The Creepy Crawlies of Fallout!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- If it crawls or skitters on multiple legs, we cover it here in the first of a two parter covering the lore, obscure background information, and real world inspirations behind Fallout's creepy crawly creatures.
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Listened to almost every video while driving 1400 miles last week. Could only listen for obvious reasons, but every one is superb, keep em coming!
The British mind can’t comprehend
Same here man always love listening to his videos on the drive
@@Dctctx 1400 miles =
2253.082 kilometers
@@rwm4604I was talking about driving 1400 miles
I listen to these vids when i lay down for bed 😅
As a pest control technician in Arizona, believe me when I tell you, you'd rather have an angry Asian Hornet after you than a Tarantula Hawk. They're super aggressive and wildly territorial.
@@BigBrotherThink1 damn they really the worst insects of the world 😱
The royal jelly being able to be broken down into antiseptic is probably a reference to Honey having some natural antibacterial traits to it.
I just left a Microsoft Teams meeting where one of the participants had to run off camera from a wasp that got in, so this is well-timed.
Wasp hitman
One of my favouritist lines ever involves these creepy crawlies. I just love the FO4 Super Mutant line "Ha! You hit like a Radroach."
I smashed a mutants arm off with Atoms Judgement clearing out the hotel in far harbor and he shouted "You hit like s radroach" with a missing arm and a 3rd of his hp
@@derianarce2686tis but a scratch
@@misteranthropy7082 A scratch? Your arm's off!
@@Shinyspddmnno it's not
It's just a flesh wound
@@derianarce2686 High confidence low intelligence.
In a Fallout flavored tabletop game that I've been running set in the New York and New Jersey area I decided to try to make some unique monsters, one of which was something I decided to call a "Nightlight," which is a hybrid between a moth and a lightning bug. They're mostly harmless but like nibbling on electronics.
So it's interesting to know that fireflies are an actual thing in game as well since I haven't had a chance to check out 76 yet. Honeybeasts are a really interesting design, so I might have to include them as well when I get the chance!
Thanks again for more great content to keep me company while I work!
If you haven't played 76 yet, I recommend giving it a go. Same Fallout gameplay with a little more survival thrown in. The perk system is kind of the same, but you can't max every special out. The community is a mixed bag, but for the most part I've had really good experiences. I'm currently level 65 and I had a lovely level 1010 gift my brother and I matching custom painted T-60 sets just because he liked the prices at the vending machine in my base. Oh, yeah. You can build bases, there's a player economy, and....you can launch nukes across the map. Sorry, I went on a tangent. Honeybeasts are super cool, but absolute tanks if you're not running an energy or incendiary weapon. There are also Radtoads, which are about as horrifying as they sound. The fireflies are passive mobs, but do drop bioluminescent fluid when dispatched.
As a person with a phobia of most bugs, Fallout can be a challenge sometimes.
I had a friend legit use fallout 4 as exposure therapy. Results were... Mixed 😂
@@KhrZygarde As someone who HATES roaches, Fallout 4 was a nightmare in some parts when I first started it. Especially when the legendary ones spawn as the variants as large as the player 😭
@@Sike_Ward it's the man sised bloatflys for me seeing those things explode and multiply right in front of my eyes 😂
Makes me wonder how well do you with shotgunning cazadores.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Not well, My fear is mostly towards wasps, hornets and yellow jackets.
I don't remember exactly but I feel like Bighorner Bulls drop more XP than Cazadors which is kinda silly... Jsawyer was totally clowning on us...
@@FriendlyArchpriest i know the bulls can barely fight back and drop 61 XP a pop going up to Jacobs Town after reaching new Vegas is a great way to level up
@@Gail-no9py I usually leave farming them to the endgame, after I finished most things in the Mojave before doing the DLCs, and so I clean the entire map over and over out of respawnable creatures, Bighorner Bulls and Fire Geckos are my favorite prey, although I end up hunting everything anyways.
