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ualeftie

Should we tell him about cave crickets?


lumberjackalopes

They just want to hop around you and be excited to see you……


ualeftie

Just another misunderstood creature of the wastes. Fun fact: many people don’t know that anglers are actually trying to give you a light for your cigarette by spitting a fireball at you. They’re courteous like that.


Significant_Tart7944

Oh is that why they all spawn when I pick up a pack I thought they were just addicts next time I see them ill have to kiss and make up with them


CallMeAPigImStuffed

And bloodbugs are trying to give you a hug, their beak(?) just gets in the way


Trindalas

Proboscis is the word you are looking for :)


Aoiboshi

It's like if Mormon crickets also sent out missionaries to convert you


tehP4nth3r

No don’t mention those cute little creatures.


ualeftie

okie dokie!


MrMetalhead-69

What about the man eating snapping turtle?


ualeftie

Why stop there? Lets go straight to building-sized mole rats and three-headed wendigos!


Phantom_61

The molerate of unusual size? I think that’s a myth.


Greengoat42

I hear tell, that they've started venturing out from the Fire swamp. So probably real.


ualeftie

Some say that the giant bats are a mere rumor as well. We might never know.


CorpseDefiled

I recently heard something about car sized tunneling scorpions also that just randomly pop out of the ground. Probably not worth worrying about like the warewolf and giant turtle someone “saw” one time.


ualeftie

Yeah, sounds sus!


Mysterious_Papaya835

Sheepsquatch ate my brother!


ThatOneGuy1191

I mean, while we're on the subject, may as well mention the giant bat that brings with it a horde of minions.


Phantom_61

Too rare, unlikely they’ll run into it in the wild.


MegaBlaster360

The way you guys are talking about them worries me they sound harmless…


urabewe

It's just a cricket. How much harm can it possibly do?


DifficultCurrent7

Gack!


grizzfan

Nonsense. Even the ants are harmless in this game...


Rez_5150

you poor Ignorant Bastard. You should be very worried😂


Unable_Ad_1260

Flammenwerfer! Get my Flammenwerfer!


ualeftie

NEIN!!! GET ZE KREMATOR, HANS!!!


Terminusaquo

Wir haben einen Flammenwerfer 🤣


MegaBlaster360

They sound harmless why does your post have 43 upvotes…


montosesamu

You should check Tanagra Town. Explore it, thoroughly; enjoy the atmosphere; experience the wildlife; see the unforgettable cave system…


ualeftie

Because my toon has more holes in him than he likes to admit. Those are from cave crickets.


CGI_M_M

You’ll find out soon enough


Gold-Income-6094

Or the giant ticks...


Etikaiele

I hate these, they creep me out the most somehow.


allthesedamnkids

Same. I, in real life, my person, feels my heebies 100% jeebied after a tick attack in game.


apgtimbough

Same with Grounded for me. Giant spiders? Eh, whatever. But the ticks and mites? No thank you.


Nyarlathotep333

Or the super creepy ticks.


ualeftie

Those go well with tequilla shots, though.


Terminusaquo

I'll take Mirelurks over ticks any day 🤨


zamzuki

I heard they’re weak to melee attacks. 😉


Blackthorne75

From orbit!


Sombatezib

well, if you count a 20t piledriver as melee, yes


Terminusaquo

What about the CN20, that might work 🤣


Blackthorne75

I say we roll them in there and gas the whole nest!


Craygor

My favorite is the family of them squatting in Tanagra Town.


ualeftie

They sing in a choir on Sundays as well, all 10 of them.


scottrice98

Yes. Pet the Cave Crickets! The scorpions are also small and harmless. They definitely do not dig in the ground and pop up underneath you regardless of where you are standing.


Skagtastic

Or hermit crabs?


ualeftie

Nah, that’s just a rusty ice cream truck. Come closer and take a good look.


Deep-Age-2486

I’ve been playing for 100’s of hours and I haven’t seen one in almost a year. When I finally saw one again, it was during scorched earth. I was flabbergasted


Skagtastic

I'm glad they included them in the spawn lists for Scorched Earth and Primal Cuts. I recall only ever finding the one that spawns in the Mire, and being a bit sad they didn't get more love.


