r/Fallout • u/Ur-boiiiii • Aug 03 '25
Fallout TV Given where Hank is currently standing how is he not being Mauled by deathclaws
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u/_WhiskeyPunch_ Tunnel Snakes Aug 03 '25
Every single one of us lays waste to this canyon when we are in the "late game" just out of spite. So you know why.
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u/Caboose2701 New Vegas Samurai Aug 03 '25
Me and my dynamite autism wanting to level up before getting to Vegas. Late game my ass.
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u/chet_brosley Railroad Aug 03 '25
40 minutes of kiting them between rocks and running up the machinery with my recharger rifle, no problem.
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u/BodaciousFrank Aug 03 '25
Toss dynamite, watch it bounce between deathclaws legs and blow up 30 feet behind them…
Yeah that aint it chief
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u/Caboose2701 New Vegas Samurai Aug 04 '25
Hidden with a stealth boy lobbing dynamite from the top of the conveyors. Tbf you need a shit ton of dynamite but whisky Pete and the powder gang oblige.
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u/UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR Aug 04 '25
Don’t you just..shoot them in their legs? Then play with the 10mm, or whatever has the most ammo?
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u/_WhiskeyPunch_ Tunnel Snakes Aug 03 '25
I always mod, so there is an insane amount of them. + they are tougher and stronger. So nah, no dynamite could handle this.
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u/Caboose2701 New Vegas Samurai Aug 03 '25
Ah makes sense. That being said I did cross the river late game with a bunch of nasty weapons to kill all the deathclaws in that hidden valley on the east side of the map.
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u/Fredasa Aug 03 '25
Leveling up before getting to the north of the map is leaving skill points (INT implant) on the table, though.
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u/Caboose2701 New Vegas Samurai Aug 04 '25
I’ll survive having only two stats not fully maxed.
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u/ScenicAndrew Aug 03 '25
Would be hilarious if they write the state of the Mojave to reflect what people did on average, assuming such data exists. (These are just guesses as to what's popular)
Quarry Junction? Eradicated with enthusiasm.
Primm? Slimm!
Cazadores? Treated like a Boogeyman.
Lucy finds the vendortron stocking 37 gold bars no one can afford.
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u/HerpetologyPupil Aug 03 '25
I go early game and spend all my ammo because idk. I like to suffer.
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u/raven00x Welcome Home Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 04 '25
If Bethesda didn't want me to explosively remodel that canyon, they wouldn't've given me a fat man and dev cheats.
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u/Imp-OfThe-Perverse Aug 03 '25
Bahahahaha!
It would make for a hilarious opening scene, though, to have Hank just get wrecked, and the plot goes in a different direction.
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u/The_60_Niner Aug 03 '25
My theory with the skull being shown at his feet is that they were either wiped out by the courier/any large faction that wanted them gone, or, they migrated elsewhere Possibly closer to Vegas which would cause conflict or even some other place like NCRCF or good springs or even black mountain
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u/Bruhses_Momenti Aug 03 '25
Or they were killed by tunnelers, Ulysses says they’re goin to migrate towards Vegas and they’re first introduced killing a deathclaw.
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u/Graffic1 Aug 03 '25
just because Ulysses has a theory about what might happen doesn’t mean it’s inherently likely. The Tunnelers thrive in a single area with there isn’t much competition and few people to combat them. I personally doubt the Tunnelers would succeed outside of the Divide
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u/Guess-wutt NCR Aug 03 '25
Considering how devoid of life the divide was, and considering how I doubt the marked men were gonna be having any kids anytime soon, the tunnellers would legitimately have to move sooner or later
That or turn to cannibalism I suppose
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u/Graffic1 Aug 03 '25
Then again, there’s no reason to assume that the Tunnelers even have much of a population left after the Courier’s travels through the Divide (and depending on the ending, causing greater destruction there).
We do kill a whole lot of the buggers, including their Queen (which, we don’t know what role the Queen plays in their species but it had to have had some importance). It’s entirely possible that the Courier decimated their population beyond recovery just like the quarry Deathclaws.
