Killing that hound dude challenge is infuriating

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Seriously, first you have to do a puzzle with a lot of dogs on your ♥♥♥, and after you have to fight him being careful to not kill any dog. And if you screw up, if you have to redo everything, my only gripe so far. Terrible challenge.

[Vexlanei]

The puzzle part isn't TOO bad, if you're careful you can avoid freeing the caged hounds and waking the sleeping ones. The Houndmaster himself is complete garbage though, since he can kill his own hounds with friendly fire and it counts against the challenge.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

I failed at him (killed too many dogs) but discovered that if you are fast enough and keep attacking, he cannot summon houds, you have to do quite some damage. Will try again.

[FreeToaster]

What I did during the fight was hide behind the chest in the back and try to lure him to it, the dogs generally keep a distance to shoot fireballs at you so you can easily wear him down there. If it gets crazy, just run back to the other side of the battle and run back. The dogs will follow you, but are also stupid.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Also im playing on hard, so dropping this mission to easy just for this particular challenge must help as well (easier to kill the hound fella).

[Silver]

You can climb onto the left-corner cage (near entrance) and just shoot him to death.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Thanks for all the suggestions, will try again later, decided to finish everything else first. This dude can wait .

[Warrior of Right]

Originally posted by Vexlanei:

The puzzle part isn't TOO bad, if you're careful you can avoid freeing the caged hounds and waking the sleeping ones. The Houndmaster himself is complete garbage though, since he can kill his own hounds with friendly fire and it counts against the challenge.

Ya almost got this first try by only killing 1 hound in the puzzle part by accident but then he friendly fired some more while fighting him.... Buzkill

[Nihil]

That fight on it's own is a huge pile of sh**t
So tight space and so many particle effects. Can't even see where the f*** i'm. And that 1 hit one kill hit attack of him is bullsh*t

[Q]

I came back to do this once I finished the game and was at maximum power. Put the difficulty down to casual, dart past all the dogs and once you manage to get to the boss, run at him instantly and pop Strife's Anarchy Form, And just literally hold down the gatling gun (Not the rockets) and he will melt in like 5seconds.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Just did it. But i wont change my opinion, terrible challenge, jeez glad its over.

[HighLanderPony]

Sounds like good game design. Giggity

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

Sounds like good game design. Giggity

You again??? Why you not playing Hollow Knight?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi1DahW2R2k

[Manostion]

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

Sounds like good game design. Giggity

It's one optional challenge for one optional mid-level boss and despite being pretty much impossible on the first try, it isn't broken to the point where you can't clear the quest.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

I would say the devs succeeded, if i dont get mad at it then its not a challenge .

[Manostion]

Originally posted by Zak-Del:

I would say the devs succeeded, if i dont get mad at it then its not a challenge :lunar2019piginablanket:.

Agreed. In fact, there are a handful of quests that are very tough at first but become easier later on. Defeating Mammon without getting hit is extremely strenuous on the first attempt, too.