Klaus the Shark

[Phae]

Why is Klaus the Shark one of the hardest bosses in gaming history?

Most Dark Souls bosses are easier than this!

Your movement is so terribly limited, unless you have a scooter, which is limited. Klaus loves hanging out inside of your hitbox. He is infinitely faster than you, and most of his attacks auto track and seem guaranteed to hit.

I'm not asking a "how" to beat him, because I know I need bombs or some other items which I can only find by the grace of luck. I'm wondering why he/they are designed to be so brutally difficult? It's very strange and out of place in this fun calm game.

[Honorable_D]

So, I beat him on my first try but I might have gotten lucky on pre-fight prep.

What I did was swim around the entire night dive area looting things. I ended up with 2 of the spare 50% oxygen tanks and found 3 weapon upgrade kits for my Underwater Rifle that I had already upgraded to the version before the final Death Rifle. With the 3 upgrade kits I wanna say my rifle was hitting for 70ish damage a pop? Can't remember exactly.

I just unloaded all 10 shots into him and used 1 of the 50% oxygen healers. The fight has an ammo restore pickup so I grabbed that and unloaded more shots into him and he died. Fight was over super quick and I didn't really do much dodging.

[almost_smart]

Can't say that i found this fight hard at all really.
Beat it second try.

First time i checked out what he does mostly, and second time i picked up a gun inside the arena and defeated him with damage from said gun only.

Would have been nice though, to have an option to upgrade Dave's swimming speed.
The game is beatable without it, but it would have made some fights feel more entertaining as well as speeding up grinding for missing fish roe.

Edit:
In regards to why some fights are the way the are: you are playing a human being, an animal designed to dwell and thrive on land, who is engaging an aquatic animal in it's home environment, where it's species has lived for hundreds/thousands/millions of years (and in this case an apex predator no less).
I would assume this is why he is designed this way.

[Honorable_D]

Does the Dolphin Charm +30% dash speed not work for you? By late game you'll have your O2 upgraded to high capacity and it becomes viable to simply hold down the sprint and with the Dolphin Charm it's fairly fast.

[awanderingswordsman]

I beat it third try but I also found some of his attacks even with the dolphin charm just undodgeable. The time I won felt like luck and outstatting it. I need to watch like a challenge run of it or something to see how you are even supposed to avoid what he does. Tried swimming away from him, he is faster, tried swimming to the sides, he tracks too much. The game gives you so little options that when they don't work you just feel at a complete loss. The thing is, sometimes his bite missed and I have no idea what I did different those times. I had a similar issue with the goblin shark but bursted him down before he could chew through my health first try and mako sharks in general just seem to sometimes decide to hit you and it feels like I have no say.

[almost_smart]

Got that charm equipped all the time and the oxygen tank at level 9, but having to start in the shallows, looking for sailfish; marlin, thresher sharks and shortfin mako and then heading down to the hypothermal vents for falcata sharks, as well as the dunkleosteus still takes a good bit of time.

But that's totally on me. My own fault for doing it this way.

Yet, the boss fight in the vents, the one directly after John Watson, was a bit frustrating to do, even with the charm equipped.
Didn't take that many attempts, but it wasn't quite fun with the movement speed provided.

[MagicHp]

As explained in several other identical threads, sniper rifle.
The max damage one will kill Klaus in 5-6 shots depending on your charms, you can kill it before it even attacks...

Also stop using that useless "Dash charm" , +15% gun or harpoon damage is better in every situation.

Originally posted by Phae:

Why is Klaus the Shark one of the hardest bosses in gaming history?

Most Dark Souls bosses are easier than this!

No, just no.
I see comments like that everywhere in this forum, I know common sense is a thing of the past, but come on...
Killing Klaus only using melee is hard. Killing Klaus with a Sniper rifle takes 15 seconds and no skill.

[TyresTyco]

He is not good designed. You can't dodge him at all. It's a dps race. Did him first try but only because of my highly upgraded sniper rifle. Without that... it surely would been a nightmare.

[awanderingswordsman]

The dash charm is way better 99% of the time because you have to swim everywhere. Most enemies and bosses in the game don't require any kind of setup and can be quickly beaten with skill alone.

[AquaX]

Originally posted by MagicHp:

I see comments like that everywhere in this forum, I know common sense is a thing of the past, but come on...
Killing Klaus only using melee is hard. Killing Klaus with a Sniper rifle takes 15 seconds and no skill.

Pretty much this. The instant I found out the sniper had insane dmg and long range, all other weps in the killing department become worthless. You can literally shoot a target that is on the edge of your screen w/ it.

Every boss encounter that allowed me to use that gun turned to a joke. Mantis shrimp, I was exchanging blows and won. Helicoprion, I just ran as close as I needed and killed it w/o playing the mechanics w/ Suwan. Kronosaurus, Didn't even bother w/ the missile pod.

[Tarciryan]

As soon as you see the attack patterns the fight is pretty easy. I think I only got hit maybe twice, and I was using a rank 2 normal rifle, with both speed boost charms.

Keep him lines up to just his nose is visible on the edge of the screen, and he will do the charge attack. Swim up/down a little and prepare to shoot while he passes. Then swim away, line him up at edge of the screen, dodge and repeat. When he does the whirlwind, just hover around the middle.

If you fail to dodge the charge and get stuck next to him, then it's bad. Just stay away from close quarters and keep dodging the charge attack.

[Morika]

oh yea attack patterms, what an *** , it is impossible to dodge it what you guys even talking about. Game supposed to warn you that this is not a normal boss figth this bosss is one of the harders boss figth in near history.

[Tarciryan]

Originally posted by Morika:

oh yea attack patterms, what an *** , it is impossible to dodge it what you guys even talking about. Game supposed to warn you that this is not a normal boss figth this bosss is one of the harders boss figth in near history.

Well right before the boss started I looked up the tip about baiting it into a charge, and I beat the boss first try only taking a couple hits towards the end.

It is really not a hard boss fight if you do as I said.

[Carl Nicola]

I was struggling bad on this fight until I opened the weapon chest and there was a lvl 3 sniper rifle. Won in seconds

[Crowrevell]

I struggled because i was using my tranq rifle and the damage just wasn't enough. I then built the gravity grenade launcher - but the detonation time made it too unreliable. then went sniper and it was over pretty quickly. which is disappointing because it felt like the only fight (thus far) that really hinged on just having the correct weapon.

and that the weapon allows to just spam attack because klaus's attacks are difficult to impossible to avoid (unless with seamoth).

[Humpenstilzchen]

You have clearly not played souls games. Literally everything in your post is wrong. Use an upgraded sniper rifle, get some distance between you and klaus and simply shoot it and when he dashes do something that souls players really should know and that is dodging.