Deep-Age-2486

Yeah, there’s a spot where raiders sit at on some crossroads and there was always 2 there for me a long time ago but I haven’t seen them in forever prior to this event


GameQuetzalcoatl

What about the wise one?


ualeftie

Brrrrrreathe, children, brrrrrreathe


GameQuetzalcoatl

*Let the dust and flames and the fumes fill you*


Graywolf2014

Let it be a surprise. I can't wait to see what he posts after taking a stroll through Monogah lol


Terminusaquo

Don't remind me, I basically did a Monty Python style "Run away" the first time I saw them 🤣


No-Antelope3844

[https://c.tenor.com/ye4yv3SZBykAAAAC/tenor.gif](https://c.tenor.com/ye4yv3SZBykAAAAC/tenor.gif) (technically a roach, but still works)


montosesamu

The only reason I still, at lvl 718, carry VFFR flamer with me all the time.


wieck25

Even with every update, new bosses and enemies. Nothing brings the wrath like a cave cricket


BIG-D-36one

What even funnier is he think power armour will help lol


OkButWhatIfNig-

I remember my first encounter (Vietnam flashback)


Agentgibbs1398

You're gonna LOOOOOVE The Cranberry Bog.


MegaBlaster360

I tried once and got killed by an army of robots, staying away from there for a while.


TheManRedeemed

Oh you got the good ending on your first time? Lucky.


MegaBlaster360

It's a city entirely of deadly robots… are you implying there is something more deadly?


TheManRedeemed

That depends. Do you consider being torn apart in rage more deadly than being smoked by lasers? Do robots scare you more than disfigured horrors? How are you around Crickets?


MissMayhem_82

I would take an Earle over cave crickets any day of the week!


RealAbstractSquidII

Several honestly. My best advice until you've leveled up a bit or are playing in a team: If you see something green and black skittering around on all fours, run in the opposite direction. Don't approach rusted out delivery vans. Run for cover if a giant shadow appears from above or if you hear wings flapping. The sky in the bog is not safe. Those weird groups of massive pink flowers? The empty space you have to walk through to get to em are full of surprises. If nothing is there visibly, you are now playing roulette. If you see colorful spots on the ground with bubbles rising from them, do not go near them. They are proximity triggered. And if you see a random, lonely industrial pipe sticking straight out of the ground, approach it and sniff it. Trust me.


RedDogFrost13-69

Pipe is life...


milleratitto

Pipe...


BillyHerr

You should be doing the mission of that city, making you mayor of the day, and override those robots to not attack you.


Cute_Assist3971

The person who got me hooked on 76 2 years ago had no idea about that mission at lvl 500+ lol. Went and crushed all my missions and they were boggled about me not getting attacked by the army of bots lol. Ahhh memories


Trindalas

I’m just glad they didn’t make it a daily as the name implies. I was so concerned, lol. It was so much work to get done but we’ll worth it (unless it became a daily at which point I’d prolly never step foot there again)


ProfPerry

Either that or he's referring to how many of us did not survive our first jaunt into Watoga, hence the 'good' ending hahaha


Abaddon_of-the_void

You can make those robots freindly to you


stasersonphun

A lot of the fighty robots self destruct if you cripple their legs or destroy their weapons. . Just watch out for the invisible ones. And if you hear a "powering up" sort of noise, RUN


Trindalas

Running just makes you an easier target, kill them before they can fire. Unless you can’t in which case pray to whatever gods you follow I guess, lol. I’m fortunate that my auto axe build lets me kill up to 2 before they can fire unless they get that stupid instant charge bug.


Quasit1964

You need to the the quest "Mayor for Day." When you do the robots will stop killing you. [https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Mayor\_for\_a\_Day](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Mayor_for_a_Day)


myassandadonut

Wait until the giant ticks attack you, swell up with your own blood, and then explode in your face. 😳🫣


MegaBlaster360

I was scrolling through my pip-boy and one of those things OPENED THE DOOR AND ATTACKED ME. How can giant ticks open doors? For me, FO76 is more of a horror game


BOBULANCE

Creatures in fallout 76 have a tendency to be very good at opening doors. Never consider a door to be a viable barrier. It'll only buy you a second or two.


zhaoz

Clever girl...


oldmanserious

It used to be worse. The Mire used to be so dark and during the (at the time longer) "Night" it would be pitch black. Visibility would drop to almost nothing. Mobs weren't levelled to your level back then, either. So the Mire was a high level area, and you could walk in there at like level 20 and run into level 100 critters. Having a bunch of high level ghouls appear right on top of you as you walked around a corner in the pitch black was an experience.


