Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
Head shots do more damage, at least in FNV they do.Yeah, at close range I love using shotguns but most DC's have a DT of 15 which makes most shotguns useless against them (at least in New Vegas; it's different in Fallout 3 and I don't know about the other games) unless you have the shotgun surgeon perk--which I always get because I love using shotguns so much-- which ignores ten points of DT. I usually use those special shogun shells that ignore an additional 6 points, iirc, of DT.
Those special rounds coupled with the shotgun surgeon perk negates all of most DC's DT.
Of course going up against 3-4 full grown DC's at once in the Lonesome Road dlc at close range like the guy in that extremely short video clip did above is suicide, as he found out the hard way lol.
And that bulky power armor he was wearing might as well have been toilet paper as a deathclaw has armor-piercing talons which only shred your armor making it useless until you repair it.
It's a lot easier to do in FO3 and NV, but in FO4 it's almost impossible to kill one with a head shot, they just soak up so much damage that stomach shots are the only effective way, other than blowing a leg off because you can pretty much do what you like to them at that point.