Fallout 76: Head Hunter Scythe - Incredible As Long As You Don't Upgrade It. Season 17 Unique Weapon

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[@nocturnechanson]

The Head Hunter Scythe looks great with the Cryptid Hunter PA skin from last season. 😃

[@wintersteale]

Because ballistic dmg over time makes total sense on a bladed melee weapon Bugthesda. 🤦‍♀

[@vvtangy]

It’s bleeding lol

[@wintersteale]

@@vvtangy He explained the upgraded one is different and actually ballistic based.

[@vvtangy]

@@winterstealeWas just about to reply to correct myself lol. My mistake

[@JayDabs420]

Definitely another bug 😂😂

[@chris5942]

B never makes anything make sense.

[@chris5942]

I just crafted one of these and took it for a spin with my Thorn body armor. What a BEAST!!!! My favorite weapon of this season, hands down. I just wish they would not place the blade right across the center of my view in first person.

[@lucast7092]

Same, I feel like guns point way to the left in first person as well and it makes me feel insane

[@sirdigbychickencaesar71]

The only real thing that can help that is to increase your FOV in setting. its a cheap dirty fix but I do the same with autoaxe as that thing makes it hard to see enemy's that are shorter then waist hight, ie dogs mole rats and so on.

[@hallowzone4681]

@@sirdigbychickencaesar71 You should be increasing your FOV to about maximum regardless lol. It’s not a “cheap dirty fix”, it just provides more visibility

[@sirdigbychickencaesar71]

@@hallowzone4681 yeah but too much POV is ugly looks like your in a time warp

[@akumuri5591]

​@sirdigbychickencaesar71 sadly xbox one doesn't have fov options 😢

[@paulbyrne6062]

the damage jump on a kill, maybe the game is calculating an extra stack of adrenaline, and taking it back away if you are already at 6 stacks

[@AngryTurtle]

that's a good theory

[@pz7510]

yeah I think this is how it refreshes stack duration, it just applies a new stack which kills the older stack and you have two for the time it takes to kill the old stack

[@paulbyrne6062]

@@AngryTurtle If it only happens with adrenaline equipped, I'd call it true, I'll try reproduce and test if I remember.

[@Vocu]

human damage was so stupid, maybe at least do instigating or executioner instead of a mob type :( maybe executioner woulda been more in theme with the grim reaper style

[@Justanobody8472]

Executioner would be nice so that the bleed can finish them off. Even if they "fix" the weapon it could work in a way that makes sense

[@Binidj]

@tommyq374 yes but _thematically_ Executioner would be better. Maybe not a god roll but thematically on point and not utterly pointless.

[@moongoalie2410]

Ya, any one type damage really reduces the utility of the weapon. I guess it will be good in expeditions where you find more human enemies.

[@joshuakim5240]

Either that or at least make it Cursed so that even with Assassin's, it's still getting a nice boost vs everything else.

[@Justanobody8472]

@tommyq374 the point of the weapon is to make low level players OP, low level players won't have 30k caps on them to get the best damage

[@OriginCorey]

Whats weird is i thought they used to distinguish between bleed and ballastic dot, it used to be if it was bleed damage it would have a little blood drop next to it with the per second rating and ballistic was the reticle symbol i thought.

[@Silas-Inservio-Pax]

No thats poison damage, but very understandable misunderstanding!

[@OriginCorey]

@@Silas-Inservio-Pax ahhhh i see

[@MicahGoldstein]

I've always thought the pickaxe should have an anti-armor effect until you mod it to an ax blade ("sharp"). It would be funny if that's actually what's happening. I don't think so, but it would be funny.

[@joshuakim5240]

Another interesting thing to note is that anything that just adds generic melee damage increasing effects or perks also increases the bleed, which includes Slugger, Adrenal reaction, Bloody Mess, Fury, foods like you mentioned, and even the Super Chem Mk1. The scythe synergizes surprisingly well with the Super Chem Mk1 for a free 30% more bleed on demand alongside Thorn armor.

[@unculturedweeb4240]

They bleed oil and hydraulic fluid. Just wish it were anti armor swing speed 1 strength.

[@dagripper77]

Turtle, you have to review the V63 Shock Baton. It appears to do less damage with the electrified mod. The ONLY available mod!

[@Binidj]

Seriously? Oh FFS!

[@nsimmonds]

Pronunciation was perfect, that's a tough word

[@RattikusMaximus]

The strange damage jump is from Adrenalin. When you kill an enemy it creates a new adrenaline buff that replaces the old buff. But for half second both buffs exist together before the old one disappears, which causes a brief damage boost. You can see it for yourself if open the buff page and watch the Adrenaline buff when something dies. A second damage bonus will pop up to the right of the normal damage bonus and then immediately disappears.

