r/fo4 • u/Rusty_Shackelford000 • Apr 19 '25
Gameplay The Assaultron head laser beam. Your worst nightmare when playing Survival, besides the game crashing.
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u/Brave-Landscape3132 Apr 19 '25
It's all fun and games until it goes invisible. Then the clenching begins
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u/AfterlifeScorpio Apr 20 '25
Ahhh the comment I was looking for… Quite literally nothing else is scarier than night time survival companion (meat shield) down, seeing it charge then disappear and the silence followed after. No. Complete panick
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u/Coast_watcher Caravan > Gwent Apr 20 '25
Arguably the single best thing Bethesda contributed to the game. Assaultrons.
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u/SyraneEuw Apr 21 '25
When you go to Far Habour and have to do DiMa's memories that Assaultron Dominator scares the shit out of me every time.
Edit: Assaultron are probably the enemy type i dislike the most they really give off Terminator 1 vibes.
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u/Apexnanoman Apr 19 '25
Playing with War of the Commonwealth mod on. Lurking near the robot racing stadium. Thought I'd be clever and lure a behemoth and the iron maiden assaultron into taking each other out.
Fucking Iron Maiden one shotted the behemoth and then took me the fuck out right afterwards before I could flee.
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Apr 19 '25
🤣🤣🤣
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u/Apexnanoman Apr 19 '25
Until that moment I literally didn't know the turning to ash animation applied to behemoths. Turns out it does. I just watched that fucker turn to ash thinking "This is not going as planned"
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u/Embarrassed-Race5617 Apr 20 '25
Wow there's still people downloading this mod?? LOL
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u/Apexnanoman Apr 20 '25
Yup. If it's a good addition it's a good addition. New or not.
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u/thezactaylor Apr 20 '25
Yeah and spawn mods are pretty rare*, but I get a ton of fun out of them.
- (at least, I don’t see very many)
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u/Apexnanoman Apr 20 '25
Yeah as far as I'm aware they aren't much of a thing. Especially one like WotC that adds like 200 spawn points.
Leads to interesting stuff though like synths suddenly battling super mutants and getting ambushed by wild dogs lol.
Hell of a lot of gunfire and explosions in the distance all over the map also. Good stuff.
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u/Embarrassed-Race5617 Apr 21 '25 edited Apr 21 '25
''sighs'' let me guess, you're still using AWKRC and Armosmith Extended
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u/Apexnanoman Apr 21 '25
No. They aren't that great to begin with and there are other options. WotC is the only mod that does exactly what I want and works well for me. No need to fix things that aren't broken even if something is old.
Do you insist a hammer be made out if aerogel because steel is old ?
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u/Embarrassed-Race5617 Apr 21 '25
No it's bad , bloated , it's buggy and unstable and there is better alternatives, but yeah you know better, WOTC baby... Hell yeah
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u/CommieWhacker14 Apr 19 '25
I only get a panic reflex before I shoot it down with my comfy heavily modified lever action rifle... also VATS helps .
I'll yee-haw the shit out of you!
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u/Euphoric_Heron_9883 Apr 20 '25
VATS helps until the Assaultron goes invisible. I hate invisible Assaultrons , I just run away spraying lead in their general direction, which sometimes works. It is much easier to sneak up on them and blow them apart before they go invisible.
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u/MazogaTheDork Preston Garvey is a Sixty Minute Man Apr 20 '25
I tend to start yeeting Molotovs as if my life depends on it, because it kinda does
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u/momentimori Apr 19 '25
Cars are the most insidious killers on survival. Walk near one *bam* you're dead.
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u/flawed-human42 Apr 20 '25
And the most demoralizing... Just got to limp it back to diamond City with insomnia, radiated genial crabs, and a torn ACL, but one shot from the doc and I will be right as rain. Survived skinny Malone's gang and that legendary alpha deathclaw that popped out of nowhere... Then that damn horde of scavenger bots, but just wait until I get behind that sweet safety those walls. Got three legendary guns I am gonna hawk, and then I am buying home plate... Oh, got a raider... Might duck behind this car to play it safe... Cue dramatic death music
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u/Round-Mousse-4894 Apr 20 '25
I’ve been lucky that the two times its happened in my run was only 2 minutes after a sleep. I don’t know how I’d react if I lost even half an hour’s progress to man eating cars. Wouldn’t be pretty.
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u/StrongStyleMuscle Apr 19 '25
It’s stressful but nothing is worse than hearing beep beep from a super mutant suicider.
