Assaultron Head Laser Damage Reduction

[Demon Nachos]

How do I lower the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ damage the Assaultron Head Laser does? I've got quite high armor and DR, but still get one-shot by the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (most recently I used a jetpack to fly up to an overpass to engage some Gunners only to be instantly killed from full health by an Assaultron). Everyone else is doing agreeable damage, but Assaultrons are more lethal than even high-tier Deathclaws.

So what do I need to do to adjust their damage output to be closer to what everyone else is doing?

[Texonater]

they stop when they shoot and you can hear them charging. Just take cover behind a light pole or wall or something until they finish.

[Xyzzy]

Go vault 95, get attacked by 2 Assaultrons together.
For that try PsychoBuff, good for 8 minutes. [real time 8 mins.]

[Savick]

Sneak up close enough to it and throw a plasma gernade or launch a mini nuke if you have one. Then take it on with your best modded up auto rifle. I like Spray and Pray for this. I just did this very thing yesterday in Quincy.

[Icedfate]

a hit of jet is usually enough for me when I fight something that can potentially 1 shot me.
I use it then unload with my most powerful gun and they usually never even get it hit off on me.

[sdack]

Build your own Assaultron with a head laser, a gatling laser and a missile launcher. Then watch as the destruction unfolds.

[Texonater]

Originally posted by sdack:

Build your own Assaultron with a head laser, a gatling laser and a missile launcher. Then watch as the destruction unfolds.

Use sentry torso and add two cluster launchers as well for extra boom

[spared_life]

When you get the perk to hack one they are disappointingly weak. I tried several times to take one into the airport (BOS hate threm) only to have it destroyed immediately. The same for sentry bot (settlers hate it), it's not near as strong when it's not you trying to destroy it.

[Icedfate]

Originally posted by spared_life:

When you get the perk to hack one they are disappointingly weak. I tried several times to take one into the airport (BOS hate threm) only to have it destroyed immediately. The same for sentry bot (settlers hate it), it's not near as strong when it's not you trying to destroy it.

if you are playing on a harder difficulty, that could explain why they seem "weak". because on very hard, you do .5x damage to them and they do 2x damage to you.
but against npc's they both do 1x damage to each other.

you might notice this especially on survival because they do 4x to you, but still only 1x to the BOS

however, the assultrons actually are not that tanky.
the first time I saw an assulatron rushing me with the head laser charged up, I aimed for the head in VATS, that was a mistake.

their head seems to have a super high resistance.
if you just aim for the torso, you should be able to kill them.

I've never tried aiming for the legs though. I imagine you might be able to blow her leg off and then take cover.

[Sinister_Alpha]

But i Loved it!
I gave Ada assaultron head and watches it disintegrate Sentrybot with one blow with me standing beside Ada, devastating Af.