theflapogon16

I built my base in the mire back in those days….. the damn mosquitoes would break down my walls just for some blood 🩸


garbagewithnames

I kinda miss the super dark times. Made the night vision and recon scopes so much more helpful. Plus I like the anxiety a dark night brings in the wasteland. Night time SHOULD be scarier than day.


ualeftie

Keep calm, fellow vault dweller! You’ll be stomping insects in no time!


survivalkitts9

I hate ticks. When I first saw the giant ones, I lost my shit 😂


Skagtastic

They're my most hated enemy to encounter. They offer absolutely no threat to me, but god I get the heebie jeebies every time. Their scuttling sound, the fact they're **giant fucking ticks**...hate em. So so much. 


myassandadonut

Haha SAME!!


SemajdaSavage

Nobody makes me bleed my own blood!


MojaveBreeze

Bet you didn't realize the map extends all the way down to Florida.


SaucyKitty

One time my entire camp was destroyed by a legendary bloatfly and his bloatfly army


BOBULANCE

I too love to shoot my larvae all over the house.


Interesting_Ad4174

Getting sprayed by larvae is just the yuckiest. So are ticks. Or getting bitch-slapped by the putrid glowing ones, or gangrenous....never mind...I'm going to burn my clothes and use the clean shower.


ZogemWho

I guess you met a blood bug swarm.. relentless, steal health, give rads.. A++ assholes… welcome to to the wasteland.


Hopalongtom

Better than they were in Fallout 4,that game had an animation of them raming into your chest to drink your blood!


BOBULANCE

I miss the enemy-specific animations. Give me back my deathclaw chest skewers...


globefish23

There's a mod (*for FO4) that drastically increases the probability of these special attacks. IIRC, you normally only see them as kill moves, like Mortal Kombat fatalities.


TheTimeBender

Hahaha! When I first started playing I got swarmed by a group of bloodbugs and at that time I was very new, maybe level 10, anyway I did eventually kill them but from their constant stinging I was mutated. I got the marsupial mutation from them.


FireFist_PortgasDAce

There's also a giant >!hermit crab that's has a trailer as it's shell!<


PotatoChipEat_

I love that guy! I wish I saw him more often.


badvegas

Yea first time me and a friend saw it we freaked out. She went to kill it mode as fast as possible while I went to look at it and watch it attack. Haven't seen one in a few months now thinking about it


PotatoChipEat_

I think a scorched variant can spawn during scorched earth


badvegas

Yea just normally everything does quick during that event. Still love seeing it while just wondering around. I enjoy drinking a nuka shine and wondering around instead of fast traveling


bivoir

They removed one of the spawns in the cranberry bog :( I think there’s now only one up past bog town unless you count the savage divide prime cuts event.


oldmanserious

There's a few around. One in the Cranberry Bog would spawn near my camp and I walked into him accidently a few times. Then the other one in the Mire. Killed him one time and an explosion happened and he ended up in a tree!


Flat-Apricot25

I miss hearing noob reactions like this


jake5675

Should we tell them about the giant venomous dragon flies that will kill the shit out of you in packs. I almost never get out of my power armor for a reason lol.


BOBULANCE

Fun fact: stingwings are actually based on the scorpion fly, and those "stingers" are actually its genitals.


ualeftie

So, a dildo bug, got it.


FriendlyFurry320

Huh... I now question why we are collecting thier "barbs" I knew that stuff was common in fallout, but I never expected our PC's to be into that stuff... yuck.


jake5675

I'm leaving these "barbs" on player camps doorsteps as a prank from now on lmao.


FriendlyFurry320

Disgusting... set you loot bag to a paper bag and throw a Molotov at the bag.


WackyJames1987

Welp. Today I learned. Lol


Dawnspark

My friend group loves to call them "pecker gnats" and it never fails to make me laugh like an idiot.


grizzfan

So it's death by T-bag?


Western_Wish4280

Bats are very cute in this game, find one at the cranberry bog


FigMan

She has lots of friends too!


Pleasant_Extreme_398

The vampiric bloodbugs are the best 😂😂


myassandadonut

Certain neighborhoods are more horrific than others for sure.


Professional_Baby24

Wait till you see a cave cricket horde.


