault 92 for the soil strativarious. a bit after i was lvl 20 i decided i wanted the vengence so i went 2 the deathclaw sanctuary for the 1st time and got jack and vengence and brutally mudered all the deathclaws along with: charon and star paladin cross. i just don't really see deathclaws that much of a big deal.Silent.Killa78 >:) 09:18, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * i call BS, you obviously were playing on easy or very easy, which does not count as a truly legitimate game life threatening experience, on easy/very easy anything is a wimp, and pwned simply, with no work, and dont try to claim u were on very hard or hard difficulty, if u were some raider dumbass's wouldnt have been able to kill the damn thing, so yeh, i call bs on this one.Toolazytomakeaaccount 23:35, November 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * If you have a Dart Gun, Deathclaws are no problem at all. I won't lie though, the Deathclaw Sanctuary was one of the scariest moments in video game history for me. As soon as a saw a fork in the cave paths I knew I was dead. Instead, I was killed instantly from behind whilst fighting another and I let out the biggest scream of terror, causing everyone else in the room to laugh at my wimpiness. I made it out eventually. Lately, I have been collecting Deathclaw hands as trophies. First, I tried nailing them to the wall of my Megaton House with my Railway Rifle, but that didn't work. So I filled the entire spare room of the House so the floor looked like it was made of deathclaw hands. That got cumbersome so I bought a Nuka-Cola machine for my house and am filling it up with my big game trophies. Butcher Pete 00:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

lol, i have the dartgun aswell and it is funny to see a deathclaw walk that slowly. i also collect deathclaw hands as trophies and i have many scattered around my megaton house, i even have 2 on my bed just for protection so nothing kills my teddy bears on my bed or steals my 78 pre war monies. and yes, the deathclaw sanctuary was a bit scary(mostly because i was going round in circles for ages looking for vengence and jack.) but i wasn't really afraid because i knew i could just kill all of the deathclaws with about 1-2 headshots from my A3-21 plasma rifle that get's critical hits 8/10 shots because of my 10 luck.Silent.Killa78 >:) 01:51, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Wandering randomly around the wasteland I came upon a couple of slaves, who I freed. No sooner had they thanked me for saving them a death claw came up from behind and killed them both. There was nothing I could do as they were between me and the 'claw so I couldn't fire! I laughed at the irony of this for hours!!! Gunner Bill 10:13, October 2, 2009 (UTC)

I was killing this one Deathclaw and it was funny as HELL cuz I had him poisoned with the dart gun and I was killing him slowly with the police baton.Funny,but I got bored so kinda like Carolina's dad killing a wastelander with a rock,I pulled out a bottlecap mine and walked away satisfied with the explosion noise.But I turned o my left and OMG,another deathclaw right next to me.I hadn't even heard himcoming!And just like that,I was Deathclaw chow.Beautifal. HuangLee 23:09, October 5, 2009 (UTC)

Well, my usual strategy for dealing with the deathclaws is the good ol dart gun, but there have been times when the damn things got the best of me. My first experience with Deathclaws was at Old Olney. I was on the outskirts of town and I saw it off in the distance, and being my bad ass self I said "Bring it on bitch" so I left off a couple rounds of Ol' Painless into its head. Imagine my surprise when it took all 3 shots like they were bloatfly stings. It starts running toward me. I think to myself "Okay no problem, I love my hunting rifle, but it isnt exactly the strongest gun out there." Being a man who dislikes Big guns, I pull out my trusty 44. Magnum, I start plugging shots off at it, Its taking damage but nothing amazing. At this point this thing is really close, still I am not worried. I pull out my shotgun, confident that this will end the deathclaw once and for all. I let off a round close range right in his gut. He responds by slashing me in the face, which cripples my head and drops my health to 2/3. Now Im freaked out. I start going crazy with the shotgun as my vision blurs. He slashes me again, I lose more health, I take my last few stimpacks, and pull out Harkness's plasma rifle, with two shots the deathclaw is reduced to green goo. I have about 1/4 of my health left. I try to fast travel back to my home in megaton, which after this adventure, I feel I wont be leaving for some time. When I try to travel I am told that there are enemies present. I scan the area, and see another deathclaw off a ways, looking in my direction. I start to sneak backwards as a red caution sign appears on my screen. I keep going and going when all of sudden it flashes danger, I look to my left and another deathclaw is running toward me, I begin firing my plasma rifle at him, but I knew it was useless. I just wanted to go down fighting, unfortunately I doubt the deathclaw considered it much of one. He took the shots, never faltering, and with one swipe ended my wasteland adventures for good. User: Jack "the drifter" Vance 15:31, October 11, 2009

Alrighty then
So there I was, pants around my ankles(no joke, my armor just brokeXD) Dogmeat on one side CHaron on the other, staring done a Behemoth. Charon go up into some balcony he found, dogmeat runs the other way, and i empty all i got into him. Finally, when I have nothing left but 2 10mm rounds, he dies. I'm all happy happy joy joy because now i see that little trophy pop u[p giving me the final one in my collection. Happy as a clam(a naked one i add) i go over to loot him and go flying off to the left. Halfway to the ground I get a message that Charon is dead, followed by one that says Dogmeat is dead. Finally when my very aerodinamic Wanderer gets up, I see a deathclaw staring me in the face. He swats at me sending my spraling backwards. My Guy gets up again, and guess what i see? Yep the first deathclaw that threw me to the other. Well, I hope you can guess what happened here. And due to the life giver perk, the adamantium skeleton, and almost every other perk that reduces damges or ups resistance, I got to watch a good 2 minutes of two deathclaws play pingpong with my Wanderer in his underwear. Funny enough for ya?--Demos99 19:53, October 11, 2009 (UTC)

