2nd Boss Impossible? Please help.

[GhrominIronfist]

So I've been going through the YS series, just got to this one, started on nightmare and the 2nd boss (queen of death is literally impossible.
I'm not sure what exactly I could be doing differently but any advice is welcome.
I've got a longsword and I found the upgrade for the fire bracelet, and the boss really doesn't have that much health. But I can't survive longer than like 8 attacks from the boss.
Beacuse there is like a seemingly 50/50 chance that the horizontal discs will track me when I jump and hit me in the air. I don't know why this is happening I cant find any other threads about it and none of the videos Ive seen online show this. PLZ HELP.

[iriyap]

You might want to restart on Normal, as Oath is a pretty difficult game even on Normal. Nightmare requires perfect knowledge of all systems and/or lots of patience.

As for the boss, are you playing at 60 fps? I remember the fire serpent boss (Guilen) behaving weirdly at high framerates, could be the same case here. Cap the framerate at 60 fps in the game's configuration tool just to make sure.

[GhrominIronfist]

Originally posted by iriyap:

You might want to restart on Normal, as Oath is a pretty difficult game even on Normal. Nightmare requires perfect knowledge of all systems and/or lots of patience.

As for the boss, are you playing at 60 fps? I remember the fire serpent boss (Guilen) behaving weirdly at high framerates, could be the same case here. Cap the framerate at 60 fps in the game's configuration tool just to make sure.

This worked, locked frames and refresh at 60 and got it on my first try, had the same problem with Dark Fact not sure why I didn't think of that to start with.

[Ikagura]

Oath is a pretty difficult game even for the franchise.

Nightmare is pretty much unforgiving and the level up is exponential.

[Berahlen]

The tracking isn't random. The saws have limited homing shortly after they come out, and if you jump early they'll curve up into you. The window for dodging them is really small, but reliable -- it has to be jumped at the last moment.

Don't play Falcom games on Nightmare on the first run, especially not anything they made in the 2000s. They actually remember how to make bosses hard, and do so gleefully. Oath Nightmare might be some of the most fun I've ever had, but trying to learn a new boss on Nightmare is horrible because it just kills you too fast to be able to observe much.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Berahlen:

Don't play Falcom games on Nightmare on the first run, especially not anything they made in the 2000s. They actually remember how to make bosses hard, and do so gleefully. Oath Nightmare might be some of the most fun I've ever had, but trying to learn a new boss on Nightmare is horrible because it just kills you too fast to be able to observe much.

And usually most games of the era were quite challenging even if they weren't as hard as the 90's and 80's ones but still more than the 10's (especially for Falcom).

[Whatever-man]

use charged fire balls

Beacuse there is like a seemingly 50/50 chance that the horizontal discs will track me when I jump and hit me in the air. I don't know why this is happening I cant find any other threads about it and none of the videos Ive seen online show this. PLZ HELP.

on nightmare/inferno it will track you if you jump too early