I always end up in the hills with a long rifle earning that bighorner xp
You monsters i never even knew what they were worth because i never killed them
Cheese
Cazadores...nothing scares me more than watching those red compass pips zip around. Thank the Gunrunners for 5mm JSP and Assault Carbines
@@hammerheadxray8152 It's just wrong to hate anything more than a cazadore
You just amit to thy harm of holy cazadors what unforgivable sin you rude person
@@GreatDoomer the Mothman Cult on the West coast has a much more extreme form of worship I see
Thank god for baseball bats
Brush gun is good against them, it's my go-to
I’m still haunted by the sound of Cave Crickets
The Cazadore is one of the only creatures I always use VATS for.
Spastic creatures.
Yeah, they're so hard to hit even from stealth. They zoomie all over like a hyperactive toddler on red bull and crack.
I combine shotguns with a companion that is really into melee...
Yeah my brother says not to use vats but I think he was messing with me but I use vats all the time
Having gotten Dengue fever from mosquitos while in India for work, and almost dying from it within a day from severe dehydration I would be terrified what diseases Bloodbugs, and other insects would give
Damn, glad you made it through alive, my friend. I've always heard that mosquitos spread more diseases more than any animal in the world, but hearing how fast it took you is terrifying.
That pipboy sound as the picture came up was icing on the cake tbh you just keep raising the quality of already outstanding videos and I love it
Nice profile picture
I love Hendrix.
I was stung by a Tarantula Hawk once, one of the worst experiences of my life. They're relatively common where I live, so even though they're usually pretty docile towards humans, I tend to give them a wide berth. Super interesting and oddly beautiful insects, though. And an excellent fit for the Fallout universe.
I wonder if Dr. Borous' mentioning creating Cazadors on a Tuesday is a reference to the Street Fighter Movie (Dialogue below for reference):
"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."
Spitting up the blood, is like animals who throw up/soil themselves before fleeing from a predator. The blood bug realizes it didn't critically injure us and spits the blood in our face to stop us from hurting it. the full belly slows it down.
Was thinking the same thing, like how sea cucumbers will fire out their own intestines to escape predators. Nate/Nora and the seventysixers are just built different compared to the usual prey of the blood bugs!
Cazadors scare the hell out of me, makes me wonder if they're coming to the season 2 of The Fallout series. I'm also wondering if we find a new facility that has a unique bug like creature in the next Fallout game.
radking on a rainy day, thank god
Such a good vibe
I remember I was fighting Shipbreaker in Far Harbor and I wasn't doing good damage, was getting heavily damaged and was using lots of medicine. The fight was very intense and I didn't think I was gonna win, then suddenly a group of raiders joined the fight. They surprised me and I thought it was going to lead to my death but as Shipbreaker killed the lesser raiders I was able to separate a legendary raider and kill him and he luckily dropped a legendary Gatling Laser (It might have been knee cappers or unlimited, I forgot) But it helped me take down shipbreaker and survive. This is one of my favorite memories of a fight in the Fallout games and is why i love Far Harbor.
As someone who lives in a state with yellow jackets, mutated yellow jackets should be much more terrifying.
I've always loved the classic B movies with giant insects caused by some kind of atomic energy or radiation and Fallout really captures that feel
Always reminds me of "Them!" An old black and white movie about giant radiation mutated ants. I feel like it is a very Fallout kind of movie.
I could totally see the prewar US government finding giant ants and covering it up while either trying to destroy them or to weaponize them.
May Atom ⚛️ radiate ur paths
I read this as radiate your pants at first
@@AdminAbuse May our holy Atom shit your pants. 🙏
I have an intense fear of bugs, why the hell am I watching this lmao
I love bugs that's why I'm watching
Because it’s not that deep.
Learn thy enemy!!
Exposure therapy maybe?
I really like the idea of insects with symbiotic relationships having deeper mechanics/lore. Honeybees evolved to be huge and display different hierarchies, but it’d be fascinating if that was caused by feeding on radioactive flowers or breathing radioactive smoke/fog. Butterflies are another cool example of symbiotic insects, as are dung beetles and silkworms!
Two things on cazadors.
One: I feel they're overhyped. Once you get solid access to Hollowpoint rounds, they die super quickly. And alot of the time they're in open spaces (such as the big area in front of vault 22), so you can just snipe them.
