Jackhammer is a cheating Mcguffin

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Nerf this nonsense or remove him from the game, his stats, accuracy and abilities are not obtainable in game. How can he burst someone in full cover in the rain 2 times in a row? and then move 10 tiles and do the same thing again?

[Zeel Ara]

You may want to look up what a McGuffin actually is.

[uncle nick]

Haha, boss fight in the rain. If it makes you feel any better, i think nobody has ever killed Jackhammer in combat. All you can do is wound him until he surrenders.

[CommandDork]

Ya, that freak lands every shot he takes.

[Dreepa]

Jackhammer was the hardest fight in the game for me. Rescueing the president was a piece of cake compared to that.

[Don Cool]

Originally posted by uncle nick:

Haha, boss fight in the rain. If it makes you feel any better, i think nobody has ever killed Jackhammer in combat. All you can do is wound him until he surrenders.

If you let him go he will attack the nearest port at some point. This is bugged as you need a squad there to intercept and fight manually or the game will bug out and simply won´t continue. I killed him and can´t actually remember if I got anything out of it.

Had to reload a game and get a squad down there to wait for him.

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by Dreepa:

Jackhammer was the hardest fight in the game for me.

Definitely.

Can't let him get close.

You can either try to stealth-snipe him through one of the windows or draw him out in the open by releasing and rallying some of the prisoners in the basement first.

Both are risky and best done at night with NVGs.

[Yuri Kossori]

letting him go will make him rampage to the nears sector.
not sure if its intended but when he attacked where skuly was training militia, he lost but somehow survived and entered the next sector and soloed 8 militia then to the next but it bugged out coz somehow coz he won and 1 militia survived, cant continue anymore. had to reload and kill him manually with skuly and larry nading him

[Janky Nose Hair Guy]

I gassed and burned him out. Really my go to solution for any hard fight in a confined space but in this case he sits and BBQs if you prevent his escape route. You can even walk in with a gas mask and dump a magazine into him if you don't want to wait (assuming it has a thermal scope)

[kiloromeo]

Originally posted by CommandDork:

Ya, that freak lands every shot he takes.

What shots? Going in from the celler/basement/jail/doungeon he submitted in first round.

[uncle nick]

I think OP already knows, he is playing mission impossible for youtube tutorial play vids.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

Originally posted by Dreepa:

Jackhammer was the hardest fight in the game for me.

Definitely.

Can't let him get close.

You can either try to stealth-snipe him through one of the windows or draw him out in the open by releasing and rallying some of the prisoners in the basement first.

Both are risky and best done at night with NVGs.

I did that later with mustard grenades, pipe bombs, other grenades and 3 rpg shots that collapsed the roof.
The problem is also that the player never recives any info when he is downed. So i went inside to check and then 6 soldiers appeared out of nowhere.
Whats wrong with this fight? its so scripted and gimmicky to the point where it breaks all rules of the game so far.
So i have to redo the fight again, took me about 90 minutes just to learn new ways to fail it. Definetly not happy with the quality of this fight, if the devs intended for the player to fight in cqc they could have made a bigger compound, seems like i need a tank to bomb the entire building

[Crorens]

Originally posted by Don:

Originally posted by uncle nick:

Haha, boss fight in the rain. If it makes you feel any better, i think nobody has ever killed Jackhammer in combat. All you can do is wound him until he surrenders.

If you let him go he will attack the nearest port at some point. This is bugged as you need a squad there to intercept and fight manually or the game will bug out and simply won´t continue. I killed him and can´t actually remember if I got anything out of it.

Had to reload a game and get a squad down there to wait for him.

thats what you get for being dense enough to let him go, i bet its the same with the slavemaster

[Rimbawan Gerilya]

I managed to took him down without him ever getting a single shot on my mercs. I stealthily cleared out all patrols and guards outside the main building (at night and lots of quicksaves), then setup a firing squad to overwatch the only exit from the building where Jackhammer office is. Dropped a couple of molotovs on the door and enemies wont come out. Took many turns to take them down but all my mercs were safe.

[Bozzemoggel]

couple of grenades, couple of molotovs... then he ran downstairs and surrendered.
He can be a pain or it ends just like that. Shame you can´t hire him, he seems capable ^^

[DerFinneAT]

I personally consider "boss" - fights in games, that are not capable to explain the "bossiness" by lore means more annoying, than interesting.
Most of the time it doesn't enhance but delute the experience for me.

The 2 (3) boss fights in Ja2 were bearable.
One was a crafted horror-monster. That is enough of lore explanation for me.

One was a merc like us - and the fight was not too over the top.

And the final battle was - well, just the final battle. I would have preferred it less spongy, but then again:ok she's the final boss. *shrug*

Walking away from Jackhammer didn't make me think "Wow - that was a cool, juicy fight in between".
Instead it was "Wow - that was a cheap, bullet-spongy, unfitting gamified experience."