This boss fight with CEL 240 seems so unfair. [Spoiler]

[Clumsybeast]

I havent had any issues with this game at all until this fight. I beat every Arena fight without losing once, and every boss i beat on my first try outside maybe the first which i beat on my second try. But CEL 240 is absolutely unfair bs.. He is locked onto me no matter how i dodge, and i have a complete tank of a AC that usually eats attacks like nothing, but this guy melts me nearly instantly. Half the time i can't even move, cause his attacks drain my energy.. Him having a second life is even more bs..

OK vent over, time to go back and try beating him.

[This PC]

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

I havent had any issues with this game at all until this fight. I beat every Arena fight without losing once, and every boss i beat on my first try outside maybe the first which i beat on my second try. But CEL 240 is absolutely unfair bs.. He is locked onto me no matter how i dodge, and i have a complete tank of a AC that usually eats attacks like nothing, but this guy melts me nearly instantly. Half the time i can't even move, cause his attacks drain my energy.. Him having a second life is even more bs..

OK vent over, time to go back and try beating him.

What does your build look like ?

[Zynryuk]

You can't face-tank everything.

Try with a reverse-joints AC.

[amon.the.arcadian]

Originally posted by amon.the.arcadian:

Dual Gatlings, dual stun needle.
Wait for boss to attack, then stun needle him when he doesn't move. When staggered, melt his AP with Gatlings.

[This PC]

Originally posted by amon.the.arcadian:

I mean...
https://youtube.com/live/cY0_wbrId00
Would like to offer him a solution that fits his parameter instead of telling him "play like me" though. ^^''

[Razek2648]

Ibis is a bastard of a fight on the first go around. Your post is, funnily enough, perfectly timed as there was recently a 'nerf' that some people think made the boss laughably easy. So ahead of my suggestions, thank you for injecting a fresh outlook as someone who is getting to Ibis for the first time.

As for fighting her, the key is to keep up the pressure. You have to stay in her face and punish her when she staggers. Ibis thankfully doesn't have a lotnof health, so she melts when she is staggered. I recommend reliable arm weapons with good firearm specialized arms to build stagger, with high damage back weapons to take advantage of the stagger.

I used two Ludlow MGs to build stagger in her face and plasma cannons on my back to fight Ibis. Plasma really deletes health when stunned enemies sit in the damage bubble after a plasma shot. Be sure to kick her to prolong her stagger as much as possible.

After you bring her AP to 0, be ready for phase 2. She gets a whole new health bar and her speed goes up. A few new attacks are added to her moveset. During her transition into phase 2, you cannot damage, so focus on evasion until her health bar appears. Maintain the same strategy and keep up max aggression and you'll be through her in no time.

Cheers and good luck Raven.

[Clumsybeast]

Yeah this is absolute trash of a boss fight. FromSoftware needs to keep their Dark SOuls out of my Armored Core. This difficulty spike is cringe asf, and is artificial difficulty. Dropping a score for the game just for this fight,.

[Clumsybeast]

Originally posted by Zynryuk:

You can't face-tank everything.

Try with a reverse-joints AC.

Literally have "face-tanked" the entire game up until now, and very easily. This boss is just trash, and is nothing like anything else in this game. They couldnt be creative enough to make a boss that feels like it belongs in AC, and instead threw in a Dark Souls boss dressed as a mech.

[Steve]

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

I havent had any issues with this game at all until this fight. I beat every Arena fight without losing once, and every boss i beat on my first try outside maybe the first which i beat on my second try. But CEL 240 is absolutely unfair bs.. He is locked onto me no matter how i dodge, and i have a complete tank of a AC that usually eats attacks like nothing, but this guy melts me nearly instantly. Half the time i can't even move, cause his attacks drain my energy.. Him having a second life is even more bs..

OK vent over, time to go back and try beating him.

Circle around it at the start. Avoid its initial few attacks. Wait for the gaping pause in its routine. Hammer the crap out of it. Repeat.

[Shreddy]

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

Yeah this is absolute trash of a boss fight. FromSoftware needs to keep their Dark SOuls out of my Armored Core. This difficulty spike is cringe asf, and is artificial difficulty. Dropping a score for the game just for this fight,.

Fromsoft probably didn't want another failed release that sold barely 250,000 copies, they nerfed it for players like you anyway so if you are still complaining it's a massive skill issue.

[I AM ALL HATCHETS]

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

Originally posted by Zynryuk:

You can't face-tank everything.