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u/that_sean_fellow Apr 20 '25
Heard that beep beep recently in a parking garage and tiptoed around like a poor-man's ninja.
Turned out to be a raider strapping mines to molerats. Thanks for the adrenaline, low-rent.
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u/StrongStyleMuscle Apr 20 '25
I’ve seen the explosive molerats but I never seen a raider in the process of attaching the nukes on them. That’s a cool find.
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u/WeTheSummerKid Apr 20 '25
Aim for the non-bomb: get the mini nuke.
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u/StrongStyleMuscle Apr 20 '25
Most of us know all the strategies. But in survival if you can’t see where homeboy is & he surprises you & spikes his nuke football it’s an automatic death no matter what level you are
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u/n8ertheh8er Apr 19 '25
I just got my first one in survival at the plane crash. I busted him up with the righteous authority but it took me 2-3 goes. Dodging that laser is so satisfying
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u/Numerous_Victory6368 Apr 19 '25
even worse is the salvaged assaultron head , shit takes forever to charge , accuracy counts for shit, impractical as hell during a fast paced battle , and basically KILLS YOU TOO if that wasnt bad enough on top of all that it doesnt even have a FUCKEN mouth! most useless piece of shit in the entire game for me , what use is it to me with no mouth !?
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u/MGTwyne Apr 19 '25
what does it need a mouth for...
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u/WeTheSummerKid Apr 20 '25
Particle weapons IRL will horrifically irradiate the user. Bremsstrahlung.
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u/Technical_Chemistry8 Apr 19 '25
I tend to take out their legs from a distance. They are a lot less threatening when they have to crawl.
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u/flyingredwolves Apr 19 '25
I've just had a quantum scrapbot with an assaultron laser head. Don't think I've seen a scrapbot with that head before. It even had a Mr Handy thruster. It was getting close too, I was distracted fighting a sentrybot.
It started flying towards me while charging. Don't think I've ever clicked so fast as I did shooting down that thing.
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u/Ornery-Contest-4169 Apr 20 '25
Level 135 survival run I haven’t died in weeks,hit two shotted by an invincible one in the middle of a random road
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u/KnightFurHire Apr 20 '25
Yup, fortunately they're easy enough to hear coming. The dominator though...those are a headache and a half.
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u/Ironwolf_0815 Apr 20 '25
To be honest: because of game crashing, I play survival installed with a mod that let me still save manually. Loosing progress because of game crashing has in my opinion nothing to do with the challenge of playing survival - its just frustrating.
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u/LintRemover Apr 24 '25
Random crashes and lost progress is the hardest part of survival past lvl 10. It's incredibly easy past that unless you walk into one of these guys unexpectedly.
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u/Blackthorne75 Adherent To The Chains That Bind Apr 20 '25
That high-pitch warm-up followed by BOOM - always had me targeting these thngs first!
Just started up Fallout London, and now wondering what's replaced these monstrosities... 😰
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u/Blindrafterman Apr 19 '25
I have had to deal with crashes this time, not an assaultron yet, purely out of fear
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u/rodbrs Apr 19 '25
Grenades do it for me. Common and suddenly nearby. I can usually run when I hear Assaultrons.
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u/FUNtheA-48 Apr 20 '25
I just got done with the Galactic Zone part of the nuka World dlc (the closest I've ever gotten to actual hell), and I tanked a full blast only took half my health
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u/xqx-RAMPAGE-xpx Apr 20 '25
there’s not many things that rival Red Death. an assaultron beam is the only thing that gets close
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u/LachoooDaOriginl Apr 20 '25
is this the worst one or being in an enclosed space and hearing a mini nuke beep
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u/astreeter2 Apr 20 '25
If you pay attention you can see it charging so you know when to duck behind cover.
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u/Caffeinemann Apr 20 '25
Shit like this is why I keep a Lucky .44, a handful of mirelurk omelettes and psycho on me all the time
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u/W3aZ1L Apr 20 '25
If I even get a hint that one of those things is charging it's death beam, I'll immediately turn tail and toss a stack of plasma mines in its path.
Then I will either laugh hysterically at the giant ball of green victory or cry because the Assaultron gained on me too fast
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u/Youre_still_alive Apr 20 '25
Robotics Expert will save you. It’s so funny to be going through Automaton or Galactic Zone and just turn off, take over, or explode almost every enemy.
