Krauser fight on Hardcore

[Laughing With Salad]

I knew I was gonna hate that crap.

[MapleOmega]

Hand grenades won that fight for me. Beyond that sniping his legs, and shotgun blast when he got close. I didn't have a magnum. Just Red 9 Stingray and Stryker shotgun. And kiting him up the ladders and giving myself distance

[Laughing With Salad]

I ended up just barely defeating him in a mainly-CQC fight. My knife was leveled to 4 in all stats, and he still went through that and 2 boot knives. Then I had 8 rounds with the Striker (bad choice) and got off lucky head shots with the Punisher when my health was in the red. They really do only give you a split second to determine if you should be parrying or evading, and that POS grab move he does you can't even avoid. ♥♥♥♥ that fight...

[Zeforas]

Originally posted by Mung™:

I ended up just barely defeating him in a mainly-CQC fight. My knife was leveled to 4 in all stats, and he still went through that and 2 boot knives. Then I had 8 rounds with the Striker (bad choice) and got off lucky head shots with the Punisher when my health was in the red. They really do only give you a split second to determine if you should be parrying or evading, and that POS grab move he does you can't even avoid. ♥♥♥♥ that fight...

One thing i've learned about that fight is :
You can 100% melee him if you have good reflex.

About that grab, there's 2 way to deal with that.
First is : be quick. If you see him move his 'big' hand backward, he will grab you, so quickly run away from him. One thing i noticed is, he always protected himself before he do that, but maybe it's just luck.

Second, the most safe : always stay at a distance, and let him come to you. He will always do a dash attack, then one or two more strike. Attack him and then back off again.

[Mojo's Bizarre Adventure]

The only problem I had with him are the two attacks with his claw hand: the backhand smack which you can't parry, and the grab. Both of them come out really fast and don't have much of a tell, so I couldn't really figure out how to deal with those.

[Dust]

Originally posted by Mojo's Bizarre Adventure:

The only problem I had with him are the two attacks with his claw hand: the backhand smack which you can't parry, and the grab. Both of them come out really fast and don't have much of a tell, so I couldn't really figure out how to deal with those.

Don't they both come out only when he's shielding himself with his arm ?

[bulldog0890]

....just parry. its not a hard fight

[Mojo's Bizarre Adventure]

Originally posted by Dust:

Originally posted by Mojo's Bizarre Adventure:

The only problem I had with him are the two attacks with his claw hand: the backhand smack which you can't parry, and the grab. Both of them come out really fast and don't have much of a tell, so I couldn't really figure out how to deal with those.

Don't they both come out only when he's shielding himself with his arm ?

I thought that too, but I could have sworn I saw the grab come out even without that

[OldWhovian]

I just shot him in the head with a max power magnum w/ 5x crit upgrade via ticket every time he got stunned by getting blocked in the first part. In the final sequence I stunned him with a hand grenade, two shots in the head, nother grenade, two more shots, cutscene. He takes a stupid amount of knife if you don't get every block as a perfect parry so it wasn't worth it imho to not cheese him. Still better than knifing him in a corner for 5 minutes like the OG.

[Laughing With Salad]

Originally posted by svoulzor:

Skill issue, should've played on baby mode (normal)

I beat him, fruit.

Originally posted by Zeforas:

Originally posted by Mung™:

I ended up just barely defeating him in a mainly-CQC fight. My knife was leveled to 4 in all stats, and he still went through that and 2 boot knives. Then I had 8 rounds with the Striker (bad choice) and got off lucky head shots with the Punisher when my health was in the red. They really do only give you a split second to determine if you should be parrying or evading, and that POS grab move he does you can't even avoid. ♥♥♥♥ that fight...

One thing i've learned about that fight is :
You can 100% melee him if you have good reflex.

About that grab, there's 2 way to deal with that.
First is : be quick. If you see him move his 'big' hand backward, he will grab you, so quickly run away from him. One thing i noticed is, he always protected himself before he do that, but maybe it's just luck.

Second, the most safe : always stay at a distance, and let him come to you. He will always do a dash attack, then one or two more strike. Attack him and then back off again.

That's how it ended up: me keeping him at a distance and baiting him. Where I ran into the most trouble with that was not being able to tell if he was going to do the charge where you parry or the one where you evade. As far as I could tell both charges happen similar but maybe I was missing something. It's true though that with every successful counter, he's mostly always staggered for a melee. I think if I knew ahead of time that the melees were the fastest way to get his health down, I would have been a bit more patient.

[Star Rain]

you dont want to face him in CQC not when he's shielding himself, do a perfect parry to stagger, melee, then free the beast with your magnum while he's stunned, you can even re-stagger him this way for another melee/magnum sandwich.

[Vagrant]

WTF are you guise talking about.

The Krauser knife fight was amazing. It was all parries and quick turn and pokes. I would pay to knife-fight Krauser in other locations of the game.

[TopBadger]

Krauser's weak points seems to be his legs, when he's shielding shoot his legs and he'll fall for you to kick and blast his face just repeat.

[Funpire]

Originally posted by Mung™:

I knew I was gonna hate that crap.

I'm on this now. This is so much better than Gamecube. So much better. That said, his voice... It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible. It reminds me of the early 1990 military spoof movies where everyone talks in a strained "hardcore" voice.

I am trying to conjure the best years of my Dark Souls experience so I can save my ears.

[thehag]

Also you can duck under his grab attack. You duck more to his right (your left) just before he reaches you. I managed to pass under his arm a couple of times.

[TopBadger]

Originally posted by Funpire:

Originally posted by Mung™:

I knew I was gonna hate that crap.

I'm on this now. This is so much better than Gamecube. So much better. That said, his voice... It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible. It reminds me of the early 1990 military spoof movies where everyone talks in a strained "hardcore" voice.

I am trying to conjure the best years of my Dark Souls experience so I can save my ears.

>It reminds me of the early 1990 military spoof movies where everyone talks in a strained "hardcore"

But that's what he is.