Little guide about how to easily defeat Dhurlga without cutting his tentacles for gold medal

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Yes, Dhurlga is the monster with tentacles surrounding his orange core. The gold medal in this case is: Cleared the episode 3 without destroying any of the Dhurlga tentacles.

I found this from a youtube walkthrough, but in nowhere i can find a text tutorial. So I post it here in case people look for a easy solution. As a beginner this gold medal was such a pain to my butt that I had to back up my save before encountering this monster so as to make sure i dont accidentally cut his tentacles.

Lucky for you here is a easy solution that I've tested it personally. This works for both survival and no escape difficulties in chapter 3. With this method, not only you can get the gold medal, you save a lot of ammos and hassle too.

Requirement:- the only thing you need is to stock up at least 1 smokescreen bottle (the more the better if you are in no escape difficulty anyway) and 1 decoy bottle. Make sure you do so in previous episodes.

First encounter:
1. During chapter 3 you will have your first encounter of Dhurlga inside a house after picking up the battery crate.

2. After this monster shows itself, immedately throw a smokescreen bottle towards it and the decoy bottle near it.

3. Then simply walk (you dont even have to sneak by crouching) behind him and wait for the stealth attack prompt to show up and give him a stab on its core.

4. After that it will scream and the decoy bottle will explode just in time to damage it a bit to make the cutscene run: it will then run away due to enough damage being inflicted. Job well done and ammo saved.

Second Encounter:

Option a: you can actually just walk away from this encounter without confronting it by distracting its attention towards 1 character (preferably Natalia since she cant die) while the other moving the battery crate (after killing all other monsters of course). However if you are also after the record: Dhurlga Conqueror (Defeat 10 Dhurlga, Reward: Dhurlga Figurine), then you might want to kill it as well since it's hard enough to meet 1 Dhurlga in a single compaign walkthrough.

In this case you only need 1 smokescreen and 1 decoy bottle as above.

Option b
1. For this option you are going to need 2 more smokescreen bottles, apart from the 1 thrown already.

2. Make sure clear and kill all other monsters first before dealing with Dhurlga. It's slow so you should have enough time to take out the Slinger and Revenant with powerful rifle.

3. Make sure Natalia is far away from your sight and keep her waited (F1 button) and unarmed so that she cant accidentally throw a brick to destroy Dhurlga's tentacles.

4. Using the same strategy, throw a smoke screen bottle on it and immedately walk behind him to perform the sneak attack on its core. Then wait for it to stand back up.

5. Do not knife it if you aim for gold medal of not cutting its tangles, otherwise be my guest to knife it a few times before it stands up.

6. In survival and no escape difficulties, 1 stealth attack is not enough so after it stands up, go around its back and perform the stealth attack again while the smokescreen is still in effect. A smokescreen bottle should allow you to perform about 3 sneak attack if you are quick enough.

7. If the smokescreen runs out, throw another to perform stealth attack until it dies. In survival difficulty it requires 4 stealth attack (no knifing) to take it down.

To be honest i never thought about how easy it would be to pull off a stealth attack against a mini-boss. My friend told me fire bottle is effective against this monster but it really isn't.

Hope you enjoy.

Edit: typos, and option a is added for 2nd encounter.

[HelenaEX2]

Or just use the shotgun with stun power and spam him to death.

The smoke bomb was something the game tell you as hint on the first encounter.

The real figth is on Episode EX1

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Originally posted by A.R.G:

Or just use the shotgun with stun power and spam him to death.

The smoke bomb was something the game tell you as hint on the first encounter.

The real figth is on Episode EX1

Oh, I didn't know there's such hint lol. Then it's more a surprise to me that some speedrun on youtube didn't use this stealth approach on the first encounter, which is much more faster than gunfire approach.

Are you sure shotgun wont destroy its tantaicles? That gold medal was a pain to get with gunfire. Sometimes you dont even notice one of its tantaicles is destroyed.

[HelenaEX2]

Originally posted by ...:

Originally posted by A.R.G:

Or just use the shotgun with stun power and spam him to death.

The smoke bomb was something the game tell you as hint on the first encounter.

The real figth is on Episode EX1

Oh, I didn't know there's such hint lol. Then it's more a surprise to me that some speedrun on youtube didn't use this stealth approach on the first encounter, which is much more faster than gunfire approach.

