First boss and restarting the game

[zenfoldor]

The butthurt when I died is severe. Getting good now, but patch in a save station before the first boss!

[KAX]

I died a couple times too. After playing for a while I realized how easy the boss is.

If it's still hard for ya, lower the difficulty and beat the boss. Afterwards raise it back up.

[zenfoldor]

**INTRO STRATEGY SPOILER ALERT**

Just beat it, save has 2 hours 12 minutes. I was beating the first part without getting hit, and yes now I see the boss was very easy, but at first I was confused as to how to dodge the first phase of swipe attacks. What would happen is they would pin me against one side or another and the auto-heal wouldn't have enough time to go off. Once I figured out I needed to manually heal from the menu, I beat it without trouble. Anyone getting owned on the first boss, or someone who has never played before, I suggest informing them that they should auto-heal and stay at full health on the first boss at all times, which may save them a lot of frustration. I suspect that the game becomes much more forgiving on the save point intervals after that first section.

**SPOILER ALERT OVER**

[Tressk]

Originally posted by zenfoldor:

**INTRO STRATEGY SPOILER ALERT**

Just beat it, save has 2 hours 12 minutes. I was beating the first part without getting hit, and yes now I see the boss was very easy, but at first I was confused as to how to dodge the first phase of swipe attacks. What would happen is they would pin me against one side or another and the auto-heal wouldn't have enough time to go off. Once I figured out I needed to manually heal from the menu, I beat it without trouble. Anyone getting owned on the first boss, or someone who has never played before, I suggest informing them that they should auto-heal and stay at full health on the first boss at all times, which may save them a lot of frustration. I suspect that the game becomes much more forgiving on the save point intervals after that first section.

**SPOILER ALERT OVER**

for story reasons there is no save in the prologue. It is questionable design admiteddly, but the whole point of the prologue mission is that 2B and the squad she came in with is clearing out the machine factory so that yorha can safely land in the area because the giant machines that u fought in the prologue prevented yorha from sending troops down to the surface. So since the first save points are on the surface, it makes sense from a story stand point that you cannot save yet since you are doing the mission that essentially unlocks those save points for you. That being said, I think the prologue is lenient enough with difficulty and it doesnt punish you for playing on easy or anything so I never saw it as a problem personally :/

[Exarch_Alpha]

Sigh this again.

1- Hard is called Hard for a reason. If you aren´t good enough play on normal. There is NO extra content or achievements for Hard anyway. And don´t come with crap like "I play Dark Souls I´m so PRO blah blah blah"
2- You shouldn´t expect to beat Hard on the first playthrough of ANY game. If that game allows it, it´s because its difficulty definition is BS.