This melee attack is rather delayed, usually slower than the player's melee attacks. When up close, the centaur whips its tongue at you. The damage done by the spit itself is low, but can increase your rads quickly (+4 per second for ten seconds). They spit slow moving, radioactive projectiles as a ranged attack which may ignite nearby gas leaks, but is relatively easy to dodge. Usually they don't carry anything, although they sometimes have chems like jet, small amounts of caps, and rarely random items like teddy bears, leather belts, pass cards, or a bobby pin or two. Their weak spot is their long, tentacle-like tongues which can be easily targeted in V.A.T.S. This is based on concept art and vault 87 logsĬentaurs can pose, at best, a moderate threat level to players but are generally a weak enemy.
Their 'birthplace', like the super mutants, is Vault 87. Like their western counterparts, they are created by infection with the FEV along with the super mutants. The centaurs encountered in the Capital Wasteland have a human head and three long, tentacle-like tongues.
Centaurs are the result of combining various kinds of animals and people and infecting them with the Forced Evolutionary Virus.
