Omega Ranch Boss

[Bad Ninja]

Seroiusly bloody difficult. Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks.

[CyberPioneer]

Upgrade revolver and very easy kill him.

[EbonHawk]

{edit} I think I might be one step too early!.. thought we were talking about Burke here. Sorry.

[Lord Of Dorkness]

There's a really easy trick you can use on all the bosses, if you don't mind being as boring as you are efficent.

Stun-gun them until they fall over. It takes almost a stack of ammo, but they'll just stand there twitching the whole time.

Not a playstyle I'd actually recommend since it's dull and anticlimactic, but it works for all the bosses in the game.

[EbonHawk]

Really? Tried that on whatsherface.. Svetlansky Ziparound (The picus chick that ninjas ya every 5 seconds) and she just clobbered me after one ZAP. Is there some way to hit her consecutive times without her being able to retaliate?

[Lord Of Dorkness]

Originally posted by EbonHawk:

Really? Tried that on whatsherface.. Svetlansky Ziparound (The picus chick that ninjas ya every 5 seconds) and she just clobbered me after one ZAP. Is there some way to hit her consecutive times without her being able to retaliate?

The timing's slightly tricky now that you mention it, you have to keep hammering firing the moment you've reloaded again.

Still, I've done it myself before, and I don't think there's been any patches since then, so...

[EbonHawk]

Ok

[Bad Ninja]

We are talking abouit the the dude with no skin in the upstairs area where none of my augs work due to electronic interference?

[Bad Ninja]

Originally posted by EbonHawk:

Ok

For the picus chick you need to stun her and get upstairs. Hack the terminal in the middle and set turret to enemies. The rest will sort it self out.

[fishhooks]

lol...brings back memories of my first time thru the game. That was a ♥♥♥♥♥ of a fight, iirc, especially since I didn't have any augs. The obvious answer (for your next run thru the game)...DO NOT take the upgraded chip in Hengsha. lol...but since that's no longer an option, I have two recommendations:

1) as has already been stated, the stun gun is awesome in all boss fights. Even if you don't just spam-stun them, if you zap them once, them hit them with whatever your best weapon is...rinse and repeat...you'll get him eventually.

2) there's an exploit (or glitch, or cheat...whatever you want to call it) where you can run up to him as soon as the cut-scene ends and do a takedown. Timing is critical, and you may have to re-play several times to get it to work, but if you get there at just the right moment, you have a split-second where you can perform the takedown. If you pull it off, you save all your ammo...lol. But it's generally considered shameful.

[EbonHawk]

Originally posted by fishhooks:

But it's generally considered shameful.

But since only one person will even know about it...it's not so bad. IF that person can live with themselves. :-)

[CyberPioneer]

Originally posted by fishhooks:

DO NOT take the upgraded chip in Hengsha.

It's boring
With a chip more interesting fight.

[EbonHawk]

Yeah I'm beginning to see that, OlympicBear. Bosses are pushovers with most augs enabled and working. I had slightly more difficulty with the hoards when, after about 50 headshots, I was running low on 10mm ammo. I will prevail though.

[EbonHawk]

Originally posted by Bad Ninja:

We are talking abouit the the dude with no skin in the upstairs area where none of my augs work due to electronic interference?

You must've taken the chip upgrade then, right?

I just hid behind a box and frag-'naded his butt about 4 times and he went down easy-peasy. Too easy, in fact. Had all my augs so I could see him even when he was "invisible".

[chasing for hugs]

Originally posted by Lord Of Dorkness:

Stun-gun them until they fall over. It takes almost a stack of ammo, but they'll just stand there twitching the whole time.

The easiest method imo. Felt like a boss after figuring this out myself.

[Redfire]

It should be pretty easy if you didn't take the new chip, but even with it... With a laser rifle it's painfully easy, just shoot him from cover till he falls. If you still have the augs, you can go through a vent on second floor to a room with security terminal, which can activate bots to make it even easier for you.
All bosses are pretty easy imo (even though Barret can be a pain in the ass if you don't have much ammo and didn't unlock bot domination). Fedorova can be shot with a revolver till she drops, it's pretty easy to track her even without augs that let you see her invisible (mark and track, smart vision), not to mention the second floor that was added in DC. There's a security terminal that lets you hack a bot that will kill her pretty easily and you can even shoot some pipes for gas.

Originally posted by unknown:

Originally posted by Lord Of Dorkness:

Stun-gun them until they fall over. It takes almost a stack of ammo, but they'll just stand there twitching the whole time.

The easiest method imo. Felt like a boss after figuring this out myself.

I'm pretty sure they fixed this in director's cut, they will not be stunned for as long as they were in vanilla HR.