QUOTE(Kiln @ Jan 4 2011, 12:01 AM)
For the robots you should find some pulse grenades or the pulse gun and they will become an easy challenge.
In the last update Deathclaws' damage threshold has been dropped from 30 to 15 so they should be much easier to kill if your game is up to date.
The pulse grenades weren't phasing the "hardened robots" - they have some kind of armored metal or shield on them. My character is only just turned level 12, so it could be that keeping me from getting by them. They (the "hardened robots" at the crashed Vertibird site) are the only robots I've had trouble with so far, though.
GAAAAH !!! I wish I could get that patch then, if it lowers the Deathclaws to a reasonable ratio - I downloaded the patch and my game immediately started crashing like crazy. As soon as I removed it the crashing stopped.