This Last Boss is a Pain in the Ass

[Aniaran]

Any advice from anyone? I can easily clear the rest of the game but as soon as he pulls out the laser I end up taking a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of damage.

[kimoyatch]

1. Weapon Choice: Baton

2. Suit choice: If in late-game choose the ‘Jxxxxxx’ Disguise, this ‘suit’ gains a 2-second invulnerability each time you get hit. But you’ll have to beat 6 chapters wearing the suit first before you can upgrade. When you have this. For me it felt sorta like the easy (or was it normal?) mode in Hades (get hit and be invulnerable for a few seconds)

2. Not sure if this was exclusive to the baton: probably from schematics you get something that lets you deflect all projectiles with your baton and deflected projectiles hit back with 400% damage. With this, the last boss loses health so fast.

3. Not sure if this will help but I used life leech perk (schematics with baton I think) (2 pts life gain with 60% reduced max health), along with maxed out dash attack that deals damage.

4. I only upgraded the baton at each Fabricator. The only time I beat the last boss with a build that was projectile-based was with the grenade launcher.

5. The laser part and projectiles: I don’t know what you can do except walk between the rays to dodge. T-T Don’t dash. Find the right distance from the boss so you can walk around the boss while dodging the laser. IMO, the big ball projectiles almost harder to dodge.

Good luck!

[goka9696]

In addition to the deflect post above I also recommend getting an additional dash from the cotraband upgrades. This will allow you to dodge the last phase's flamethrowers far more consistently.

[Skeleton]

Yeah the last boss is absolutely insane. Can breeze through the entire game to him but I think I'll need J's disguise to do it, basically just tank more damage so I can kill him before he kills me, cause avoiding all his stuff is not happening.

[goka9696]

It is quite funny how up to him game can be challenging but is overall smooth, then you reach the final boss and it feels like an entirely different game lmao

[Aniaran]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I have not tested the baton enough it seems.

Thank you so much for the advice!

[Banana]

The last boss is very bad design, because of the floor, it only gives you so little space to dodge attack, especially lasers attack, the only thing to win is to kill it ASAP, because you really cant avoid getting hit most of the time.

[kimoyatch]

You can beat down the floor heater thingees on the edges to turn them off.

[coatlr]

On top of breaking the floor heaters, this fight made me realize dash+kick=slide gets you behind the boss or wherever you want much much more efficiently and farther than just dashing.

For the huge red beam/laser spew, dash into them to get to the next safe spot as the boss rotates them.

Boss becomes easy after all that.

[DronkenWorst]

Just beat him for the first time. I couldn't find a deflect upgrade. I used the 3 shot burst rifle with the automatic fire schematic and damage upgrades and just stayed behind the boss and kept firing. Kill him before he kills you, like people say here. It cost me like 150 health and a last caress.

I used the convict suit fully upgraded, baton and burst fire rifle.

[Major_Rip-Off]

I tackled the last boss quite easily once I unlocked the Last Corpse suit. You basicly have 3 lives with that suit (if you also unlocked the last caress skill).

I used the Pilot Suit fully upgraded for the first 3 biomes, then switch to the Last Corpse suit for the final one.

Skill: Padded Vest (with some upgrades), Last Caress, double dash, Executioner, Dash cooldown, rest up to your choice

Ranged Weapon: Mortar Backpack with the schematic upgrade that makes it do more damage in a much larger area but you hurt yourself when you stand in it (so be careful)

Melee Weapon: whatever you choose

Focus on making your Mortar more powerful and faster.
Once you reach the final boss you just spam your mortar constantly while dashing around like a maniac dodging all the bad ♥♥♥♥. You might die 1 or 2 times but it should be enough to kill it.

Enjoy!

[BlackjackGT]

https://youtu.be/dgAWNkSZMOw?si=qvyV2RJfBrfFM-7Z
Here's a final mech boss Fail Video.

On my 2nd try, I tried to heed some advice from here, but I simply lack the ninja finger skills to deflect the mech's blasts with my baton like freaking Neo in the Matrix while trying to damage his a**, even with Carress revival and double dash blah blah. Loved the game up to this point anyway.