Two: I really hope in futures installments cazadors get their parasitic traits shown. Imagine walking into a cazador nest only to see still alive, but paralyzed, geckos, humans, or even deathclaws with subtle movements from their insides showing that the larva has infested them. It would be fucking gnarly and terrifying. You could even have a unique gameplay element with it, where some times a young cazador could pop out of the creature and attack you.
About your first point, I think it’s fine that they aren’t tanky, they are glass cannons that swarm you and it’s good they have a weakness that we can exploit
About your second point, agreed! I swore you could sometimes find corpses with their eggs inside them but I’m probably just misremembering things. Plus we already have code and animations for young bloodworms incubating (and exploding out of) Brahmin corpses so they could definitely add something like that for Cazadors!
I agree on both points. I think that they're so overhyped because people went north from Goodsprings and happened upon the road with cazadores instead of the one with deathclaws. Even without hollow points, they're fairly easy to deal with by level 10 or 15.
@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem That's almost verbatim of what I said when I made a tumblr post about it a few months ago. People went north and got shwacked and have been upset about it since.
I think the reason some people make a big deal out of them is the build they're running. A melee/unarmed or explosive build is definitely at a huge disadvantage against cazadors. I haven't been scared of them for a long time until I tried doing an explosive only run on very hard and hardcore mode. Theyre worse than even deathclaws under those conditions.
Your suggestion sounds similar to what they did with the bloodworms in nukaworld. I absolutely hated them, not in a bad way. They just kept scaring tf outta me
Idk man I feel like getting knocked out and getting a cutscene showing it drag you away then waking up in the nest and having to escape would be kinda crazy
I need a mod of this now.
Cazadors really aren't all that bad if you remember to cripple their wings first. They lose a lot of that scary when they're stuck waddling on the ground like a radroach.
"Ah, fire ants. because they're red and their bite burns like fire?"
"No"
"What do you mean, no?"
"they breath fire"
Starting the video with the Cazadore was a brave choice. The built in trauma responce almost had me closing out immediately. Biggest threat to my usual sniping build. Too small, too fast, too erratic, too perceptive, and that venom does not care at all about silly damage reduction. You get like one VATS shot and if that missed its on top of you.
cazadors are the reason I always rush Big MT, for the immune to poison perk. Oh and because its my fave DLC in the game.. but hey.. :D love the think tank.
I tend to listen to your vids while I take walks, keep me entertained the whole time.
I thought that perhaps I must have imagined the following, until it happened a second time. There is an enraging fog crawler with 4500 armour resistance (4500 according to the perk that lets you see the various ratings when looking at an enemy in VATS). It might always be a legendary variant. Both times encountered was during the 'fog condensers down' attack on Longfellow's cabin island.
I always thought that they somehow added an extra zero and never noticed it.
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@@Crackmiser what do you mean?
Does not compute
@@Crackmiser bro what?
The fact that not only are beetles not the most common irradiated insect, but that there are NO beetles in ANY of the games (that I know of) is a crime.
Shoutout to Dr. Lesko's Voice actor performance. Man crushed that role
I live in the Mojave, I see tarantula hawks a lot out here, just saw one at sunset tonight. I love em, pretty docile until they're agitated.
@@NorthRainProductions I recall not knowing what the actual name of them was when I first moved to El Paso, but once I found out that they are mostly harmless to us I couldn’t help but watch them when I had the opportunity.
Babe wake up new RadKing video just dropped
A type of rolley polley that's just basically a bug version of an armadillo would be kinda neat. Probably docile, but still got the classic bug creepout factor with the spindly legs and antennae.
I'm kind of glad cazadors build nests.
The idea of one of those things stinging someone to paralysis and laying an egg inside them would be genuine high octane nightmare fuel.
Maybe its just me, but another thing I've noticed about cazadores is how quickly they can degrade your armor. It might be due to how many of them you fight at a given time and how quickly they can strike you, but it seems like my gear is always much worse off after I figut them than any other mob.
I just realized there's no spider enemies in Fallout like RadSpiders or RadTarantulas I'm kinda glad but also kinda curious what they would look like. Thank you RadKing for doing these creature videos they awesome looking forward to the next one!
I'd like to mention that "THOSE!" is also apparently a movie in the Fallout universe, and you can hear clips from the movie as part of an ad via the Pirate Radio station.
