Are Purple lasers of Mission 5 boss bugged?

[Blattdorf]

During the second or third phase, the purple lasers simply come out of nowhere. On closer look, they seem to come from the boss, but the second it starts moving its body, they seem to get whipped across the screen as if their pathing glitched out.

Is this intended? It's one thing to simply be bad at dodging, but another when the attack almost instantly teleports on top of you.

[Blattdorf]

I don't have a problem with the green orbs or the spikes, but with the lasers. They are supposed to be slow-moving barriers, and I don't have a problem with dodging them during the first phase. It's just the second and third phase when they spaz out completely.

[Blattdorf]

This boss is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. There's so much random stuff flying around, and then the boss can randomly decide to fire the purple lasers, turn around and hit you with them because their pathing is glued to the bosses' animations. It's clear this attack was intended to occur at certain moments during the fight, but instead it can happen randomly during phase two and three, screwing you over.

[cowbell]

What difficulty are you at? On the early ones, the double plasma explosion weapon is a boss killer, but it explodes the whole screen. Moving up, I think the Thunder Sniper C is a boss killer, which you might be at. The medium range 360 degree scattershot and its upgrade are amazing.
You can always grind 15+ armor on easy a couple times and try again. I was stuck on Hard for 1000 armor. The game gets easier later.

[Blattdorf]

I've cleared Hell (the difficulty beyond Inferno) with under 500 armor. This boss is just bugged, so it's all about killing it quickly before all the wonkiness erodes your healthbar. I'm certain even the green bullet spawners are bugged in some way.

[Wiawyr]

Necro, but still relevant. Struggling with this boss on Hell as well, at 800 armor. There's simply too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the screen at once, too many instant lightning attacks on top of the constant pink and green bullet novas and green seekers. It really is a DPS race to kill each stage before the absolutely atrocious design and implementation overwhelms me, but if I stop dodging to attack (or I dodge too much) then you're at 0 energy with no invulnerability-frames. Still not sure what magic combination of weapons and specific dodges will get through it.

I really wonder if the developers of this hated the mainline EDF games