Are you sure shotgun wont destroy its tantaicles? That gold medal was a pain to get with gunfire. Sometimes you dont even notice one of its tantaicles is destroyed.

Get close with Natalia, his attack will change and he will show always his weak spot. Using daze and burst on shotgunt will make him easy to death.

Im also speedrunner on this game. But on countdown mode. I do that or if you had evade cancel you can just do the stealth attack evade yourself and spam him to death. If you dont dodge the sealth attack he may had the chance to recovery himself and you will need to use again another smoke granade.

The smoke granade is the most lethal thing on this game for all enemies (Except Neil) If you want to run away or kill with knife use smoke bombs if you want to go DPS and kill quickly all the bosses use explosive granades (i got "Im sorry pedro" on my first walk cause i spam him granades and Claire AI use the shotgun on him) With Neil is something special the bombs. You need at least 3 or 5 depending on difficulty to put him on the ground and spam him with all you had.

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Originally posted by A.R.G:

... if you had evade cancel you can just do the stealth attack evade yourself and spam him to death. If you dont dodge the sealth attack he may had the chance to recovery himself and you will need to use again another smoke granade.

Stealth attack + evade cancel :o
That's something new to me. Can you explain a little bit more about the timing? Like when to perform the evade cancel amid stealth attack? My guess is evade cancel only comes in AFTER you stab it with stealth attack?

I always thought evade cancel is kinda....meh in compaign, except maybe cancel out Moira's lengthy melee animation. But I notice some pro players tend to use evade before they switch out the character and I wonder why.

[HelenaEX2]

Originally posted by ...:

Originally posted by A.R.G:

... if you had evade cancel you can just do the stealth attack evade yourself and spam him to death. If you dont dodge the sealth attack he may had the chance to recovery himself and you will need to use again another smoke granade.

Stealth attack + evade cancel :o
That's something new to me. Can you explain a little bit more about the timing? Like when to perform the evade cancel amid stealth attack? My guess is evade cancel only comes in AFTER you stab it with stealth attack?

I always thought evade cancel is kinda....meh in compaign, except maybe cancel out Moira's lengthy melee animation. But I notice some pro players tend to use evade before they switch out the character and I wonder why.

Well i always evade when i already stab him to gain a little bit of damage but when im speedrunning i just kick him then i evade back and full spam with magnum

You can evade before or during the switch (sometimes "during" is by mistake because, lets say you are with claire and you change to moira and you are spaming dodge both will dodge at the same time that is cause the AI didnt take control yet for claire and you still controlling her for 1 sec before you pick Moira) to impulse the character you are leaving control, this help to "gain ground" with the other character like on EP3 with Claire and Moira to avoid the message "separate from x" or make Claire, Barry Moira or Natalia get closer if you are forced to open a door with Barry or Claire, the AI only run on certain parts like on Pedro figth when you are 5M or more away from Moira she will run but on other part she just walk no matter how far you are, dodgin you can "impulse" a little bit that character. On Natalia is really useful cause she runs slow compared with the rest of characters but his dodge is faster (or at least more than his running).

On EP 3 from Barry the part where both have to activate the door at the same time you can "push away" barry and take control on natalia and crowl to the other button, like this when you change characters Barry will not be watching Natalia and it will be a lot more closer to the button allowing you to save time, you also dodge to the left when you leave Natalia to make her more closer to the crowl spot and bring her back to barry (cause she always say "No" when you use "Follow me" or "Wait").

The campaing is good but is a lot fun with someone playing it with you (i invite a friend to play with me on remote play and she like it a lot how the campaing change when you had someone with you) but if you try to speedrun the "Blitz play" with the characters to avoid losing time is really fun. Thats why i re-download this game. Evade Cancel is a really powerful skill with any type of player. In fact i saw the AI recover from a Neil hit with a dodge, thats how i discover evade cancel allow you to insta recovery the control, and i feel the dodge is 300% better than using only "Cant catch me" (or the other skill i forgot the name for campaing to increase the dodge time). Evade canceler is a great skill for campaing and Raid mode, is my third escencial skill the first is "Ranged Heling" second "Last Stand" those two skils i buy it on my first time and i really love it after i got all the skills, but Evade cancel is the best to play agresive, run away faster or just recovery.

*Plus no one know about this and im 100% im the only one who know this but Evade cancel allow you to "insta-revive" your 2nd character if is dying without go nearby and revive him i will explain this on a guide im thinking to do.*