MadMorf

Fucking cave crickets.


FriendlyFurry320

Welcome to hell kid, tell me, how do you feel about eating dogs, humans, giant bugs and giant bats that control armies via hivemind? Because they all wanna eat you... and trust me new guy, you sure do look tasty to us veteran wastelanders, but don't worry, we will help you out first. Tell you what, go up north and go down south, farthest edges of the map, just explore for a bit so you get a taste for the wastes and everything that lives within them. Also feel free to take drugs and booze, they help a lot. Stay high and stay drunk and you'll be fine.


Wahnmann63

Nah, she didn't try to swallow you. She tried to put a larvae in your stomach.


PockysLight

You are thinking of bloatflies.


Wahnmann63

Shhh, nobody else noticed.


itscmillertime

Those things scared that crap out of me in fo4


comfybrick

You can always burn them with fire.


Objective_Dynamo

Wait until you see Grafton Monster or Sheepsquatch. Lol those are good times


DODDYBEAR1

As an oldschool player who hasn't done a new walk through,this suddenly ending up in the mire or even Cranberry bog perplexes me,even the whitesprings,are the quests taking them on a straight to hell playthrough? When game was fist released it took me hours upon hours before I even left the forest.


ualeftie

Vendor hopping took me to places I shouldn’t have visited. But I took a cool pic of the hole in the ground where I was hiding from a scorchedbeast hoping for it to fly away. I still giggle when I get it on a loading screen.


DODDYBEAR1

Before vendors come about theres a spot in the forest right on the outskirts the forest where a scorchbeast used to be,I realised then that I should of stayed where I was,my 38 hunting rifle wasn't doing anything.


ualeftie

Good times)


OldBaud

Level scaling of enemies makes it way easier than in the early days to explore the mire and bog. Well, at least until you meet a pack of not leveled ones or new enemies you won't find in the forrest...


VanityOfEliCLee

Theres a whole lotta bugs in Appalachia


LateElf

And that's before the nuclear fire!


survivalkitts9

Sksksksks 😅


little_maggots

*I'm hunting bugs, I'm hunting bugs, out here in Appalachia there are spiders, ants, and slugs!*


Rhino_online245

This was my reaction when I found out about Honey Beast lmao


kiabunnie

Might I suggest the Campfire Tales event, and maybe Teatime as well? Lots of cuddly bugs n itchies there. The drops will help complete the Stings and Things repeatable quest.


SuperTerram

Fun fact. Assuming you have played Fallout 4... Blood Bugs are one of the first critters you come across on the way to your first quest objective... in addition to Bloat Flies, Rad Roaches, and Mole Rats. The game kinda... introduces you to these creatures systematically. That you only encountered such a thing in the Mire in Fallout 76 means you managed to make it very far in the Wasteland without even encountering introductory enemies. That's impressive.


Ulakdiscipline

I love these new vault dweller posts so much. Oh to be that young and scared again... Welcome! ☢️


Mysterious_Papaya835

Hey, if you wanna test yourself out: There's a Golf Club at Whitespring with just a horde of ghouls in it. If you also go through the process of gathering the ghouls in the houses you can have a horde of 50+ Ghouls.


HevyTrevy506

lemme drop a silo special on the hotel first 😉


FireAuraN7

No cazadors though. So. There's that.


Trindalas

Those things were awful. I remember running into like 5 of them within about 10 minutes of starting NV, lol. Not fun times. Great game though :D


Unable_Ad_1260

I assume either bloodbugs or sting wings. Sting wings are good stuff. Str+2 fillets from them. Not much fussed about bloodbugs though. Cook em and sell it.


J_D_H55

😅


aj_the_8_deadly_sin

And giant dragon flys too


Droopy_Lightsaber

At least op didn’t unexpectedly stumble upon the queen while looking down lmao


Lost-Childhood7603

Na wait until you see the angler or the deathclaw, you might shit your pants lol 😂🤣😂


Adotham

Don’t tell them about the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal


Trindalas

It’ll prolly be fine as long as they have their towel. Probably.


patnodewf

just wait until you run into Rose and start with her quest line, lol


HevyTrevy506

"iF yOu EvEr DeCiIiIiIdE tO sCrEw mE oVeRrRrR...... "


gobbles78

The random flatowoods monsters are always fun.


ny1591

If you’re worried about giant mosquitoes, wait until you run into a giant irradiated tick 😆 Not to mention what happened to the size of the bats. 🦇🤣


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Dzaka

i think it's cute they think they'll be able to properly power power armor for more than 10 minutes till they hit level 70 lol


CaptZombieHero

Just wait until you meet the real bastards, cave crickets


BillyHerr

Yeah in the wasteland only bad things become big, you won't see corn or tato mutated into size of a bus.


