BOSS JUMP : the only thing TRULY annoying with the absence of BEER

[RKajoline]

It's my first survivor game and i love it. I know frustration is part of the game but i really feel like the boss jumping on top of you and the evade mechanic associated (90°) should be reserved to high level gameplay, if not reworked in another way.

I have played for some hours now and its the russian roulette thing that has destroyed entire runs indiscriminately whether i had easy or hard dice rolls all game long. I even makes some of the first epic rewards we can get (nerfing move speed) like a real noobtrap.

Also, we need beer in the game.

[BlackjackGT]

I hate the 1st boss battle. I think I solved it in the demo, but I don't remember what I did, and my first encounter tonight was just slaughter.

And part of it is DRG:S providing NO "dash" type evasion mechanic, which at least some V:S games offer. Without that, I feel like I'm reduced to trying to "read the mind" of Super Mario Boss and trying to predict where he's going to Jump Attack. Even if my speed is buffed, I just can't avoid his jump-attacks with any regularity.

It seems unfair that even if you're digging perpendicular to the boss, he can somehow still jump "over" the rock structures to plop on our a**.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, and we're supposed to like "go towards the boss" instead of keep trying to evade him? I've searched the forums and so far haven't turned up any tips for Super Jump boss.

[FinalPhil]

When the boss stops moving he'll leap towards you - this can also be triggered by not moving yourself for a moment (until he stops moving). Then you have to/ should walk to the sides.

Also no fan of the boss mechanics

[Cor.]

Hopefully beer in the future.

[Telapicus]

Agreed that boss jump just ruins the end of the run

[Rusty Shackleford]

Originally posted by RKajoline:

It's my first survivor game and i love it. I know frustration is part of the game but i really feel like the boss jumping on top of you and the evade mechanic associated (90°) should be reserved to high level gameplay, if not reworked in another way.

I have played for some hours now and its the russian roulette thing that has destroyed entire runs indiscriminately whether i had easy or hard dice rolls all game long. I even makes some of the first epic rewards we can get (nerfing move speed) like a real noobtrap.

Also, we need beer in the game.

you literally just walk to the right or left when he leaps

[Cor.]

Originally posted by Rusty Shackleford:

Originally posted by RKajoline:

It's my first survivor game and i love it. I know frustration is part of the game but i really feel like the boss jumping on top of you and the evade mechanic associated (90°) should be reserved to high level gameplay, if not reworked in another way.

I have played for some hours now and its the russian roulette thing that has destroyed entire runs indiscriminately whether i had easy or hard dice rolls all game long. I even makes some of the first epic rewards we can get (nerfing move speed) like a real noobtrap.

Also, we need beer in the game.

you literally just walk to the right or left when he leaps

While it works, it barely works.

it gets awful close at times lol

[Knavenformed]

Yeah it was the first move it did against me, I was between a rock and a stacked swarm
Absolutely no way of surviving that situation lol

[Makuren]

When the boss jumps you can literally dodge left or right as it jumps in between you and it's landing spot. The best thing to do on the last level is to make a zone that is open enough to juke the boss over and over even if that means mining the rocks out yourself. I just did a run with a super slow dwarf because he had the +% dmg and -% speed with nitra carried where the boss was faster than me. I had enough freeze procs to keep it at bay in between jumps that I juked underneath it when it jumped.

[Felix Farside]

When the boss stops moving, he's getting ready to jump on you. He'll start to pivot in your direction and that's when you need to start moving left or right.

[Panegyr]

agreed, boss jump doesn't really feel fair. I got to the end of the run with gunner and figured out the side stepping thing since he instagibbed my first time reaching the end as scout, but even then it's not easy, and if you get hit by the jump it's like 80+ damage

[General High Ping]

Only time i've been hit by the boss's jump attack is if i've stopped moving or been mining through something to escape it.
My move speed is fairly high but it always lands just behind me without hitting, unless it leaps when it right behind you, then it'll jump through you.

[Reqhart]

Boss is easy tbh. When boss stops to jump do a 90 degree turn he will miss every time. Make sure you give yourself a path to kite the boss around before popping him.

[COWZA]

i died the first 5 times on him, now he is easier, especially after building up

[🚀 Mars]

Even more weird than an enemy that is known not to be able to jump in the original game somehow damages you even when jumping completely over you. Should only damage you when landing on top of you. Seems like the mechanic is more of a Charge than a Jump.

[Evan]

Getting some amount of movespeed (around 20%) makes the boss a non-threat, but what you need to be aware of is the normal mobs spawn, so you don't walk into random bug or enemy projectile. He has bazzilions of HP at Hazard 4, but you just run in circles.