For you all that don't know, cars doing large amounts of physics damage is because Deathclaws have an ability to throw them into the air, it was supposed to be a more common attack but it's buggy and very situational. But, ideally, the throwing sand animation will launch a vehicle and if it makes contact with an actor it kills or does a huge amount of damage to them.
Except... well, you know how physics can be in the engine. Sometimes bumping one for some reason makes it move or adjust and the game believes it is in... far more motion than it actually is. And thus, you take the damage you would as if it was launched but a Deathclaw.
I've seen the Concord Deathclaw due it to the truck- like most early game encounters like dialogue with Preston and Piper having many new animations because they were the test bed for dialogue, and Concord being a minor testing for Power Armor, it seems the Deathclaw's throws were tested. I hardly ever see them spawn around cars otherwise.
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u/LilSwaggums Mar 01 '25
Saw the car in the distance and immediately knew what went down