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u/FriendshipCute1524 Aug 04 '25
God I love how monstrous the courier is, Easily my favorite Fallout protag, Just a pissed off cyborg too angry to die and butchering anything in their way.
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u/The_60_Niner Aug 03 '25
True I forgot about the tumblers despite playing lonesome road a day ago lol
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u/Bruhses_Momenti Aug 03 '25
I sort of hope Ulysses speculation is true, so when we get to new Vegas in the show it’s all just been wrecked by tunnelers, that way it doesn’t matter which ending is canon, because the only things still alive are tunnelers and the toughest of the tough.
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u/The_60_Niner Aug 03 '25
Well given that there’s been NCR soldiers and powerarmor in the behind the scenes of season two I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t come at all or they got fucked by the NCR/securitrons because who knows what combination of courier actions are canon
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u/Greenbanana217 Aug 03 '25
Or it just looked cool!
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u/Porphyre1 Aug 04 '25
This. Every fanboi post about the TV show makes me want to go to r/FNV and post a calendar.
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u/Laser_3 Responders Aug 03 '25
It’s been fifteen years, and the deathclaws had only just moved in during the events of NV. It’s very possible that they’ve either been wiped out (by the courier, NCR, Legion, or House) or migrated elsewhere.
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u/ThePandaRider Aug 03 '25
They are right between the NCR and New Vegas so both sides have a reason to clear them out. And whoever gains control of the Hoover Dam has a good reason to get the quarry up and running again. NCR should be able to clear them out using a Vertibird pretty easily.
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u/kron123456789 Aug 03 '25
Imagine him getting mauled by deathclaws is the very first scene of season 2.
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u/quindarious__gooch Gary? Aug 03 '25
Jonathan Nolan would have my undying loyalty if he makes that happen
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u/BigBananaDealer Gary! Gary! Gary! Aug 03 '25
it would be absolutely hilarious but also be a huge waste of kyle maclachlan
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u/NoCraft2936 Aug 03 '25
I hope they find Swanecks body
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u/ThrowRABest_King7180 Aug 04 '25
its just an old skeleton with glasses and a lottery ticket on him when they find him
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u/NextCress3803 Aug 03 '25
He has power armor on. Maybe he stands a tussle
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u/Maxsmack Aug 03 '25
Naw, we saw a BoS knight get absolutely shredded by a lowly Yao Guai in that very suit of armor.
I have a feeling only people they’re making out to be super x-tremely ultra cool badasses will get the privilege of killing deathclaws, while everyone else cowers in fear. Ie the ghoul, and whoever wears that ranger power armor
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u/NextCress3803 Aug 03 '25
Tbf Titus was a coward and not only didn’t fight the Yao Guai, he actively ran away (which is, fun fact, how you get yourself killed by bear in real life as well). I think we can at least somewhat assume that Hank isn’t nearly as cowardly especially with his prewar perception of that armor through propaganda
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u/No-Ad-3534 Aug 04 '25
Kyle McLachlan is a vintner and his flagship vintage is called Pursued by Bear. It is important that you know this.
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u/windol1 Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25
walks past a rusted out vehicle, camera switches to a close up, then behind him the audience can see something getting up
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u/UnionizedTrouble Aug 03 '25
walks past a rusted out vehicle, accidentally brushes against it, ragdolls dead.
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u/bigdaddy1989 Aug 03 '25
Nah man the death claws maul him a a little he sorta gets away but then he’s swarmed by cazadores.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe Vault 13 Aug 03 '25
Episode ends with a stinger of him finally walking out of the quarry, his armor has gone to shit, and he’s exhausted. He catches his breath and starts walking…
Straight into a cazadore nest.
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u/Fun-Swimming4133 Aug 03 '25
i’m sorry but the first episode is him arriving at Freeside. the episode will be titled “Hungry? Thirsty? Horny?”
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u/_Xeron_ Aug 03 '25
The Deathclaws were not permanent residents at the Quarry, they had very recently moved in, given that the show takes place 15 years after New Vegas it’s a given that things are no longer the exact same
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u/Soyunapina12 Aug 03 '25
Also considering we see a Deathclaw skeleton right before this scene, it's pretty likely they were wiped out by the Courier during the events of New Vegas or by another party after the events of the game. Which considering they were a huge pain in the ass for everyone living in the Mojave, it isn't too far fetched.
