Talk:Feral ghoul reaver

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Yeah, i think we should remove the little bit about boners in the main paragraph... --RockandRhyme 01:43, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Tactics

As Reavers function much like Deatheclaws similar strategies are effective. Darting one and finishing it up with a powerful weapon from a distance can work if you remember to mind their ranged attack. Guns with a knockdown effect also can be put to good use.

Reavers can make mincemeat out of followers, especially in numbers. Dogmeat is less than useless against them, and even Charon equipped with Tesla armor can only last a few moments against a group of two or more. If you know you are about to approach a group of Reavers set your followers wait at a safe distance.—Preceding comment was unsigned. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

i would also suggest if you are playing on hard or very hard difficulty and you encounter a group of them to hotkey your stimpacks, that way if things turn for the worst u have a better chance of living to tell the tale Jaw272 14:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Reference

Reaver is a common term, look it up in the dictionary, it doesn't need to be a reference. This should be deleted.

Indeed, and even Fallout Tactics featured the Reavers. Ausir 06:44, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Reavers

I agree that revers in fallout are probably not a reference to Gears of war, but I wonder if Firefly could have facilitated fallout's reaver concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaver_(Firefly) --136.165.203.100 17:02, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Cannie

As much as i lvoe firefly, I'd say no, especially considering the above point about FOT. DragonJTS 17:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

The only Thing about tactics is that reavers were a human cult the worshiped technology, not to mention that tactics is not considered canon. There is a possibility that they will tie in this cult and that is how these ghouls can use weapons as they are transformed humans from this cult. Although i still like my firefly idea even though you are probably right and it has nothing to do with this.--136.165.203.100 17:19, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Cannie

Though I doubt the Reavers are a reference to Firefly (cool show BTW), it certainly makes infinitely more sense than a GOW2 reference.67.211.81.140 17:27, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Cavesloth

There is a certain resemblence. Both are completly insane to the point of outright cannabilism, charging towards potential emals with no thoguh of personal preservation. And both are mutated (one via lack of engine containment) DragonJTS 17:29, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

inb4 protoss reaver --Macros 15:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

glitched?

Has anyone noticed these things go spazarific sometimes? They take barly any damage, and start convulsing like crazy! Is this just happening to me?--70.42.129.198 05:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC)drnick

No, I had the same with all Reavers down in the Presidential Metro. Nearly broke Vengeance taking them down (went from perfect condition to about 25%)... -- Porter21 ^(talk) 15:07, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Confirmed here as well. They also become elastic when you shoot them with the Gauss Rifle, at least the ones in the Presidential Metro. fubarmonkey 02:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm thinkin it's intentional, sort of like how the agents go nuts in the Matrix to avoid bullets. I like it. These are the toughest hombres in F3 imo (forgetting behemoths), and were needed for high-leveled players. I had trouble with them at L26 with most skills at 100 (playing at hard), was finally able to handle the mess in AAFB tunnels with multiple Nuka grenades and my metal blaster, and a well-timed Fat Man shot.--173.18.255.101 06:13, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Armor

SHould it be put on the page that the armor they were resembles broken metal armor?(Ironic considering the dlc's name is broken steel) Werewolfhell 14:45, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

.. Thats the exact opposite of irony.--Greig91 19:01, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Lol, It will be Metal Armor because the Roamer had Combat Armor.

I just hope my Ghoul Mask gonnna do! Scary stuff those zombies --D4rkSh4d0w 20:34, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

"Trivia"

I deleted it- the idea of a zombie like thing throwing projectiles is not exactly very unique. Especially the idea mentioned, I mean, if you're going to talk about shooting projectiles out of the body, what about a Glowing One?

THESE things killed Charon three times, so I had to leave him with Margot and kill the Reavers myself, infact I had to do that when i was at Adams Air base too! 74.170.163.209 15:12, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

That's nothing, I had Charon, Jerico, Clover, Butch, RL-3, and Fawkes with me, and only Fawkes survived, despite the fact that I was only on normal difficulty, and I was using the alien blaster, but I couldn't kill them quick enough, partially thanks to the stupid spaz glitch making them invincible. That aside, it took 3 hits or so each with the blaster to take them down, ridiculous, especially considering most tough enemies (talon mercs, super mutant masters, sentry bots) only take 1-2.Cavesloth 20:50, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Cavesloth

Pick Up?

When I was sweeping up a couple of reavers left in the metro line, one of them threw a radioactive gore at me and it gave me a button (like when you pick up something fired out of the Rock-It Launcher) that said Radioactive Gore, the damage number, and the value.