[@pz7510]

it probably applies a fresh stack of adrenaline that terminates the original stack of adrenaline and very briefly you have two stacks

[@synapse7772]

I thought you cant drop items with the Atom symbol

[@EvoTorrance]

Correct. Apparently the weapon also cannot be turned in to a Legendary Machine for scrip. 🙁

[@AngryTurtle]

you're right, so fresh vault dwellers will need to craft it themselves 😐

[@Icecube88]

can you still build atom symbol stuff in someone else's camp?

[@bluexatruch]

@@Icecube88yeah but it makes no difference the location where you build it (why would it?)

[@lunarhexagon8108]

​@@Icecube88 as long you learn plans, you can craft any item in any proper workbench, including ones randomly in world or in 'crafting hubs'

[@williammoore1030]

What a dumb stipulation. They seem to not be able to get out of there own way a lot of the time. They way over think damage on weapons for a game that’s 99.9 percent PVE.

[@Rorschach1998]

Can't hurt the mutant's feefees 😂.

[@dalama1161]

And at the same time they don't think enough about it. Like how pistols just absolutely blow for bringing to bosses or events because of where their main bonus damage perks are at in SPECIAL builds.

[@williammoore1030]

@@dalama1161not sure they will ever make pistols a viable boss weapon. It would need a base damage of like 500, and crits of like 2500 to compete with the dps on a rail or fixer. I crit every other shot and as low health clear over 1k per crit and those happen multiple times per second. Shotguns and pistols and non auto rifles and honestly most other weapons can’t compete with that right now.

[@user-zp8kj2cl9g]

Try hards trying to feel somewhat "competent"in their uneventful, boring lifes.

[@williammoore1030]

@@user-zp8kj2cl9g nothing in this game requires trying hard. And I’m sure you’re super busy doing interesting things with enough time to post unprovoked rude comments on KZbin.

[@DaddadxGaming]

the issue you saw with the damage at the end might be a coding bug, I think the effect of Adrenaline was being added before checking the condition of how much the maximum damage can be added was checked. therefore after the check was made that the maximum damage Adrenaline was already reached any further damage added by the skill after that is being redacted. cant explain it well but i hope you got the gist of it

[@richardbellwald3956]

Have you tried the 2hd V63 melee weapon? It tested it just for fun in West Tek while I was wearing my Cremator dot loadout. It one hits every lvl 100 super mutant even legendaries.

[@mackenziemoore5088]

Wait, has Turtle mentioned the Red Upper and Overly Generous combo before? This is the first im ever hearing of that. o:

[@nerdoutreachprogram5358]

Thanks for keeping up the good work on this game Turtle.

[@XAfroWarriorX]

This weapon is nuts. Im only lvl 188 with deathclaw steak and glowing meat and I'm clearing rooms of fodder way faster than with my gauntlet even with full health. Tankier enemies I switch over to Zweihander after getting the bleed proc. Melee eating good

[@myshopping812]

Thank you very much for the great video guide 🎉 A question: Would Head Hunter Scythe be scrappable for Mod Boxes and for Mod learning? It is super light so would it make sense to craft hundreds of these at 2 modules a piece on September 2? Thank you very much 🤝

[@Vestige429]

Welp first thing I'll do when I log on tomorrow is revert back to standard instead of sharp

[@AngryTurtle]

you will need to craft a new one

[@Vestige429]

Ahh ok, thanks for the heads up

[@Everfrost9]

Does each hit from the weapon add additional instances of the bleed or does it only refresh the bleed duration?

[@AngryTurtle]

refresh

[@Everfrost9]

@@AngryTurtle Too bad. But it already seems really powerful anyways. lol

[@spitefulangel4790]

😡🐢 Thank you for the information… although I find it hard to play as a mele build with a bunch of heavy gunners; by the time I run to the enemy it’s dead, lol… I will stick as a heavy gunner for events and have fun with this scythe doing daily/weekly tasks😊

[@michelecastellotti9172]

One question tho: in both upgraded and not upgraded it shows the ballistic damage on the console version, so...

[@swampsect]

Turtle my dude, I can't test so I gotta ask.. I have been maining the Scythe for some time now and I see the patch notes mention how it is now 'changed to bleed' (hasn't it always been bleed unless you use the mod??) and they also want feedback on how it feels. Has it been nerfed? I use it with thorn and having quite a bit of fun.

