It stays that way. It is instant death to anything you can pick pocket. Later on when you start seeing super mutant overlords it is one of the two guaranteed ways to kill them in one shot. It just sucks that not everything has pockets to pick. Also, essentially any grenade of mine works just as well. The other guaranteed way to kill them is The Terrible Shotgun (a named and stupidly powerful weapon) + 100 Sneak + a point blank sneak attack to the face so every shot gun pellet scores a critical. I'm sure a sneak attack nuke to the face would work as well (did that once to every death claw in the Old Olney underground during my first play through and it was epic) but a little wasteful and dangerous.
Oh and I highly suggest doing the Operation Anchorage DLC like now. It'll get you awesome weapons and armor as well as the ability to use any power armor long before you could get it from the main quest. It is well worth the time to do it well before level 5 even.
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