So, giant hermit crabs are a thing.

[Polverrati]

I was looting a wrecked building in Far Harbor when I heard something outside, this is what I saw when I walked outside.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=687830591
There's something about it that scares the hell out of me.

[★Brosef]

There is one at the end of a broken bridge in the NW corner as well, I went out there to look for loot and was looking off the edge on the beach line then suddenly on the side of my screen the trailer I was going to loot started moving, I just started shooting without knowing what I was shooting at.

[KoalafiedKiller]

What giant creature is making the shells for the giant hermit crabs to live in?

[Polverrati]

Originally posted by KoalafiedKiller:

What giant creature is making the shells for the giant hermit crabs to live in?

It was using half of a van or something as a shell

[LittleSisLori]

Originally posted by Ω S-Sha:

There is one at the end of a broken bridge in the NW corner as well, I went out there to look for loot and was looking off the edge on the beach line then suddenly on the side of my screen the trailer I was going to loot started moving, I just started shooting without knowing what I was shooting at.

Is it in the lobster truck? If so, how do you agro it? I stole from it, shot it, and it won't change.

[Chef GrumpyBlitz]

kinda killed the surprised for everyone else lol

[HoroSaga]

I love the design for the giant hermit crabs.

I was very disappointed when they cut the "Car Crabs" out of Wasteland 2, so seeing a similar concept pop up in Fallout 4 was fantastic. I love the idea of a giant mutant crab using salvaged containers or abandoned vehicles as an improvised shell.

[Casper]

Yeah I was lucky I was in beefy power armor at the time or I'd have been chum. Seems okay damage but I was most worried about it's massive amount of health.. every my auto wounding laser scattergun needed to pump like 2 mags.. roughly over 12000 hp

[dogg]

Originally posted by TakesOneBullet:

kinda killed the surprised for everyone else lol

Just knowing about it doesn't lessen the surprise much lol :) Can't wait to play this in VR.

[SuperBobKing]

Originally posted by iknowright1996:

Yeah I was lucky I was in beefy power armor at the time or I'd have been chum. Seems okay damage but I was most worried about it's massive amount of health.. every my auto wounding laser scattergun needed to pump like 2 mags.. roughly over 12000 hp

Where were you shooting it? I shot one in the shell to aggro it with a sneak attack from a fully modded gauss rifle with full rifleman perks and most of the sneak ones, and barely scratched it. But when it walked across the bottlecap mine I set up between us before shooting it died without me having any explosive perks. That was on very hard difficulty at around level 50.

[HoroSaga]

Originally posted by SuperBobKing:

But when it walked across the bottlecap mine I set up between us before shooting it died without me having any explosive perks. That was on very hard difficulty at around level 50.

Explosives work very strangely, in comparison to normal weapon attacks. They seem to inflict damage to a target multiple times based on how many locations they hit. Because the Giant Hermit Crabs are designed with several hit locations all close to the ground, a single mine can hit five or six locations at once, meaning that the mine is doing five or six times normal damage.

With most targets, a mine will usually only hit two locations (the legs).

[Polverrati]

I guess I got lucky, it was already at half health when I saw it, probably ripped some trappers apart.

[KoalafiedKiller]

Originally posted by Zodiac Killer:

Originally posted by KoalafiedKiller:

What giant creature is making the shells for the giant hermit crabs to live in?

It was using half of a van or something as a shell

That's actually genius, well done Bethesda.

[Casper]

Originally posted by SuperBobKing:

Where were you shooting it? I shot one in the shell to aggro it with a sneak attack from a fully modded gauss rifle with full rifleman perks and most of the sneak ones, and barely scratched it. But when it walked across the bottlecap mine I set up between us before shooting it died without me having any explosive perks. That was on very hard difficulty at around level 50.

well seeing as my weapon doesn't rely on sneak or location (bleed applies as long as there's a hit that's why most Milurks hate me) I was just standing near it shooting at it's head. It was an albino one, I'm level 90 and very hard difficulty.

[Firerodan16]

ARE YOU FEELIN IT NOW MISTAH KRABZ?

[Defektiv]

When I first encountered it I only saw the van part. I was pretty shocked to see a running vehicle in the game and then I quickly found out the van wasn't the part that was running.