ED-209 What the hell

[PrimalByte]

The level of power you need to defeat ED-209 is insane. From punks to ED, that's a step up too far too soon. Robo gets stuck on everything and ED's rocket just finish me, no cover.
15 times tonight. Throwing everything at it collected and used all the health. Need to move faster and duck like in the 8bit and 16bit versions.

[PrimalByte]

Finally did it. Yeah.... Not by throwing stuff at it. Figured my Robo was too slow. Almost stops while reloading. So I hid beside that indestructible fragile 50kg I mentioned and just shot off a round when I could. Recharges health once. Took 25mins. It didn't even get to fire one rocket. God bless those boxes.

[PrimalByte]

Originally posted by recursor:

There's a machinegun tucked under the bar. Grabbing it should make quick work of the whole fight. If anything, ED209 will be the one toasted in 30 seconds. You can see it's location here (grabbed after the first runs dry):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VemiHQVlD34

Mine was like War and Peace. :) lol

[PostNutClarity]

It's a ranged trash mob, you have to LOS. He does take a lot of damage though.

[Steel Panther]

Took me a few tries and I'm playing though hard on my first playthrough, but the entire environment is set up for you to use as cover and damage, Dropping the girders on his head does a lot of damage, and blow the cars up when he's next to them, use the machine gun under the bar and the Barrett anti-Material rifle by the desk, and shoot for the mouthpiece.

He'll get around the cover you use so you have to move, if you are far away he'll use the rockets but those are easily dodged, just keep moving. If you aren't in cover, then move. Don't iron sight if you aren't in cover. The map is covered with Recovery charges too. Don't pick up explosives to throw if he's firing cause he'll just set those off in your face with his constant fire.

I was both looking forward to and dreading this fight, and it didn't disappoint.

To whoever said the PCB boards are hard, I hope you are like 6 or otherwise that's a serious condemnation of your education system.

[Dredj]

Did it first try on Extreme, just use line of with with the tall crate.

[PostNutClarity]

Originally posted by Dredj:

Did it first try on Extreme, just use line of with with the tall crate.

^

[Jazman2k]

Get behind the van.

[Jadax2]

Shield is on a pretty short cooldown. I used it for the rocket barrage if I was out of place. Otherwise, just shot at the weak spot and threw some explosives if they were conveniently enough placed.
Most frustrating thing about the fight to me was the insane screen shaking.

[Jeron]

Keep your distance, run in circles around him with as much distance as you can.
He doesn't hit you much when you run sideways, so don't run straight away from him.
When he charges his missiles with the red laser is the best time to unload on his weak spot, make sure you run away sideways before he fires the missiles, none will hit you.
There's a heavy sniper rifle and machine gun you can pick up, they do good dmg.

[Chavasse]

You can hide behind the van near the sniper rifle. ED 209 will stay on the other side..you can find a sweet spot where it can't hit you, but you can fire over the top of the van into it's grill..takes a while, but it works.

[Kavabingo]

Get close to him and shoot point-blank in his mouth. His chicken stomp will not kill you strait away and you will be able to auto-regen it between stomps (you also can run from him when he starts his stomp animation to mitigate damage). This tactic makes ED-209 really easy to beat.

[Cueshark]

There's a couple of health regens and a couple of machine guns. There's tonnes of barrels and explosives. I found the space bar power slide thing is great to keep moving up and down the play area, keep him guessing while you hide round corners and hit him.

Start by throwing the explosive barrels. There's loads and they take tonnes of damage. Then go for the weak spot in the centre of his head and you'll get critical hits.

Keep power sliding up and down, hiding behind the pillars and hitting him as he's trying to re-aim.

There's also an area on the far side with another health regen and more places to shoot from.

Use all your skill point and the best pcb board to maximise on your shot power.

[Pigpen]

Pick up the sniper rifle and the machine gun and unload them into his weak spot, those will have ED down to about 1/4 health in short order. Did it on my 2nd go.

[Sparhawk122]

I camped behind the van. And just kept peppering it where it could not get a clear shot at me. So essentially I had to cheese that section to pass it.

[Dan_The_Noob]

just did this fight on Extreme, the whole game has been a nice pace and some parts even easy... then this boss was complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
half the time he takes no damage for no reason, he will stop behind pillars but still fire both guns because they stick out the side of the pillar.

i ended up just grabbing the dumpsters in the left corner (left from starting direction)
and bouncing them off his feet til he died.