ED 209 cheese

[motojauntx]

I’m loving this game but was a bit disappointed in the ED 209 fight (also RIP Officer Mason).

I went into this game blind and focused my level ups on Deduction and Focus. By the time i got to the ED 209 fight (still pretty early in the game BTW), i hadn’t expected such a stand up brawl against a smart tank that had me completely outgunned. Not that he wasn’t easy to defeat -thank heavens for that vibranium van just absorbing 10,000 rounds of ammo while i picked away at Ed’s cranium, but it pretty much wrecked the immersion to cheese such an iconic foe.
I feel like the gameplay narrative would have been better serviced by (dare I say it?) a quick time event, or maybe a “stairs trap”. Robocop never really stood up face to face against the ED 209 in the movies (except when he 3 shot-killed him with a sniper rifle at point blank range…also over the top of a vehicle. Even when fighting robot Cain, he had to distract him with nuke to get the drop, so whizzing through thousands of rounds with an indestructible piece of cover to hide behind was anti-climactic.

[raneko]

After dieing a dozen times to Erectile Dysfunction 209 and sneaking in a heavy machine-gun dropping a ton scrap on him. tossing mines at him. I was more then happy to cheese it. after all Eddie is supposed to be dumber then box of rocks.

[hnom123]

For me, the first fight with him was the most difficult in the game. Anyway, this is the most difficult opponent. I was just getting close, trying to spin him and shooting in his back. But even that was exhausting.

I would like to see ED as a playable character. Or a separate game about him.

[Very_Unoriginal]

agree, the ED209 fight was the most frustrating between the controls and robo's strolling around and unable to pick his feet more than 2 inches up so had to keep getting unstuck from ground trash.
The garbage 'trap the player in a box with big baddie, and obviously all doorknobs become alien technology' trope is just sad at this point.

[Ulvhamne]

All the boss fights were horrible bullet sponges without anything interesting to them, ED-209 in particular. And like OP I did not have a fighter skill picked. Still not hard, just boring slog of tossing peas at him.
And I cheesed him by standing behind the wood crate and just shooting over the top of the crate, ED-209 couldn't hit me while I was behind it. And then we get the same boring fight again.
And the end boss is deeply disappointing.

[spicy little monkey]

I wonder if the developers ever play tested it

[soopytwist]

I hid behind an indestructible box with only 20% health, no recharges and just the Auto 9. What p*sses me off the most is your're supposed to shoot the face plate as the weak spot but shooting that did f'k all so I concentrated on the gun arms instead.

ED's health car is too big, even reducing it down to nothing he's still going.

Stupid lazy-ass boss fight.

[Black Hole]

Why does everyone want to necro threads that no longer active for months?

[Tiny Trees]

Originally posted by soopytwist:

I hid behind an indestructible box with only 20% health, no recharges and just the Auto 9. What p*sses me off the most is your're supposed to shoot the face plate as the weak spot but shooting that did f'k all so I concentrated on the gun arms instead.

ED's health car is too big, even reducing it down to nothing he's still going.

Stupid lazy-ass boss fight.

I used the boxes too. Luckily I found them on my first try. .... Would have been toast without them. The ED 209 did way too much damage and Robocop did too little damage.

[CalicoJack]

The bossfights were in general just soooooo bad!