Fun fact about the cazador, if you cripple both wings it kills them.
That's my go-to move, and I don't remember them ever outright dying from it 🤔
I like the pip boy sfx with the background changes
Those dang cazadores sure are a nuisance!
4:30 that slap fight was so hilarious I had to make note of it
Have you ever thought about doing a series on Fallout's fractions??? Oh and what are your thoughts on Fallout London???
My favourite fraction is 5 over 10! Jk. But I would love to see a fallout faction vid too
You should probably do a video on armor. I think that would be really interesting. Talk covering all the armor of fallout from the NCR Rangers to the legionnaires. You could be an interesting video
Just imagine dying from a overgrown mutated tarantula hawk, all Aliens style, with the baby bugs eating their way out of you, that's just utterly horrifying 😅😂
What if... The 76 Fogcrawlers are the result of escaped and mutated grocery store seafood. Like how we would see live lobsters? 🤯
Since I don't have time to play these days I can enjoy listening to these . Can't wait to get back to fallout
Cazador are easy to defeat with any explosive weapons, as they are not only high damage, but can hit a bunch at once, and can cripple with wings, antenna, and limbs quite easily if they survived.
Just started a new game of New Vegas recently and the Entomologist perk is such a blessing. From Giant Radscorpions over the ant swarms of the dry lakes to of course the vnomous nightmares that are Cazadors, this perk is a must-have for survival in the Mojave!
wonderful as usual, Rad. keep it up.
The Honeybeast was an awesome addition. Caught me totally off guard the first time.
if dr boris isn't mistaken or lying, if cazadors were made on a tuesday in may 2003, they might have been created on the day i was born
Yeah... Its the Cazador. They just move so creepily. Good luck hitting those in a panic. And there will be panic.
My fellow Child of Atom! What a glorious, glowing day it is to see you again.
30:15 ants throwing it back
man I cant even lie, that "damn nature, you scary" really caught me off guard. had to run it back like 4 times cuz it was just too funny. love the humor as always brother, keep on informing the masses of these wasteland oddities.
36:58 Here in Sweden, they decided to translate the title of that movie to "spindlarna" or "the Spiders". I have no idea why, there are no giant spiders in said movie (it's almost like they couldn't be bothered to try cause they wanted to go home early).
As a person who has a severe phobia of wasps, bees, yellow jackets, and hornets when I saw the cazador for the first time I literally freaked out but DON'T think that you can lead it to the quarry like I did 😂
Having region specific creatures like the fogcrawler is kind of pointless when 76 is considered, it would be some what forgivable if Bethesda came up with a better reason then "vault tec did it!" To explain how a mutation that's still only on one island 200 years later that's not even of interest to vault tec just happens to create the same creatures that are in an extremely isolated and precise ecosystem.
5:56. Damn, those Cazador's look like they've been fed a cocktail of chems.
50:55 the “wha..?” Killed me
Male Bloodbugs probably aren't seen very much because they are obligate herbivores. They subsist off of nectar. Only female mosquitoes suck blood and they only do it to get some extra protein for when they are laying eggs.
So Male mosquitoes are (given the relative lack of flowers) either completely eradicated or exist in fairly small numbers. Reproduction would still be possible through females only if they can reproduce via Parthenogenesis (cloning of the self) so the males wouldn't be necessary. It might also promote increased sexual dimorphism since the males don't get any benefit from growing bigger and therefore requiring more energy, whereas the females might if they actually switched over to blood for nutrition. Though unlikely.
Not the most genetically stable method but then again, I think highly irradiated bugs have other things to worry about in that regard.
10:39 Look at them skedaddle
Listening to rad king while I work is always so helpful. Keeps the distractible part of my brain busy so I can work
The legendary cazador being difficult to fight... I guess I didn't actually "fight" it when I one-shotted it with a sneak attack critical (using Maria) in my latest run.
Where are the Bloatflies? They are annoying, especially with they're range attacks, spitting and launching their larva at you. Which burrow in to the skin.
Funfact: the largest living Ant is Dinomyrmex gigas and it is absolutely gigantic compared to other Ant Species.
