Stone Titan Laser

[Anahit]

Is it intended to be undodgeable? I understand you can run behind cover to stop it but I cannot seem to dodge it by any means - not letting them lock onto you before it fires, teleporting to the side or up with the huntress, etc.

If it is intended - what is the reasoning? To facilitate a more cover-oriented game?

[street sign]

Originally posted by Gruunix:

Is it intended to be undodgeable? I understand you can run behind cover to stop it but I cannot seem to dodge it by any means - not letting them lock onto you before it fires, teleporting to the side or up with the huntress, etc.

If it is intended - what is the reasoning? To facilitate a more cover-oriented game?

If you sprint and can move fast enough, you can dodge it fairly easily. MUL-T's ability makes dodging these easy.

[Boboscus]

Even with maximum sprint speed I couldn't run past them, unlocked the challenge for more than 300% speed, haven't tried it with the robot's slide skill yet tho.

[Kavrick]

Originally posted by Y'vvel:

Originally posted by Gruunix:

Is it intended to be undodgeable? I understand you can run behind cover to stop it but I cannot seem to dodge it by any means - not letting them lock onto you before it fires, teleporting to the side or up with the huntress, etc.

If it is intended - what is the reasoning? To facilitate a more cover-oriented game?

If you sprint and can move fast enough, you can dodge it fairly easily. MUL-T's ability makes dodging these easy.

The stone golem lasers can be dodged but the stone titans laser has 100% tracking on you, it's kinda silly, the only way you can avoid it is by going against cover, and if the titan is in an open area it's pretty unfair.

[The Crackadalion Death <3]

That fight has wrecked me twice now, almost killed it the second time. I am determined to beat it lol

[Mem-Cho]

Yeah it's busted, the only way is finding cover, which isn't always possible and rip the run

[The Crackadalion Death <3]

after managing to reach area 7 and having to fight 4 stone titans, i can now say that unless you are fast enough, it'll more or less one shot you. But in saying that, its still possible, just takes a fair amount of time. Im hoping the laser's damage can be lowered sometime tbh

[RNJEZUS]

Same problem of it being impossible to dodge, we arrived in an open area where we had to activate 7 beacons. There is no cover there, any suggestions? Go under water?

[-VB-]

The gold dimension? Yes, under water is a viable option, but u need to be like another side of the map to get a cover from Titan’s laser

[Zeddy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJeU6k1PnlE&t=195

3:15 in this video I sprint circles around a titan to avoid the laser. "Undodgeable" is simply untrue.

[The Crackadalion Death <3]

Most of the time it is undodgeable, sometimes you can outrun it. More often than not its the former. Remember that just because it didn't happen to one person, it isn't automatically false.

[Zeddy]

You need to sprint and start circling and getting close as soon as you see the bead. "Undodgeable" means "absolutely impossible to dodge", not "pretty difficult to dodge", and most certainly not "consistently possible to dodge if you're aware of it".

[The Crackadalion Death <3]

the vast majority of the time its near impossible to dodge mate, it's a big thing in the ror2 discord too

[Kavrick]

Originally posted by Zeddy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJeU6k1PnlE&t=195

3:15 in this video I sprint circles around a titan to avoid the laser. "Undodgeable" is simply untrue.

It's the exception, not the rule, sometimes it can track you even with 20 energy drinks, the AI bugs out, it's supposed to have 100% tracking

[robruckus65]

Originally posted by Zeddy:

You need to sprint and start circling and getting close as soon as you see the bead. "Undodgeable" means "absolutely impossible to dodge", not "pretty difficult to dodge", and most certainly not "consistently possible to dodge if you're aware of it".

Well it can track a huntress that can blink 3 times so it is incredibly hard to dodge. If there is more than 1 of them on the screen and no cover near by you are almost constantly taking damage from it. It is a bit unfair the only way you can consistently dodge it is if you have a large amount of movement speed buffs which is silly.

[Tigerhawk71]

Originally posted by Zeddy:

You need to sprint and start circling and getting close as soon as you see the bead. "Undodgeable" means "absolutely impossible to dodge", not "pretty difficult to dodge", and most certainly not "consistently possible to dodge if you're aware of it".

"i'm going to be pedantic when the intended message is clear and my posts add no value to the conversation" - You.

If you hadn't posted, absolutely nothing of value would have been lost in this conversation. All you have to say is "IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE". Thank you, we know that. Please go away.



Anyway...


The laser is highly tracking, hard to avoid and probably the last properly un-fun mechanic remaining in the bosses, now that magma worm is less of a chore. It's the only boss that flat out requires use of cover lategame (unless you have really good defensive options) and of course, you can't stun the boss, so the only option is to either tank it or run - be it behind cover, or in close circles, sometimes neither option is viable.

It's not that it's hard, though it certainly can be... but it's just not really fun in the current iteration.