Talk:Super mutant master

Tactics
Tactics that work with the Super Mutant Master are to try and get them alone (this can be done by luring them out of the area they occupy or taking out any surrounding enemies) and try to pick them off at a distance using rocks or trees as possible cover, because most of the time they use Miniguns. Good weapons for taking these beasts out are Missile Launchers, the Fat Man, Chinese Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Combat Shotguns, or even a Minigun as a taste of their own medicine. Having a follower with you like Jericho or Charon is useful as well. On higher difficulties it can be useful to disarm super mutant masters, masters can do incredible damage with a minigun or rocket launcher but it becomes more manageable if you force them to pick up a weaker gun or switch to unarmed fighting, people with shooter experience and a low spread gun can easily disarm without using VATS.

Note that the Fat Man can be extremely effective, as Masters are often surrounded by their entourage of lesser Super Mutants, and you can take out an entire opposing force in a single well-placed shot.

If you have chinese stealth armor/stealth boy and high sneak you can reverse pickpocket a grenade or mine on to a master to kill them netting you lots of easy xp on normal+ difficulties

Inventory Glitch
While going through the Mason District, I stumbled across an ash pile from one of my previous encounters with the Super Mutants in that area. When I searched said ash pile I found a Chinese Assault Rifle, when I tried to take it, a prompt on the screen stated "You have been caught pickpocketting." The odd part begins here: After the prompt, a Super Mutant Master came running towards me (I had activated a stealth boy), stopped about a metre in front of my character, and then began walking in the opposite direction. Upon killing him, I found what I thought was 'another' Chinese Assault Rifle. Upon taking it, I went to search the other ash pile, and when I did, there was no Chinese Assault Rifle to be found. I then reverse-pickpocketted some junk onto the ash pile, and went to search the other. When I did, all of y junk was in the other ash pile's inventory. Perhaps an ID glitch? BrenMan 94 22:34, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes. Very fun when using reverse-pickpocket grenades on Foes. Fat Man Spoon 22:39, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

FNV
No FNV page for this??? I think we need them. -James Jr 20:57, April 20, 2011 (UTC)

Seperate page ask for Administrators help
The super mutant master in new vegas is absolutely different, the one in new veas is first generation and second generation, and the one in fallout 3 is vault 87 super mutant, why therer aren't any people making seperate page. i can't do it since i don't have the pc version to give something about console. I want to ask administrators to make a page for it.
 * It actually just needs to be merged into the Vault 87 super mutant and Mariposa super mutant pages, and since this article is primarily about the Vault 87 version, most of the information should go into that one. -- 15:20, June 11, 2011 (UTC)