Also there are Bees that make Honey from rotting Meat and my Theory is that the Honeybeast with the black Honey might have evolved from those
I find that the hunting shotgun with the modified choke and double oot buck shot works best against cazadores
The worst part of Cazadores is the insane injection sound the game has. First time i experinced it i genuinly thought it was an audio bug for the player taking damage.
Cazadore PTSD triggered.
I remember playing New Vegas when it first came out, knowing nothing about the existence of Cazadors. Absolutely freaked me out when I was coming over a hill and three of them annihilated me.
I’ve been stung by a Tarantula Hawk. Here’s the advice for if you get stung. Lie down and scream it out. Don’t go looking for help, you’ll probably get yourself hurt more. That level of pain is disorienting and can mess with your mind. It’ll pass in about 30 minutes.
I play fallout 4 for YEARS and I'm just learning that the bloodbugs can attack you like in that stabbing way and fill up with the players blood
i fell asleep to this last night and all i remember is the cazadors, they were my friends in my dream about work. like they were my coworkers?? i think i need a vacation and another new vegas play through
The flying bugs were always the worst
In our world, if an animal is named vampiric it's usually becaus of it's coloration for exmalpe the vampiric squid. I would assume that the vampiric bloodbug is named that way because of it's color.
Only way I could handle cazadors was a super sledge and poison resistance. You charge them quickly before they disburse and vats/swing quickly. They die in 1 to 2 hits. I've never used melee so much in a fallout game but my favorite rifle couldn't do a thing to them except waste ammo so, gunbuild with only melee points from side stuff worked. For the big ones in the tunnels, I hugged a wall and unleashed my granade and mine stash. Hope this helps any but they were worse than anything I fought in the fallout series thus far 😂
Cazador's arent THAT bad when youre a higher level. However I still physically flinch when I hear them in game and see them coming for me. The venom and their swarming tactics makes me run through stimpacks like super mutants cant
There are only two enemies in all of Fallout that intimidate me even years after starting the series. Deathclaws.... and Cazadors.
I grew up in AZ, tarantula hawks as almost as terrifying in real life as in FNV. I’ve never seen people SCATTER the way they do when someone sees one
Cazadores were why my courier always carried a rocket launcher or grenade launcher. Even then, the battles were always close.
Fire ants could've evolved on their own in New Vegas because of something in their diet/environment since there are also fire geckos in the area
I believe it is explained in lore that the Fog Crawlers are mutated Mantis Shrimp.
I feel like young cazadores should have less physical damage and more poison damage since they’re young and can’t meter out their venom. They just dump it all at once.
That also makes me think that a cazador sting would be less (or at least no more) painful than a real world tarantula hawk sting, since there’s a correlation between insect size and venom potency
@@mrziiz6893 Makes a lot of sense. Don't need the poison as much if your stinger is large enough to be crippling (if not lethal) on its own.
30:15 that ant was feeling 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂
Wasps makes me think of the one from Donkey Kong Country for the SNES called Zinger
What about Ticks? I know this is kinda an Insect list, but they’re still Creepy Crawly’s.
part 2 obviously
Wait are ticks arachnid and not insects???
@@left-2-write28 Mhm, there aren’t a lot of Arachnids in Fallout.
Like, Radscorpions & Ticks? I might be missing one though.
Liking and commenting before watching video so I can boost it again when I do come back to fully watch it
Atom’s might blesses many, but few can truly withstand his power; quite a shame really
It looks to me like those eyes on the glowing fog crawlers aren't eyes but pits (the organ that allows snakes to have "heat vision"), although why a crustacean has them, i don't know.
likely to see reasonably in the fog.
I remember Coyote Jackson getting a bite from a tarantula hawk and I literally went "wait hang on what the fuck? Is that??"
Wow I've never caught a video this early before, hell yeah.
the fog crawler is a mutated bullet shrimp
I've never encountered a Tarantula Hawk, and I count myself _very_ lucky for it, but I think normal IRL hornets are horrifying enough.
Cazadors are just... All I will say is, "Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure".
Pretty sure the vampiric bloodbug is called that because it usually uses the blood to heal itself. I've had them at literally one health, tanking combat shotgun rounds all because it got a bite in first.
I feel like the courier succumbing to the cazador's sting actually is them being paralyzed