Deathclaws | Fallout 

I like how the Templin Institute can afford to describe things like the Brotherhood- Enclave War as a “petty squabble” considering they’ve investigated the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, or the Galactic Civil War

"they can speak and peacefully exist with humans? Clearly they're too dangerous to be left alive!" yep that's the enclave for ya

Deathclaws: If the Devil got drunk and tried to recreate the dinosaurs.

I want a return of Intelligent Deathclaws. At least one breeding pair canonically survived the Enclave

I would love to hear more about this Vault where humans and Deathclaws were coexisting

I think Deathclaws have some kind of crocodilian DNA in them, explainign the scute types, the musculature of the tails, the back ridges, large teeth, etc. And I think they've got some kind of mammalian DNA, explaining defined head features such as brow, nose, snout, and forward-facing eyes, as well as intelligence, limb structure, the leaner body with more defined hips and rib cage. I also like the idea that the beefier, more reclusive deathclaws seen in Fallout are more akin to how deathclaws evolved in the wild, as megafauna hunters, whereas the lankier deathclaws seen in game 3 and New Vegas are more akin to those the Master claims to have furthered developed, being more a kind of ferocious pack hunter, better able to surround and wipe out groups of human infantry.

You know, in every game franchise, there's always that one recurring enemy you always dread having to face. Malboros in Final Fantasy spring to mind instantly for me. And these guys? Oh yeah, definitely on that list 😏

@5:05 "Though Deathclaws do not actively seek out human prey..." Fallout Veterans: *"Bullshit!"*

Quite possibly one of the coolest original creature made in a video game! I love all the various deathclaw subspecies, and there insanely tough nature! Even the young ones scare me. Design wise it feels both grounded but fantastical at once and i love them. Wiukd be interesting seeing them go against dinosaurs

Would love to see some cyberpunk corporate war lore now that it’s getting popular again 🔥

Science: “Lets make an unstoppable, super monster.” “But let’s make it smart. And can reproduce on their own.” “You’re a genius.”

I used to dread Deathclaws… and then New Vegas introduced me to Cazadores. I haven’t complained about a Deathclaw nest since.

"So he dresses up in this Deathclaw Suit, and then..." "Wanna pretend we're Deathclaws in mating Season?" -New Reno Hookers, *Fallout 2 predicting the future.*

I see the institute found new field agents willing to do Beastiary investigations, it's going to be another year until they find enough to do another.

(Fallout 2 Spoilers ahead) Okay, isn't it canon that the Vault 13 Colony of Intellectually enhanced Deathclaws survive the Enclave? If you destroy the Enclave soon enough, they don't wipe out the Deathclaws and I believe that ending was made canon. Also, even if they got wiped out, there was one survivor of the Colony that is your companion while your out adventuring, and that Deathclaw breeding in other less intelligent variants of their kind would add some interesting genes to the gene pool. Also, let it be added that there was a "Secret Service" Agent who had been experimented on (I cannot remember his name) turned into an absolute beast (he was so big they had to just fit pieces of an especially enlarged suit of X-01/2 Power Armor onto him for armor) and was so powerful he could kill a fully grown Deathclaw in one punch (in the ending to the game where the Vault 13 Colony of Deathclaws are wiped out, he leads the assault...) Let that sink in. Edit: I also wish they had added to this video how the Deathclaws had saved a mother and child from a raider attack. A raider was just closing in on them, preparing to kill them or worse, when a giant, clawed hand reached form the darkness and tore him into pieces. The child and mother were even more terrified to find a pack of Deathclaws wiping out the raiders that had been killing them before realizing that the Deathclaw that had saved them was speaking to them, telling them they were safe, that nothing bad would happen to them now. The mother remained pretty scared of them (who wouldn't be...) but the child ended up loving them, it was cute... that would have been an amazing addition to this video.

Everyone: "Terrifying creatures of death." Frank Horrigan: "Pathetic."

Oh boy, the "let's throw all the scary genes into a pot with some FEV and see how it goes!" Boys... Honestly given all the pre war experiments of animals that went horribly wrong, I would say that the death claws turned out surprisingly good in the fact they're not twisted cronenburg monstrosities...

Deathclaws are one things you shouldnt encounter in the wasteland

Inspired _heavily_ by Dungeons & Dragons' Tarrasque, and originally conceptualized to have fur similar to the appearance of a werewolf. The most bizarre thing is that they are, apparently, forcefully evolved from horned chameleons. That is the original canon, that is my preferred canon. Goris is my favorite talking Deathclaw, an educated badass through and through.

Deathclaws: roughly humanoid , tall , angery, armoured killing machines made by biological science World eaters: roughly humanoid : tall, angry , armoured killing machines made in biological science Coincidence? I think not

The main issue with more modern deathclaws in 4 and 76 is that they are just meant to “look scary” instead of being a big threat. Especially since they never seem to be in groups in the newer games

The feeling of trying to book it in Fallout 2 and having that sudden encounter with no good armor or weapons.

As a furry, the amount of deathclaw r34 I’ve seen is excessive.

Deathclaw: Ich nocht daemon, Herr! The Enclave: It speaks. IT SPEAKS!