[@XooCATSooX]

Can you try this weapon + thorn + grenadier + biggest aoe grenades only? In your old video, i noticed that the Dot damage carries over in the grenade.. so.. im thinking.. yeet and forget grenades away.. Since in your levelup vids, an instigating weapon carries over to the grenade damage. Also -Ricochet also procs bleed? -Sneak doubles bleed proc?

[@AngryTurtle]

weapon prefix carry over not the dot

[@XooCATSooX]

@@AngryTurtle i have read in reddit that some mods also in weapons affect grenades.. such as suppressor making the grenade silent.

[@number11369]

Ricochet doesn't seem to proc bleed damage with this one

[@IvanGarcia-xy7bf]

Assassin's on weapons isn't that bad they help me clean up house in the casino Expeditions, imo i think if you want to Lv up faster it's probably better to run those instead of bugging them Wes tek super mutants , plus you get script and legendary weapons and and stamps and not to mention the odds of getting plans and All the loot along the way 😎

[@chuckcookus]

Can you equip and rotate 3 or 4 for stacked DoT?

[@stefani.5737]

Interesting hypothesis.

[@Kevlin0069]

If that's how you can stack Endangerol with syringers, and stack fire dots with Cremators, then stacking bleeds by through three Scythes should also be possible, right?

[@johnfoley74]

@@Kevlin0069 fyi you can't stack Endangerol any more. Not saying the Scythe won't stack, it might IDK.

[@XCVBNMC]

How do you mess up changing damage over time type like this for a melee weapon? Also adding a scythe that has specifically is modded for humans meanwhile all the new mobs are a copy scorched and robots

[@stetsonscott8209]

Not copy scorched. Detection and movement are different, as well as stats. The main similarity is that they are changed humans with barely-lucid chatter.

[@shadowrush001]

Lost count towards humans (you can tell based from speech) so that may be why the scythe does human damage.

[@XCVBNMC]

@stetsonscott8209 I dont know why you're going out of your way to defend them, but the lost are literally reskinned scorch with different stats. I don't know what you mean by "movement," but they behave and almost act exactly like them

[@XCVBNMC]

@@shadowrush001 really? Could I get some evidence cause I can't really find anything that classifies them

[@lunarhexagon8108]

It will ve however probably fixed/reworked soon anyway, I guess, but if that would stay as that, I would probably start to use that instead of autoaxe for 'kill by melee only' mutation thing

[@TheHipHopBrothers]

Does the talons mutation affect the head hunter scythes bleed?

[@AngryTurtle]

no

[@taylorgibson4343]

whats making the explosions when you hit things?, if its a legendary perk card which 1?

[@rick_oshea]

He's using Hack & Slash legendary perk card.

[@lawrenceberg5408]

Thank you for posting this. A different YTr had a very different impression. Like you say, key is the build and use of melee buff food.

[@kirillfedurin3150]

Thanks a lot! Can you tell me if Rad from Overly Generous works with barehand build (Tesla bracers of PA)?

[@AngryTurtle]

it does but chance to trigger is low so you really need crazy fast attacking weapon to see it frequently

[@kirillfedurin3150]

@@AngryTurtle I see. Will check later how it works with Drill, I have lazy PA character with addictions and lot of Str+Char :)

[@Slosten]

I've noticed the Lost seem especially weak to the bleed DOT. I'm running a full health build, no melee buffs from food, only Incisor and Martial Artist for melee perks, and level 100 Lost die instantly after one hit from a Head Hunter. Considering how tanky they are against everything else, it's become my new go-to weapon for that region of the map. I never thought to upgrade it at a workbench after claiming it and crafting one, but now I'm very glad I didn't after watching this.

[@shadowrush001]

i think Lost count towards humans as they aren't exactly scorched nor ghouls.

[@Slosten]

@shadowrush001 Yeah, but other humans (Blood Eagles, Cultists, etc) on average take two or three swings for me to kill. I'm not exaggerating when I say Lost die *instantly* after one swing. It reminds me of the Cremator against certain enemies, where you can pinpoint the moment the DOT kicks in because it kills them immediately. Edit: I should mention I've only tried it in private servers so far, so it might not be as effective in public servers, as is the case with other DOT sources.

[@AliG-ky7zd]

Electro mines or grenades also oneshot them, if i am not mistaken. They also drop quite a few of those, which is pretty handy.

[@illusion-]

So whats happening is the big bleed will apply on the second swing. For some reason the mod bleed applies first swing Then second swing weapon bleed. Try it on a tougher enemy

[@klumze9911]

The damage uptick could be adrenaline or adrenal reaction since you were taking damage sometimes.