WTF? -- D3V0NST8R 4:33 PM, 07 May 2009 (UTC)

Is it possible to pick them up? I've also seen that you can pick them up so I crippled him, walked away and tried to catch the gore with no success. 81.234.140.17 16:43, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Moved from main page

*BOP writes on 16 May 2009: "I was at a level...20, I think, when I downloaded Broken Steel to my xbox 360. Charon and I ran across our first Reaver in one of the train yards. Bear in mind that Charon is wearing Outcast power armor and can take out a Death Claw with one or two shots from his magic shotgun. My PC can drop a Mutie or a Death Claw in one or two shots from her sniper rifle. That Reaver was RIDICULOUSLY difficult to kill. I was SCREAMING at the game as I watched my PC and Charon die at least 3 times. Finally, I loaded a previous save, made Charon wait while I went to deal with the Reaver. I hit hims with everything I had, including frag grenades. I jacked up on Buffout, Jet, Med-x, you name it, and still barely survived. I'd hate to see what it would take to kill one of those things on a difficult combat setting. Anyway, I ran into the one in the Taft tunnels (new game, level 14), on the way to the Citadel (being proactive, I went down after the ghouls rather than having them come up after my party). The first time, my PC died. The second time, I hit that thing with the gauss rifle (to little effect) and grenades, but somehow lost my gauss rifle. I was excited about that, and having to reload the game, but the third time around, I nailed him with 3 of the 4 nuka grenades (after getting all jacked up, and wearing winterized power armor), which made somewhat short work of him. Nuka grenades are your friend, but not in enclosed spaces."

Yup, they are dang tough, and I love it. My level 29 character was able to kill one (game setting at hard) down in the hazmat tunnels by the mall by sneaking near it with the Chinese stealth armor, placing two bottlecap mines (500+ damage each) between it and me, and hitting it in the head with a sneak attack critical from Lincoln's repeater. The second bottlecap mine took it down as it was coming after me. Just watch out when you get to the Presidential tunnels, there's a place where you run into about 5-6 of them along with a bunch of glowing ones and lesser feral ghouls. --173.18.255.101 01:25, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Moved from article

Combat Tactics

• Be careful when fighting these variants of Ghouls. Even one is capable of killing the Lone Wanderer if he/she is not careful.

• It is also best to use drugs such as (Psycho, Med-X and Jet) to increase the damage of your attacks on the Feral Ghoul Reaver.

• Reavers can be easily destroyed if you are on a ledge. Just make sure you shoot their radioactive gore they throw at you, as it does a surprising amount of damage.

• Like with the Deathclaw, crippling the Reaver with the Dart gun will give you a much easier time with them, but beware: their radioactive gore attack is just as if not more deadly than their melee attacks.

• One effective way to take down the Feral Ghoul Reaver's is to use the Alien Blaster, however it can take a number of headshots and wastes valuable ammo (The Alien Power Cell)

• A Feral Ghoul Reaver can survive a direct shot from a Fat Man.

• Using a combination of the Victory Rifle to knock him over, then A3-21's Plasma rifle to finish him off

• A quick and effective way to take him out: equip the Ghoul Mask, then throw a couple Bottlecap Mine, three will surely kill him, at his feet (DO NOT throw it straight to the ghoul, since the mine impact will turn him hostile). Then, get clear to avoid any possible damage from the blast and take the Ghoul Mask off: this will make the ghoul become immediately hostile, thus triggering the mines.

Kingclyde 17:23, 19 May 2009 (UTC)kingclyde

• Crippling their arm could be effective to decrease aim and stability of their throws.

REAVERS ARE NOT TOUGH

I had the Gauss Rifle, T-51b Power Armor, every damage resistant perk in the whole game, and Fawkes. These things are pathetic. No tougher than a radroach. Even the Albino Radscorpion is pathetic. If these things were as smart as your average human, they'd run away from me. WAY TOO F***ING EASY! Notice how I censored my curse word? That's to prevent my comment from being removed

Exactly,its fawkes you have as well as the gauss rifle,those things are basically cheats when used,fight reavers without them and youll fall or only kill a few Werewolfhell 15:05, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

No no no. You don't understand. I actually put my weapons away and stood there as it TRIED to slice me up. Half of a quarter of my health was taken away each time it attacked me. Like with the Albino Radscorpion, I freaked out at first. But once I killed them, I bitched about how easy it was and commented on how stupid those articles on the internet are. I'm gonna go see if I can take one down with my fists. I'll probably fail, but he doesn't have 394 Stimpaks in his inventory. --FawkesGamer360 21:51, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

lol well some people find it hard you dont have to shout out how good you are and yeah gauss rifle is effective against them but i bet youve been playing on very easy since you find it easy have you seen some peoples videos in youtube even tough players die at reavers.

Pah. Reavers are tough on hard when you only use blood packs and purified water as health sources (makes the game more intense at times). Also a gauss rifle makes short work of anything with a few critical hits because they get knocked over. That's how I saved most of my followers' hides in the Presidential Metro (I had everyone but Clover and Fawkes). Butch just couldn't die enough. Even with the gauss rifle I still had to do that section a few times because of their glitching and follower devouring and also I couldn't wait for a wave to be defeated before walking far enough to trigger the next (five reavers at once). One of the best moments of the game in my opinion. I was almost pressed against the screen. Then again, my brother tried it and blitzed through it in less than a minute. However, he used stimpacks, gave Paladin Cross the Alien Blaster, and didn't get any glitched ones.

Is it trus these things are more resistant than a Behemoth? 68.32.99.81 02:06, 30 May 2009 (UTC)