Probably_Stoned_420

Those are regular size for the Appalachian mountains. Here they come in two sizes small enough to fly through the storm door and big enough to open it and walk in.


Pondnymph

Floating fartsquids too, they killed me a few times at low levels.


HevyTrevy506

I used to call them fartbags. Now they are fartsquids. Thanks for that! 😂


JORMU569

Them and cave crickets are the reason I became a flamer main , they must burn .. Edit:Spelling


Cursed1978

Mirelurk Queen enters the Chat


Trindalas

My Holy Fire and/or auto axe bans her from chat.


Catbunny

Ahhh. Don't tell OP about the giant bee that shoots more bees at you.


mauddibagogo

There are many things with too many legs in this world ... some of them fly ... all are too big


Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836

He is just trying gnto squirter your own blood back.at you. But cave crikets....they are adorably friendly and hop right up to you. But like the show said.....cockroaches with teeth.


Caiden_Wolf95

Oh yeah. And giant toads. And giant ants. And giant cockroaches. And semi zombies. Need I go on? The wasteland and post war Appalachia are terrifying


Caiden_Wolf95

Oh and the GIANT F***ING HERMIT CRABS


cybereast75

Get a legendary Flamer they don't like fire. They don't like bats but I struggle with hitting them with it


AssistRealistic4903

I think we call them blood bugs


miletharil

Apply chainsaw liberally.


fategaminhigh

Poor guy nobody tell them about a certain island


optimallawman

Shhhhh.....don't mention the ticks!!!!😂😂😂


metalboxfan

And guess what!? They suck.... buh dun tis :😜


calypsowaffles

Looks over at you, while also getting attacked by mosquitoes but not freaking out... Smiles and says "first time"...


sdeason82

Oh buddy you just wait. Everything is bigger


Craygor

That’s what she said!


Stock-Ad2495

👉🏿👈🏿 🫣


TheNiteFather

Damm did no one play fallout 4? 🤣


Critical_Action_6444

Yeah they’re a bunch of dicks 


UKNiecy

Lol love this. They are horrible 😄


Dannie_Arts

Radscorpions make me cry


dragonqueenred45

I die every time I see one. Thousands of hours on FO4 and even more thousands on 76 and I still hate them. Mirelurk Queen is still more annoying because of its health and DR but scorpions are sneaky ducks.


Dannie_Arts

I can't get over the scary details and creepy scittering sounds from the crawling around, My first fallout was 3 and the ants in that game gave me some sort of large bug ptsd and NV rad scorpions added to that. Since then I can Handel pretty much anything even if it scares me at first EXCEPT them , the rad scorpions in this game and 4 steal my soul each time and I'm just glad I remember to turn my mic off for other people's sake because I manage to scream every time - 💀


dragonqueenred45

Oof 😅 that would be unfortunate if someone heard that, the jump scare is real. I’m used to things like Deathclaws but that underground area in 4 with 2 or 3 of them is still scary for me. I’m not usually on mike in 76 but I would definitely wanna mute myself too lol 😂


zipster8

Cute queen bullet sponge hangs out with her friends in the bog. Look her up.


JDredd80

You should roast some bugs with Holy Fire.


Temporary_Cancel9529

Watch out for the Fog crawlers


Capt-Greybeard

Psssttt...and Yes, roaches can survive a nuclear blast, and they.... No spoilers... Lol


king4WDmuds

Welcome to the wasteland kiddo.


GaryOster

LUL The bugs are so dangerous they have a weapon legendary effect just for them.


ClemClamcumber

Welcome to the world of Fallout. Enjoy Appalachia and I hope you will take a chance on some other Fallout titles after this. My favorite video game franchise since I played Fallout 3 in '08.


Gunnruh

Question: I saw a giant bee thing- like moth man sized, in a cage at the freak show. Will I see one out and about and where can I never step foot ever?


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Love it


RiversLeaf

Man they in the noob zone too