A hilarious, but tragic example of an extremely horrifying creature that has an incredibly mundane name. Earle Williams is a bonus boss on Fallout 76 who was introduced in August 2020.
Some time before the present day in-game, Williams and his friends were trapped in a mine after it suddenly collapsed behind them, killing
one of them and leaving the rest permanently stuck. The men were nonetheless desperate to survive, and resorted to
cannibalism. Some of them, however, had too weak of a stomach and decided to just wait for their starvation to end it all.
Earle Williams was not
one of those people. In fact, cannibalizing his dead friend seemed to make his sanity slip away. He started trying to
eat everyone, dead or alive, but was nonetheless fully aware of what he was doing; he knew he was becoming insane. By the time that the events of the game had started, Williams has mutated into a massive man-eating monster waiting impatiently for his next meal, and it's up to the dwellers of Vault 76 to put him out of his misery before it's too late.
The fight against Earle Williams is quite tough. He has TONS of health, and he's so resistant to all forms of damage that even legacy weapons barely deal scratch damage to him. He's nimble, aggressive, and can utter a piercing scream that will terrify the player character(s), causing them to run uncontrollably in a random direction if they're standing too close,
potentially allowing him to land a nasty hit or two. The mine itself is bubbling hot and will kill you very quickly if you stand in the wrong spot, and there's several mini-me's of Williams that are very strong and tend to gang up on a single player to quickly overwhelm them. And on top of that, you have a strict time limit of 25 minutes to kill him, which may seem generous, but it's not.
Despite this, there IS at least one weapon that works insanely well against him: The plasma gun with
the flamethrower mod and
of course the right perk cards. ESPECIALLY if it's
the special "Enclave" version, which has an insane ammo capacity. (However, the mod is INCREDIBLY rare.) Some players have managed to kill Williams singlehandedly by using this against him.
