Talk:Giant radscorpion

Okay, where does anyone get off saying that these monsters are vulnerable to explosives? I've fired a fully-repaired Missile Launcher at one of the bastards with Big Guns 85 and it kept coming! Kalaong 19:58, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Use a flamer.--OfficerBlue 07:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Strategy

 * One effective strategy for defeating giant radscorpions is to find a boulder or tree to run around while dispensing mines.


 * Another strategy is to use a Missile Launcher at a distance to soften them up (one or two missiles should do) and then finish them off with an energy or plasma based weapon.


 * When the player uses companions, which have considerably more HP than the player, it may also be usefull to let the companion take the first shot so the creature is drawn to him. This way, you can melee or shotgun from close distance to kill the creature quicker.


 * The most effective way some people find (Must be able to dodge and have good timing) is using a good melee weapon (Eg. Shishkebab, Ripper (weapon), or Super Sledge, although that may be too heavy) and get close to it, hit it. When it starts chasing you, just hit, hit, hit, when you see it tail move, jump back, to avoid its stinger, then attack again. Repeat until dead.


 * The Dart gun is less effective with these creatures, with an insignificant, if at all noticeable decrease in speed.


 * One quick way to kill them is to use the Flamer while backpedaling.


 * Giant Radscorpions, along with their smaller counterparts, are highly vulnerable to the stunning effect of the Power Fist and occasionally other unarmed attacks, the impact of which causes them to "rear up" backward and away from the player for a moment or two, allowing the player to approach them and deliver a few quick hits. Though this may work every once in a while in VATS, it's far more likely to be effective and cause the desired reaction when delivered in the form of a "heavy" melee attack (press and hold attack) outside of VATS.


 * If you've picked up a lot of frag mines in your adventures, one way to use them up nicely while conserving other more useful ammo is to get just close enough for one to notice you then start to back up. The (Giant) Radscorpions chase you in a perfectly straight line so just keep dropping extra frag mines while backing up. They will just walk straight over them. If they get a bit too close, and you end up dropping the mines on their "heads", you can time a jump just right to get just far away enough to escape any splash damage from the immediate explosion. Repeat until dead or weakened and finish off with a few shots.


 * A good way of taking them down is to use the Paralyzing Palm ability. It'll make it a whole lot easier on yourself by giving you an easy kill, or stall a scorpion leaving you able to deal with another (since they usually come in pairs or more).


 * Bottlecap Mines are perfect for dealing with a Giant Radscorpion. All it takes is for the beast to detect the player, and they'll blindly charge straight after you. Backpedal and drop a Bottlecap mine in its path, and it will usually result in a 1 shot kill. Just be sure to be a safe distance away when the mine explodes.

Killing strategy
One way to easily take these creatures out is to run backwards while blasting at them with a shotgun, they keep on trying to sting you, but will almost always miss.

Use a follower as a distraction, while hacking away at it with the armor-piercing Deathclaw Gauntlet. The DR-ignoring ability comes in handy when trying to crack the scorpion's tough carapace.--Hollow Points 23:31, October 13, 2009 (UTC)Hollow Points

Although radscorpions are capable of some quite sneaky moves when getting into position for attack and maneuvering at a distance (they love to attack from behind), when they get close they tend to become a lot more mindless and charge in straight lines. This can be exploited with mines, as noted above, but another very useful tactic is to get them tangled in thickets or clumps of dead trees, fences, or house ruins. Boulders, if sufficiently high and steep, or cliff faces can sometimes confuse them: they charge right up to the foot of where you are standing and then don't know what to do next, and you can kill them easily when they're banging their heads against the wall, so to speak. In radscorpion-infested areas, it is often useful to stay on what remains of the roads, since you will then hear the clatter of their claws on the hard surface if they try to charge you from behind. Wunengzi 23:14, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Poison
Hello, I have noticed that the statistics for this page says that it has a poison attack that deals 40 damage for 5 seconds.

However I spawned alot of these with the console (around 6 or so) and i checked the pip boy. It said that it was 4 damage, NOT 40.

"Ghost" radscorpion -- weird bug
This bug may have been caused by a rare combination of circumstances -- I hope so. It was a really strange one.

I was going in more or less a straight line between Paradise Falls and Fort Constantine when I spotted a single giant radscorpion in the middle distance behind me, down a slope that was topped with the remains of a dead thicket. I gooed it with a critical hit from the plasma rifle, but could not find the other member of the pair. As I got to the top of the slope, the remaining member of the first radscorpion pair attacked me from my right, while at the same time another pair came at me from the left.

So far, a fairly routine day in the Capital Wasteland, but then things went a bit crazy. I crippled the single radscorpion to my right and left it near the top of the slope, tangled up and apparently stuck in some dead trees. Then I turned to deal with the two to my left. I killed one of these before it reached me, and since I have the Mysterious Stranger perk, he showed up and blew the other one to hell before disappearing. Mission accomplished, I thought, except for the minor matter of finishing off the nearly dead one upslope.

And then something started to hit me -- from the sound effects, and the amount of damage I was taking, stinger strikes from a giant radscorpion. But there weren't even any corpses near me, let alone live ones. A red mark on the target indicator showed something hostile down the slope, but there was nothing there but empty air -- I sprayed the entire area with assault rifle bullets to see if something invisible was present, but the bullets hit nothing. Meanwhile, I was being regularly whacked by this invisible stinger and running through stimpacks (thankfully hotkeyed) at quite a rate. I moved from side to side, but couldn't seem to shake the attacks. Then I ran back up to the top of the slope, and only then noticed that the giant radscorpion that had attacked from my right was still alive (albiet barely) and thrashing around, stuck in some dead trees. I finished it off, without going within attack range of it, and the invisible stinger strikes on me immediately stopped. I can only suppose that the program somehow got confused as to where the giant radscorpion's physical body was, and assumed it had broken free and was attacking me when it was in reality still stuck. Very odd indeed. Wunengzi 23:38, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Smokeing Giant Radscorpion
I was by Jalbert Brothers Waste Disposal and this smokeing giant radscorpion comes out of no were so I kill it. It was strange to see that it was like smokeing but no damage was taken like if it was on fire. Any one else get this glitch or what ever it is? MasterRPGer (talk) 11:50 AM September 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * It was attacked by an Eyebot; Eyebot lasers apply a 'smoke' effect to targets. Nitty Tok. 16:06, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

Or he could have been hit by fire. Tezzla Cannon 16:10, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

RAD scorpion
So basically if I am at level 11 and a giant radscorpion is 15 on fallout nv my armor piercing does jack same thing with deathclaws and they kill you with one hit.I am being serious..So what should I do mi breda.
 * Well, I would say run away, but that doesn't tend to work too well against giant radscorpions. Try and get some distance, then go to sneak mod, open your Pip-boy, and use a Stealth Boy. That should confuse 'em long enough for you to sneak away. -- 02:04, November 2, 2010 (UTC)

HUGE GIANT RADSCORPION

I found a massive giant radscorpion, near vault 112. It was dead but I laughed at how big it was, ive yet to see another one