F***ing Cazadores.

[FilipJPhry]

Cripple the wings. They become incredibly slow after that. Then keep picking them off in the distance. Recommended perks: Entomologist, Concentrated Fire, Hobbler. Wings count as legs for insects. Boone or Arcade can pick them off in the distance, ED-E's laser fire thing is very useful against bugs too.

For melee characters, let your companions do some distant damage, and then use turbo or the turbo implant to attack them quickly.

 

[hashtag]

I usually used the Light Machine Gun, and I just sprayed for days.

 

[Windcaler]

I find shotguns make quick work of them, doesnt matter what kind but if you have a lot of them coming your way yo should have a hunting shotgun at least, if not a riot one. If you dont its best to avoid them. Ive also found that they go down quickly to powerful melee or unarmed weapons. The only things that dont work on them tend to be precision weapons like sniper rifles due to their speed

 

[Dr. Crawver]

At low levels, a fully modded laser rifle actually works surprisingly well.

At later levels, I just obliterate them. I have the heartless perk (no poison), power armour, and any overpowered weapon I happen to be holding at the time (grenade machinegun is always a favourite). My DT is usually so high that the little buggers are just free experience

 

[sage42]

Lower Levels=Screwed with a rusty spike. Higher levels use a antimaterial rifle or hunting shotgun/Dinner Bell. Both guns work wonders. and Considering what you have to go through to GET dinner bell with out mods is a pain in the ass. Thankfully it's worth it.

 

[Xooiid]

Get Old World Blues.
Kill the 10 cazadors there for a 15% damage boost
Get the implant for another 10% cazador damage.
Now, either use Anti-Mat rifle Explosive Rounds at distance
Or
Hunting/Riot Shotgun
Or
Light Machine Gun.
Or
Grenade Rifle.

Also, after you get Veronica and her 'Pushy' Displacer fist from Ruby Rock Cave 'On the way to Jacobstown' and her sidequest upgrades, she one-shots Cazadors with a vengeance. ED-E's damage upgrade also tears through them.

 

[numbersix1979]

Let Boone do all the dirty work.

*applies for most enemies.

Cazadores murdered every single one of my comrades, including Boone.

 

[Tartarga]

I strongly recommend getting Vance's 9mm Sub machine gun. That thing rapes Cazadores even at low levels, eats up ammo like a ***** though. But it is so worth it.

 

[Terminate421]

Grenade launcher (the china lake) and turbo will stop them and higher levels

 

[Username Redacted]

Get Old World Blues.
Kill the 10 cazadors there for a 15% damage boost
Get the implant for another 10% cazador damage.
Now, either use Anti-Mat rifle Explosive Rounds at distance
Or
Hunting/Riot Shotgun
Or
Light Machine Gun.
Or
Grenade Rifle.

Also, after you get Veronica and her 'Pushy' Displacer fist from Ruby Rock Cave 'On the way to Jacobstown' and her sidequest upgrades, she one-shots Cazadors with a vengeance. ED-E's damage upgrade also tears through them.

This was pretty much my strategy and after the irritation caused by Cazadores early in the game it was very satisfying to tear them apart like wet newspaper.

 

[twohundredpercent]

Use a flamer. It basically cripples all limbs simultaneously on low armor targets which is good for taking the wings out and taking care of swarms with it's wide range. Also, any automatic weapons work well.

 

[srm79]

There are no enemies in New Vegas that can not be dealt with by the suitable application of Tiny Tots from Esther (GRA). It's like a nuclear shotgun. I fucking love my nuclear shotgun.

 

[Excedrin]

The wings. Shoot the wings. Then you can kite them around all day long. You can do it with any (ranged) weapon and even at relatively lower levels. With how toothless they become after a wing is crippled, I can't help but feel like this was the intended strategy for taking them out.

I used to hate cazadores when I was playing NV. When I realized this, all I had to do was be careful and it was easy as pie 100% of the time.

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

I remember when I used to get annoyed with cazadores, I would be shouting f*cking cazadores constantly while trying to fight them. What makes them hard to deal with is there spastic movements and their poisoning. As others mentioned above, old world blues DLC makes them non threatening. The heartless perk makes you immune to poison and DNAvenger (or was it DNAgent? I get them mixed up),a 3 level perk, gives you a massive damage boost on them. I remember one time I went to that place where they made fake bottle caps and I saved my game there after not saving for a good hour or so, I come out and there were 6 cazadores outside waiting for me. I let boon get gangbanged and I bailed like crazy. At low levels, avoid them and heal yourself with antivenom if you get stung; legionnaires tend to have antivenom on them.

 

[scorptatious]

Wow, I recognize quite a few users here that I don't see on here anymore.

OT: Never really found cazadores that bad myself. I tend to shoot at them from afar before they even get a chance to see me.

Plus they're pretty easy to avoid. Just stay on the main road to Vegas until after you meet House. By then, if you haven't skipped too many quests, you should be at a high enough level to go most anywhere in the game.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Fire! Fire cleanses all. Get a Heavy Incinerator and lob fireballs at them from a distance, then you and your companion can pick off the weak survivors.

Or if your feeling badass, a high unarmed skill level combined with Paralysing Palm perk and just wade in. That will make light work of pretty much anything in the game.

As for the Legendary Cazador. Stealth boys and as many mini nukes as you can shove up it's arse.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

I find the above method works quite well to take the little buggers out. Don't forget the manic laughter though, it's integral.