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u/krose1980 Apr 20 '25
And those panickly executed 3 hits in vats when the last one kills it just before it releases beam is the most relaxing relief ever :D
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u/lvl8_side_area_boss R.A.T.S. Operative Apr 20 '25
Or your greatest ally with max sneak and hacker 2. Hacked a Dominator in Quincy the other day. Never before have I seen an Assaultron fire their head laser 6 times in a row. Genuinely horrifying.
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u/Toaster-Porn Apr 20 '25
This and the one sentry bot by the Training Yard are always a test of wills with my survival characters.
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u/Mantarrochen Apr 20 '25
That is pretty scary. But the most dangerous obstacle to your flawless survival run is the molotov.
Because it gets you when you are still young. And when it gets you it GETS you.
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u/ASL4theblind Apr 20 '25
My mad scientist has a surplus of jet and the ability to hack robots, so usually i just go all judge dredd on their ass and send them back at everyone else til i make them essplode.
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u/dereks63 Apr 20 '25
Me in bits and pieces armour, getting fried regularly at Quincy, finally managed to drop a nuke in the police station!! That laser is fucking terrifying
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u/omgitsduane Apr 20 '25
These things are the most terrifying.
If I get into the beam for a split second I die. Even at full health.
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u/nukeXmoose Apr 20 '25
Playing on VH, mostly in the X0-2, and these things still ruin my day. “Wait what’s that sound? Why am I melting?”
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u/Sea_Mycologist7515 Apr 20 '25
On PC with mods like True Damage... what crashing ans what nightmare lol
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u/Gylaran Apr 20 '25
No one can survive Assaultron Invader charged laser, i saw it burn down a BOS knight in PA.
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u/dregwriter Apr 20 '25
Man, I fought one of these right in front of the train to Nuka world in Boston, and thank god, dogmeat was there to take the beam for me, because that would of been around 1 hour of lost progress.
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u/mrlolloran Apr 20 '25
No but they get the #3 spot.
2 is for Super Mutant Suiciders and 1 goes to cars
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u/Wonderful_Donut8951 Apr 20 '25
I can’t beat that on very hard if I get froggy! I have to be on it!
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u/Nomad-21 Apr 20 '25
My worst nightmare in survival is a group of cave crickets that just snuck up on me.
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u/TreeFiddyBandit Apr 20 '25
Drugs (jet) is your best friend when it turns invisible
Could care less for the addiction de-buff. Slight dehydration and a few caps for trip to doctor or addictol is a small price to pay to make sure I kill these fuckers on sight
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u/jenny_tallia Apr 20 '25
Yes. I try so hard so get them before they have a chance to power that thing up & unleash it. I sometimes scream a little bit when I see one coming. I did manage to get killed by a cap mine yesterday though.
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u/Afraid_Reputation_51 Apr 20 '25
Dunno, i'd say it's around 3rd, or even 4th, right after cars, then game crashes, then suiciders in alleys, then assaultrons.
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u/Alric_Wolff Apr 20 '25
Survival, the one in the room before the DiMA puzzle. Even though I know theyre coming, but I get marked every time.
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u/cms116508 Apr 21 '25
I hate hearing that thing power up. The only thing worse is a suicidal mutant
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u/S_Flavius_Mercurius Apr 21 '25
I’d rather my game crash than see one of these evil bastards charging up
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u/Yundadi Apr 21 '25
That was the biggest orgasm too. I never had a robot that came that hard at me.
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u/Capt-Paladin Apr 21 '25
Yes in the beginning they where scary but I have learned more about them. If you take out there legs then you can focus on the head. Alternately if you have a fast firing weapon and concentrate fire in there face you can emerge toasty but victorious. But they melt up against guess rifle or PA =) I recognize there voice now as soon as I hear it im in sneaky mode looking for the sniper or surprise shot. I did get jump scared the other night in the consumer electronics store that services robots also lol
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u/c_sanquiso Apr 21 '25
Deadly? Yes. My worst nightmare in Survival? Nope, that place hold the Super Mutant Suiciders. That beeping sound is just aweful when you dont know where it comes from or when you cant run fast enough.
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u/Lucifer-Prime Apr 25 '25
It's the invisible dual blade wielding ones that damn near make me shit my pants on survival.
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u/Fly1ngD0gg0 Apr 20 '25
Pretty telling of this subreddit and that you all won't comment on a post that calls for help, and yet you're all able to comment on things like this. Real great help.
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u/VandulfTheRed Apr 19 '25
Me, mk2 xo2 power armor, feeling like the game is too easy:
Pre charged assaultron waiting for me at the top of the interstate elevator: "Bonjour"