In Fallout 4, how many types of Deathclaw variants are there, and what are the different abilities they use to attack you?
Fallout 4 – How many types of deathclaws are there
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According to the wiki, there are 4:
- Brotherhood Ending
Supported by the rebuilt Liberty Prime, the Brotherhood assaults the Institute and blows up its reactor. For the player character's service, Elder Maxson promotes the Sole Survivor to the highest rank of Sentinel.
- Minutemen Ending
The Institute is infiltrated and destroyed, sparing the Commonwealth of their oppression.
- Railroad Ending
With the help of Deacon, Tinker Tom, and a stolen vertibird, the Sole Survivor infiltrate the Prydwen and destroy it from the inside, causing it to crash. Later, the Institute is infiltrated and destroyed. The two organizations most opposed to Synth freedom are eliminated and the Railroad can continue its work in relative peace.
- Institute Ending
The Institute and the Sole Survivor attack and eliminate the Railroad. Later on, with the help of Institute synths, Liberty Prime is hacked and shoots the Prydwen out of the sky. After returning to the Institute, the Sole Survivor has a heart-to-heart with Father and assume his position after he dies.
There are 78 permanent SPECIAL points in Fallout 4.
- You start off with 28 points.
- You can find a You're SPECIAL! book in your Sanctuary home for another point.
- Can only increase a maxed stat if a debuff like alcohol is used to temporarily lower one of your maxed stats
- You can train all your SPECIAL stats up to 10, so that's 42 remaining points.
- Additional Bobbleheads (for each specific SPECIAL stat) can be found, 7 points.
You can max out your character with 10 in each SPECIAL trait provided every time you level up you simply choose the appropriate training to increase your stats (as opposed to choosing perks).
Remember, there's no level cap, so you can keep on levelling and start getting other perks later.
So you start off with 28, but you can easily improve all of them to 70, should you choose to only train those perks starting at Level 2.
This means 70 - 28 = 42. Meaning the earliest you could max out all your stats is getting to Level 43, while every time you level up putting points in the stat you want to increase, provided you also don't find any bobbleheads along your way.
Additionally, some perks grant permanent increases in stats at specific times of the day or at a certain HP level, so those are technically also "permanent".
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There are 8 different variants of deathclaw, and the abilities and attacks they use are mostly shared among them. Much more information can be found via the Fallout Wiki. The appearance of one of the variants is based off player level, though the wiki reports that higher-leveled variants are more likely to appear when the appearance of a deathclaw is scripted, as opposed to just running into one at complete random.
Attacks and Abilities
Claws
To perform a standard attack, deathclaws use their claws. These attacks can hit for large amounts of damage, but are still slow enough to make out maneuvering them a feasible defense strategy. The deathclaw performs these attacks in two forms, a regular and a heavy attack. The approximate damage changes with each variant, but heavy attacks do twice the amount of a regular attack.
Shockwave
When the deathclaw initiates combat, they will stomp the ground, and generate a shock-wave. If I remember correctly, the shock-wave is only an issue if you are standing to close to the Deathclaw, at an early level or without power armor.
Headbutt
The deathclaw may headbutt you with it's horns, which do not do as much damage as standard attacks, but will throw you off balance if hit.
Grappling
This is the most lethal attack. If you are below a certain amount of health1, the deathclaw can pick you up and impale you with it's claws. Unless you are in power armor, this is a one-hit kill. If you are in power-armor, the attack will instead drain your AP.
Throwing Sand
The deathclaw may pick up and throw some sand. This will not do any damage, but can make it more difficult to land attacks.
Jumping and Climbing
More of an inability than an ability, but definitely worth mentioning in context of combat. Deathclaws can only climb or jump obstacles through scripted events. That means that you might see a Deathclaw climb or jump during a scripted event, but a randomly encountered deathclaw will not be able to climb obstacles or jump gaps in order to reach the player. As a result, the player can use this inability to their advantage, to put distance between them and the deathclaw where the deathclaw could not possibly reach them.
Radiation Field
The only ability not shared among all deathclaw variants. When fighting a glowing deathclaw, players will take radiation damage of 5 rads per second, while in close proximity to the deathclaw.
Variants
Standard Deathclaw
This is the first deathclaw you will likely come across. While being the weakest of the variants, they are just as much of a threat, given that the player can come across one of these guys at a very early level.
0001db4cAlpha Deathclaw
Differentiated by their rusty colour and raised horns, the alpha deathclaws are a tougher variant of the standard deathclaw.
001423a7Glowing Deathclaw
Differentiated by their glowing, radiated scales, these guys do radiation damage as well as traditional damage.
001423a8Deathclaw Matriarch
Considered tougher than a regular deathclaw, but not as tough as an alpha deathclaw, these deathclaw start appearing instead of regular deathclaw once the player has hit a certain level.
001423a9Savage Deathclaw
You will likely first come across a savage deathclaw during a side mission in the Museum of Witchcraft, but they do start spawning as random encounters, at higher levels. They look identical to a deathclaw matriarch, but with a broken horn.
001423aaAlbino Deathclaw
An albino deathclaw looks similar to a regular deathclaw, but with paler skin, and much higher combat capability.
001423abChameleon Deathclaw
The chameleon deathclaw initially looks like a sandy-skinned regular deathclaw, but changes colour during combat.
001423acMythic Deathclaw
Not including legendary deathclaw, these are the toughest deathclaw you will encounter. Their level scales with the player, ensuring they will always be high enough past the player to be listed with a skull.
001423ad1Reports suggest this is a specific amount of health, rather than being a percentage of health, which would scale with the players level. As a result, the deathclaw is a lot more likely to one-hit kill a lower level.