About Milhaly (Spoilers)

[KnifeySpoony]

When fighting Mihaly in level 18 I hit him with 8 QAAMs with damage upgrades (hard difficulty) and he kept going. Eventually I hit him several more times and he finally went down, but only after he finished monologuing. Is he just that durable, or is he wearing plot armor until he's done bragging about how many people he's shot down, like in the earlier encounters with him?

[Hobo Misanthropus]

It's scripted, how it works is that when you hit him with enough damage to push certain thresholds, his dialog fires, he will remain at 99% damage until he finishes his final dialog,t hen the next hit will kill him (including MG). If you do enough damage to him to hit 99% in a short period of time, his lines will fire in succession, so you just have to kind of wait it out.

Every encounter with Mihaly is like this.

[KnifeySpoony]

Wow. That's a really bad design choice. Thanks for clearing it up. Also, does that include all other boss characters? I feel like I've had similar experiences with them.

[Lafettie]

Originally posted by KnifeySpoony:

Wow. That's a really bad design choice. Thanks for clearing it up. Also, does that include all other boss characters? I feel like I've had similar experiences with them.

Did you hear a Drone having a dialogue ingame ? Its only Mihaly. All the other ones are Drones which are either durable or die after 1-2 Missiles.

[ToJKa]

Well, at least it's only three fights. Assault Horizon had one in every mission that was invulnerable until you chased him trough his designated scenic route.

[KnifeySpoony]

Originally posted by Lafettie:

Originally posted by KnifeySpoony:

Wow. That's a really bad design choice. Thanks for clearing it up. Also, does that include all other boss characters? I feel like I've had similar experiences with them.

Did you hear a Drone having a dialogue ingame ? Its only Mihaly. All the other ones are Drones which are either durable or die after 1-2 Missiles.

No, but everybody else is running their mouths during those fights, and none of the boss drones die in 1-2 hits. Those drones have never gone down before the same dialogue plays out, so I'm pretty sure they get scripted invincibility until everyone else has said what they have to say.

[KnifeySpoony]

Originally posted by ToJKa:

Well, at least it's only three fights. Assault Horizon had one in every mission that was invulnerable until you chased him trough his designated scenic route.

Three bosses with long periods of invincibility is three too many, especially for a game where the difference between A rank and S rank is often mission time.

[Kayael]

Originally posted by KnifeySpoony:

Originally posted by ToJKa:

Well, at least it's only three fights. Assault Horizon had one in every mission that was invulnerable until you chased him trough his designated scenic route.

Three bosses with long periods of invincibility is three too many, especially for a game where the difference between A rank and S rank is often mission time.

And that's taken into account, the devs would'nt put a 3 minutes limit if there was 3 minutes of unskippable dialogue, so invalid argument. Wait till you try the guns only medal.

The game being an arcade shooter, you have what those kind of games do : bosses with patterns and only a few vulnerable frames. You missed the opportunity to shoot ? Wait for the next one. Simple as that.

[Sevicler]

Originally posted by KnifeySpoony:

Originally posted by ToJKa:

Well, at least it's only three fights. Assault Horizon had one in every mission that was invulnerable until you chased him trough his designated scenic route.

Three bosses with long periods of invincibility is three too many, especially for a game where the difference between A rank and S rank is often mission time.

If you consistently hit Mihaly, he runs early. He doesn't fly on a fixed countdown. About 3-4 missiles should make him run.

[PegAsi]

Originally posted by Kayael:

Originally posted by KnifeySpoony:

Three bosses with long periods of invincibility is three too many, especially for a game where the difference between A rank and S rank is often mission time.

The game being an arcade shooter, you have what those kind of games do : bosses with patterns and only a few vulnerable frames. You missed the opportunity to shoot ? Wait for the next one. Simple as that.

There's a difference between a boss not revealing its weak point for a bit of time ,and a guy talking to make himself invulnerable.

But this is ace combat, that's how it is. Unfortunately if they didn't give him invulnerability, you would get moments like gault squadron members talking from the grave.

Like so, skip to 3:20 in the video:
https://youtu.be/JtI9QrQIMLo