Arcade Unlimited bosses conditions

[Traf]

According to dustloop forums, the conditions to fight unlimited Bosses in Arcade Mode are as follow:

Originally posted by dustloop:

-Unlimited Nine: All Distortion Finishes
-Unlimited Izanami: All Overdrive Finishes -or- All Astral Finishes with only some or no Overdrive Finishes -or- a mixture of Distortion, Overdrive and Astral Finishes that exceeds a set number.
-Unlimited Ragna: All final rounds Astral Finish, every other round Overdrive Finish (if set to 3 out of 5, the extra round can be a Distortion Finish at minimum)

But I'd like some precisions:
Do Overdrive and Astral work as well for Nine?
Does losing a round, or a match, ruin everything?

[FlyingTorcensoredWhale]

I asume, that losing a round would actually ruin everything, if previous games are anything to judge by

[Traf]

Alright, guess I'll do exactly that then.
I manage just fine against the AI, but I tend to use DD or RC out of sheer habit before the end of the round. :/

[Pig Mac]

Necroing an old post, as I didn't want to start one, asking where the heck unlimited Nine came from, (and why she beat me up before I even noticed it were the unlimited version).

I were playing around with Hazama, as he's been very neglected recently. I did a mix of OD and Distortion finishes, and didn't even know the unlimited ones existed as bosses.. and that Nine at least didn't care what the difficulty were set to?
(..as I'd rather jump feet first into a meatgrinder then face her again, without being prepared for it at least.)

[Red]

Originally posted by Pigmachine:

Necroing an old post, as I didn't want to start one, asking where the heck unlimited Nine came from, (and why she beat me up before I even noticed it were the unlimited version).

I were playing around with Hazama, as he's been very neglected recently. I did a mix of OD and Distortion finishes, and didn't even know the unlimited ones existed as bosses.. and that Nine at least didn't care what the difficulty were set to?
(..as I'd rather jump feet first into a meatgrinder then face her again, without being prepared for it at least.)

I found the fight against Unlimited Nine to be a walk in the park with Ragna compared to CSE's Unlimited Hazama... I still haven't tried to beat him again, but I remember the pain of retrying over and over. I guess it's different depending on the character you're playing, with the balancing and how well you can play said character...

[Pig Mac]

I forgot even Hazamas basic combos.. just messing around to see what I remembered, and after it were over, she suddenly popped up as a really unpleasant surprise, and no chance to retry/continue after the pretty quick one round loss.
I've been messig around with Terumi and Amane, and forgot totally

Ragna have a quite logical gameplay, with decent damage and 'standard' moves, where Hazama have pretty low damage outside combos, and when once forgotten, really strange move-set to get the combos going again.
(That my arcadestick have begun getting rusty (for real!) didn't really help me )

[Crasher TN - gB]

Originally posted by Traf:

Alright, guess I'll do exactly that then.
I manage just fine against the AI, but I tend to use DD or RC out of sheer habit before the end of the round. :/

Be careful, lowering the AI doesn't work in the unlimited versions on Arcade Mode.

[NeoStrayCat]

Yeah, I know its not mentioned, but for those wondering, you can only fight them in Act 3 of Arcade mode within those certain requirements to make any 1 of the Unlimited bosses appear.

And, yes, the AI will usually have its difficulty to max when you fight them.

[Red]

Ah, my bad. I was talking about Act 1's Nine, I'll have to check out Act 3's Unlimited Nine... (*mentally prepares to try over and over*)

[NeoStrayCat]

Originally posted by Red:

Ah, my bad. I was talking about Act 1's Nine, I'll have to check out Act 3's Unlimited Nine... (*mentally prepares to try over and over*)

Technically, you don't fight any unlimiteds in Act's 1 and 2, both Nine and Izanami are just regular characters to fight.

[Pig Mac]

Originally posted by Crasher TN {₵Ø฿Ɽ₳₴}:

Be careful, lowering the AI doesn't work in the unlimited versions on Arcade Mode.

That were quite.. noticable, from just farting around with the other chars on my (unsuspected) way there.

[Pig Mac]

Now I've gotten her without wanting it, all the act 3's I've tried today.. as I haven't seen some of the uninteresting chars short storys yet.. and no need to do any thing but put in an OD finish the last fights it seems?.. (and I'm still as helpless, as the char I'm running it with are.. well uninteresting, so I harcly know their basic moves.)

[Nepped Hazama]

I realized while fighting unlimited Izanami for the first time I saw familiar abilities that the AI had when it was the boss Izanami in the abyss. (ribcage active until you hit it, teleports before behind nothing personal kid)
so I guess you could practice against the abyss bosses to learn their unique abilities