Radscorpions

[Nox]

So - I don't see other people complaining about this but radscorpions are really, really annoying.

The whole "teleport to some other random spot" thing is just dumb, and I don't know about other people but I can barely ever get people to the room in time to combat them before they've moved.

Energy penalty aside, I've had back to back radscorpion events and you can't do anything while these events drag on and on.

[Nox]

You would be hard pressed to have a late-game vault without empty rooms unless you plan on having vault dwellers eating food sitting in your warehouses and housing which is a massive waste of resources.

So yeah I guess I didn't see the griping, but my issue isn't that I can't defeat them or that they ruin my vault - it's that the way they are implemented I can't respond to it.

If they would AT LEAST go from room to room instead of stupidly teleporting all over the map I could send teams to lock them down. That would be playable. The way it is now, it's just not playable.

[crispy_gin]

I see a lot of complaining about Radscorpions, I myself HATE them because they wont stay in one room and just let my heavy hitters whale on them like other mobs (that aren't raiding), they roam around infecting a bunch of peeps with rads. But I'd still rather deal with them than deathclaws

[Nox]

Deathclaws barely make it through one room of my nuka cola plants (I keep nuka plants at the entrance as defense spots because serves two purposes)

[ChopShop]

I have to agree with Nox, they arre super annoying. I stopped growing my vault at level 30, leveled all my dwellers, and then did this every 5 levels untill I maxed out their stats and had them all over level 30. I have my entire vault armed with plasma rifles 17-18 dmg at least, I have a few rocket launchers a gatling gun and a mini nuke launcher. Suddenly, I hit 50 dwellers and I can't kill a single rad scorpion without at least one dweller dying and only after they hop from the bottom level of the vault to the top level, to the middle level. There is no concievable way to prevent this. Even when they happen to spawn in a room with 6 over level 30 dwellers armed with the best weapons I have availible, I can't stop them. By the time they are done, I have to spend 20 mins trying to get my power back. Tell me, how does a scorpion steal power? What sense does that make? Shouldn't they be stealing foood and water? It's become annoying enough that I gave up. Which is disappioning because I was really enjoying the game up to this point. As a side note: If there is only one "correct way" to build a Vault, what is the point? Sorry if I have a lot of empty rooms, I kind of need Storage and Training rooms. I think the biggest problem is how they bounce from one end of the Vault to another. If they "borrowed" into the floor they should end up in an adjacent room. Either above, below, left, or right. Not 8 floors up. They travel faster through the floor than my dwellers on an elevator. The reason why so many people complain about them, is because they are way more annoying than they should be. Especially, at the vault size that they start to appear.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by El Chaffinch:

Also, they do not teleport to a random spot. They move to adjacent rooms through dirt, walls etc.

Well I have seen one move from my storgae room, up about 6 levels and from one side of the vault through 2 other rooms, to the other side.
At least rad roaches only go to adjacent rooms, that I can handle and manage. A Radscorpion, although I can easily kill them, chasing them around when they can show up wherever they want is annoying

[Der Hexer]

Originally posted by Raptor:

Originally posted by El Chaffinch:

Also, they do not teleport to a random spot. They move to adjacent rooms through dirt, walls etc.

Well I have seen one move from my storgae room, up about 6 levels and from one side of the vault through 2 other rooms, to the other side.
At least rad roaches only go to adjacent rooms, that I can handle and manage. A Radscorpion, although I can easily kill them, chasing them around when they can show up wherever they want is annoying

you're right and El Chaffinch is wrong here - rad scorpions can move to any room (but the vault door), regardless of dirt, walls, rocks or connected rooms.

[Tetsuri]

Originally posted by ChopShop:

I have to agree with Nox, they arre super annoying. I stopped growing my vault at level 30, leveled all my dwellers, and then did this every 5 levels untill I maxed out their stats and had them all over level 30. I have my entire vault armed with plasma rifles 17-18 dmg at least

maybe if you didn't do it completely wrong? you LEVELED your dwellers, and THEN you maxed their stats, should have maxed stats and NOT leveled your dwellers to get easy cake rad scorps. You literally made them hard yourself.

Originally posted by ChopShop:

they are way more annoying than they should be.

no, that's you. Spewing bs about right way to build a vault when all you needed was to stop being a cheapskate with power plants.

[Battleseed]

Originally posted by ChopShop:

I have to agree with Nox, they arre super annoying. I stopped growing my vault at level 30, leveled all my dwellers, and then did this every 5 levels untill I maxed out their stats and had them all over level 30. I have my entire vault armed with plasma rifles 17-18 dmg at least, I have a few rocket launchers a gatling gun and a mini nuke launcher. Suddenly, I hit 50 dwellers and I can't kill a single rad scorpion without at least one dweller dying and only after they hop from the bottom level of the vault to the top level, to the middle level. There is no concievable way to prevent this. Even when they happen to spawn in a room with 6 over level 30 dwellers armed with the best weapons I have availible, I can't stop them. By the time they are done, I have to spend 20 mins trying to get my power back. Tell me, how does a scorpion steal power? What sense does that make? Shouldn't they be stealing foood and water? It's become annoying enough that I gave up. Which is disappioning because I was really enjoying the game up to this point. As a side note: If there is only one "correct way" to build a Vault, what is the point? Sorry if I have a lot of empty rooms, I kind of need Storage and Training rooms. I think the biggest problem is how they bounce from one end of the Vault to another. If they "borrowed" into the floor they should end up in an adjacent room. Either above, below, left, or right. Not 8 floors up. They travel faster through the floor than my dwellers on an elevator. The reason why so many people complain about them, is because they are way more annoying than they should be. Especially, at the vault size that they start to appear.

You can defeat the Radscorps with your wall of text~

[Gromov]

Have to agree that the rate at which Radscorpions leech power is insane.

[Redbeard]

Originally posted by Battleseed:

You can defeat the Radscorps with your wall of text~

Lol.

I am now starting to build walls of text to protect all of the rooms in my Vault.

[Jens LN]

On a sidenote, scorpions don't like Flame Throwers.

[mardigrasking54]

Originally posted by Wo|f:

Originally posted by -TEK- Melnum:

lol.

lol :D

lol

[76561198255260574]

I read all this "wall" text. I feel shame for the guys to be a troll with that menssage.
Specially, because this is my case too. I have a very large vault, with lvl 30 dwellers ... and i think: I am not face radscorpius yet, just "muta" scorpius. I read the topic and i am not like see egain my vault destroyed.
I am handle very good all situations, but i am not see a complete advice on the topic for handle radscorpius. I think, here is a site for cooperation and not for writte "lol".
A "lol" not fix the problems guys.
Thanks a loot to Diarmuhnd for the guide and advice. Nice post. =)

[Tetsuri]

Originally posted by darwinmpn:

but i am not see a complete advice on the topic for handle radscorpius. I think, here is a site for cooperation and not for writte "lol".
A "lol" not fix the problems guys.
Thanks a loot to Diarmuhnd for the guide and advice. Nice post. =)

???? you deny advice was given, and then you thank someone for advice?

[Unseen]

Once you get some really badass weapons and plenty of radx they are pretty easy compared to fires imo.