Never understood these memes. I don't remember those enemies being particularly bad at all...

companion gets stung

either sit there and watch them slowly die or waste a gorillion stimpaks because they can't drink antivenom

Basically normalfags would go north instead of the intended path, and thought that the 'harmless dumb bugs' would be a trivial enemy to kill. Only to realize that at level 2, they'll kick your ass.
So normies started the 'oh shieettt it's a Cazador!' meme, which was founded on nonsense and ignorance.

instead of the intended path

imagine playing FO3, FO:NV, morrowind, oblivion, skyrim and just going the "intended path"
don't reply to me fag

Its that they have erratic movement patterns and the older Zoomers who played this and F3 back in the day after comming from FPS games neglected Vats and so got fucked up.

I pimp slap cazadors

Then don't complain when the cazadors and deathclaws rip you a new asshole then, fucking normie.
You can very easily avoid them by being sneaky, but you're going to charge them with a 9mm, get killed, and bitch that 'level-scaling was better than this pre-placed-enemy stuff!'
You're the sort of retard who does the Navarro-Run in FO2, aren't you?

the loud poison sound effect was the worst part

sSSSshhHhuUUUHHhHhh

Overuse of the word fuck tells me it was made by some faggot redditor who also voted for kamala, it's the same stupid kind of humor too. Goddamn the left can't meme, if they have to write you a goddamn book as to why it's funny. Meanwhile most good memes are just a picture, maybe a few words and every normal person gets it.

Companions can use Datura Antivenom from HH and the Snakebite Tourinquets from LR

They were scarier than death claws. They were fast and did a piss load of damage. I learned you want to shoot their wings

At least going roughly anticlockwise through Mariposa, Lost Hills, etc. was worth the risk in Fallout 1.

screws over low level characters

screws over low ammo capacity crit shooters

They go around with some pea shooter like Lukcy, and then miss a few times and get overwhelmed. Heavy explosives users or full auto machine gun users don't experience those kind of problems.

You fire explosives at them, and it at least cripples their wings if not kills them outright.

Not really? You just get 1 turn-KO'd by any supermutant?

Right next to Goodsprings behind the young cazadores is the best early-mid game knife. Down the road is the best early-mid game brass knuckles.

You get a ton of late-game equipment early, and XP from destroying Mariposa.

By the time you're got a Grenade Machinegun and enough ammo to be worthwhile literally any build besides Unarmed has a weapon that can deal with Cazadores without issue

besides Unarmed

If I recall correctly Old World Blues has a perk that confers poison immunity, and its alternative also grants it if taken in concert with a certain perk and enough endurance.

I hated the sounds it made when they poisoned you, so annoying.

It stung my dog once and I couldnt heal it with stimpacks or cure the poison so it died and I had to reload.

play new vegas and try going up to vegas through the street, its impossible with your starting gear without somehow sneaking past these niggas
Cazadors will do a fuck ton of damage and can even poison you or some shit

You can kill them somewhat easily with the dlc weapons you get like that grenade launcher tho, makes for a quick trip to vegas

Cazadors are the grim reaper of lowbies. Once you have good armor and HP pool(not to mention automatic weapons and a good supply of ammo) they're not nearly as dangerous.
That said, the image isn't exactly wrong looking at it from a lore/reputation perspective. Cazadors were genetically engineered to be made of 400% bitch and 666% angry, and their only purpose seems to be to assfuck anything that isn't a deathclaw.

you feel a little woozy...

My recollection was

explore New Vegas

get a quest to explore the overgrown vault nearby

approach it

suddenly enemy alert

suddenly buzzing

suddenly being attacked

suddenly poison rapidly draining health

reload

sprint straight for vault and just dodge the fuckers

It's just an edit of a wasp meme you gaylord

Game literally tells you not to go North from Goodsprings, by those Danger signposts. And even if you get through by the main road, from Sloan, the guys from Sloan would stop you and warn you about the Deathclaws. If you tried any other way, going through hills, you'll find the Scorpions and they have high armors too.

Cazador is a nightmare in Hard, more so than Deathclaw. You're likely to hit the legs and cripple the 'claws more often to slow them down so you could rain bullets on it. With V.A.T.S. With those bugs though, even with VATS it's hard to hit the wings.

Playing on normal they could get trivialized even early on. Get a fucking shotgun, VATS on the wings. Stops them completely. Just tread carefully and bait one at a time. If you ran out of AP, no VATS, you're fucked.

But really, the intended path is almost like the letter J. Path of least resistance. Goodsprings > Prison > Primm (get ED-E) > Mojave Outpost > Nipton > Novac (get Boone) and the way ahead is more or less open after that.

I always ignore the prison
Just don’t like em
Simple as

because most people wander to the "wrong" part of the map at a low level and get absolutely obliterated, cementing them as le scary meme bug

Cant you avoid both the normal 'chosen' route and the deathclaws and cazadors by crossing over hidden valley and blackmountain just to arrive outside new vegas? I swear I did it once in one of my first play throughs but never was able to repeat it without being detected by something scary.

What's a good gunslinger build for NV? Also some essential gunplay mods. I just want to crit&delete people with my big iron

I did it once and arrived near the giant ants which I killed enough to level up. But it’s extremely risky because there’s a few patrolling cazadors that fly west of that farm like all the way up and down those fields
I never tried it again because the only way you can kill those at low level is with a fucking grenade launcher it’s just not worth it
South of the fiends is where you end up

Yeah, the black mountain shortcut is pretty good

You're not supposed to find this route, even more in your first playthrough. Mutants roam the place and the hidden NCR safehouse is literally right there.

The J route is the safe, intended route because it's the one that makes more sense, so it's only natural. Outside Goodsprings you immediately find the Gangers and it's only natural you head for the Prison. Even if you skipped it, you'll hear the issue from Primm right ahead, considering you have to help them get the new Sheriff. You'll find the first appearance of the NCR in this place, and the Mojave Outpost is involved with Primm / Prison. After resolving that issue, you naturally go to Mojave and Ranger Ghost tells you something about a Legion and as you go through Nipton you'll find them. And that's all just through common sense and pure will. Good game design as they slowly reveal some lore and story and the main players and factions trying to wrestle the hold on Mojave. But the main quest from the Doc literally tells you to go through Primm > Nipton > Novac > Boulder City anyway. You're more likely set up with gears and skills by the time you reach Novac.