[stuck] Unholly Goalie Boss

[BlackjackGT]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2492162513
I dunno, man. i've tried everything, every weapon.

I can squash the "initial" version of Unholy Goalie, not his "roid rage" self. I can't even survive 10 seconds against the other version, and his axe attack literally seems unavoidable. I can't jump over it, I can't roll through it. WTH are you supposed to do?

I feel like the first maybe 7 boss battles I enjoyed and they felt challenging but fair to me. But the PTSD soldier, Taxman and this guy UGH I'm just dying dozens and dozens of times, and only by failing at about 20 or 30 different strategies can i figure anything out. I'm just sick of that now.

And I can't get anyone on my friends list to try this co-op. I wish they'd added a true online co-op mode with game session lists and such. Maybe these battles would be less brutal in co-op.

I really don't want to restart on Easy because I feel like the levels play just right for my meager ability at Normal.

[adrian.e.comeau]

My suggestion:

Watch a few playthroughs on youtube, or streamers on twitch. They often have boss patterns pretty well memorized ,and you can start to see those patterns by watching a pro tackle said boss.

If that still doesn't work, we put multiple difficulty settings in the game :)

[Feff]

When he throws his axe in his second phase you just need to duck; you can keep firing when he does this too.

[Radical Rat]

You can also jump over that axe from upper platform, if you get the timing right

[BlackjackGT]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2494231713
DIE UNHOLY GOALIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!

Don't ask me how many times this took, but watching my pal Jab pull off this "jump/dash" movie in our co-op session other night taught me to figure that out on controller and it's really helpful on this sort of a boss battle. :) I was even able once to jump over the damn axe. :D

I think that and saving the rocket launcher for the "altered" boss state helped. :) Also, this instance remembering to grab the two launchers quickly to combine their ammo so I didn't need to scramble for both later.

I stuck with it after that and managed to also get through some of the bosses after him, although with a lot of epic fails while I figured out some tactics.

I guess the best compliment I can pay the game is I'm too addicted to just give up on it, which isn't always the case for me with some games. :) I sometimes feel the need to rant about the game's bosses briefly, get the toxic frustration out of my system, and then go back and play later :)

What made me crazy about the spinning axe was the whole first half of the encounter trained me to leap over the boss, and somehow my brain just couldn't grasp thinking crouch instead. Same in the later "lancer" boss encounter -- I know that one swings low and you need to stay low but it took me umpteen fails until that became ingrained. :)

[Unzen]

Might have to watch some YT videos myself?

As the OP said, the first section of the goalie was fine and then seemingly within ten seconds, I was completely dead at the start of the second. I was a victim of that annoying issue that many games have where you can barely move from your first hit, before being quickly added with a second. You literally laugh at the monitor and mumble "WTF - Seriously?"

When the realisation kicks in that I have to do the first stage all over again - nope, out I quit :)

[BIӨMΣCHΛПӨID69]

Oh man, just wait until you get to the Shogun or play the game on Hard mode. This game is seriously so good and just the right amount of challenging. Haven't beat it on Badass mode yet, but it's definitely something I will attempt in the near future. Hard mode was pretty damn difficult, but definitely manageable.