Adam Smasher 2.0 how do I kill this dude

[NITRO]

Holly hell Im trying hard to kill him but I just fking cant

Im using a netrunner/blades build, and my netrunning abilities need way too much for me to handle him. When I manage to deal enough damage he summons a bunch of dudes that distract me from focusing on him then he does that barrage of missiles that is basically an insta kill for me. Max I could drop from him was to 51% health in which he then proceeded to kill me using those missiles that almost always hit you no matter what. Its quite frustrating.

For weapons I have Byakko, O'Five, Fenrir etc but I feel like using my monowire to recover ram is better even though it deals almost no dmg. What should I do? :/

[spider_enigma]

im having the same problem and im a tank

[Xeph The Tamagotchi]

i had to move A LOT and use cover. it reminds me of the deus ex fight if you got the new chip that shuts your stuff down. takes tactic and time...lots of time

[Alun1]

during add phases you gotta keep moving, run circuits around the arena picking off the adds on each lap then focus on adam again. he will keep firing missile barrages at you so you gotta keep moving.

[GreedyChip]

took me 4 attempts to kill Smasher found it really challenging im gland he is hard to kill as he should be, older patches he was a joke. idk how you gong to do it as a net runner

[DarkFire]

Originally posted by GreedyChip:

took me 4 attempts to kill Smasher found it really challenging im gland he is hard to kill as he should be, older patches he was a joke. idk how you gong to do it as a net runner

I'm thinking that overclock then 4 x disable cyberware might be strong opening move. After that, wait for RAM to recover while killing his adds then apply stacks of synapse burnout.

[Vexillarius]

Overdrive and synapse burnout will straight up almost one shot him. Well it will one shot him but you need to do a bunch of set up. I hit him for 92k and the fight lasted about 7 seconds on very hard.
You want the cyberware that gives you 100% crit with quickhacks. Drain all your ram on stuff like stacking cyberware malfuction to stack debuffs, the iconic one ideally. Synapse burnout does increased damage based on ram spent so draining it all before casting is important. You also get a big damage boost to quickhacks from having low health as well. Use biomonitor to auto heal yourself when you get low and a blood pump/second heart if needed.

[Dyna]

You circle him so he cannot hit you. Keep hitting him in back with gorilla arms and disengage when he do the rocket barrage. Then fly back in with Quake and circle him again.


If you want to make fun of him then use sprint and block to make him sit down. He will keep yapping while being unable to do anything really.

Also not a bad idea to land a few headshots with the Hawk Iconic since it disables his abilities if not going melee.

[Dyna]

Originally posted by spider_enigma:

im having the same problem and im a tank

Good one. Not really a tank if you can't pull that off. This is not an MMO :p

[valium]

His gun is a joke, it is the missile barrage and sniper reinforcements that you need to watch out for.

[Youraye]

lower the difficulties? or use the air dash to escape the missiles

[BIG E.]

On highest difficulty missiles and his gun can easily oneshot you if you don't have massive amounts of armor and body perks.

I did it with a optical camo stealth build with a katana. He seems to take massive damage from katana, and also Oda's katana 100% crits when optical camo active.

If you don't have it yet, 100% get vulnerability from relic upgrades. That ♥♥♥♥ is busted.

I do use quickhacks aswell just for fun however most quickhacks don't do anything to smasher. Things like weapon glitch for example doesn't do anything he keeps shooting anyways.

[BIG E.]

Originally posted by valium:

His gun is a joke, it is the missile barrage and sniper reinforcements that you need to watch out for.

His gun has two different fire modes tho. Full auto wont kill you instantly. However he does have a sniper shot mode which will 100% obilitirate you if you happen to take it without mitigation and low armor.

[Chaosolous]

I like how the boss fights are hard now.

[Meme Turtle]

Originally posted by Vexillarius:

Overdrive and synapse burnout will straight up almost one shot him. Well it will one shot him but you need to do a bunch of set up. I hit him for 92k and the fight lasted about 7 seconds on very hard.
You want the cyberware that gives you 100% crit with quickhacks. Drain all your ram on stuff like stacking cyberware malfuction to stack debuffs, the iconic one ideally. Synapse burnout does increased damage based on ram spent so draining it all before casting is important. You also get a big damage boost to quickhacks from having low health as well. Use biomonitor to auto heal yourself when you get low and a blood pump/second heart if needed.

Please, don't suggest using broken cyberware. Might as well play on easy.

For damage with quickhacks you want cyberware malfunction - short circuit combo, he's weak to electrical damage. Or cripple movement and attack his heart, it's a highlighted weakspot.

[NITRO]

Well I managed to beat him by spamming criple + reboot optics + synapse burnout and then circle him around with the monowire to recoup Ram and then dodge for my life when he does those stupid missile barrages on the ground. A single mistake and Im dead tho.