Anywhere to sleep in the Glowing Sea?

[The Inept European]

Well I made it down to the Crater of Atom at level 4 (Survival) but I'm really tired and need to sleep. The last beds I passed are back at the Mayor's bunker. Is there an available bed anywhere in the Glowing Sea, or do I have to massacre the Children of Atom just to put my head down for the night?

[The Inept European]

I'm actually relieved I didn't head to Natick Banks. The Mayoral shelter has plenty of beds and only some synths and is hardly any further north than Natick. And a deathclaw, but like the Concord one you can use obstacles to survive long enough to kill it.

[danconnors]

Well, count out the idea of killing a death claw. One jumped me as I started from the Roadside Pines motel. Didn't even see it coming, but my 2 sneak did me absolutely no good. It killed me out in the open. I restarted in the motel and moved as sneakily as I could. This time I saw it coming and managed to run inside a house--where I was trapped.

I have shot myself down from over 30 rounds of .308 to 6 and used up about 20 shotgun shells. It laid a paw on my PA and almost shredded my left arm piece--in addition to almost killing me again. I had it down to about one tenth its hit points, and it just took off. So, I've used up most of my high powered ammo, and haven't even killed one deathclaw. This one's about as powerful as the one in Concord I believe. Except it's much smarter.

If I survive this encounter I may have to go back to Sanctuary and gain a few levels. I can't beat it.

[The Inept European]

Just in case anyone thinks I was being valiant in any way, I wasn't. I pretty much slunk down the western map edge ("you can't go this way"). Basically using it as a wall, so I knew threats could only come from 180 degrees not 360. And it also helped me to not get too lost and to be able to retrace my steps when necessary.

[The Inept European]

Deathclaws are insanely hard. I'm sure if I had not managed to evade the ones I met in the open they would have torn me apart like a can opener.

My plan with the one in the Mayoral shelter didn't work either. I put pretty much every round into its left leg, above 90% of the hits I'm sure, and it did seem to slow down somewhat, but never became immobilised before it died. Even if it had been immobilised, I don't think using a melee weapon would have worked as its melee range is much longer than a human's I think. Certainly it hit me at distances where I thought I was safe and where I don't think I could have meleed it. So best case with an immobilised deathclaw - if such a thing is even possible - would be more accurately aimed shots to the belly.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by danconnors:

Well, count out the idea of killing a death claw.

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If I survive this encounter I may have to go back to Sanctuary and gain a few levels. I can't beat it.

My suggestion would be, restore from your "departure save" if you still have it, and go down the west map edge, bypassing Natick which sounds like a hell-hole.

Though the Wiki says there's a bed in the Kim Wu house next to the Red Rocket - maybe you could sneak in there without engaging the Supermutants, Raiders, ferals and deathclaws?

[danconnors]

Either there are two death claws in that area or 8 hours of sleep for me heals the claw also. It killed me in two pretty widely separated areas--one as I was reaching the truck with the mattresses; the other as I headed for that western edge of the map. Time to head back to Sanctuary. I need to get a combat shotgun.

[The Inept European]

Wiki says up to NINE deathclaws around Natick Banks!!

[danconnors]

I believe it. I found the dead raider's body, the one who was carrying the rocket launcher. It was a waste of time. Rocket launchers are very inaccurate. I barely winged it. On my way back to Sanctuary.

[The Inept European]

Thinking about the levelling, it is said that mob levelling increases as you go south AND east. So on that score, at the far west of the Glowing Sea critters should be no worse than what you find at the northeast map corner near the Nakano residence.

Apart from the whole Glowing Sea thing. :-)

But from my (limited) experience of both areas I would say the mobs in the extreme southwest are tougher than the mobs in the extreme northeast. Maybe it's subjective.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

That is just a general hints message on the loading screen. Check that map for details.

[The Inept European]

Ah ok thanks!

[The Inept European]

From that super handy map of beds, there is a bed between the Mayor's shelter and the Crater along the "western approach". It's at Federal supply cache 84NE, which is directly northeast of the Abandoned Shack/ Surveillance Bunker.

[danconnors]

What did Virgil have to say when you dropped in on him so early? Would have been a real kick in the behind if he hadn't even showed up there yet.

[The Inept European]

Yeah he was not there. I read his terminal entries and gazed longingly at his stuff, but didn't feel like fighting his Protectron for it. And apparently it breaks the quest if you mess with anything.

I just wished he had a bed there. There's that big thing made of tires that might be a Supermutant version of a bed I guess. But nothing for a puny human to sleep on.

TBH it became a bit immersion-breaking that (a) there were no beds, not even broken ones and (b) that I couldn't just curl up in a corner and crash, even if I didn't get a save point, just to reduce some of the sleep deprivation.

[The Inept European]

There should be a thing called sleeping in your PA. That should definitely be a thing. Like, tilt it back at an angle like an airline seat and lock the servos and sleep. I bet they did that at the Battle of Anchorage.