how do you beat the nihilanth?

[long chin man]

theres no guides to show how to delete it. its one of the hardest bosses ive ever come across and a lot of the attacks dont make a lot of sense (apart from the cool blade waves and the rock effects) there are attacks like the yellow hand lasers and orbital bombardment that dont make sense and seem to be randomised to whether you live or die. the hand multi-lasers just go across in an inhuman way so theres no actual way to dodge them before the attack has even begun, and the bombardments do massive explosions that dont even hurt unless you're hugging them. the blue brain laser seems to lock on even when you're moving and ive even tried changing direction and it'll either miss by a hair or always do 90hp damage.

i need answers. i havent slept in days and im not sure what im doing wrong

[Rushi]

Keep shooting him and his head will split open. Shoot the crystal inside his head for a few seconds and you're done.

[Soot Leopard]

...it's not quite that simple, but it sounds from your description that you've got past the earlier parts of the fight where you need to target the other crystals -- some of them don't show up until late.
I know that 'cause I spent quite a while on the second phase running between the healing pool and charging rock before I realized I needed to shoot the yellow crystals he pops out of the ground to heal from.

If you're at the end phase of the fight where he just throws everything at you in a frenzy, all you need to do is keep moving and keep shooting it. Its attacks do a lot of damage but there's a lot of supply caches in the room and with a little luck you should be able to reach them before you die, then keep shooting. Eventually his head splits open like in the original Half Life, as Terra-BITE already mentioned.

[long chin man]

Originally posted by Soot Leopard:

helpful text wall

im on normal rn. considering restarting it but i was on the second phase and thats where the real difficulty showed up. from what ive noticed you can flank around the blue lazor beem that has the shield and shoot it there but it just gets another attack going that you need to dodge and theres like 4 supply caches total and i already went through all 4 at the start of the second phase

1. any way to actually dodge the lazor beams?
2. any way to dodge those op wrist laser thingos?
3. any way to heal yourself after you use up those supply caches?

thanks lol

[Soot Leopard]

I was on normal difficulty as well, just for the record to make your next post simpler. ;)
And yeah if the laser beam has its own shield then we are both talking about the same part of the fight.

1. Probably if you're very good at using the longjump. I think I managed it once, but I hadn't used up the supply caches yet.
2. You can try to go under the wrist lasers or try to slip through a larger gap in each one.
3. Never needed to find out, unfortunately. I exclusively used the healing pool and charging rock during the first part of the fight and then just barely made it through the end using all the supply caches I could find and spamming gluon gun/rocket launcher as much as possible. I think I may have returned to ones I'd already partially used 'cause I think some of them have more stuff there than you can carry at once.

Only other thing I can think of was that I tried to get a full charge of health and suit power before destroying that last yellow crystal and triggering what came next.

Sorry for being so lengthy. I can't see through your eyes exactly what you've done... I only know it can't have been the exact same thing I did. So I just hope my words might stumble across something that gives you an idea. :)

[long chin man]

nah i say text wall if something is too long while quoting to reduce thread length so people dont have to buy another scroll wheel

most of the time people dont understand that you can actually edit the information in the quote so people just have 4 quotes all with like 4 paragraphs each of text wall info

[GordonFreeman(Muted)]

You dont beat nihi. He beats you ;)

[GordonFreeman(Muted)]

You can dodge all of those laser attacks even the shockwaves or laser beams that swipe through the arena in a radial fashion but just moving through the gaps.

[Soot Leopard]

Gordon, you look different. Kinda more russian somehow...
...did you shave?

.........

Sorry. That was too good to pass up

Something relevant I forgot to say earlier -- I remember it didn't take more than a minute or two of shooting after the second phase of the fight began for Nihilanth's head to start opening up. If you're lasting significantly longer than that and nothing's happening, you may be having an AI bug... others have been reporting bugs with other AIs in the game since the latest update so it's certainly conceivable.

[long chin man]

Originally posted by GordonFreeman:

You dont beat nihi. He beats you ;)

heavy taunt killed nihi

[Pizza Basil]

Spam long jump on any difficulty and win