Zilla boss bug on Heroic mode

[Mike]

Does the Zilla boss bug ruin a Heroic mode playthrough?

I just finished my insane playthrough and during both Zilla fights I encountered the bug where Zilla is unkillable during his regeneration phase no matter how long I hack at him.

The solution to this bug is to save during the regen phase and load the save in order to kill him.

Since in heroic mode you can't save/load how is it possible to get past this bug? Is there a specific way not to trigger the bug or is it all random and every time the bug occurs I would have to restart the whole level?

[MASTAN]

Every time he enters regen state he does this more slower. So you just need to trigger it many times, maybe 10-15 probably. And slash at him with normal sword attacks while he's doing so. At some point his regen will be slower than your slashing.

I did all runs including Heroic without using save/load thing during his fight. Didn't know about it even.

BTW you can play windows xp version, it lacks both Zilla fights completely. See 1.5.0 patch notes.

[Mike]

Originally posted by MASTAN:

Every time he enters regen state he does this more slower. So you just need to trigger it many times, maybe 10-15 probably. And slash at him with normal sword attacks while he's doing so. At some point his regen will be slower than your slashing.

I did all runs including Heroic without using save/load thing during his fight. Didn't know about it even.

BTW you can play windows xp version, it lacks both Zilla fights completely. See 1.5.0 patch notes.

Oh really? I assumed he went into his regen state before he dies not multiple times.

Also every time I got him into his regen state (first time) I was always able to out damage his regen (by spamming normal slashes) and I would continue slashing at him with zero health.

I assumed that if you let him regen it would be like restarting the fight over?

[Mike]

Was this fight ment to be done on the first regen attempt or does the cutscene only trigger after he has been put in the regen state multiple times?

For all I know the save/load "fix" could be a bug in itself that allows you to skip the other phases.

I'm confused lol

[MASTAN]

There may be bug somewhere. I've seen youtube walkthroughs of Heroic mode when he's defeated on 1st regen or on 3rd regen. But from posts in discussions here and mine experience it usually takes more than that. At least 4-5 times maybe. Frankly I don't remember exactly how many times it was for me, it was long ago.

On easier difficulties he can be "killed" faster, of course.

[Mike]

Originally posted by MASTAN:

There may be bug somewhere. I've seen youtube walkthroughs of Heroic mode when he's defeated on 1st regen or on 3rd regen. But from posts in discussions here and mine experience it usually takes more than that. At least 4-5 times maybe. Frankly I don't remember exactly how many times it was for me, it was long ago.

On easier difficulties he can be "killed" faster, of course.

Thats really weird then because like I said I litteraly just finished insane and during both Zilla fights I was easily able to get him to zero during his 1st regen phase.

Anyway thanks for the tips, when I do eventually start on heroic I will have to keep in mind that if he doesn't die during his first regen then I will try couple times (like you mentioned) and pray that it works. Restarting a whole level on heroic because of this "bug" will really sour the experience .

[Luststrolch]

There is 100% a bug when fighting Zilla. Ofc not everyone encounters this bug.
I had him down to zero health in every difficulty so far and at this moment a small windows error messagebox pops up ultiple times. It says: "You encountered a problem. We are sorry." or something like this.

If you keep playing this messagebox brings you back to your desktop all 20-30 sec.
When you quicksave and load Zilla will die within 1-2 secs and the cutscenes start.

[MASTAN]

Originally posted by Luststrolch:

If you keep playing this messagebox brings you back to your desktop all 20-30 sec.
When you quicksave and load Zilla will die within 1-2 secs and the cutscenes start.

On Heroic this won't work though.

[Luststrolch]

I haven't tried heroic yet. I'm in the last level at Insane now. But I had the Zilla bug in both fights on insane and I had him on another (older) pc in the past on hard, too.

[MASTAN]

Originally posted by Luststrolch:

I haven't tried heroic yet. I'm in the last level at Insane now. But I had the Zilla bug in both fights on insane and I had him on another (older) pc in the past on hard, too.

On Heroic you can't load, in that mode is you must finish every level without dying or loading.
I had messagebox bug during secont Zilla fight once per his regen. But game continued and I was able to defeat him in the end. Can't say for sure how many times he did regen, definitely more than 10.

[Luststrolch]

Ok. Well, I will see it in heroic myself. I hope it will work fine for me.

[Epikas Jones]

Originally posted by MASTAN:

Emany times, maybe 10-15
.

Thats gata be the most idiotic peice of advice ever you REALLY think ANY dev would design a boss mech such as that one for you to repeat it 10-`15 times ROFL wow dude.

No. sorry its ment to be first time kill even on heroic you can out damage his regen it jus takes longer. it should end every time once he reaches 0 on first try. It's called a bug its not rocket science

[Venom]

Bloody Zilla never dies. I managed to kill him once, but it was impossible to play at the next level - Lo Weng was shaking so that he could not aim properly and ran through the level like Flash at the minimum settings.
As another option, Zilla freezes, the glow of the regeneration shower disappears, although health continues to be restored, but the cut-scene does not start even when it is possible to reset its health.
And on top of that, an "internal application error" that occurs intermittently during this battle.

There is a solution.
Firstly, when Zilla's health drops to such a value that he is ready to run to regenerate (this place is always the same), you need to be close to this place and save the game. Next, we chop Zilla and if it recovers too quickly for us, we simply load the save and here, according to my observation, his regeneration becomes rather slow. And we cut him to hell.
Secondly, it is impossible to save the game on heroic difficulty. But no. As comrade rapphaelfs discovered and shared, on this difficulty, it is possible to save quickly without affecting the receipt of achievements.

Here is the link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=830280602

[vokiel]

Here's another stupid trick: Pause the game and switch desktop when he's near death, but isn't dying.

[Duke Nukem]

I have no Zilla boss fight. I play on Window XP option, and everytime I approach him, the cutscene will plays. This is not a bad thing to me, but I still have no idea why this happened.

[MASTAN]

Originally posted by Ultramarine:

I have no Zilla boss fight. I play on Window XP option, and everytime I approach him, the cutscene will plays. This is not a bad thing to me, but I still have no idea why this happened.

Because ZIlla fights had been added only to the DX11 version, see patch 1.5.0 notes: https://steamcommunity.com/games/233130/announcements/detail/168097436241913123