First boss in tank is BS

[SirCuddlesWorth]

How the ♥♥♥♥ are you suppose to kill this guy?
I can get him to 25% HP and then the cannon "touching it" insta-kills me.
I mean it's not firing, it is suppose to be climbable but still kills you.

That and I fall through the floor in spots, getting stuck and killed. It seems really buggy right now. I am going to hold of playing any more till a patch rolls out.

[SIUnit]

It's pretty easy once you know the gimmicks. I recommend using the Uzi since it's the best weapon in the game, though it's up to you.
1. shoot the green wheels to disable tank
2. go under the tank and shoot the green diamonds to disable the plow and the bubble
3. shoot and kill the tank gunner so he can't do the spin gun move to knock you off the tank
4. shoot the green hatch to open it

At this point Father is vulnerable and you can ditch the guns completely as there is no longer a need to disable the tank. Jump onto tank on the front (back is too high), get to back of turret, grab a grenade, toss it into hatch twice, then run away from the electric bubble, then do it again to kill him. If you're fast/efficient enough you could probably do all 3 grenades in a single pass.

Alternatively, you can also just do the Uzi weapon jump on top of the hatch and shoot him too, but I find grenade to be way faster.

You can also skip killing the tank gunner, but I find him annoying and it only takes like 3 Uzi headshots to kill him so it's not a huge hassle.

[lurchshanks9]

oh thats how youre meant to kill father i just kept throwing myself at him flailing with an uzi till he died

[Winter Rose]

What? I literally had been able to jump onto the tank from the back because of the treads and how high the jump is. And when Father is actually vulnerable the fight became a joke especially if you can land shots while he's popping out as the electric attack winds up. Because if you do, he just ends up in a cycle repeating both popping out and the shock attack while you can just safely shoot him while away from the tank and hanging around the reload spots. I never even used a grenade once

[Gruntled Employee]

Yeah this boss was more annoying than it had to be for a first boss. The multiple agents running around help either.
I didn't glitch/fall through the floor, and I don't remember the tank cannon killing me when jumping on it like OP mentioned, but I was wearing the bomb suit the whole time which protects you from any explosion damage.

Here's my video of how I finally defeated the boss after about 30 minutes of failed attempts XD

https://youtu.be/taWSEuHnsXE

[SirCuddlesWorth]

Originally posted by SIUnit:

It's pretty easy once you know the gimmicks. I recommend using the Uzi since it's the best weapon in the game, though it's up to you.
1. shoot the green wheels to disable tank
2. go under the tank and shoot the green diamonds to disable the plow and the bubble
3. shoot and kill the tank gunner so he can't do the spin gun move to knock you off the tank
4. shoot the green hatch to open it

At this point Father is vulnerable and you can ditch the guns completely as there is no longer a need to disable the tank. Jump onto tank on the front (back is too high), get to back of turret, grab a grenade, toss it into hatch twice, then run away from the electric bubble, then do it again to kill him. If you're fast/efficient enough you could probably do all 3 grenades in a single pass.

Alternatively, you can also just do the Uzi weapon jump on top of the hatch and shoot him too, but I find grenade to be way faster.

You can also skip killing the tank gunner, but I find him annoying and it only takes like 3 Uzi headshots to kill him so it's not a huge hassle.

Yeah I got the gist of shooting the green and i could get him to the stage where he comes out. But after that something wacky goes on and If I touch any part of the gun barrel i blow up. But thank I did not know there was Grenades? I was to busy fighting 500 agents and a tank to look around.

Thanks to everyone else who replied. I'll try again later on. But the glitching into the floor, and the guns fall through the floor kills it for me. I'll validate and try again to see if it helps.

I watched your video, I see the little explosives, I did not try that I thought he would insta-kill me if I got to close to him.

[JimDFTW]

considering the game is aimed at 7 year olds, having a dark souls boss fight at the start is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid

[arti_llery]

Spent an hour fighting this boss last night til I got it down.
I used the grenade launcher. Can take out one side with 4 grenades if you aim right.
You can also hit father with it from the ground.

[HoneyDrake]

just use the SMG.

Pretty much always use SMG for boss fights.

you can "disable" the guy at top by hitting him a few times, aka: he wont knock you away anymore.

And then all you need to do is position yourself above "Father" and use "bullet jumps" right on top of him, like I said: best done with an SMG. You can even kill him in one salve if you reload mid-air.

[Johnny 5]

After taking out the gunner I used the explosive barrels at the back of tank with slow mo active and dropped barrels into the tank, guess there's multiple ways you can do this fight which is nice.

[Dee_Just_Dee]

Originally posted by Johnny 5:

After taking out the gunner I used the explosive barrels at the back of tank with slow mo active and dropped barrels into the tank, guess there's multiple ways you can do this fight which is nice.

Yup. Key things to learn and remember are

• you can KO the machinegunner so that he won't be a nuisance trying to flick you off of the turret for the rest of the fight
  
• once you've opened Father's hatch, you don't need to go through all the tedium of immobilizing the tank every time it repairs; you can just hop right up and gun/'nade him while the tank's in motion.

[mongodechico]

I used the smg to take out the treads and then switched to the shotgun to shoot father, using the shotgun takes away more health from father which shortens the fight.

[davidanttila1980]

As long as you aren't having a bad day or an off day you'll find the tank a cake walk.

Tactics I ended up using was.
Stage one.
Goat the tank to take out a side platform goon. Steal the grenade launcher.
Now disable the tank tracks.
Slip underneath and hit the spots underneath.
Took only attempt.
Next stage.
Disable the Tracks again and use the Uzi to take out the Gunner.
Disable the Tracks and drop the launcher past the barrel and run up drop a grenade into the hatch.
Rinse and repeat.

For the Squirrel wear the full bomb Squirrel gear.

The grenade launcher is ideal for crowd control as well if needed.
The bomb suit also renders self explosion damage and cannon fire from the tank a non issue.
Also seems to make it easier to grab grenades and drop them in.
Otherwise it was just to easy to run past the grenades and fall off.

I generally don't like to my own youtube channel but since it is related to this topic here is the video where I do use the tactics above.
The battle starts at 47:15 and not intended to be a tutorial.
https://youtu.be/CtV1ssozoSE

[Starman]

I just don't like the fact of getting to father and the tank, trying a few times, having to quit game to go do something and being thrown back into town.. It's a little ridiculous.

[LordErec42]

Totally agree, I just got to this fight and it's simply not fun, and really badly paced difficulty wise with being a huge spike this early in the game.

[Crazyr3dd]

What? The fight is super easy it just takes a little too long to finish.
All you do is shoot the green targets, then when the tank stops you climb on top and drop a grenade down the hatch (the tank is LOADED with grenades you can't miss them)