how did you beat ESCHERON? (im on legendary)

[Dedprice]

got him down to a quarter of health. no more noob boxes to throw at him. rockets ran out. i got the terrible weapons on the rack, the turrent guns that make you turn into a turtle (basically what hes begging for me to use so he can one shot me.. i mean he does no matter what)

and the upgraded assault rifle. i try going for the kinetic ammo and he pins me in that corner, as soon as i lead him to one side and run out the other he does his jump, skids off the wall, and boom. grav hammer, cross map one shot... cant stand this dude.

[Dedprice]

beat him...

Devs if you see this..

Fuhck whoever designed that boss fight.
whoever made the map that compact and small.
whoever beta tested it and said "perfect, this is a good boss fight"
whoever agreed with any of the ideas or people above.
whoever gave birth to the people above.
their children
their pets.

This boss fight was so freaking terrible... in every aspect.

and to top it all off, when i went for my last kinetic ammo grab from the ammo box so conveniently placed where there is no cover?

it told me i had full kinetic ammo
when i had 0 bullets.

i went from loving the campaign to hating it in one boss fight.

[Dedprice]

and now watching these cutscenes i stg if escharum isnt the final boss... I STG

[Merk]

Originally posted by Dedprice:

got him down to a quarter of health. no more noob boxes to throw at him. rockets ran out. i got the terrible weapons on the rack, the turrent guns that make you turn into a turtle (basically what hes begging for me to use so he can one shot me.. i mean he does no matter what)

and the upgraded assault rifle. i try going for the kinetic ammo and he pins me in that corner, as soon as i lead him to one side and run out the other he does his jump, skids off the wall, and boom. grav hammer, cross map one shot... cant stand this dude.

sentinal beam and wall hugging so i dont get tapped by the blue goop. took like 3 trys on last phase but sentinal beam melts her shield.

[Dedprice]

so i thought the final boss was escheron or whatever. the harbinger took me 2.. the first because i didnt realize they were sending a baby escheron after me when i was melting things with the sentinel beam... dude shoved a whole gravity hammer...

but yeah compared to the escheron, harbinger is a cake walk.

[Dedprice]

Originally posted by Merk:

Originally posted by Dedprice:

got him down to a quarter of health. no more noob boxes to throw at him. rockets ran out. i got the terrible weapons on the rack, the turrent guns that make you turn into a turtle (basically what hes begging for me to use so he can one shot me.. i mean he does no matter what)

and the upgraded assault rifle. i try going for the kinetic ammo and he pins me in that corner, as soon as i lead him to one side and run out the other he does his jump, skids off the wall, and boom. grav hammer, cross map one shot... cant stand this dude.

sentinal beam and wall hugging so i dont get tapped by the blue goop. took like 3 trys on last phase but sentinal beam melts her shield.

i beat her.. fun fact.. if you want to chunk her health tremendously, melt her SHIELDS with the beams or heatwave... then when she kneels? dont shoot or melee.. grapple, use the max damage grapple melee charge, and youll do like 75% of her health in one punch.

[The Goat King]

i used the cindershot and an energy sword.
works pretty good, use cindershot to get her shields down and the energy sword to get rid of her health. use thrusters if she shoots blue balls at you.

the main problem for me were all of the enemies that could one shot you from across the map and the hammer brute that doesnt die unless you explode him alot

[Magic Spazm]

There's a method you can cheese the ai with

[The Goat King]

Originally posted by Waffles:

The legendary fight with main brute guy was absolute cancer lol.
I had to spam grapple AND thruster to keep distance from his bs jump attack.
It was not a fun boss fight at all.

The final boss though is easier imo. Sentinel beam like the other guy said does the trick.
Heatwave as my secondary and grabbing reloads between phases.

wierd i just walked around a corner and shot weapons at him until he died.
there were definetly harder bosses than that.
how did you manage to do the one with the 2 brutes (the one with the guy in the chopper and the one with the big mortar cannon thingy)?

[ThatKidCarnage]

I almost lost my damn mind fighting her on legendary. Those stupid blue balls she shoots at you was so unfair. I just had to grapple around and around in circles while trying to hit her with the sentinal beam. I died so many times.

[Dedprice]

Originally posted by The Goat King:

Originally posted by Waffles:

The legendary fight with main brute guy was absolute cancer lol.
I had to spam grapple AND thruster to keep distance from his bs jump attack.
It was not a fun boss fight at all.

The final boss though is easier imo. Sentinel beam like the other guy said does the trick.
Heatwave as my secondary and grabbing reloads between phases.

wierd i just walked around a corner and shot weapons at him until he died.
there were definetly harder bosses than that.
how did you manage to do the one with the 2 brutes (the one with the guy in the chopper and the one with the big mortar cannon thingy)?

hyperius and his brother were cheesable because the game wanted you to use cover and cheese them. Escheron wasnt cheesable because the game wanted you to point blank dodge either a scrap cannon that was stronger than other scrap cannons, then his gravity hammer, which what made it hard was Escheron instant killing on the fastest melee swing i ever saw (he would literally do a spongebob "wanna see me swing? wanna see me do it again?")

or his infamous jump across the entire boss fight stage and instant kill again. you can use boosters to dodge his jump at you but he more than likely will immediately do it again.. get your spartan cores? dodge again.. now youre waiting for cool down and guess whos gonna jump again... there are also moments where i grapple hooked, then swapped to thrusters, thrusted away (and turned invisible), thrusted away, (and turned invisible) and then he will jump and cover the entire length of that distance before i can even turn around. the AI on legendary doesnt chase you on corners you just ran behind. it will instead go the angle youre running. so if you used a left corner and desided to run out its right, ai will immediately run for the right side... its the worst and hardest boss fight in the game.

[Rai]

Bro lmao I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ felt your pain so hard I legit thought I would be done after Escherum but NOPE!!! Legendary boss fights are definitely rough (I remember Tarturus being actually stupid in Halo 2). I was so heartbroken when I realized there was more afterwards (but glad because, y'know, more Halo)

The last one was definitely easier than him by a mile. Just spammed cindershot until the final phase, where I literally got her against the wall and just smashed the ♥♥♥♥ out of her over and over with a hammer I picked up off of the 'mini-escherum' lmao

[Rai]

Originally posted by Waffles:

The legendary fight with main brute guy was absolute cancer lol.
I had to spam grapple AND thruster to keep distance from his bs jump attack.
It was not a fun boss fight at all.

The final boss though is easier imo. Sentinel beam like the other guy said does the trick.
Heatwave as my secondary and grabbing reloads between phases.

YES DUDE!! I realized the only way I was gonna beat him was by using grapple + thruster, couldn't use just one or the other. You summed it up perfectly.

But ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ did that feel like an accomplishment lol.

[DOOM Maternal]

If you are complaining about the arena being too small you haven't mastered movement with the grapple. Grabble, hop as you hit the ground, then crouch as you land again. Beat the fight first try on heroic but died many times throughout the campaign. like most fights its just kite and move, kite and move.

[Madoka Magi]

The fight wasn't that bad though? were you using your abilities? dodging around the walls in circles until the grav hammer came out and then i just grapple slid across the room and just shot at him?? it was kinda underwhelming tbh? took 1 try to see his moveset and the next try to beat him since he only has two phases that barely change mechanics.

[Red Phantom]

You have to get close to her and hit her with a sword or gravity hammer. That makes it significantly easier and faster.