Final Boss bugged? [Spoilers]

[Ace]

TL:DR at bottom

So I'm trying to fight the final boss. I'm pretty sure I understand his mechanics. You wait until he sends you to the Shadow Realm, kill a bunch of ♥♥♥♥ to buff damage against him, and leave when you have enough stacks.

The problem I'm encountering is that 75% of the time, the portal to exit doesn't appear. I googled it and it says to kill an enemy with a headshot to spawn the portal. When it works, it works on the first headshot. But like I said most of the time the portal simply doesn't appear for me no matter how many kills I get, headshots or otherwise. That got me thinking that maybe there are other triggers. I tried headshots with my primary and secondary, non-headshot kills with primary and secondary, melee kills, charge attack melee kills, kills with weapon mods/while mods are active, kills in different parts of the arena... nothing works.

I'm thoroughly convinced that it's just bugged, at least for me. Anybody else having the same issue? I literally can't beat the final boss if I can't get out...

TL:DR Shadow realm portal won't spawn most of the time. Internet says headshot kills spawn it, but that isn't working either.

[Crono]

for sure it's bugged , when i've managed to kill him he stood there invincible , gave me the rewards but did not die at all and i had to suicide myself.
In addition when triggering cutscene in 2 players one gets scrambled up and cannot do nothing more than wait for the other one to trigger the cutscene as well.
Seems like they did not test the final battle :D testers went on holidays too soon!

[Energy]

Personally i've been doing fine with 5+ kills on him. Once i got stuck in the void due to no portal out. There's been reports of restarting the game and it worked for them. Try that and see if it helps.

[Ace]

Yeah I finally managed to get two portals in a row, which let me beat him, and the same thing happened to me. Now I'm confused on what to do now... Can't re-initiate the boss fight, no cutscene or ending, none of the NPCs say anything new, no quest objectives.... Like... did I beat it?

[Energy]

You beat the game. Now you can go ahead and reroll your campaign at the red crystal in Ward 13! With a chance to see new bosses that you 100% did not see in your first playthrough that will grant you more weapons and weapon mods!

[The Jacq of Hearts]

This Boss is a joke. iam having issues as are alot of players where they stack up the damage and then he does not drop down and open himself up for some real damage. they just come out and use the damage buff but the boss does nothing. yet he will speradicly open himself up at other times when hes had less damage delt and other ♥♥♥♥...its soo ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weird to watch i have difficulty giving details...

Its basically ♥♥♥♥♥♥ atm and the devs did a ♥♥♥♥ job on encorporating it into the game so far

[Done25]

Originally posted by The Jacq of Hearts:

This Boss is a joke. iam having issues as are alot of players where they stack up the damage and then he does not drop down and open himself up for some real damage. they just come out and use the damage buff but the boss does nothing. yet he will speradicly open himself up at other times when hes had less damage delt and other ♥♥♥♥...its soo ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weird to watch i have difficulty giving details...

Its basically ♥♥♥♥♥♥ atm and the devs did a ♥♥♥♥ job on encorporating it into the game so far

Supposedly he pops open if you do 3.5% of his max HP during the retaliation phase. No idea if it actually works or not...