Can't be the only one...

[BumbleB]

So...after waiting several months to start a new playthrough with the Phantom Liberty 2.11 update I was really excited to get back into Night City...until last night. So far, Score: Chimera 40, V 0. About a minute into the battle, it lets loose with a EM pulse that flatlines V on the spot. No where in the room seems safe. The game guides say use quickhacks. Scan says target cannot be hacked...just before the big bug zapper zeros me. My build is Intel 20 with netrunning skill mostly my focus. Top of the line deck, all Quickhacks Tier5++ Well armored. I plan to try tossing a few EMP grenades next. By the way going back to the floor level I didn't encounter poison gas, I got stomped into flatness. O.O My relic skill is weakspot detection, and I don't see any on the scan when I try to get at least a few shots off. Soooooooooooooo...ok, I'm getting my ass handed to me by this boss and don't see options to try what's on all the playthrough guides. This a recent change to Chimera? If so it sucks!
Thanks for any help.

[Zoid13]

i punched it to death with gorilla arms :D

[Bogmore]

Did you try dropping to the lower level at the side?

[ChasingCoyote]

best strategy is to first be quick on yer feet, stay on the balcony level, where at each corner is an HMG mounted on a turret. have enough body attribute, and you can rip it off and use it on the chimera. by each turret is also plenty of ammo if you don't have enough body attributed I recommend using your one-time opportunity of resetting the attributes and reassigning them. it may well be your only hope of defeating the chimera. I don't remember now how much you need in body attributes, but I'd recommend at least 15. one scan is pretty much all you need to detect the weakspots they will show up as yellow areas after that.

[Captain Skinny]

Do you mean to say you don't have any way to hurt things other than quickhacks?
Coyote is right in that you need to stay moving and stay behind cover, which can be found, but I don't think you need to redistribute your stats to do so. You should be able to remote control them or make them friendly etc.
I also believe most of the surface is unhackable, but there are small slivers which you need to find, they'll be red while the rest of him should be green, or so I think. As the fight goes on, you'll find more and have to blow those too.
I've defeated it several times, but I've always used grenades and guns, as well as quickhacks and gorilla arms/katana/other kinds of weapons.
Stay positive.

[Steve Irwin]

Grenades, guns, and weak spots (they should show up, at least they have for me). I was able to do it on my first try. Just be quick. Use dashes if you have.

[Silverbane7]

I've killed it with throwing knives and the miniguns before now (once)
But the first time, even tho my V had decent gun skills, it took ages.

Then, I realised Myers wasn't telling me "Damn it, V! Find its weak points!" but was saying "SCAN it, V! Find its weak points!" lmao.
D'oh.

As the others said, get up higher to the side of the pool (it feels like its sitting in the middle of an empty swimming pool to me) and run round like a nutter.
There are guns and tons of ammo at the corners to use on it, watch the beam, you can jump up if you time it right.
It has a cool down point, a little like the big bots in fallout 4, where you can dash in and smack it close, but ya got to be quick.
If you are pure quick hacker tho, you should refund a point or two in skills and drop a point in the body tree to let you regen HP when running.
You can always refund the point back to where it was later, skills get infinite refund/reuse, unlike attributes.

[Arinbjorn]

There are a ton of weak points on it. Under the leg joints and along the back of the turret (?). Took mine down with a shotgun and assault riffle if I remember, and was in close the whole time. I think I jumped on top of it and was doing my best impression of Major Kusanagi until I saw the weak spots!

Its a tough fight, to start off the DLC, but certainly doable.

[Captain Skinny]

Originally posted by Arinbjorn:

I think I jumped on top of it and was doing my best impression of Major Kusanagi until I saw the weak spots!

I'm so glad I wasn't the only person to immediately think of this when the fight started lol

[EJR]

Originally posted by Arinbjorn:

I think I jumped on top of it and was doing my best impression of Major Kusanagi until I saw the weak spots!

Funny you mentioned that, the devs actually took inspiration from that scene when designing this boss and fight

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by Captain Skinny:

Originally posted by Arinbjorn:

I think I jumped on top of it and was doing my best impression of Major Kusanagi until I saw the weak spots!

I'm so glad I wasn't the only person to immediately think of this when the fight started lol

Yeah, the moment i saw it I just knew it was going to go hostile and I was going to have to fight it lol.
Funny thing is, my main V (first one I tried the expansion with) is spec'd much like the Major.
Stealth, handguns, optical camo with crouch dash, up to 15int for stealth quickhacks.

And that's why I was running around the edge like a nutter, waiting for that moment to 'pull a Kusenagi' on it.
Even mentioned that to my input (was at his place, trying it out, him watching mostly)
He laughed, then I got the prompt to get in there.
'Oh, its ON! I'm going to Kusenagi you to death, you annoying.....'
*V jumps on top*
'Open up, lemmi just....pop the clasps off.....thank Gibson I don't have to rip it off lol'
*stuffs nade down in there*

XD

There are some fans in the company, that's for sure....😀

[★REM★]

Killed Chimera in the first attempt, was challenging for sure. It's the only reason i am scared to start a new playthrough as my old save got corrupted by some mod i had installed