Red Reaper bug?

[lucky_one 🍀]

So I intended to farm the Read Reaper for some umbral scourings since I wanted to get some armor pieces, but every time the Reaper would just go into the floor and spawn FULL HEALTH. Is this intended? Is there something new I am missing? Because I "killed" it 3 times in a row with it just going under the floor and regaining all his health.

[Baron01]

Scarlet Shadow, aka Red Reaper, is currently bugged as it can heal seemingly random.

I would suggest the following:
1. Pick a spot where there is enough free room to move around to prevent Reaper getting stuck and forced to reset (this will heal it)
2. Try to avoid targetting, ie. locking on, other targets than Reaper.
3. Do not disengage from the fight for too long, try to hit it reqularly to keep your aggro.

I was able to kill Scarlet Shadow 6 times in a row yesterday during my testing run after the patch was deployed. I also killed him few times today when I spent too much time in Umbral. I'm strong enough to kill it relatively fast in NG+1 so that might help me. The fight usually does not take longer than 2 minutes at maximum.

[DickyDiscord]

You might be too close to a vestige or a safe zone. Had that happen in a few areas too, though you'll know if it's a safezone as everything from the Umbral despawns. Haven't had it happen randomly outside of that, which isn't actually random in my cases. Safe zones seem to be near those things that get you out of the Unbral without resting. Don't know what they're called. Some areas it doesn't seem to be regaining health either, though I haven't bothered playing with its AI that much since the last patch.

[Baron01]

Originally posted by DickyDiscord:

You might be too close to a vestige or a safe zone. Had that happen in a few areas too, though you'll know if it's a safezone as everything from the Umbral despawns. Haven't had it happen randomly outside of that, which isn't actually random in my cases. Safe zones seem to be near those things that get you out of the Unbral without resting. Don't know what they're called. Some areas it doesn't seem to be regaining health either, though I haven't bothered playing with its AI that much since the last patch.

Scarlet Shadow healing can happen in perfectly open space with no shrines or emergency vestiges in sight. This issue was introduced by the latest patch where the developers adjusted Reaper's attack patterns and made him submerge very often. Something went wrong in the patch as the reaper can lose aggro and heal to max.

I'm aware of the healing when moving to a vestige but this issue is definitely not the case now.

[DickyDiscord]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Scarlet Shadow healing can happen in perfectly open space with no shrines or emergency vestiges in sight. This issue was introduced by the latest patch where the developers adjusted Reaper's attack patterns and made him submerge very often. Something went wrong in the patch as the reaper can lose aggro and heal to max.

I'm aware of the healing when moving to a vestige but this issue is definitely not the case now.

Got yah. That's annoying if its happening a lot. Are there particular areas it's happening? I haven't been farming much lately, so maybe just not noticing it. Helps to be able to make it happen sometimes. Just to document a cause. Unless the devs are already aware of the cause.

[DickyDiscord]

Originally posted by Baron01:

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Ignore that comment. Someone just posted what I was on about.

[Baron01]

I do not think this is related to specific area. I was farming Scarlet Shadow a lot as part of vigor farming in Umbral near Adyr's shrine before moving to NG+1. I never had this issue before this patch was deployed but it happened to me several times when testing it there on NG+1.

[lucky_one 🍀]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Scarlet Shadow, aka Red Reaper, is currently bugged as it can heal seemingly random.

I would suggest the following:
1. Pick a spot where there is enough free room to move around to prevent Reaper getting stuck and forced to reset (this will heal it)
2. Try to avoid targetting, ie. locking on, other targets than Reaper.
3. Do not disengage from the fight for too long, try to hit it reqularly to keep your aggro.

I was able to kill Scarlet Shadow 6 times in a row yesterday during my testing run after the patch was deployed. I also killed him few times today when I spent too much time in Umbral. I'm strong enough to kill it relatively fast in NG+1 so that might help me. The fight usually does not take longer than 2 minutes at maximum.

Gotcha, let's hope they fix it soon. I can kill it but sometimes it refuses to fight and just regain all of his health. Suck to be low on umbral scourings right now. Anyway, thanks for the clarification

[cbetguy]

I am just trying to get the stupid Umbral Eye it drops, can't now, it won't die! The only thing I see that I might be doing wrong according to Baron01 is that I might be accidentally locking on to other enemies during the fight. I really hope the devs see this and fix this otherwise the platinum trophy is out of reach for me.

[Tempura Knight]

Originally posted by lucky_one:

Originally posted by Baron01:

Scarlet Shadow, aka Red Reaper, is currently bugged as it can heal seemingly random.

I would suggest the following:
1. Pick a spot where there is enough free room to move around to prevent Reaper getting stuck and forced to reset (this will heal it)
2. Try to avoid targetting, ie. locking on, other targets than Reaper.
3. Do not disengage from the fight for too long, try to hit it reqularly to keep your aggro.

I was able to kill Scarlet Shadow 6 times in a row yesterday during my testing run after the patch was deployed. I also killed him few times today when I spent too much time in Umbral. I'm strong enough to kill it relatively fast in NG+1 so that might help me. The fight usually does not take longer than 2 minutes at maximum.

Gotcha, let's hope they fix it soon. I can kill it but sometimes it refuses to fight and just regain all of his health. Suck to be low on umbral scourings right now. Anyway, thanks for the clarification :er_heart:

A developer chimed in on the most recent patch and said that it should be fixed now, but I haven't confirmed it myself yet.

[Rubyeyed]

Dev responded to my whining about SS under the recent patch notes and said it is supposedly fixed now. Even though it wasn't in the patchnotes.

[Tempura Knight]

Originally posted by Rubyeyed:

Dev responded to my whining about SS under the recent patch notes and said it is supposedly fixed now. Even though it wasn't in the patchnotes.

I kind of appreciate that you call it "whining", not in a negative or derogatory way

[lucky_one 🍀]

Thanks for the news guys, I will be checking it tonight.

[lucky_one 🍀]

Yep, it's fixed. Time to farm bois