ED209 Fight

[Sverd]

Surprised no one is talking about how this fight sucks and is horrible. You trudge like a fridge around while this gargantuan bullet sponge takes 30% of your health in one second, and then near the end starts firing missiles that go around your flimsy, awful cover. And also it regularly shoots the explosive barrels you need to pick up to do any damage out of your hand which instantly kills you. An astoundingly poorly designed and unfun fight.

I should add that I personally fired the entire sniper rifle, an entire combat shotgun and both full assault rifles, along with 150 rounds of auto9, and threw probably 12 barrels at it, and it still had about 20% health left as I ran like a madman to the next cover spot at 5% health. I only survived because it blew itself up with its missiles hitting the cover pillar in the way like an idiot.

[Spacedog79]

Were you hitting its weak spot on its head?

[Maniac4Fun]

True, his energy is draining too slowly. I stood behind the black van, so that Ed was shooting at it and I could see the top of his head. After about six minutes he died...

[John Crossbow]

On the attempt I beat him, about 2/3 through the fight he got all electrified like he'd been hit with an EMP, and could then only shoot me with a single machine gun burst about once every 60 seconds or so. I'm pretty sure this was a bug, but I guess there's a chance I did something to disable him. His health drained SUPER slowly after that though, like it took me 10 solid minutes to take off the remaining 1/3 health, even with solely shooting his weak spot. Weird fight.

[Sverd]

Originally posted by Spacedog79:

Were you hitting its weak spot on its head?

Yes. I think the fight might be literally impossible if you don't. At very least you'd need to use all the AR ammo + all the sniper ammo + like 500 rounds of auto9 even if you land all the explosive barrels. And I only play on normal.

[matthew]

Took me many attempts to do this fight. You haven't got cover, and bullets can hit you through what little cover you have. Not a good fight, and I also played on normal.

[zorba2030]

Beat him on extreme. Just go in close range fight so he didn't use missles.

[SheaDy]

First encounter was really rough. I had to cheese my way thru the fight because I outputted crappy damage. Must've taken 20-30 mags from the Auto-9 to take him down.

Here's a hint, dumpsters can be carried and used as cover (while being carried).

The rest of the encounters aren't too bad, you get decent throwables and weapons to use against ED.

I played on extreme, I had to restart 5-10 times before I realized running and gunning against ED don't work to well unless you got space to work with.

[LawDog]

♥♥♥♥ barrels i wanna throw some stairs at him.

I think the fight is fine. I mean without doing something restricted and scripted it's pretty much what you would expect.

Maybe throw in some cat and mouse gameplay that allow you to break line of sight with ED
for a moment so you can launch a surprise attack that would been a bit more fun. I loved that you had to compete with him prior to the fight. That was a pleasant surprise.

[{SVK}Puškin]

Yeah, way too many HP. I was hiding in cover most of the time.

[lauruswolfe]

Would be nice if they implemented more damage by region like destroy a gun hand and it knocks down total health by 1/4 or something rather than just that one weak spot.

[Shrinkshooter]

I fought it on Hard difficulty and I only needed to retry once. I didn't have any points in combat or vitality, and only had a few in armor.

Throwing the barrels and hitting the weakspot did large enough chunks of damage, although the fight did drag on a little bit.

[Sicilian]

Auto-9 with the PCB 3.3, which have auto-feed for bullets. Once I switched to it - the battle instantly became easy.

[Idiot Space Fish]

On the second encounter (technically the third, I'm not counting the second one in the streets where they just give you the Cobra cannon lmao) I managed to get the AI stuck by going into the upstairs office and just pelted him with bullets lol

[Offline]

Shooting it with your auto-9 is a mistake. Trowhing barrels, using the sniper and the MG on the weakspot and also use the traps on the ceiling makes it much easier. The traps on top actually take away like 30% of its health

[NLxAROSA]

I like how folks are talking about 'the' ED-209 fight.

Because, you know, there's quite a few more like this, and then the boss fight. ROFLMAO