Dracula... Yeah no.

[Mephistoau]

88 hrs in the game, loved fighting all the bosses and then.... Dracula. Why do games always make the final boss such a ♥♥♥♥ fight? After all the fighting, all the grinding for material and gear.... I just can't be bothered bashing my head against a wall over the last boss. He broke me. And yeah, I'm sure some people love it, I just can't be bothered with the insane difficulty spike, especially after the first born fight.

Anyway, great game, I just can't anymore. For those that stuck it out and killed him... Kudos to you.

[theworld]

Bro, they've already nerfed him in yesterday's patch for people like you...

[battl3hamm3r]

Is he that difficult on Normal, or you're playing on brutal?

[Tyo_ma]

Originally posted by Mephistoau:

88 hrs in the game, loved fighting all the bosses and then.... Dracula. Why do games always make the final boss such a ♥♥♥♥ fight? After all the fighting, all the grinding for material and gear.... I just can't be bothered bashing my head against a wall over the last boss. He broke me. And yeah, I'm sure some people love it, I just can't be bothered with the insane difficulty spike, especially after the first born fight.

Anyway, great game, I just can't anymore. For those that stuck it out and killed him... Kudos to you.

well, its a final boss for a reason and a great barrier for normies

[LeftPaw]

For me there are a few really daft things in the game and Drac as being the end boss is one of them. Still a top game though.

[Toutius Sextius]

git gud

[Cactus]

I see two actual comments and everyone else just being snarky. Nice to see the community for this game is just as juvenile as all games end up being.

I'm sorry you didnt like the end boss. Sometimes it can be worth while to stick it out until you succeed. But if it's just not for you and you dont want to do that for whatever reason then thats fine to. If a boss isnt fun theres no reason to fight it or play the game further. Its a video game. Spend your time on something you do like, because this doesnt matter for anything, at all.

[D`Sparil]

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

For me there are a few really daft things in the game and Drac as being the end boss is one of them. Still a top game though.

I mean, he is THE vampire. Why wouldn't he be the last boss?

[Murdok]

This boss is nightmare. One small mistake and you must restart the encounter. Yesterday was fighting him for 2 hours, today for 1hour. FInaly killed him :D

[PSA]

They really need to nerf Dracula to bring him in line with the rest of the bosses. Having difficulty bosses is fine, but there needs to be a difficulty curve, not a difficulty wall.
He is too difficult compared to all the other bosses in the game.

[|||克莱斯塔Kresta♥]

Dracula is a really good encounter.

It's ok to struggle against him. Try to learn all his pattern, everything is readable. If you get hit you can only blame yourself. That's what makes the fight a beautiful one. But i do agree, if you do a mistake, especially on the sword waving attack you're almost certainly due for a rego

[Evilsod]

The jump from everything else to Adam and Dracula was pretty extreme, even in Normal.

Barely any of the bosses took more than one attempt, and if they did it usually a major misplay from myself. Then you reach the shard bearers, and even there, Solarius and Winged Horror are pushovers by comparison.

[Cruiser]

Hes way more fair than for example Adam. Sure I did need more time to beat him but unlike Adam every time I died i felt like I died due to mistake on my part. Each try was a learning experience until the point I was able to almost flawlessly execute the proper counters to his moves and kill him. Adam fight on the other hand had multiple moments where I felt I got rekt by some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nigh-impossible to react in time due to how many things you have to pay attention to, not to mention unconsistent hitboxes of his moves

All in all I just wanted to add that I found Dracula actually the BEST boss fight in the game, polished and well thought out mechanics and I never felt I was killed by some random ♥♥♥♥. I played on Brutal.

[Zentun]

I find Adam way harder than Dracula, played on normal and it was a good run.

[Kitten]

Originally posted by Brodih:

Is he that difficult on Normal, or you're playing on brutal?

He actually kind of is. Completely overtuned for 0 reason at all when you play duo, compared to how casual the rest of the game is on normal setting.

I played duo with my boyfriend and the whole game was a pretty easy and fun experience with most bosses dying first try. Adam was a bit of a challenge but nowhere close to Dracula. In duo he's not hard at all as long as 1 person is keeping aggro and the other focuses the conduits. Took us about 3-4 tries to kill him.

And then we came to Dracula's Castle. And it was 3 hours of trying, dying, going back to base to repair and restock, and dying all over again. I'm not that good at the game so it wasn't fun for me at all, and I realised pretty quickly that I won't be able to defeat that boss, and I didn't want to try. And it's the only boss in V Rising that made me feel so completely hopeless and a burden to my bf The vampiric curses and the stupid wolves that kite every single thing you shoot at them were getting on my nerves. I can't be too precise with my actions and while I can sort of maintain concentration, I fumble very easily, so it was frustrating to just flush a good run in a matter of like 10 seconds. Plus, at least in other fights when you die you can at least run back and rejoin the fight, but here if i died it was several minutes of spectating boredom each time as I watched my bf learn the fight until he ran out of health.

My bf ended up killing the boss alone so I didn't get the kill. I did a couple tries on my own and it was A LOT easier solo without the curses and the adds, I think i could kill him but tbh I gave up bc he's the last boss and there's nothing else left to do in the game anyway (from pve co-op pov). And having my bf sit with the game on and do literally nothing while I try to finish Dracula alone doesn't really sound like a tempting idea. So... overall Dracula kinda soured the ending of this otherwise enjoyable game for me.

I think this fight (on a NORMAL difficulty) would benefit from a sort of "hardmode toggle" mechanic, where you could have a choice between "normal mode" - fighting him as duo or group but with his solo mechanics, or "hardmode" - that would add the adds and the vampiric curse. I think the Dracula fight with solo mechanics is in line with the rest of the game on normal difficulty and provides enough challenge as the final boss. As they are right now, the additional mechanics for "groups" seem way too brutal when nothing in the game before even remotely matches the challenge. Maybe the hardmode could also give some additional rewards, idk.

Upd: We tried again together to get me a kill on Dracula today and we did it. And I even survived the entire time. And even landed the last hit. Was pretty satisfying.

[Chaos]

Wait, you get pass Adam but complain about Dracula?
Really?

Dracula is actually a fair boss fight, unlike Adam where it's just a cheesefest.