Emperor battle unbalanced. (Insane difficulty)

[H4ter]

Okay, first of all.
Fighting final boss with a character without upgrades is a really dumb. It's like starting endless run at Insanium.
Second, 1 life. Pretty fair but we don't have upgrades, at least 2 or 3 lifes would help.
Third, amout of abilities boss have and cooldowns. In my opinion boss have too many abilities and removing 2 of em would have a lot. Like his companions who repair it's armor or that's Slam abiliy that throw you away. Or atleast give it cooldowns for abilities to stop this spam.
Last but not least teammate AI. This dude literally tanking the final boss who can one-shot him and dies without even helping.
Some of this ideas could make boss battle more balanced but still hard enough.

[True Spino]

your fighting the leader of a robot army that has defeated humanity in space and is about to defeat them on their home planet, this is his last effort to defeat you. its gonna be hard

[Doborog Games]

Thanks for your feedback! We've gotten a similar sentiment from many other players, so we'll probably look into changing this in some way that makes it slightly less unreasonable. :)

[True Spino]

and you can destroy his companions that give him armor too btw

[PenolAkushari]

there also seems to be a combo from the boss where he would stun you with the double whammy, and then 50/50 follow it up with laser or hammer. laser in most of the situations ends up being a gameover. mostly frustrating. also seems like drones would slap on an armor piece on the emperor just as they're in the "building" process, the moment their model even appears. don't think that was really intentional? like, if player was fast, they could kill the drone when it spawns in, preventing emperor from getting the armor back.

[RainWing]

hes so op. Can there just be like 2 or 3 revives?

[RainWing]

Originally posted by Doborog Games:

Thanks for your feedback! We've gotten a similar sentiment from many other players, so we'll probably look into changing this in some way that makes it slightly less unreasonable. :)

more revives. a least a hammer 1 and a sword 1 body for you to transfer to

[Doborog Games]

Originally posted by PenolAkushari:

there also seems to be a combo from the boss where he would stun you with the double whammy, and then 50/50 follow it up with laser or hammer. laser in most of the situations ends up being a gameover. mostly frustrating. also seems like drones would slap on an armor piece on the emperor just as they're in the "building" process, the moment their model even appears. don't think that was really intentional? like, if player was fast, they could kill the drone when it spawns in, preventing emperor from getting the armor back.

Thanks! Good notes there.

Curious to hear all feedback, as it definitely seems to be a common pain point for people!

[PenolAkushari]

currently there are some 0.1% of madlads who did it so far. probably would get bigger in the future, but yeah, fight could be tweaked a bit. probably upping the live count won't be really needed if stun + laser would be tweaked somehow, whether with making boss have some mercy and only use hammer slam when you're away and stunned, or get some robot body with faster get up time. don't think i've had much troubles with anything else, patterns could be learned after several tries

[neobiel]

even tho this boss is pretty much unfair (and just bs sometimes) I've managed to find a pretty good strategy to beat him on insane difficulty

once you start the fight, go straight to the flying drones and try to destroy all of them while avoiding the emperor's attacks. if (somehow) your partner manages to survive this should be more easier because the emperor will most likely to target your partner instead, giving you time to destroy the drones.

after sucessefully destroying them, go to the emperor and wait for his sword swing attack. this attack can be easiely be dodged by just jumping, BUT... here's the trick; after jumping to dodge his sword attack , you can hit his hand/arm, and if you manage to destroy his armor and then attack him on the hand/arm again, he'll lose BOTH sword AND the hammer, which makes him pretty much useless. he'll be only able to use the flame breath and respawn the flying drones.

This might take a few tries to do, but it's the "easiest" way to beat him that I've found so far

[True Spino]

Originally posted by Eevee TV:

ALSO PLEASE NERF THE EMPEROR NOBODY EVEN HAS THE ACHIVEMENT YET!! AND THE SPEAR IS SO WEAK PLEASE GIVE US A HAMMER OR SWORD

pleennnntyyyy of people have the achievement

[True Spino]

Originally posted by Eevee TV:

ALSO PLEASE NERF THE EMPEROR NOBODY EVEN HAS THE ACHIVEMENT YET!! AND THE SPEAR IS SO WEAK PLEASE GIVE US A HAMMER OR SWORD

and what?spear is good in this scenario, a long weapon that can hit the emperor at more of a distance than other melee weapons, and fast+singeplayer faster speed. you take away the armor quickly and the only "problem" is hitting him in the neck

[Colorado River]

No one has made what i did i made kill him in insanium

[Colorado River]

wait there is a 0.4% wo did like me

[ReaperEOD]

Guys.. it's definitely possible. Just get above him, charge in and stab him in the neck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdhHwVhKeM

I did also live for quite a while, with several close calls but managed to beat the whole chapter in less than an hour after release, just had to go to work after.

[PWx2]

Originally posted by Doborog Games:

Thanks for your feedback! We've gotten a similar sentiment from many other players, so we'll probably look into changing this in some way that makes it slightly less unreasonable. :)

Imho insane difficulty should be extremely difficult. The reward is one of the most difficult achievements to obtain, one that speed runners and try hard gamers might cherish. Took me many attempts and I wouldn't want it any other way. Thanks for a great game