The Higgs bossfight is the worst bossfight of such scale I've ever seen

[Snobby Hobo]

It's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad it's actually embarrassing. I don't mean the premise; it's ironically anti-climactic and I can appreciate that (minus the actually cringe-worthy Higgs dialogue). But ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ janky it's actually incredible it made it into the game. Even when looking at gameplay on youtube you see people face the exact same problems I had.

So the whole "throw the item you're holding" mechanic is explained literally but once. Granted the dots weren't difficult to connect seeing the arena, but for a game that tends to explain everything 10 times over it felt incredibly odd to go for the one thing they barely explained in this boss fight. When it comes to the actual throwing I was met with the same difficulties I had during the "throw bomb in tar"-quest; it's unresponsive and janky. Half the times Sam simply refuses to deliver his precious ruined cameras at Higgs face and I end up spamming the left mouse button like an idiot hoping he'd finally get the hint.

Furthermore the fight revolves around you moving around a tiny arena with Higgs shooting/stabbing you, so you want to keep the pace up. When moving you can grab cargo from underneath yourself, but again - this works only when perfectly angled.

The result is a janky terribly frustrating bossfight that offers barely any challenge besides trying to maintain your sanity. It's Sam walking over cargo he refuses to pick up and then refuses to throw for 12 minutes. I found the big-BT fight just before this one bad, but the actual Higgs fight trumps it tenfold in how terrible it is.

[Metric Guard]

I never had any issues throwing cargo, but if you find it too difficult, try something else. It's entirely possible to defeat Higgs without touching any cargo or taking damage. For instance, try using the "rope" against Higgs' "stick".

[Karlack26]

Ya i died about 10x more in that fight then the entire game combined
Once you get the Bola gun you basically one shot all mules. So you really never had to learn combat.
i never used the cargo that but you can run up to him and just start punching.
I forgot you could throw cargo.
Most games take every thing you have learned up to that point and use it against the final boss.
No indication that you would fight unarmed.
The game at the end constantly removes your all gear.
I think its chapter 2 where you get the Bola Gun which makes hand to hand combat pointless though out the entire game.
Thus ignored
so while i loved like 99% of the game the couple of end boss were poorly done

[Igor]

I died 2 times during this fight. Let him shoot (his aiming is not that good, he is slow), run and hide behind the rocks, he will reload, go to him with the cargo in your hand and press "V" (i think thats the key) to hit him with the cargo.
I think the worst part is in the last minutes of the fight, that really close combat with you exchanging punches, that one tired me as much it tired Sam.

[puppet74]

wtf this fight was super easy. you just pick up stuff and hit him with it afew times, and run repeat. done. dont have to throw anything. you can even punch kick the guy.

[Diara]

I agree this boss fight was sub pair, it was really frustrating to do..

[TazmanianD]

Yeah, I really hated this fight too. I spent so much time trying to sneak up on Higgs so I could use my rope on him but the game gives no indication that taking him out actually moves anything forward. You have to do it a whole bunch of times but I kept thinking I just must have been doing something wrong and kept starting over.

I eventually realized that I just needed to run around with him shooting at me until he has to reload and then you can just run up to him and punch him.

[sumolagann]

I liked it.

[StiWii Rage]

You can throw things at him? WOW! I just ran at him with a right diagonal line. So he will never hit you with his gun. When close enough make the rope ready. Press once too parry him then a second time too throw him down and kick him. With this the 2nd phase is a complete joke. Also I play on very hard got the fight first try. But was close before dying at on point. For me this fight was so much fun. Especially the last part brought me back to some MGS4 vibes

[Geck0]

Mild necro, but I finished his fight yesterday and came back to this, and uh; I don't see the problem? It was a little weird and tonally sour (I can honestly not tell whether or not it was meant to be serious) but it was pretty fun.

[Pykors]

I thought the Higgs fight was an interesting change that made me use less common mechanics like tackling and binding. Also the tone was great - felt like the end of an action movie where no matter what happened it comes down to a fist fight!

The real disappointment is the final boss IMHO. Just a huge bullet sponge that if it touches you two or three times destroys your cargo so you have to restart.

[spike_mf]

The tackling and binding would been good if it worked, the response of the controls are so weird so if you are to fast he unequip the rope and grabs the backpackthingy for balance?!

[Sheethead]

The strand has the same control rules as guns probably. You could play with the aiming vs. balance setting and see if setting it further away from balance improves it for you