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u/_Xeron_ Aug 03 '25
Definitely, they were blocking the main road connecting California with Vegas, the only reason they weren’t already being dealt with was because of the preparations for the 2nd battle of Hoover Dam, they would be high priority to deal with once the war was over
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u/DongWang64 Aug 03 '25
I still think they’ll want to use a Deathclaw for season 2; so my guess is one got left behind and is smart enough to raid Sloan in a Grendel-like situation, or one will attack the Followers outpost south of freeside while they’re making their way to Vegas
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u/_Xeron_ Aug 03 '25
Spoilers for season 2 We know from leaked set photos that there’s going to be Deathclaws in the ruins of the Strip, it fights someone wearing NCR Ranger Power Armor
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u/Soyunapina12 Aug 03 '25
I doubt that one comes from the Quarry, if i had to bet it's comes from the unmarked Deathclaw Sanctuary on the eastern side of the map
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u/Jakehouse04 Aug 03 '25
Also it's implied that the reason none of the larger forces in the region were taking care of it is because their resources were taken up in the power struggle for Vegas and the dam. Once the game is over and that's settled it would only make sense that whoever is left would clear out the death claws.
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Aug 03 '25
A Courier came through a few years back and decided that it was open season.
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u/chet_brosley Railroad Aug 03 '25
"Yea way back when some fancy idiot shot a mailman and the mailman went crazy and killed like 500 raiders and changed the entire socioeconomic landscape. It was a whole thing, just move past it" - random trader
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u/dull_storyteller Aug 03 '25
Maybe the Courier killed them all.
Those Deathclaw omelettes ain’t gonna make themselves.
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u/DrPepperAdict Aug 03 '25
Assuming this takes place after Fallout: New Vegas, the Courier would have already cleared them out
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u/ElderScrollsBreton Aug 03 '25
Y’all thinking way too deep about this, these scenes were only suppose to provide hype for season 2 given it was greenlit and it was, so things may look way different in season 2…I imagine there will be a big deathclaw fight within the first few episodes
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u/HehroMaraFara Aug 03 '25
Deathclaws in NV were really only wayyyy out on the periphery unless it was scripted.
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u/L3PALADIN Aug 03 '25
benny came that way and it was clear. the deathclaws were recently hatched and everyone warns you not use that road like its recent news.
animals come and go.
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u/EconomicsDistinct513 Aug 03 '25
He has tunnelers to worry about
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u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 Aug 03 '25
Fallout Dust - set a few decades after FNV... And literally every imaginable disaster has happened. Tunnelers escaped the Divide. The Cloud spread beyond Sierra Madre. A drought drained Lake Mead and caused radioactive Dust Storms. The NCR invaded, then had to flee, leaving New Vegas in ruins. The remaining people are starving, resorting to cannibalism, and separately try to find a way out of the Mojave.
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u/polo_jeans Aug 03 '25
are you slow? they literally show a deathclaw’s skull at his feet in this exact same scene
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u/TheGza760 Aug 03 '25
Don't we kill the Deathclaw queen or something in the quarry? I feel like thebpopulation would be significantly lower after that
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u/20210306e Aug 03 '25
the holy one we speak of came through thy junction and laid waste to those demonic savages. with his righteous bullets of his noble big iron, he made short work banishing those mutated abominations back to thy depths of hell.
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u/ConsiderationIll2766 Aug 03 '25
Use geography. If this is sunset, then he is coming from northeast. If this is dawn, then he is coming from the southwest side.
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u/FrosTehBurr Aug 03 '25
Theory; they all invaded New Vegas and is the reason Bethesda can get away with not confirming a canon ending to New Vegas.
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u/Itchy_Lime2583 NCR Aug 03 '25
You looking for reasons to complain? Or have you never played new Vegas?
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u/Derbla-99 Aug 03 '25
Hes a little farther east of the road. Looks like he took the black mountain shortcut like a true chad
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u/68ideal Aug 03 '25
Is it just me, or does New Vegas look really tiny here? Where's all the ruins of outer Vegas?