[@VaultWeasel]

Did you factor in Twisted Muscle Mutation?

[@DJ-cm3dp]

I upgraded mine before using it and noticed the bleed effect was not working. So I thought just another bugged bethesda weapon and scrapped it, thanks for this info. Bethesda need to sort this crap out and test new items they add.

[@TheBuildMiner210]

Do you know wether or not the bleed stacks?

[@thundercatdelta]

Would it be good against earl?

[@TUTruth]

How do you get radiation damage on a Auto Axe as shown at 5:50?

[@AngryTurtle]

I think I showed the perk, you just need to have it equipped that's it

[@TUTruth]

@@AngryTurtle Yep, Overly Generous perk.

[@superharold]

Es muy buena el arma yo la probé hace unos días en mi directo y el daño por sangrado🩸 es muy bueno lo malo es la primera estrella en mi opinión saludos.

[@piemasterzero]

Do you know if it has been fixed?

[@JStrength]

I need to know about the other new two handed weapon! Is it better then the War Glaive!? Thanks for this video though lol

[@AscendAndSee]

When I make my character bloodied, even with unyielding SS armor, I die so fast. How do you just stand there and never die!?

[@superchronic3944]

Dodgy, blocker, and serendipity perk cards help

[@shadowrush001]

Bloodied takes allot of commitment and pieces to do just right. partly why i myself havent gotten to a build of it yet.

[@CodyMcBeth]

Whats the damage nerfed? why is his showing 300+ damage?

[@Shanbog]

What mod are you using on auto axe?

[@AngryTurtle]

electrified

[@LeoFINuTube]

100% dmg on monsters with full HP should double the bleed effect dmg. Right????

[@jacobi5881]

So Auto axe or chainsaw is still better right?

[@AngryTurtle]

yes

[@pike1148]

Is there a guide for the radiation build you are running?

[@AngryTurtle]

it's universal melee build, I have similar one on the channel, I will probably update this one too

[@chuckfin]

Anything other than an auto axe is not worth the time as melee.

[@AnuZero]

It’s more so for the fun factor. Can get boring using auto axe for long periods of time.

[@gigachad6885]

Isn't the double chainsaw better ?

[@crazy-tommy]

has something changed? last time I checked the chain saw was still slightly better than auto axe

[@boojon2]

Chainsaw flaming dual bar...

[@chuckfin]

@@boojon2 Lightning mod on auto axe...

[@ChosenChalice420]

If you get a sprint in while attacking you hit harder

[@tt128556]

My guess is the brief damage buff is caused by Adrenaline perk but for some reason they've made it cancel itself immediately.

[@Mlafu]

U cant drop it sadly. I wanted to drop one to a lvl 1 just out of the vault and it just destroyed it instead

[@H2Ohexagon]

Nothing with the ⚛ is dropable

[@gabrielgarcia8736]

How did you get to level 111?

[@cynicalthoughts]

Mate using 2 or more Cremators still stacks the bleeding? And using like 4 syringes doesnt work anymore? I heard something but im not sure

[@TobiIsAGoodBoy1]

nice i got to try that radiation damage/red uper, i just assumed bots, super mutants an scorched (in the case of ghouls get healed by it) were immune to it.

[@panilsson8427]

Hi! Im asking if anyone can do any daily ops like do them over and over again for experience and legendaries im not forcing you to

[@tylers7475]

Sweet. Reminds me of my first scythe build in darks souls 1

[@Kid47483]

Bugthesda from day 1. 😉

[@AbuGandalf]

How do you get that much damage out of it? can't get it that high somehow

[@AngryTurtle]

Fallout 76: The Best Melee Build Auto Axe Machete & Unyielding Thorn Armour. End Game. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6uxXoqubJ15abM

[@AbuGandalf]

​@@AngryTurtleofc you got a video about it. You're the best mate 😁💪

[@AbuGandalf]

Unfortunately I play on ps but if I ever switch to pc I'd love to play with you one day.

[@beastabuelos6421]

I tried the radium rifle on the robots and it didn't do much damage

[@MostCoolestName]

holy crap, thanks for this, fixing my scythe now youre a legend

[@collincutler4992]

Damn I wanna know how you have 616lb carry weight and NOT in Power Armor?

[@spytor]

I would love to see this build perks you have and buffs you are taking to get that damage.

[@extra_credit4u753]

Does this Overly generous stuff still work?

[@AngryTurtle]

no buses received rads immunity

[@extra_credit4u753]

@@AngryTurtle thx for letting me cant wait for ur next vids on Tuesday 👍👍👍👀👀

[@RafaelSantos-pi8py]

Since there's no pvp in this game what's the point of assassin weapons?

