Cursed exams getting in the way of my usual schedule! But hey, better late than never right? 😀👍 Correction: when I say 'abdomen, I really mean 'thorax'' thanks to those who pointed this out 👍
I feel like everyone's first encounter with a cazador went a bit like this: 1. Sees cazador 2. Think to self, "oh, it's probably similar to the bloat fly! I'll just shoot it In the head in vats and loot its corpse! 3. Shoot cazador 4. Realize mistake 5. Get swarmed 6. Panic 7. Die
Cazadores: The things that scare the shit out of you by sneaking up on you early game. Until you get Boone, then he scares the shit out of you with his kill cams.
Pair up ED-E with Boone and a low-perception player and suddenly you get them shooting at seemingly nothing, long before it's either on your HUD as enemies OR even freaking *rendered*.
He probably did much worse than castrate them. The urge to breed and the lack of an actual brain, prevented them from caring about what would otherwise be an excruciatingly painful sexperience.
Cazadores were always one of my favorite New Vegas monsters because of how serious you had to take them lest they swarm and kill you within a few seconds
i mean, if it were just that they'd be fine. It's the fact that you have to stock up on a fuck ton of anti-venom to deal with them that's annoying. Once you get stung you're basically dead otherwise.
“Oh look a shortcut, oh look a red marker, oh look a bug, oh look it’s getting bigger, oh look there are more, oh look my rifle does little to no damage to them, oh look I’m dead
"You may know me as the Head Chief First Researcher of Labs Z-9 and Z-14. There I fought valiantly to preserve rattlesnake DNA, and put it right where it belongs, in the husk of another feared predator." - Doctor Borous
It makes sense for the cazadors to lay regular eggs instead of mimicking a tarantula hawk. Their prey has expanded to include a larger variance in body size, so the process may not work as well as in a tarantula. They also have larger bodies and brains that take longer to develop, meaning that cazadors need parents that stick around the nest to teach the young. This is seen in game as young Cazadors follow their parents around like young predator animals IRL. I rest my case.
Monke brain: Invisible wall Normal brain: An actual wall Distinhuished gentleman: a wall made with a difficulty curve and pshychology. A challenge that will not easily be forgotten.
My my, this is not the sort of provocative name and pfp that I'm accustomed to seeing in New Vegas vids. Half or more of the communities around this game are, ah, a little _too_ into Caesar's Legion, if you catch my meaning. I'll take this as a good sign that this might be a channel worth subscribing to
I decided to play New Vegas after watching some of your videos, I saw these and reacted with more terror than when I got attacked by a deathclaw like a minute later.
I always thought mutated tarantula hawk it seems like it was combined with a paper wasp it would explain the change in hunting style and the way eggs are laid
It might be the description for the cazadore "egg" is a bit misleading, and those are cocoons. As in, they've already hatched into larvae, eaten the outside of the corpses (hence the bloody visceral remains in the middle of the rooms) and will hatch into juvenile cazadores.
Accidentally crippling a Cazador's wing in a blind, 40mm grenade filled, panic is probably one of the most helpful things I've accidentally stumbled across.
I went thru the cazador trail, going from Red Rock Canyon to Jacobstown. After getting the Platinum Trophy i had 2 remaining personal trails, clear the Cazador Alley and the Deathclaw Promontory, wich i successfully completed, after that i left the game and moved on, but is one of my top 10 favorite games of all time, a remake should happen asap.
I hate it when you come across a lone cazador. At least when I go up against a horde, I know I'm probably going to die. When I go up against a single one on it's own, it gives me hope that I might survive. Heavy emphasis on "might". Safe to say that they never travel alone.
I wish bigger Caza’s would pop into smaller ones when you killed them, like the bugs in brotherhood of steel. Was hoping that would happen at the big empty...
@@Sonicracer100 if I wanted it to be cursed I’d just had the Casador have a 50/50 hit chance of adding a Caza spawn upon death of NPC injured Imagine taking Boone or any of the others with you to the final mission, they die and the entire map is swarmed with casadors spawning from their corpse. Kinda like the Ark xenomorph mod where the guy just was in the middle of a face higher orgy, snuck into a enemy camp and 40+ xenomorphs exploded out dorm within him.
One scary discovery I made was doubling back to Bonnie Springs a few days later after clearing out the Raiders. Cazadores will spawn as they formed a small hive on one of the buildings. Although I had Boone and EDE with me, I was officially creeped out.
