Valac fight

[shinryu495]

So i went into NG+ on nightmare and I had a few questions about this fight. Does his hp scale upward if you sequence break? I went to Bloodless, Abyssal guardian, Alfred, and then Valac. I basically tried sequence breaking. Anyways I was doing 400 per gun shot and according to the game he has 2500 hp. This took like 20 shots to his face though which makes me think if you sequence break, the previous bosses will scale up.

Also, it happened twice to me in previous playthroughs but has anyone been able to figure out how to drop below the platform and/or get behind one of the heads? The former happened to me after the kiss of death move after I got hit. I managed to drop a floor a below and you see that they really didn't animate alot of Valac. You can pretty much stay behind the head and keep hitting it safely.

[Visi]

I think he's scripted to have to move to a certain point or that the fight has to go on X amount of time before he actually dies.

[Torus]

Pretty sure that's a case of scripting indeed, because his death animation relies on him falling off the tower at a specific point.
Also, if you really want to break the fight, during the back & forth fire breath Standstill will take full effect, unlike most other attacks from any other boss

[EB64]

Definitely a scripting thing.
Really frustrating when going for the medal when you gotta wait until AFTER the "kiss of death" move for it to actually die.

[SmallGespenst]

Valac is weird. it was probably planned to have a second "combined" phase as it does in CotM. as is it just has some basic attacks with nothing really interesting, makes it pretty easy to do a not-hit run, even on hard mode.

it's interesting that you were able to glitch to fight that badly, though not especially surprising that it was on a circular stage, those are always screwy and awful.

Originally posted by EB64:

Definitely a scripting thing.
Really frustrating when going for the medal when you gotta wait until AFTER the "kiss of death" move for it to actually die.

it's not much of big deal, especially when it's up with craftwork as one of the easiest bosses in the game to get the medal, the "kiss of death" even tells you where to crouch with Valac's hands.