Okay, apparently my game has a glitch or something which turns deathclaws into ninjas, because sometimes I fight one, it jumps into the sky, then comes back down when I'm not looking and rapes my ass, if i wasn't level 30 i would have died so many times XD this happens about 65% of the time. I freaked out when this first hppened, had to Alien blaster it with perfect timing. I wish I was jokingLordDeathkeeperLordDeathkeeper

Im walking along heading to the Rockland train tunnel for "death from above". when suddenly my ass gets jumped by a platoon of deathclaws i had Fawkes Charon Dogmeat and SPC follwoing. these fuckers were organized. three on the left two on the right and a God Damn Reaver was apparently fighting Fawkes back at the Metro where i started out from by tennpeny tower. So the fight ensues i bust outa mini gun and lay open on one side not noticing i had only 50 shots left. i run out after killing one, Dogmeat then becomes officialy dogmeat and Charon save my ass when one come from behind trying to eat me. SPC is getting her ass handed to her when Fawkes finaly catches up and lays open on the two fighting her and saves that dag, i start celebrating that i magaged to survive when i notic Charon go rolling past me in pieces and fawkes lays open agian but in my direction with SPC blasiting hot plasma at me and Mr. Claw, i get shot and clawed to shit and have only 1/6 of my bar left whe its all said and done, two allies dead so i reloaded. i knew i chould have outfitted my whole team in pOWER ARMOUR.Antily3f 04:10, October 18, 2009 (UTC)

Alright, so I was making my way to the Pitt. I've got a new character, just picked up the GOTY, etc... Anyway, I set a map marker in this random place, around the turn of the river (I wanted to follow the river, and discover Constatine on my way. Well anyway, I see some cliffs, so I think I'm kinda close to Oasis, but realize I'm too far. Anyway, I see a wasteland junkie, pass him up, and continue. I keep walking, and as I was squatting down (to check my status), I see a [DANGER] icon. I do my normal, spin-around, looking for the red blip on my compass. As I turn around, I see a big Deathclaw running at me. Remember, I'm at level 7. I pull out my Gauss Rifle, and take a few shots at it. I defeat it, and after looting it's hand, I continue towards the turn. In front of me, I notice a cave, but dismiss it as nothing. Eventually, a notification pops up. Guess what; I discovered the Deathclaw Sanctuary (my "random marker" was in direct correlation with the entrance to the Sanctuary..) Needless to say, I got out of there, fast. Ratchetdude099 08:43, October 22, 2009 (UTC)

New one last night im wandering aroiund the north near the ROD and i m using my stealth charecter no durability my only weapons are stealth and Melee/Unarmed weapons. im sneaking around wasting raiders or bugs what ever i come across  when a Claw come up behind me and rips my ass open and viscera and flesh go praying in every every directionAntily3f 02:33, October 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * the first time i saw a deathclaw was about a year ago...i was running kinda toward tenpenny tower, getting locations, then saw something ripping an army(more like 5 or 6) enclave guys to pieces, like literally, 1 swipe(bloody gore splatter effect) they kept going down, so naturally i try to lend a hand....then i practically heard them discussing what to do(being sarcastic) it was like "why are we fighting? that guy blew up our f'in base not to mention if we team up we can beat anything!!" five seconds later i was running like hell across the wasteland, ran into girdershade for help....they all died, but i did get the dudes shotgun, was neat, then continued to run,(fyi i had like, 5 shots on my hunting rifle and had like 500 stimpaks) eventually i get to tenpenny tower, who finally opens the door and then most of them die...i picked up there loot and started unloading into these guys, the deathclaw had 3 bars left and the enclave guys were all dead by this point, i finally killed it, then looted it...then everyone in a 5 mile radius heard me scream "all tht work for a f'n 25 caps claw?!?!" i miss being a beginer..everything was new..and fun...now deathclaws are too easy, because i always prepare for it, doesnt help that there now at the bottom of my list...reaver's replaced them for me, pain in the ass for 5 caps.Toolazytomakeaaccount 06:12, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

I had just been minding my own business at Mason Dixon Salvage, kicking ass, and I head into one of the abandoned shacks (the one closer to the trailers with makeshift bedding) To scavenge for ammo. After leaving a menu while searching an ammo box, a deathclaw appears in front of me, nearly making me crap myself. I do the sensible thing: Put a bottlecap mine between two abandoned cars and run through the gap between them. After I had done that, the deathclaw followed me through and gets blown up by two cars AND the mine, but does not die. I had to finish up with Eugene.--Hollow Points 00:53, November 1, 2009 (UTC)Hollow Points

ok my first encounter with a death claw was relatively easy mainly because i criped its legs at long distance with a sniper rifle however at the tim i had not realized that i had criped its legs so i thought"this is the almighty death claw man i could kill this thing in my sleep". of course i see one later out in the middle of nowhere with my sniper rifle so i think"easy kill" well i take the first shot and stupied me forgot to reload. so im reloading and i don't see it till its two its TWO FUCKING INCHES FROM MY FACE. i procced shit my self and fire my rifle like crazy but it still sends my dismembered organs flying everywhere

hi umm this is my 1st post, i already kno this can happen but lol i was lvl 2 or 3 in megaton and i left to go to the super duper mart and well there was a dethclaw ther. the miricale was i killed it i managed to scav some frag nades and by scav i mean kill lucky harith and loot has brahmin it wasnt the wounded dethclaw for the dethclaw guantlet encounter it was a real full health dethclaw and i killed it with 5 frags and 3 fulll combat shotgun clips (and i blew up the bus by to the right of the mart if u facing the mart its to the right) i kno its not amazing but a lvl 2 killing a dethclaw on very hard without dying is pretty good xD. Fawkes2.0 22:47, November 7, 2009 (UTC)