Whoever designed the Klaus fight needs to get fired

[MadRooster]

seriously who the ♥♥♥♥ designed this fight?

[MarinaPacific]

Originally posted by Jhaeme:

How are you even able to play??? I can't get off the boat. I'm still at the big blue hole or wtf ever it's called, trying to just DIVE with an annoying, ringing pink arrow and a huge yellow space key that does nothing. Talk about rage-quitting. Can I still call it that if I didn't even get to play? I should have known when it took forever to install and download; that was new.

If this isn't a bug... yeah, try spacebar and WASD to move to the back of the boat.

[NexAngelus *X*]

sooo u passed the shrimp but got stuck on this? weird

[Accelerator]

It's a lot better if they make the weapon box only drop sniper rifle. I just go suicide mode when I see other weapon appeared from the box

[Nigrescence]

Originally posted by Skeith:

I barely remember this fight. Snipe, snipe, snipe, snipe, reload, snipe, snipe, done. I think he mighta hit me like twice?

This, basically.

[xenoonex369]

Beat it second try, Its you not the game.

[Catherina]

i just killed Klaus now, so i found the fight much easier with a sniper, i used the poison sniper that is, also it would be wise to search for oxygen capsules before going into the vortex, carry with you x2 oxygen capsules then go in with a sniper and you get it easily.

[Rhaane]

This was the 1st boss to best me and I found him pretty annoying if he ever got close to me. Granted I came in very ill prepared with a tranq shotgun for droning the night sharks.

Tip - when you die and restart the fight the weapon chest in the bottom of the arena can have different stuff each reload. Once it was an upgrade mod to my gun, another round it was a sniper rifle. Maybe will help to get thru it.

[[CBS] Kong]

Just skipped it until i had the Level 2 Fire Sniper rifle.

[Tiddalik]

I skipped this about half a dozen times until I made a lvl3 basic gun. I checked for box upgrades but no dice, swam around and scored one air tank in the yellow boxes but that's the only helpful thing i found in the boxes, thought I'll give this fight a go since it has a bail button in this fight (if you die you are given the option to bail out, unlike some other boss fights) and turns out it's not that bad of a fight. I was convinced it was busted from all the posts about this boss so maybe it's been patched? but for me Klaus just acted like the tiger shark in a lot of way (minus the tornado stage of the fight) and so I hovered around the ammo box, blasted Klaus, used the air tank, grabbed the ammo refill, fired again, tornado stage happened, fired the rest of my shots, he got too close so I used my knife freaking out as my air was plummeting but a couple of swipes of my knife granny showed up and the fight was done.

For those worried, plan ahead, craft some guns, swim around in case you get lucky with upgrades from boxes and just give it a go since you have the option to bail out of this fight if it's too much. Practice on tiger sharks and thresher sharks to get your shark killing confidence up.

[the_tadosaur]

Just found there actually is a game mechanic to beat Klaus. Basically you have to stay far away (enough so only his head comes onto the edge of the screen). If you do that he always uses the charge attack, which you can dodge with the dash ability and then shoot him before swimming off to a distance again. Just killed him using this method and I only got hit about once.

I think this is why most people that used sniper rifles seem to have had less of an issue killing him, as they didn't get close as often. If you get close, you're toast!

Hope this helps someone! :)

[Princessa DBC]

harpoon, basic riffle and laser gun, was able to beat klaus in 3 minutes, but of course, after 10 tries haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJ9Ivr2RV8

[Cakey]

Took me a few tries, but take your time to learn his movesets and then he's not that bad. Still the hardest boss in the game. I liked that there was at least one, and it was a great white.

[Catherina]

Originally posted by Cakey:

Took me a few tries, but take your time to learn his movesets and then he's not that bad. Still the hardest boss in the game. I liked that there was at least one, and it was a great white.

yeah that one was annoying, but a sniper from long range does the job, also having oxygen capsules with you in the slots is even more helpful in that fight as well if he ends up hitting you somehow.

[Ironscale]

Yeah, this fight is very unusual compared to the others.
For the most part, bosses in this game seem to be built with the principle that you have some space to mess up, and that you can beat them only with what's available in the boss room, as long as you're paying any attention at all. Not so with this one. You're kind of boned if you don't bring in consumables and/or an upgraded gun. There's basically no space for errors, and you need to get lucky on top of that.

The best advice I can give is similar to what tadosaur said above:
- Try to bait the charge attack by staying far away, since it's the only reliably dodgeable and punishable move he has.
- Once he charges, swim under him and get behind him. You want him to do the animation where he turns around in place - If he just rotates around to track you, there is a large risk of taking contact damage, and you can't make distance as effectively since he will launch his next attack sooner.
- If you're stuck using a gun that isn't the sniper rifle, only shoot at him when he's stuck in an animation and you're certain that you have time to make distance. If you're unsure, just use the time to swim away and bait the next charge. With the underwater rifle, you can just barely hit him at max range, and he'll still be far enough away that he'll charge you relatively consistently.
- If you have the dash charm or a scooter, you can get away with some risky plays. If you're stuck with baseline dashing, you need to be near flawless with your movement.
- Once he starts swimming to one end of the chamber to do the vortex attack, get some hits in if you're well positioned to do so, or just make distance/gather supplies/health if you're not.
- Note that in the vortex attack, the first vortex always hits the top line of the chamber, while the second one is aimed at your position. So stay low, and you'll only really need to worry about two out of four. In phase 2, they're all aimed at you.
- Sometimes, his AI breaks if you're at the bottom of the chamber, especially if you're inside any of the objects on the floor. It's not very consistent, but if you get it, he'll move toward you very slowly without attacking, and it's essentially a chance to get free hits on him. But, you'll have nowhere to go once he does get close, so it's best if you have some health to tank hits with, or you can do enough damage to get him to transition phases or go into the vortex attack.
- You can spawn in extra ammo pickups by baiting him into breaking the objects on the floor.

[FREAKZ]

Did he get nerfed? I just first timed him with the lvl 1 Sniper. You just have to stay on max range so he cant reach you.