Remember kids! Never leave your settlement without a Fatman!

Fallout 1, 2, 3, NV: Oh no Deathclaws are dangerous! Fallout 4, 76: Heh heh explodey energy gun pew pew :(

Patrolling the Frontier almost makes you wish Deathclaws didnt exist...

Fallout 4 design really brings home the big lizard idea of it

One deathclaw is easy enough to take take by a well equipped wastelander. Anti-material rifles, gauss rifles, or heavy duty energy weapons are preferred. However, a pack of deathclaws can prove to be a problem. Or being attacked while in the middle of a firefight with raiders can turn a bad situation into a nightmare. Worse still is an ambush in close quarters. In Fallout 1 and 2. Deathclaws are incredibly tough and never alone. Fallout 3 had easy mode on with the poison dart gun. New Vegas returned more to form of 1 and 2. Kill the bastards from a distance. Fallout 4 Deathclaws could be a problem if they caught you unaware. Fallout Tactics, though considered not canonical. The more intelligent subspecies of Midwestern Deathclaws could speak. Their high speed and sneak abilities made me choose my battles. Often forming my squad up into a firing line in front of a minefield. Weapons free. As the Midwestern Deathclaws could kill my squad quickly in close quarters.

Rather fight a Deathclaw then a Cazador, at least you can hit the Deathclaw.

My very first Deathclaw encounter was in Fallout 3. I saw it, took out a missile launcher, and slammed a missile into its head. I then promptly yelled “what the...” when it ignored the blast and promptly ripped me to shreds.

So they are like dragons of the wastelands

I remember a friend who introduced fallout to me said this is what chickens evolved into in this universe

A nice wasteland classic for a sunny October day. I wonder if they’ll do another one for the 23rd. Edit: something I forgot about then because today felt so far away was that today, October the 23rd, 2022, my big sister got married and I got to walk my mother to our seats of honor and all the while seeing both of my parents be happy; so today’s date has become extra special to me.

Do a video on the Think Tank! That would be radical!

The enclave also put mind control helmets on them and used them as weapons. You find that out in a cave in fallout 3

I'd kinda love to see Templin Institute do Volitales from Dyling light franchise? Only 2 games so far so noy sure, but when it comes to terrifying creatures in pop culture Volitales Xenomorph/Alien The Thing and of course Deathclaws

I feel sorry for the hapless schnooks who got sent into the wastelands just to capture dangerous creatures like the deathclaws. Are there gonna be more Bestiary videos for the next several weeks? I want to see Mewtwo featured on Bestiary soon.

I remember the Lone Wanderer was once able to clear out a Deathclaw infestation of a town north of DC. He used a special type of crossbow that fired darts that slowed them down dramatically and then once the Deathclaw, began to follow use Frag mines and Plasma mines to finish it off. Rinse and repeat.

This makes you wonder which Templin agents screwed up so badly, that they were assigned to this Op.

A apex predator design to fight in the worst conditions imaginable, and one that remains unchanged in the modern day wasteland.

I'm not afraid of nole rats. I'm not afraid of rad roaches. I'm not even afraid of super mutants. Deathclaws? Let's just say if I see or hear an OP deathclaw in the area I run as fast as I can in the opposite direction. Still it is my favorite mutant beast in the waste lands. If I were a raider I'd keep an arena fulled with death claws among other beasts to punish my rivals.

Templin: They are really hard to kill Me with a 10mm pistol and using sneak: WATCH ME

Camouflage is a trait that we're grateful for the Deathclaw to lose

Deathclaws in lore: will tear open power armor like it's nothing and not break a sweat Deathclaws in game: nooo don't shoot me with explosive anti material rifle rounds please

So, let's call this a catastrophic success, shall we?

My first fallout game was fo3 and yes, the deathclaw was dangerous, but nothing to fear. That changed when i started with fonv...

I’m just always happy to bestiary videos And whenever templin covers fallout

Thank you Templin! You will not regret this! If you make a 3 part version of Death Claws I will watch! I will bring my friends to my house to watch! I will create more accounts just to watch!

I wonder what the scientific name for deathclaw would be if they had one? How about Alligator diabolus?

Kind of disappointed there was no mention of Goris when talking about the intelligent Deathclaws.

I just wish big super duper biological monsters would make sense. Mutations in all glory, but there's just so much thick hide and muscles you can have before you become an elephant

I always picture them from fallout tactics, they were more fur coated.

wonder if they were able to tear into a vault of a shelter ?

good job, as always!!!

I've never known a Deathclaw that couldn't be put down with a .308 round or a well placed shot from stealth by an Anti-Material Rifle. Carrying plenty of armor peircing rounds helps, but it isn't necessary. High or practically unassailable ground will help when dealing with Deathclaws but if you ever encounter one on more level ground, aim for the legs with a high caliber weapon. Slowing them down will help, but not guarantee, victory versus these hellspawn abominations.

I miss the talking Deathclaws.

Deathclaws are awesome, but it's hard to see them truly becoming a dominant species. Their physical abilities and capacity for cognition would probably require a HUGE number of calories, more than the blighted landscape of post-nuclear Earth could provide in the long-term...

