Broken Adam Smasher fight

[RefKell]

So...I'm maxed out level and I played throwing knives and revolvers/pistols build.
I finished everything on the side and got to the Adam Smasher fight.
After sever trys only thing left in my mind is, what the actual hell?
I will overlook that his hitboxes are mess whil he uses the running animation. But after painfully droping his first healthbar, and suffering trough 3 of his "I'm invincible now" windows, he starts launching rockets.
Which all makes sense right? Then how the hell do You explain that he one-shots me mid dash flying out of the explosion zone trough 3 wall obstacles between us? It basically feels like a sniper just can from somewhere and pop me right in the head.
And this is just one of many bugs I found after the "amazing 2.0 update". I feel like the game is more broken than it was before.

Final thoughts, anyone else having the same issue? I mean the one shot ♥♥♥♥ part?
I don't mind longer fights but this ♥♥♥♥ is retarded.

[Willow Rivers]

What cyberdeck and arms are you using? My knife build I was using the slow time which came in handy for boss fights. Slow time, hit weak spots, run, wait for recharge and repeat.

I didn't have to fight smasher on my run as I went for the DLC ending instead but it worked on other tough boss fights assume it will work on smasher as well.

My niece just punched him to death with a body build and gorilla arms, her hits stunned him so he just stood there and she punched till he was dead. He didn't even get a chance to move let alone attack lol.

[RefKell]

I didn't have that much of a problem with the damage itself. It's true that even wough I did Like 1k damage with each knife thorw, + bleeding + poison + flame form other weapon, it still took some time. But I finally managed to finish him off. However I noticed that It seesm that the player starts receiving high damage as soon as Smasher goes to the "crouch" position to lounch the missiles. So if You are not moving all the time, You get one shot. Even if You are out of sight, and there are no indicators of incomming missiles.

[fmalfeas]

You do know that you can use flashbangs to stun him, letting you hide and drop aggro, then use takedowns to rip parts out of him, right? Only takes a few times and he's done.

[RefKell]

Originally posted by fmalfeas:

You do know that you can use flashbangs to stun him, letting you hide and drop aggro, then use takedowns to rip parts out of him, right? Only takes a few times and he's done.

How does that justify malfuctioning hitboxes and broken animations?

[pestif]

I fought on very hard, the Adam smasher fight (alone because I was on the 'secret' ending with my health already dropping by 120 pts) I only had 245 pts entering the fight (and lost pts during the fight) tried for 3 hours, my best shot was putting it at about 25% life, I gave up and put the game on easy (shame !) just because I wanted to see if there was special ending, I was lvl 58 (Phantom Liberty on PS5) he was an HP wall and his rockets killed me almost all of the time, As much as I like hard fight I suspect the scalling wasn't tested on all cases (if tested at all...)

[fmalfeas]

People complain about it being too easy, now it's too hard, and since throwing knives are normally a stealth build, I tell you the stealth method to bring down the full conversion borg, and you complain about that too.

[EJR]

Originally posted by fmalfeas:

People complain about it being too easy, now it's too hard, and since throwing knives are normally a stealth build, I tell you the stealth method to bring down the full conversion borg, and you complain about that too.

Can confirm, stealth builds do not excel well at all during the Adam Smasher fight. Even before 2.0 my stealth character had trouble, thankfully I also offspeced heavily into assault rifles so I just played how I would in Battlefield and it was easy enough. Granted it was my playthrough so my build wasn't perfect (Only paid attention to gear and perks, not cyberware). Once I get to my netrunner build again I'll see how difficult it is.

[valium]

Adam Smasher should be even harder still, dude is this universe's Lu Bu.

[Vault Traveler]

Originally posted by Jake:

Originally posted by RefKell:

How does that justify malfuctioning hitboxes and broken animations?

that's the typical cope response of people that defend the problems the game has.

Yeah very aggressive giving an advice...

[fmalfeas]

Originally posted by valium:

Adam Smasher should be even harder still, dude is this universe's Lu Bu.

Lu Bu was WAY more honorable than Adam Smasher.

I remember the people behind the character in tabletop saying that Adam Smasher was able to have so much chrome because he was already off his rocker in a way where cyberpsychosis just isn't noticable, and might even be making him better.

[Jack_R0urke]

amazing broken hands
LMAO

[WHEREAMI]

Yes, this fight is a hell. I have a feeling that some play styles just cannot handle him well.

I was level 60, Netrunner, played on Hard difficulty, chose Secret ending so fight was 1-1.
I didn't play Phantom Liberty, so there was no broken cyberware such as 100% critical damage from quickhacks. Because of Secret ending, my HP was probably half of my max (~300) due to the relic impact.
Spammed quickhacks with Overclock with no success, he still had a lot of HP. The biggest problem here was that for some reason i couldn't run away from him, my build wasn't into Reflexes, and usual running wasn't enough, he reached me everywhere, maybe because in 2.01 passive abilities are bugged but I'm not sure.

Didn’t try too much tho, switched to Normal difficulty after 2 attempts and destroyed him. But in Secret ending gg is gg and titles, so my first playthrough and canon ending was death in Arasaka tower..

In general, compared to all other fights in the game it was surprisingly hard and frustrating, Oda was really easy walk, I killed him in 5 seconds. it sucks when through whole game you kill everyone around and then in boss fight you're just miserable and can do nothing.

[PerLindstrom]

Originally posted by RefKell:

So...I'm maxed out level and I played throwing knives and revolvers/pistols build.
I finished everything on the side and got to the Adam Smasher fight.
After sever trys only thing left in my mind is, what the actual hell?
I will overlook that his hitboxes are mess whil he uses the running animation. But after painfully droping his first healthbar, and suffering trough 3 of his "I'm invincible now" windows, he starts launching rockets.
Which all makes sense right? Then how the hell do You explain that he one-shots me mid dash flying out of the explosion zone trough 3 wall obstacles between us? It basically feels like a sniper just can from somewhere and pop me right in the head.
And this is just one of many bugs I found after the "amazing 2.0 update". I feel like the game is more broken than it was before.

Final thoughts, anyone else having the same issue? I mean the one shot ♥♥♥♥ part?
I don't mind longer fights but this ♥♥♥♥ is retarded.

Set game difficulty to easy.
And yes, in my opinion game i partially broken.
Myself playing 1.63 atm.

[WHEREAMI]

Originally posted by knossos:

Well you have to cripple his movement and invalidate his cyberware, you can also blind him and weapon glitch his arse.

I then managed to kill him in all other endings with no problem. But that first fight in Secret ending is now forever in my head

[helldraco]

This thing is so broken (playing on GoG, still 2.0.1) that the best spells (shut up, the cyber thing is magic) does ... 2% damage.

Everything's maxed, the best damaging thing I used is making 2% damage at best ...

The 2.0 ruined the game, the bosses are beyond incompetent amateurish untested broken game design.
Worst part: even if you beat them ... there's no satisfaction, you just wasted timed on something that should not be sold (I'm looking at you spider robot from PL intro ...). And then you back to the game and roll on everything and forget you're playing hard mode since it's so easy. (-_-)

We need a mod to get rid of the main story, the only good part of this trash tiers diarreah is the open world and playing GTA with augments. (-_-)

Will have to wait for modders to fix the game. AGAIN.