So far I've only been able to reach the Mech boss using shotgun although on this try I couldn't find my favorite schematic (the one that blasts all your shells in one shot). Instead I got the one that adds 50% damage but cuts the magazine capacity in half (or by 4).

NOTE: This is my first test uploading a Steam video clip that I exported to MP4 and then uploaded to YouTube (very quickly; Steam seems to nicely optimize the HD clip for fast uploading, though it's not razor sharp at that default bit rate). :)

[Major_Rip-Off]

Get the Last Corpse suit, it gives you +1 last caress and upgraded it heals and deals more damage as well when you revive!

Assault Rifle or Mortar can dish out a lot more damage and are much further ranged than the shotgun. Focus on getting damage or rate of fire upgrades mostly, get all the Fabricator upgrades possible for your weapon through the run, sell any unnecessary experiments in between biomes. Burst him down ASAP especially during the first phases when he is not as annoying with all the AOE attacks and you can still easily dodge.

Good luck!

Edit: you could also activate Guard Mode in the gameplay menu for some easier option btw

Originally posted by BlackjackGT:

https://youtu.be/dgAWNkSZMOw?si=qvyV2RJfBrfFM-7Z
Here's a final mech boss Fail Video.

On my 2nd try, I tried to heed some advice from here, but I simply lack the ninja finger skills to deflect the mech's blasts like freaking Neo in the Matrix while trying to damage his a**, even with Caress revival and double dash blah blah. Loved the game up to this point anyway.

So far I've only been able to reach the Mech boss using shotgun although on this try I couldn't find my favorite schematic (the one that blasts all your shells in one shot). Instead I got the one that adds 50% damage but cuts the magazine capacity in half (or by 4).

NOTE: This is my first test uploading a Steam video clip that I exported to MP4 and then uploaded to YouTube (very quickly; Steam seems to nicely optimize the HD clip for fast uploading, though it's not razor sharp at that default bit rate). :)

[BlackjackGT]

Get the Last Corpse suit, it gives you +1 last caress and upgraded it heals and deals more damage as well when you revive!

Assault Rifle or Mortar can dish out a lot more damage and are much further ranged than the shotgun.

I've seen other players talk about Last Corpse suit, I just have no idea how to unlock that? Do you know? :)

Yeah it's just I do much better with shotgun up to that battle. I haven't been able to reach the mech boss using AR (the mining vehicle boss tends to off me), and I find the Mortar Backpack's sluggishness in targeting very difficult to progress with even on non-boss battles.

[bigm17]

Haven't unlocked all the suits or weapons, but have gotten to him a bunch of times and just obliterated. Closest I've gotten was getting him down to about 1/4 health, but just multitude of attacks is too much to overcome. I'll eventually get him, I just think it is bad design to have the game go from a 7/8 difficulty during the run to a million for the last boss.

[Major_Rip-Off]

Originally posted by BlackjackGT:

Get the Last Corpse suit, it gives you +1 last caress and upgraded it heals and deals more damage as well when you revive!

Assault Rifle or Mortar can dish out a lot more damage and are much further ranged than the shotgun.

I've seen other players talk about Last Corpse suit, I just have no idea how to unlock that? Do you know? :)

Yeah it's just I do much better with shotgun up to that battle. I haven't been able to reach the mech boss using AR (the mining vehicle boss tends to off me), and I find the Mortar Backpack's sluggishness in targeting very difficult to progress with even on non-boss battles.

I think you get it from either dying or beating your corpse during a run. Maybe you need to beat your corpse several times even, don't know exactly how to unlock it.
So basically when you die during a run, the next run when you reach the point where you died you are able to fight yourself if you want to. If you beat it then you can choose a level 3 experiment from that last run. So you should always try to beat your corpse as the reward is quite good to strenghten your current run.


Concerning the AR rifle, focus on getting the schematic making it fully automatic and then some experiments increasing the attack rate and damage and you will be shredding enemies. My fastest run times come from AR runs. You can even shred the mining boss in a minute or so.