Oh boy did you imagine my past 12 year old’s surprise to those murder bees on my first play through. I even read the sign at Goodsprings graveyard and still went cuz I’m a dumbass
i have got to say that i have not played fallout too much, i had new vegas on xbox which i played pretty frequently but in the past couple years i've not touched the games too much. still your videos have a real charm to them, they are the same as documentaries/conspiracy theories in the way that they captivate me and i really enjoy binging them in the background while doing something else
I never really had an issue with Cazadores. I would sometimes see them before they were obliterated by Boone and Ed-E and sometimes I'd snipe them myself. The few times I did have an issue with them it wasn't too bad and I ended up leading a legion kill squad into a horde if them and watched the chaos from a distance while picking off members of the squad and Cazadores at the same time.
I like to think that Boros was not lying about the Cazadores being contained, but that due to Elijah's escape, he left an opening for them to leave Big MT and wander the wasteland
Due to the weird wasteland perk I once encountered 12 of these at the same time. You heard me. A dozen! Sometimes I swear I can still hear them( shudders)
I learned about tarantula hawks from the fallout wiki. I was happy to learn about them before encountering one in the wild so I knew to show it respect. They have a nasty sting.
The foolishness of anyone playing for the first time is believing they would be easy to kill The bane of anyone playing for the fifth time when you just want to get to Vegas right away to play some poker.
One time when I was at army training in New Mexico I was on my way to class when I saw this giant wasp swoop down and kill a tarantula. It was gnarly and it looked SO much like Cazadore, since there’s no real life vats I immediately booked it to class.
@@beastmaster0934 Yeah! I had googled it and saw coyote Petersen get stung by one. Those or some bad bugs bro. The venom is no joke and they truly look menacing af.
Imagine being an elite NCR courier, you're a battle hardened veteran, you've the taste of blood that'll never go away, and equipment that prevent the worst forms of death, and then you're just swarmed by a hundred giant bugs
Imagine being told a creature that's pretty much just a much bigger version of it's original version with scaled stats to match it's size is on the same level of fear and danger as something specifically designed to be sent into war, have claws to rip apart even the best of armors(including early power armor models), have great perception to prevent blindside attacks, fast enough to travel large distances to close the bullet range, tough hide to withstand gunfire and enough muscle to lift anywhere from low to high hundreds of pounds(depending on which game model you examine).
Creepy bugs...i really don't enjoy fighting them, because they sring sting sting sting and never stip until you kill them, or they kill you. Great video!
Fantastic! A Fallout lore RU-vidr that isn't a cringy weirdo. Last channel I enjoyed watching was thenthapple and ShottyCast, great to find a worthy successor to them.
The Pods and egg-laying are reminisent of Potter Wasps in shape, which normally sting a Small larva before depositing them in a small pod made of mud. The more eggs the Wasp will need to lay, the more small pods she will create, and the more larve she will need. I wouldn't be suprised if that was what got spliced as well.
.. the 76 generation likes to talk about how difficult it is to kill a Scorchbeast. But they haven't fought Cazadores. You can dodge a Scorchbeasts sonic attack, they land(which gives you ample time to flank them, or set up defensive positions), and they have a large surface making it easier to hit. A Cazadore is smaller, quicker. And they have poison attacks. Unless you're a marksman(cripple the wings or legs) or use high damaging weapons like explosives or energy weapons(explosive suppression or energy penetration of it's exoskeleton), you'll have a rough go of it.
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@@cancelik6531 I know I fucked them up in honest hearts I just meant that most people aren't gonna be specializing in melee but will instead go for guns or energy weapons
my 20 encounter with specimen 73: 1-set land mines and traps. 2-take a deep breath. 3-sees rader, the red line goes haywire. 4- equip anti materiel rifle. 5-opens the door. 6-the fucker goes over my traps and booked it untop of the first floor. 7-pauses the game. 8-thinking of life. 9-closes the game
Got killed by these bastards so much and the only clear view of them are when they're on VATS as I'm crying. Didn't notice their abdomens actually pulsate. Freaky.
After learning that Boros was the creator of Cazadors, I immediately put him high on the list of NPCs who deserve shots in the head by anti material rifles, but after hearing him talk, he's right up there next to Caesar.
as a boy growing up in a South American farm, lemme tell you that there's nothing more nightmare inducing than a large bright red wasp flying erratically while carrying a big hairy spider around.
