HC PCA Warrant Officer is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid

[KRIT]

harder than baltaues why???
update: I came back today after work and first tried him.. thats so funny man

[Sin1328]

well...Baltaues isn't a difficult boss to begin with, slightly challenging maybe especially if you aren't changing out weapons.

The HC officer is far harder to kill due to the space available on that one fight with it, while the other fight with the HC is in a more open space.

think about the weapons you are taking. you need to either break the shield or get around it somehow.

[Sk[A]rMo'Ry2012]

They are open while missing thir melee for a long period of time. Great moment for songbirding them.

[Bobloblaw]

I think i beat them on the 2nd try but only because I never go for the W on the firs try of a boss, just try to learn them. They are hard?

[Jagdtiger]

The warrant officer is definitely the hardest boss in the entire game by a factor of at least 2x. Don't treat him as a small side boss

[D. Flame]

I lost more to this guy than any boss in the game.

[Señor Brown]

It has extremely good tracking for an enemy, much less a shielded one. Tried circling, hopping over, and pass underneath it. Always kept up with its shield up.

If you stay too close to them, they jump into the air and hover. It makes fishing for a melee opening a pain.

If you try to boost kick them out of neutral, the HC can shield bash you on reaction.

The shield bash has almost no recovery. So if they miss and zoom past you, its already guarded by the time you turn around.

It can build up stagger on your AC very quickly. If you are chipped a few times, there's very little cover available to allow your stance meter to go down.

Not sure how to approach defeating it without stagger yet. Seems like its intended to check the opposite (i.e. does your AC have enough "stagger per second"?).

[MMB]

PCA Warrant Officer and another boss you face later teach you more about load outs and combat awareness than anything else in the game.

[100% lob juice]

I feel so vindicated to finally see someone whining about the HCs lol. I had more trouble with the chapter 3 HC warrant officer than Balteus and Ibis combined

[MadArtillery]

You definitetly need to work on your build as these things will become rather common. They aren't much different to fighting an AC except with more of a bulldozer fighting style. Just punching them through with a lance usually works, stun baton power attack works well too. Once you get used to them you'll forget they were ever treated like a boss.

[Señor Brown]

After a few more attempts, I found that pulse protection has given me the most consistent results against the HC. It resets your stagger meter, provides much needed cover, and allows you to keep building up stagger on the HC while behind that cover.

Unfortunately, I still had to use stagger to deal meaningful damage, due to the shield. Not sure if it is possible to beat the HC without staggering.

[Wutever]

It's possible to beat him without specifically going for stagger if you have weapons that do AoE damage like most plasma stuff or coral weapons. Lasers are hopelessly bad against him so don't even bother unless you're a complete masochist.

If you want the easiest time possible your best bet is the same method that works for literally everything in this game - to go hyper aggressive on him with Assault Armor, explosive damage, high stagger kinetic weapons and melee. Blow him up before he blows up you.

[commander ballsack]

just shoot him lol

[A Suspicious Crayon]

The warrant.officer is so annoying because of the limited space, he also punishes melee or close range builds.

[Fire Cougar]

Warrant officer isnt too bad unless you get stuck on the AC combat log at the beggining of the mission (which is optional, you can get it later in mission replay with a stronger build if you have to). Just make sure to dodge his attacks and stagger stagger stagger. Its somewhat of a knife fight in a phone booth but use the space you do have and pay attention to the attack pattern.

[Trinity]

Originally posted by KRIT:

harder than baltaues why???

What mission is he on? Ive been through 3 ng+ and for the life of me i cant remember whats what.