Chapter 6, there is this Falco Velocycle

[SoloTrolo]

Falco Velocycle, uses Gatling Gun and insta-kills me. How can i defeat it?
PLease don't say "Use Snow and use Sentinel..." Because right now, I only have Lightning and Hope. Even if i use protect and shell, that gatling gun instakills me. How am I suppose to play when I can't even attack once.

Please also don't say "You're under leveled." Because I'm fully maxxed out, i have an extra 1500 CP on top. Yeah I already grinded. Yet I still die in one hit.

[tiornys]

Pretty sure this is chapter 7, and I'm guessing you're fighting the early one with Lightning and Hope. Best strategy is to stagger it before it gets to Gatling Gun. Easiest strategy is to summon Odin and let Odin tank it. There are some other things you can do but they're either luck-based (hope it targets Hope) or require some investment (stacking two maxed Black Belts with Blazefire/Gladius for Phys Wall 10 + Protect from Hope + healing during Gatling Gun will keep you alive).

[SoloTrolo]

When the fight starts, I have about 2-3 seconds before I lose. (I die before my gauge gets to half) I doubt I can stagger it.

I managed to find a glitch, just keep dying over and over, and spawn outside of the Velocycle's patrol circle... actually thanks tho.

[tiornys]

Uh, that is not how the fight should be going. Literally it uses Gatling Gun before you get a turn? Something is wrong with your game. This is what it should look like:

https://youtu.be/ZeT5HPaWtg4?t=12972

[Nedrith]

So the majority of them you can run past and a summon will work for the rest if you need to.

The solution I used however is Lightning starts of in commander, Hope as ravager. One round of that followed by 2 rounds of rav/rav. follow that up with either another set of rav/rav or a set of com/rav either should be enough to stagger him before he uses it.

[SoloTrolo]

Originally posted by tiornys:

Uh, that is not how the fight should be going. Literally it uses Gatling Gun before you get a turn? Something is wrong with your game. This is what it should look like:

https://youtu.be/ZeT5HPaWtg4?t=12972

I hope you realize that this is Any% right? I'm not an ANY% speedrunner. Speed runners use certain seeds when performing a speedrun. I'm not trying to break the game just to finish the game fast as possible.

[SoloTrolo]

Originally posted by Nedrith:

So the majority of them you can run past and a summon will work for the rest if you need to.

The solution I used however is Lightning starts of in commander, Hope as ravager. One round of that followed by 2 rounds of rav/rav. follow that up with either another set of rav/rav or a set of com/rav either should be enough to stagger him before he uses it.

That's nice for you... but in my game, enemy uses gatling gun before you get to attack once with lightning.

This is how it goes, lets say you play rock paper scissors.. okay? Now, you play against me, when you are planning on choosing any of those, I pull out a gun, and shoot you. You see how unfair it is? That is what im dealing with. You telling me, "Oh I do this, this, and this, works for me." That isn't answering my issue. You are trying to give me a solution based on your scenario. (Literally a Straw man fallacy issue). Instead of using a solution that worked for you, try finding a solution in my case... oh that's right, you can't, because you die before you can do anything.

[tiornys]

Originally posted by SoloTrolo:

I hope you realize that this is Any% right? I'm not an ANY% speedrunner. Speed runners use certain seeds when performing a speedrun. I'm not trying to break the game just to finish the game fast as possible.

There is no seeding in FFXIII speedruns. That is what that fight looks like in every version of FFXIII I've played personally, whether casually or during a challenge run, or that I've seen others play. Also, that's not an Any% run, it's a Dodgeless% run--I picked it because it's a YouTube source that I could be sure would depict the fight. Most LPs skip showing non-boss fights. Any% and most other speedrun categories just dodge this fight.

As I said already, something is wrong with your game if Falco Velocycle is opening with Gatling Gun. Do you happen to be using some sort of ATB boosting mod/cheat? I could see that maybe exlplaing the Velocycle's abberant behavior, and if that's what's going on then you should be aware that the last boss you fight in chapter 11 will be literally imposible with that mod turned on.

[Xerazal]

I just went through this part today, and he shouldn't be using the gattling gun ability immediately. NONE of them use gattling gun right off the bat, and even if they did, you'd have like 5-10 seconds to set up. Doesn't seem like much, but a lot can be done in that period of time.

it should be doing its regular attacks about 4 or 5 times BEFORE it even tries to use GG. I've played the game both on PC and on PS3, and on both platforms it always uses 4-5 volleys of regular attacks before using GG.

Do you have any mods installed? If so, uninstall them (besides the ff13 fix anyways).

I would start the battle with medic/synergy. hope should cast protect on the team, and light should heal. Keep them like that until after he uses gattling. Hopefully protect can absorb enough damage.