Marauder is totally sh*t. Who agree?

[Alice Glass]

There is the secret Demonic Infestation challenge where you have to fight against Marauder and two lesser demons and the point is - you just cant beat him in 30 seconds. My Marauder just running around me and spamming the ghost wolfes without being vulnerable for counter-attacks. In these 30 seconds he was "green-eyed" like three times and there is no weapon to kill him in this short time (I dont want to spend BFG for this + its kinda hard to calculate).

I dont like this kind of enemy in Doom. I want to "rip and tear" and the game works perfectly for this, but when i see Marauder, its like - "oh ♥♥♥♥ here we go, need to turn brain on".

Nightmare difficulty, ofc.

[Alice Glass]

♥♥♥♥ this. Killed him with BFG. So annoying.

[Gin-chan]

i've seen someone say its better to return to that particular challenge with a cheat on or with the sword

[Alice Glass]

This challenge supposed to be playable in the first run. Yeah, could be easier to return after all, but still - everything has to work in the first run.

[losing to weeb]

i think they just want to add some dark souls element in this doom... hard, you counter that with this weapon and that weapon, or you can overlevel/brute force.

FYI you don't need to complete the whole level to get collectibles you left behind, you can just go back to the fortress after you get it

[Rushi]

Usually he's manageable with the super shotgun and patience, though with the secret encounter time limit it's stupid. Just used charged ballista shots after I realised I didn't want to spend half an hour trying to pull off frame-perfect movements.

[Nintony]

imagine complaining about the difficulty only to reply with "did it with easy weapon" right after
ZOOM ZOOM

[Alice Glass]

lol nobody gets what i meant. In this challenge u have to beat him in 30 seconds. But in my case he just wasnt vulnerable for counterattacks - only three/four times in these 30 seconds. There is no gun that makes enough damage to kill him in time.
Its not about being good or being silly to use BFG. Its about game mechanics that doesnt allow you to finish this challenge by your own, it just depends on how many times Marauder decides to flash his eyes green. I was trying 7 times and killed him in 8 with BFG just cuz I couldnt kill him with any other gun in three sets. That's all.

[Rushi]

Originally posted by cordella:

lol nobody gets what i meant. In this challenge u have to beat him in 30 seconds. But in my case he just wasnt vulnerable for counterattacks - only three/four times in these 30 seconds. There is no gun that makes enough damage to kill him in time.
Its not about being good or being silly to use BFG. Its about game mechanics that doesnt allow you to finish this challenge by your own, it just depends on how many times Marauder decides to flash his eyes green. I was trying 7 times and killed him in 8 with BFG just cuz I couldnt kill him with any other gun in three sets. That's all.

He only uses his counter-able attack at mid-range. His eyes never flash when you are too close or too far away.

[Alice Glass]

Originally posted by Terra-BITE:

Originally posted by cordella:

lol nobody gets what i meant. In this challenge u have to beat him in 30 seconds. But in my case he just wasnt vulnerable for counterattacks - only three/four times in these 30 seconds. There is no gun that makes enough damage to kill him in time.
Its not about being good or being silly to use BFG. Its about game mechanics that doesnt allow you to finish this challenge by your own, it just depends on how many times Marauder decides to flash his eyes green. I was trying 7 times and killed him in 8 with BFG just cuz I couldnt kill him with any other gun in three sets. That's all.

He only uses his counter-able attack at mid-range. His eyes never flash when you are too close or too far away.

I know i kept my distance, even it was hard tho, since the room was small. But still, sometimes he had the animation of run, standing still at the same time, or just used strafe left-right, or summoned the wolfes again and again. And it costs time that makes the challenge hardly beatable.

[Gin-chan]

Yeah the timed challenge itself is pretty unreasonable imo against an enemy you have to hope that he gives you an opening...

[Alice Glass]

Originally posted by Gin-chan:

Yeah the timed challenge itself is pretty unreasonable imo against an enemy you have to hope that he gives you an opening...

Thank you! Finally someone understands )

[Alabeo]

Originally posted by cordella:

lol nobody gets what i meant. In this challenge u have to beat him in 30 seconds. But in my case he just wasnt vulnerable for counterattacks - only three/four times in these 30 seconds. There is no gun that makes enough damage to kill him in time.
Its not about being good or being silly to use BFG. Its about game mechanics that doesnt allow you to finish this challenge by your own, it just depends on how many times Marauder decides to flash his eyes green. I was trying 7 times and killed him in 8 with BFG just cuz I couldnt kill him with any other gun in three sets. That's all.

Point blank Super Shotgun. Goes down in 20 seconds. Trust me, keep honing this skill, it's satisfying to f*ck him up.

[Alice Glass]

Originally posted by JellySnek:

Originally posted by cordella:

lol nobody gets what i meant. In this challenge u have to beat him in 30 seconds. But in my case he just wasnt vulnerable for counterattacks - only three/four times in these 30 seconds. There is no gun that makes enough damage to kill him in time.
Its not about being good or being silly to use BFG. Its about game mechanics that doesnt allow you to finish this challenge by your own, it just depends on how many times Marauder decides to flash his eyes green. I was trying 7 times and killed him in 8 with BFG just cuz I couldnt kill him with any other gun in three sets. That's all.

Point blank Super Shotgun. Goes down in 20 seconds. Trust me, keep honing this skill, it's satisfying to f*ck him up.

how many shots it required?

[Zip]

Super shotgun + Ballista, marauders don't last long against it. That challenge took a few attempts but even on nightmare it was just fine; make sure you just maximize each shotgun parry you get with a follow-up ballista shot to the head.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Really, the Marauders have been the only challenging enemies in the game from what I've fought... 5 out of 6 of the Slayer Gates weren't all that hard, just the one with the Marauder was a problem, and even that only because of said Marauder...

Running into a timed challenge with a Marauder, I decided to come back to it later after a few tries.