[@RoachAndRizla]

There's plenty of PVP, you just gotta find people that are up for it.

[@skinneygonzales6988]

And the weapon is about to 'fixed' as they always are when the youtube videos comes out x)

[@GyroZeppel]

Good

[@TheBestNoahEver]

Is Shattered Grounds any good?

[@Higimidagi]

Ngl The fly in to new event was looking like it was gonna be a super hero landing entrance 😅

[@damianvega1475]

Whats that Melee he used on the boss and melted him

[@AngryTurtle]

auto axe but rads melted the boss not the weapon damage, chainsaw will do the same

[@damianvega1475]

@@AngryTurtle so any melee with overly generous cards right

[@unadventurer_]

It's really like they don't test anything. What the hell is the PTS for anyway? Truly inept. 🙄🙄🙄

[@黄国轮]

😅👍

[@tomsmith6379]

It's so they know what their fans like so they can take it away

[@KingDarkBlaze]

I like it with the robes with a hockey mask.

[@Lesinator]

Your pronunciation of Scythe was spot on mate 👍

[@AdrianaGrande]

Broooo.... how did you just jetpack into the boss fight from the top?!?!

[@AngryTurtle]

my house is there 😅

[@sapphicseas0451]

​@@AngryTurtleshow us the location!

[@1738-l1j]

So whats the beat weapon for nw if u a unyealding commando?

[@Dinosaurman34]

Probably a radium rifle as it deals radiation damage

[@valentine4287]

​@49ersSince89 neurological warfare, the new boss fight with the 3 giants, they are really weak to radiation damage at the mo but they'll probably patch that soon

[@gcqsopus]

Does Ricochet give them bleed damage?

[@swightly]

doesnt work on ricochet or hack n slash for spreading bleed

[@kitkami]

Damn it turtle, you were not supposed to make me want that. I was taking this scoreboard off.

[@raycapetillo5569]

Reminds me of my upgrade at work that locked out 1500 people from our network.

[@colbyrendell5517]

Assassins is such a dumb legendary effect, I feel they should add an event, like a raiders event that was like a colloseeum, but you had 5 rounds, and each round you survived against a player, you got a reward multiplier for the event

[@crittenhouse8270]

Yeah but the only thing is is you can't drop that once you Crafted The melee weapon can't be dropped

[@mhkojima]

"Robots can bleed in this game!" 😆😆😆

[@jimperkins1459]

It's "a hydraulic fluid leak"😅

[@donnellcrenshaw6391]

1st! I'm excited to get it because my favorite weapon in every game is a scythe! Even if it's not good I'm still gonna carry it with me always!

[@dlsisson1970]

Instigating is my go-to for melee.

[@lordstorm8555]

One thing i dont like about the DoT effects is that bethesda failed to add in visual adventure style numbers to them..

[@ForeignFabric]

This event warfare have not spawned for me,since the dlc came out,anyone else having that problem ? I’m on ps5

[@prince_julius]

Very interesting Turtle, thanks!

[@firespark74]

I can't stay logged in long enough to get past page one right now

[@biscotttii]

That is most probably the 7th adrenaline stack. The effect is noticeable due to how the game manage the buff stacks (if you got the 7th stack, they take away the oldest one one tick after) and on top of that, the way the calculation is done both in local and server side (there's a wait for the server to confirms the deletion of the oldest stack). If you have a way to debug the game and make it run frame by frame, you will see the effect taking place.

[@ibonk9673]

I just unlocked it lets goooo

[@tylersmith7498]

Another one 😩 I thought we was over the bug that effects weapons when you change paints / skins ect. Lol

[@kencwl4012]

Great review ❤

[@himu96]

I can bet! that balistic dot is not intended bugs being feactures

[@Katsuhi50]

they should let us re-roll it or give us a human boss battle, maybe a blood eagle in power armor or something idk.

[@LeftysRage]

Turtle, Adrenaline is boosting your damage numbers at the end of the video...

[@asoto420]

Yall realize this weapon is the reason why the pickaxe in game is give modules

[@ddrew1973]

200% food bonus?!?! From what?

[@shadowrush001]

yaogui roast and carnivore mutations. combine with strange in numbers and you got an easy 225% melee boost. big melee weapons like super sledge and bone hammer will drop pretty much anything.

[@Joker-dn7or]

@@shadowrush001back woodsman 6 also gives additional 50% food effects

[@Thebigbubba]

Apparently the HHS was the reason why the pickaxes would give legendary modules on scrap, thus being the reason as to why pickaxe were temporarily removed.