Invulnerable Enemy?

[FuzzyAnimator]

I've searched around here and online but I can't find an answer to this.

A number of times now, I've come across a raider that I CANNOT hurt. He's my level, and in the area that appears to be in my "level range" but when I shoot him a white shield pops up and I do no damage. I don't do damage even with a gun that's exactly at my level that fires 5.56. Is it just a "can't penetrate his armor" thing? If so, what do I need?

[BizarreMan]

Does he have a name?

[Phantom]

If its a mutated event, some of them have melee kill only enemies... they can be damaged but can't be killed by range

Daily ops has the same

Otherwise NPC's with the unkillable tag (vendors, main characters etc) can't be killed and will just be brought down to nothing before getting back up...

Hence Graham is infamous for wrecking peoples camps when their turrets accidentally aggro him and he just keeps going till the base is wreckage

[FuzzyAnimator]

No name. I've run into those before, yes, but this was just "Raider"

No event, not a named person, not a vendor or anything. I've hit named people before and they just go to almost nothing, then pop back up. These dudes I couldn't even scratch. Just got the little shield icon pop up overtop them briefly and no damage at all.

[BizarreMan]

Sounds like Raider Punk. Talk to him and he will move to your camp.

[lordoftheapes79]

It's the target for someone's quest. You can't kill them anymore.

[Softspokenman]

well that sucks for the rest of us

[FuzzyAnimator]

Originally posted by lordoftheapes79:

It's the target for someone's quest. You can't kill them anymore.

That would be odd since I was playing on a private server.

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

Sounds like Raider Punk. Talk to him and he will move to your camp.

Nah, met him already and he lives in my camp now.

Thanks for all the ideas, but nothing mentioned seems to fit yet.
Nobody else had run across this before?

[lordoftheapes79]

Originally posted by FuzzyAnimator:

Originally posted by lordoftheapes79:

It's the target for someone's quest. You can't kill them anymore.

That would be odd since I was playing on a private server.

I think they exist in the world whether someone has accepted the quest or not. They just don't get assigned until someone accepts the quest. In other words, it may have been your target, but it's invulnerable to players until you pick up the quest.

[FuzzyAnimator]

Originally posted by lordoftheapes79:

Originally posted by FuzzyAnimator:

That would be odd since I was playing on a private server.

I think they exist in the world whether someone has accepted the quest or not. They just don't get assigned until someone accepts the quest. In other words, it may have been your target, but it's invulnerable to players until you pick up the quest.

Ah, interesting. So even if I'm the only person there, because he COULD be a quest objective, he's off limits to any player other than the one with the quest. Which would be nobody in this case.

[lordoftheapes79]

Originally posted by FuzzyAnimator:

Originally posted by lordoftheapes79:

I think they exist in the world whether someone has accepted the quest or not. They just don't get assigned until someone accepts the quest. In other words, it may have been your target, but it's invulnerable to players until you pick up the quest.

Ah, interesting. So even if I'm the only person there, because he COULD be a quest objective, he's off limits to any player other than the one with the quest. Which would be nobody in this case.

pretty much. If you went to crater and got the quest, he probably would have been the target. I'd test it, but that would mean finding one of these guys, then going to crater and picking up the quest to see if it targeted him while someone watched him to see what happened. I mean, I'm not doing that lol. I reported it when I first found one and got nothing other than the generic "we got your report" reply.

I just wish they would streamline how they do the dailies and make them all work the same way. It looked like they were going to back in the day when we first got that computer in the Atom Shop. Then, they just didn't. I thought I'd be able to look at the thing, choose the ones I wanted to do today and leave the rest out of my log. Wishful thinking I guess.

[donwag43]

Stay away from him for now, When you get stronger lite him upppp

[Riflebird]

I just came across this invincible Raider outside Vault 76. I'm in a private world also. He's unkillable, no matter what weapon I use. If he's a quest target and can't be killed, at least make him not hostile. That's basic game design sense right there; sadly Bethesda seems to lack in that area.

[Mooman]

Before you've done the quest the Crater raiders will be hostile.

There is a group down at Ohio River Adventures that will attack but are essential, you can't kill them.

[ericbolen3]

Just came across one of these guys. Same one I'm assuming. The name was Raider and unkillable, down the right path outside Vault 76.

[doomsday_1986]

Got that now too, a lv 7 raider. Im on my way to the radio tower for the wayward cane quest, and hes at the building towards it and immortal.