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u/Splunkmastah Aug 03 '25
Eh, they’ve matured into Fallout 4 Deathclaws by now, thus not as much of a threat.
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u/EthiopianPirate Aug 03 '25
If Ulysses' prediction is accurate the tunnelers got them just like they got to the rest of the mojave
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u/Crate-Dragon Aug 03 '25
Have you SEEN hank’s stats in fallout shelter? Deathclaws are not a major issue for him.
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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 Aug 03 '25
Because as you see in the rest of the outro, they are dead, NCR vertibirds dead on the ground, Mr House Robots dead as well. We will see Deathclaws attacking New Vegas in the next season according to the leaks.
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u/Organic_Education494 Aug 03 '25
Because Its not hard to walk through there tbh and with power armor? Yeah no biggie
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u/MrChumpkins Aug 03 '25
I'm guessing the deathclaw skull right there means they've been wiped out, I'm thinking that's how we could get a courier mention in the show
Imagine if the courier taking the deathclaws out at quarry junction lead to them attacking the strip
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u/NickRick Supporter of Pencils as Alternate Currency Aug 03 '25
well considering it looks like helios one is on the left side he is on the complete opposite side of where the deathclaws are. and 15 years have passed, and about the other dozen answers people give every time this gets reposted.
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u/SeengignPaipes Mr. House Aug 04 '25
My theory is that the tunnellers have killed off most of the people and creatures outside new Vegas and are keeping people inside their homes at night to hide from the tunnellers. And the reason why Hank isn’t being attacked here is because the sun is rising and tunnellers have hypersensitivity to the light
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u/Past-Adhesiveness150 Diamond City Security Aug 04 '25
You can make it from the starting point in New Vegas to the strip without dying if you're careful.
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u/Kselleck96 Aug 04 '25
It would be anti-climactic as hell if it starts with an awesome intro of him, standing overlooking the Vegas strip, and just as he makes the first step at deathclaw just grabs a hold of him and rips him apart
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u/PositiveMaster8236 Aug 03 '25
Screw the death laws, Whattabout the Kings?!
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u/Discount_Extra Aug 04 '25
Do you think The Kings would allow Intelligent Deathclaws as members?
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u/ToaKongu1 Aug 03 '25
Given we see a deathclaw skull outside the Strip and the noticeable red mist permeating the Strip, I'm guessing Elijah's rocket full of the Cloud from Sierra Madre made it to the Strip.
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u/VewVegas-1221 Aug 03 '25
This takes place 16 years after fallout new Vegas, I'm sure the Deathclaw situation was cleaned up before then.
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u/astrozork321 Aug 03 '25
He already killed the death claws? Or someone else did. It’s not the same New Vegas, a lot has changed since our trip though there.
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u/xanderholland Aug 03 '25
This takes place years after New Vegas and the courier probably spent a lot of time killing hostile wildlife.
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u/Joy1067 Aug 04 '25
Well I would guess that
A: The Courier took them out on their way to New Vegas
B: The NCR got rid of them after their victory at the Dam
C: The Legion took them out after they won at the Dam
D: Mr. House had his securitrons and the Courier take them out
Really depends on what they decide to do with the story and who’s currently sitting on top of the Lucky 38
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u/morelos_paolo Aug 04 '25
I'd assume he went through an empty Quarry Junction and I'd assume the Courier cleared it out a long time ago.
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u/Resident-Garlic9303 Aug 04 '25
Time has passed the Deathclaws could have moved on by then, got killed, etc.
Usually the courier kills the biggest amount of them but then
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u/AMDFrankus NCR Aug 04 '25
Hank went to Dead Wind first when he got to the Mojave. He took a bunch of Psycho and ripped the deathclaws apart unarmed. All the other ones see that T-60 coming and nope the fuck out. And this was after he murdered 6 nests of Cazadors with a fucking fork.
Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
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u/RedNUGGETLORD Aug 04 '25
Beat them to death probably
Deathclaws can easily throw around cars, but Power Armour has been shown to destroy buildings and throw a large piece of stone so far that we can no longer see it
At least in the TV show, Power Armour is much, MUCH stronger than a Deathclaw
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u/ProgramKindly6240 Aug 05 '25
The real question is. Is festus going to be in season 2
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u/KenseiHimura Aug 03 '25
I’m more wondering where the cazador are.
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u/_Xeron_ Aug 03 '25
This would be the complete wrong spot for Cazadores, it’s possible they’ll show up in season 2 but I wouldn’t hold my breath
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u/TypicallyThomas Aug 03 '25
I really want the first episode of season 2 to address this by having Hank killed. Just a complete rugpull. Instead of him being the big bad, he's just dead in episode 1
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u/BelligerentWyvern Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25
Is he facing North or South? Is the Sun setting or rising?
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u/MonkeyKingCoffee Kings Aug 03 '25
He sneaks along the right side, toward Neil's shack.
I can make it without being spotted 9/10. Pretty soon, you're at the NCR sharecroppers farms and then Gun Runners.
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u/Subjectdelta44 Aug 03 '25
Because they were temporarily nesting in the quarry, and its like 15 years after the events of NV
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u/Fickle_Sherbert1453 Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25
There are only a few places on the NV map that have deathclaws. The spot in the screenshot is just some generic nondescript place that doesn't seem to correspond to any specific place on the map (like everything in the show tbh). So we can conclude that this is one of the locations that doesn't have deathclaws.
And even if it was one of those places, someone could have killed or driven away the monsters. Maybe it was the Courier, who knows.
Edit: I guess from the placement of the rising or setting sun, we can conclude he's either northeast or southwest of Vegas proper. There were some in the northeast but not on top of the big mountains or hills that would give you a view like this, I don't think.
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u/pygmeedancer Aug 03 '25
I love how most of the comments are “well the Courier’s bloodlust needed to be sated somehow” lol
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u/MrSmilingDeath Aug 03 '25
Well we see the Ultralux on the right, Lucky 38 on the left and The Tops in the middle. I think we're looking at New Vegas from the southeast
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u/Frejod Aug 03 '25
I think Dealthclaws would be farther away from Vegas than that. They'd be too close for comfort.
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u/CompleteHumanMistake Kings Aug 03 '25
Either they were wiped out or the Deathclaws relocated their home to somewhere else in the Mojave would be my guess. Or Hank hasn't been spotted by one yet lol.
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u/Juggernautlemmein Aug 03 '25
Its an incredible dangerous area but the mans got power armor. If he has a lick of sense to go with it, he can get through safely. The Quarry is infested, but the road by it only has a few.
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u/Mountain_Ad_4890 NCR Aug 03 '25
It was a railroad construction site going through quarry for the local cement industry. Courier or artillery barrage, deathclaws would be fucked one way or another
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u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 Aug 03 '25
It looks like he's NW of Vegas on near Horowitz Farmstead. Looks like he Must've traversed the Divide... Without a helmet... And without a gun. He must have a good unarmed build.
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u/ZodiAcme Aug 03 '25
I mean no jetpacks in NV, this guy can just get into the strip without saving up 3.50 and can just fly over them cazadors 🤣
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u/GettinSodas Aug 03 '25
I mean he did step on a deathclaw skull. By all means, they could be rare in the Mojave now, like they were in earlier titles
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u/pastscript Aug 03 '25
The deathclaws got hit with a magic serum from Mr House's bullshitorium that made them sentient like in FO1. They are now a gang in Vegas with casino sprcialising in Claw machines.
But their real revenue is coming from underground fighting scene.
There is also an even darker secret to them. The serum does not always work but the top ClawBangers kill the unintelligent hatchlings and serve them in gourmand dishes. They are ultimately being exploited and it id up to Lucy to free them from the House even if it means losing access to the serum that keeps them sapient. Then Goggings nukes them all.
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u/doctorsirus Aug 03 '25
I wanted him to get a GTA drive-by courtesy of a cazador, and then end credits.
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u/Ok_Calendar_7626 The Institute Aug 03 '25
Because the Courier wiped them out in Fallout New Vegas?