Final boss bugged?

[Avisto™]

So I've gone through the entire game with ease (on my first playthrough) except the last boss. I know you have to stack the buff from killing enemies in the dark realm or w/e, But it did little to no damage and he never had the explosion, And his weak point never showed. I thought maybe 10 stacks wasn't enough so I tried with 14 and still nothing. He WILL NOT show the weak point like I've seen in videos. There's no way I'm going to fight him for like 6 hours that it would take lol. Is this like...bugged or what?

[Aderko]

I am assuming you´re playing on hard difficulty. You´re simply not dealing enough damage.Try the beam rifle + the hot shot weapon mod, that should do the trick.

[IEpicWolfI™]

Once you get banished, kill 7-10 enemies then go back. When you get back, start firing at the boss' chest. Eventually, he'll do a small eruption-like move and expose his weak spot for a couple of seconds. Rinse and repeat. Make sure to hit the chest when you come back from being banished. Only the player who was banished can do it, but once he exposes himself for those few seconds, make sure you're standing somewhere in front of him so that everyone can shoot him in the chest.

[Avisto™]

Originally posted by IEpicWolfI™:

Once you get banished, kill 7-10 enemies then go back. When you get back, start firing at the boss' chest. Eventually, he'll do a small eruption-like move and expose his weak spot for a couple of seconds. Rinse and repeat. Make sure to hit the chest when you come back from being banished. Only the player who was banished can do it, but once he exposes himself for those few seconds, make sure you're standing somewhere in front of him so that everyone can shoot him in the chest.

Jesus man. Did you not read the post? I've killed up to 14 and it didn't happen when blasting the boss with it. It simply will not open to show the weak spot.

[Avisto™]

Originally posted by Aderko:

I am assuming you´re playing on hard difficulty. You´re simply not dealing enough damage.Try the beam rifle + the hot shot weapon mod, that should do the trick.

If I'm not dealing enough damage with 14 stacks, There's an issue with solo mode. If I can't use the loadout that I've spent the entire game building up, That's where my time with the game ends. Kind of a shame.

[Aderko]

Originally posted by Avisto™:

Originally posted by Aderko:

I am assuming you´re playing on hard difficulty. You´re simply not dealing enough damage.Try the beam rifle + the hot shot weapon mod, that should do the trick.

If I'm not dealing enough damage with 14 stacks, There's an issue with solo mode. If I can't use the loadout that I've spent the entire game building up, That's where my time with the game ends. Kind of a shame.

You tell me. I was a melee main in my first 2 playthroughs(coop/solo hard) and then the devs decided to stealth nerf the melee armor set and now on my nightmare playthrough,melee is absolutely obsolete. But yea what kind of build are you running at the moment?A screenshot of your gear would help or else people won´t understand why you´re running into this issue and therefore can´t help you.

[alphastates]

last night i beat him, you have 2 ways to open his weakspot, its a damage and stagger, so try to use some hard hitting weapon, cuz my friend do that with ease using grenade launcher mod on his gun, dont remember its name

[NekoValkyrie]

Some quick damage weapon with the mod "Breath of the Desert" utterly deletes nightmare. I use the hunting rifle and after killing even like 5-7 adds in the shadow realm, I can stun him. The amount of damage you deal with the buff, charges the mod almost every shot, and throwing those 7 orbs at nightmare, even without the lock on youll do more then enough damage to stagger.

[Three-Headed-Monkey]

like others said, abuse the mod power build up because of the increased damage.
alternatively go for sth like 18 stacks (health consumable will help with sustainability)

[Softshell turtle]

you want to have around 20 stacks by the end of every run. try different weapons. coach gun is great. any secondary SMG is also outstanding. fire shot mod is a necessity.

[Darth_Angeal]

Originally posted by Avisto™:

So I've gone through the entire game with ease (on my first playthrough) except the last boss. I know you have to stack the buff from killing enemies in the dark realm or w/e, But it did little to no damage and he never had the explosion, And his weak point never showed. I thought maybe 10 stacks wasn't enough so I tried with 14 and still nothing. He WILL NOT show the weak point like I've seen in videos. There's no way I'm going to fight him for like 6 hours that it would take lol. Is this like...bugged or what?

Use the swarm mod. You can use it in the portal for the adds to get ~10 -12 stacks. Head out, shoot the boss once and you´ll get it back. Use it again on the boss and he´ll get melted down. It´ll take 2-3 portals to beat him with no hurry or issues.

[joe_serge]

Its bugged in some instances, I'm sure of it. We have cleared this boss with ease on one run and can no longer open the weakpoint in another. Guess we are going to reroll this campaign and hope for the best. But it is def bugged sometimes,

[Mustang0524]

Yea, so i was having this same problem and i finally beat him, after coming out with a decent amount of stacks, you have to do enough damage to his chest immediately, then he'll explode and expose his weak spot. I just used the devastator/bandit set for it. Used breath of the wild during that weak spot phase as well.

[Chuddingsworth]

in the dark zone killing mobs including gorefist and shroud, pop back out doing 20k dmg and the boss never opened once Im on PC

[dayionnutmeg]

popping frenzy powder will help increase your dps rate as well, also, maxing some traits like reload, dmg crit,crit rate... You simply need to stack your dps... I can do the final boss with out even taking dmg, Hell i even walk out of the void with full hp, just eat ammo boxes like candy, potions, buffs... they are int he game, use everything that is in the game.

[Roogan]

In my experience, fire damage in general seems to do the trick much faster, probably because it's ultimately a very fancy tree.

in the times I've seen people have issue here, hotshot is often mentioned, while it's damage boost is great I'm guessing it's the boss's weakness to certain elements that's helping even more.

fun fact, it's risky but the flamethrower of the spitfire does it near instantly for me.