Try with a reverse-joints AC.

Literally have "face-tanked" the entire game up until now, and very easily. This boss is just trash, and is nothing like anything else in this game. They couldnt be creative enough to make a boss that feels like it belongs in AC, and instead threw in a Dark Souls boss dressed as a mech.

I find it hard to believe you 'face-tanked' everything in the game before Ibis, if you face tanked balteus you'd get destroyed, if you face-tanked the sea spider, you'd also get destroyed, so I am sure you know how to use the quick boost function that the game stresses that you need to use. Do that for Ibis and you should be good. Wait for her to stop moving, stun needle her and then move into her face and melt her. Literally spent 1/10th of the time it took me to beat balteus on her.(mainly because like you, I refused to use wave guns to make it a cakewalk so I just tried to do it with my blade, took me almost 20 tries).

Also, if you don't want to adapt by assembling a better-suited mech for the fight don't be surprised you'll get dunked on. All in all, you need to git gud.

[Steve]

Originally posted by Shreddy:

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

Yeah this is absolute trash of a boss fight. FromSoftware needs to keep their Dark SOuls out of my Armored Core. This difficulty spike is cringe asf, and is artificial difficulty. Dropping a score for the game just for this fight,.

Fromsoft probably didn't want another failed release that sold barely 250,000 copies, they nerfed it for players like you anyway so if you are still complaining it's a massive skill issue.

It's already sold well over 1m copies on Steam alone. IDK if it's that, but yeah, the nerf overall sucked.

[I AM ALL HATCHETS]

Also can't wait for you people to get to the NG++ boss.

[This PC]

Originally posted by Razek2648:

Ibis is a bastard of a fight on the first go around. Your post is, funnily enough, perfectly timed as there was recently a 'nerf' that some people think made the boss laughably easy. So ahead of my suggestions, thank you for injecting a fresh outlook as someone who is getting to Ibis for the first time.

As for fighting her, the key is to keep up the pressure. You have to stay in her face and punish her when she staggers. Ibis thankfully doesn't have a lotnof health, so she melts when she is staggered. I recommend reliable arm weapons with good firearm specialized arms to build stagger, with high damage back weapons to take advantage of the stagger.

I used two Ludlow MGs to build stagger in her face and plasma cannons on my back to fight Ibis. Plasma really deletes health when stunned enemies sit in the damage bubble after a plasma shot. Be sure to kick her to prolong her stagger as much as possible.

After you bring her AP to 0, be ready for phase 2. She gets a whole new health bar and her speed goes up. A few new attacks are added to her moveset. During her transition into phase 2, you cannot damage, so focus on evasion until her health bar appears. Maintain the same strategy and keep up max aggression and you'll be through her in no time.

Cheers and good luck Raven.

It always was doable. I don't know why you're bringing this argument in another thread, but there's a real argument to "the patch was unnecessary if it didn't resolve the problem" to be made, if you're gonna bring patch into this.

Still completely derailing thread with your unnecessary opinion.

[This PC]

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

Originally posted by Zynryuk:

You can't face-tank everything.

Try with a reverse-joints AC.

Literally have "face-tanked" the entire game up until now, and very easily. This boss is just trash, and is nothing like anything else in this game. They couldnt be creative enough to make a boss that feels like it belongs in AC, and instead threw in a Dark Souls boss dressed as a mech.

https://youtube.com/live/cY0_wbrId00
watch this, tell me this isn't facetanking, and this is before nerfs.
Also, this isn't a dark souls boss.
Dark souls boss rely on pattern recognition, i-frames dodging and patience, AC6 bosses rely on snap reactions, aggressivity and environmental awareness.
Hard bosses existed way before dark souls. Probably best to keep your opinion out of this thread if you don't want it to derail.

[Clumsybeast]

Originally posted by Shreddy:

Originally posted by Clumsyninja:

Yeah this is absolute trash of a boss fight. FromSoftware needs to keep their Dark SOuls out of my Armored Core. This difficulty spike is cringe asf, and is artificial difficulty. Dropping a score for the game just for this fight,.

Fromsoft probably didn't want another failed release that sold barely 250,000 copies, they nerfed it for players like you anyway so if you are still complaining it's a massive skill issue.

I literally havent had any trouble with this game at all until this fight. lol The boss is poorly made. Only skill issue, is From Software not knowing how to make good mech boss fights. Its a boss thats being complained about all over the internet. The ONLY boss being complained about.