I absolutely love it when you guys do fallout stuff, amazing video!

Only firearms or energyweapons are reliable against their hide. Laughs in 6250 per hit with a Hammer

This is a lot of praise for something that gets beaten easily by a dart gun made out of paint gun, a radscorpion poison glad, some surgical tubing, and a toy car. (Love the video though, Deathclaws are terrifying when I don't have the dart gun)

i'm glad you guys are doing bestiary stuff now. you were kinda running out of interesting factions lol.

Up to 20ft tall? Maybe long, but few are ever more than 8ft tall.

Do the tripods/Martians from war of the worlds 2005

Apparently, Deathclaws were originally conceptualized as mammalian creatures that were a cross between a brown bear and a wolverine. This was scrapped because the devs couldn't render their fur correctly, and so ended up using a rejected creature design from a different game, which became the Deathclaws we know today. That said, it's interesting to note that *Fallout Tactics* featured Deathclaws that, in addition to being intelligent, were described as being mammal-like. Though, it should be noted that *Tactics* is considered non-canon by Bethesda... The same Bethesda that went on to include references to that game in both *Fallout 3* and *4.* Assuming *Tactics* is at least partially canon, perhaps these creatures are descendents of a "prototype" race of Deathclaws that were created using the DNA of mammalian predators instead of that of reptiles. All the more reason Bethesda should remake *Tactics* to fit into modern Fallout lore. A fight between a devil lizard and roided up honey badger? Yes, please!

Grois is my favorite deathclaw in fallout 2

First rime I encountered one was in Fallout 4. I mowed it down with a mini gun lol.

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Somehow, without a certain apple narrating this, this feels off.

Damn, this was incredible. Well done.

I was here before the First War

It will be always and only the King of the Waste.

Awesome work 👏 👌

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The one thing I'm disappointed by regarding Deathclaw origins and physiology is the fact that they are descended from horned chameleons. Imagine a Deathclaw that had a ranged attack in the form of a barbed, extendable tongue that can pull you in range of its jaws and claws. Would have been a reaily crappy game mechanic (and glitchworthy beyond par due to Bethesda's stupidity) but it also would have been friggin badass.

They are not much of a threat really... (especially with ranged weapons and VATS)... In fallout 4 at least, you encounter one that is weak in the first hour of game play, and the rest you likely will have leveled up sufficiently to take in a legitimate fight before you encounter them again. Templin is sensationalizing them to the level the lore would imply them to be, but in FO4 at least, they are less dangerous than gunners really. Unlike other Fallout Lore presenters, they used fan art to detach narrative lore from actual game play. While I normally love their content, as a fallout player, I find this video disappointing. I am not about to take one on in a vault suit and combat knife, but I take more damage on average from rad storms than I do from death claws.

Big friendly lizards.

No mention of Jackson's Chameleons?

There is no problem in the wasteland that the Big Boy with a MIRV launcher mod won't fix!

I suggest that you give a look in last part of the video -- some few subtitles are... comically unnecessary! 😅

When I played "Fallout: New Vegas". I hated Deathhclaws! They set me back. That is until I found the Flare Gun. That weapon makes Deathclaws run when hit. I had to do a terror run with Deathclaws when I had the Flare Gun. Shoot Deathclaws with it, move, turn around to see it still in flames, keep running, when the effect wore off, then I shoot it again. I found out later that the Flare Gun was an effective way of killing the bastards! Just keep shooting at them, see them running around in a panic because they were engulfed in flames, and then they die!. It was really quite satisfying in killing them that way.

Deathclaws are a Enemy in the wasteland you should run away from unless you have a FatMan then you are covered also Power Armor.

There is only 1 thing that would say rival a deathclaw and trhat is fukign cazadors

Ah yes, the big stupid radioactive lizards. Lovely.

These are the most dangerous creatures in the wasteland. Pray that you never encounter one.

Uh, you accidently left notes for Shorts in the subtitles near the end lol.

You know another word for pack? Family.

fun stuff, the first times you stumble into their "nests"

Still waiting for my Eve Online lore videos.

But can I smooch the talking deathclaws?

perfect timing on this video. I just started playing fallout 4 and was wondering out deathclaws.

Nice little reference to Godzilla 1998.

I just cheese them with the dart gun. 💀💀💀

I'm still waiting on a video about the deathclaw mating rituals. Seriously, how does a deathclaw dude attract a deathclaw chicka? Pick-up lines? Sheer machismo? Enquiring minds want to know...

"Big! Big! The size of three men! Claws as long as my forearm! Ripped apart! Ripped apart!" -- Trent Barrister, Fallout

Fallout-fallout new vegas when meeting deathclaws “fuck fuck fuck fuck” fallout 4 when meeting deathclaw “why did you fall down buddy”

"i would go for the eyes"

And yet, I'd still rather take the road through Quarry Junction than go north from Goodsprings and face what's lurking there.

Give me some x01 power armor a Gatling laser, and a cr47l assault rifle, and they’re as good as extinct.

Its unfortunate Frank Horrigan isn't still alive, he'd slap them around.