crystal mechanic in proto bahamut fight

[Physical Disconnect]

are the arcadia crystals in the proto bahamut fight sometimes bugged for some reason ? it seems like they dont get any damage at all just as if they had overdrive and bloodlust making you unable to destroy the crystal in time before the bar is full causing party wipe.

[Vanosea]

Originally posted by Need the Malt Star:

are the arcadia crystals in the proto bahamut fight sometimes bugged for some reason ? it seems like they dont get any damage at all just as if they had overdrive and bloodlust making you unable to destroy the crystal in time before the bar is full causing party wipe.

In the phase where Proto Bahamut summons 4 gold-colored orb in the sky, all 4 players/3 AI and 1player have to destroy them under 7 secs or the crystals will be protected by a shield. He does this after his "I spit yall with my blue beam" move.

Edit: The AIs are smart enough to go to 3 Turrets. So you just need to destroy yours in solo. in Multiplayer, sometimes the others that are not on turret duty just blanks out and forget to man their turret and it usually is a quest fail then.

[Physical Disconnect]

so wait you are telling me theres gold colored orbs that need to be shot down with cannon before the crystals land otherwise the crystals getting a shield and cant be destroyed anymore?

[Vanosea]

Originally posted by Need the Malt Star:

so wait you are telling me theres gold colored orbs that need to be shot down with cannon before the crystals land otherwise the crystals getting a shield and cant be destroyed anymore?

This only happen once after his "beam spit on the deck" move. But if you fail tto destroy these, the crystal will always be protected by a shield for the rest of the fight.

[Physical Disconnect]

how exactly do they look like? ive only seen blue and red ones but never gold colored ones thats why i am so confused right now thanks for the explaination tho you made it more clear what happend :)

[Vanosea]

Originally posted by Need the Malt Star:

how exactly do they look like? ive only seen blue and red ones but never gold colored ones thats why i am so confused right now thanks for the explaination tho you made it more clear what happend :)

You don't really need to know what it looks like. Like I said, he only does this once per fight and it is after he beams up your ship's deck. You can't miss it unless you're not really paying attention to his move rotation.

[Setsugekka]

Usually in the middle of the fight he will suddenly instant summoned 1-2 waves of purple orbs you better destroy them or it might kill anyone that fail to dodge then he will switch side to do the gold orbs
at that point you better make sure everyone is alive before the switch and get to the other side cannon asap so if you play with AI they will be ready to down the orbs without fail.

[Nepnep]

Originally posted by Need the Malt Star:

how exactly do they look like? ive only seen blue and red ones but never gold colored ones thats why i am so confused right now thanks for the explaination tho you made it more clear what happend :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EozBrAimgL8&ab_channel=Fappu

At the 7 min mark. There are large golden orbs beside Proto. Another two more is on the other side of the ship.

Not me. I'm not so hardworking to solo Proto -_-

[Setsugekka]

Actually after watching some of my recording:
no overdrive => summoned 1-2 purples orbs wave then switch side to summon gold orbs
overdrive => does gold orbs after spitting laser

[Vanosea]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3168615019
This is the beam move
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3168614990
And this is the gold orbs. 2 on each side

[Physical Disconnect]

wow i honestly never saw them maybe because of camera i always awaited the crystals to fall at that part without noticing that theres even more mechanic to it. so you have to shoot these balls with cannon before crystals fall and then there wont be a shield? this was really helpfull thank you guys!

[Vanosea]

Originally posted by Need the Malt Star:

wow i honestly never saw them maybe because of camera i always awaited the crystals to fall at that part without noticing that theres even more mechanic to it. so you have to shoot these balls with cannon before crystals fall and then there wont be a shield? this was really helpfull thank you guys!

No problem. Hope you understand the mechanic better now. His rotation usually goes like this.

50% HP > Supernova > Beams up your deck > flies back and summons 4 Golden orbs > then the crystals.

Since this specific rotation only happens once a fight, it's really easy to memorize.

[ZexxCrine]

Originally posted by Need the Malt Star:

so wait you are telling me theres gold colored orbs that need to be shot down with cannon before the crystals land otherwise the crystals getting a shield and cant be destroyed anymore?

To be fair you can still destroy the crystals you just have to eat through the barrier. it’s almost impossible to do with ai, but I’ve had a couple runs where the protected crystals get summoned and we still break them. It’s just much much harder.

[Nepnep]

Stupid crystals are the only thing stopping me from afk farming this. My stupid AI refuse to mount the gun unless I do.

[Little_Five]

Originally posted by Nepnep:

Stupid crystals are the only thing stopping me from afk farming this. My stupid AI refuse to mount the gun unless I do.

The performance of the AI in version 1.0.5 game in the proto Baha battle has been improved a lot. Now they will be more proactive in doing mechanics than the matching system gives to your confused or stupid teammates. The matched Baha battle I experienced failed several times due to the golden orbs mechanism, and how many times it happened in my single player farmed with AI? Never.

[Normal Lee]

Originally posted by Vanosea:

Originally posted by Need the Malt Star:

how exactly do they look like? ive only seen blue and red ones but never gold colored ones thats why i am so confused right now thanks for the explaination tho you made it more clear what happend :)

You don't really need to know what it looks like. Like I said, he only does this once per fight and it is after he beams up your ship's deck. You can't miss it unless you're not really paying attention to his move rotation.

This is just straight up not true. He will summon the gold orbs many times over the course of a single fight, and failing to destroy them all even once gets you stuck with the shields around the crystals.

In the attempt I just did he summoned those orbs at least four times and I lost because the fourth time he did it my party members just didn't get to the turrets in time.