The Blinding Valkyrie Attack is severely bugged on GMGOW?

[Lord Nikon]

You can't do anything against the attack where the Valkyrie flys up and Blinds on this difficulty for some reason, unless there's something very obvious I'm missing? I've tried Atreus arrows, and Axe Throws and even the Blade throw, nothing seems to stop it. Is this actually intended? Because that seems like a completely indefensible decision.

[Lord Nikon]

Originally posted by AR2R:

Quick turn

I'm not sure, I understand what you mean. Like do you just turn around during the attack? This super sounds like a bug.

[Paddy O'Furniture]

Wait, axe throw doesn't work against blinding attack on GMGOW?

[Rodrigoofb]

Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:

Wait, axe throw doesn't work against blinding attack on GMGOW?

Nope, only way to avoid that is to turn your back to her. It seems crazy to do that in a boss fight but it actually makes sense, she can't blind you if you can't see her haha.

[Paddy O'Furniture]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Tyler]

Makes sense. I've played numerous games where looking away is a strat for avoiding blinding mechanics.

[Paddy O'Furniture]

I know but it's such a cancerous mechanic in this game. Well timed axe throws to negate its impact seemed like a decent compromise on Give Me a Challenge, but now I can't even do that, what the hel.

[Ven]

Originally posted by GenerallyTyler:

Makes sense. I've played numerous games where looking away is a strat for avoiding blinding mechanics.

1000 hours on CSGO and this never occurred to me....

[JohnTravoltage]

The aerial attack you can definitely interrupt with axe throws, I've only been playing on gmgow and been doing this the entire time. What is painful is the ground blind attack where it seems like you need to dodge + turn around or something. I can't seem to avoid it by just dodging far away, at the same time I still get hurt when its offscreen sometimes too.

Really hard to tell how some attacks are intended to be dodged, especially with some of the tracking/hitboxes. ♥♥♥♥ like the wulver red attacks, reavers, valkyrie double wing swipes feel like a complete gamble, where if you successfully dodge the attack backwards because they were out of place, they just slide forwards to hit you.

[Lord Nikon]

Originally posted by JohnTravoltage:

The aerial attack you can definitely interrupt with axe throws, I've only been playing on gmgow and been doing this the entire time. What is painful is the ground blind attack where it seems like you need to dodge + turn around or something. I can't seem to avoid it by just dodging far away, at the same time I still get hurt when its offscreen sometimes too.

Really hard to tell how some attacks are intended to be dodged, especially with some of the tracking/hitboxes. ♥♥♥♥ like the wulver red attacks, reavers, valkyrie double wing swipes feel like a complete gamble, where if you successfully dodge the attack backwards because they were out of place, they just slide forwards to hit you.

There is a Flying Blind Attack that you can interrupt with the Axe, it's the one that she uses the Staff for, but that's Sigrun and Euiur, I'm talking about the one where she doesn't use the staff while in the air, I was fighting Geirdriful at the time, maybe it works differently for the others, I don't know yet. From my own experience, the blind attack that she does on the ground with the staff where she attacks twice in a row can be dodged by on the first attack, moving back and rolling away from her, and the second attack you roll to the right for.

[Lord Nikon]

Originally posted by AR2R:

She can't blind you if you don't look at her. There's a button just for that

Also just for the record, this did actually work, but I am utterly baffled as to why the ♥♥♥♥ this is a thing at all when the game makes zero indication that this would ever work or that this even a mechanic in the game at all. But the help is still appreciated.