This Game is Amazing, but Holy Crap Birkin G2 is a terrible boss

[BionicMeatloaf]

I'm doing a speedrun and this is just highlighting how terribly designed this particular boss is. in order to kill him you need to run around in this tiny ass arena all while Birkin himself is just as fast as you, his attacks have a huge range, and his attack arks are wide enough to make dodging around him frustrating as all hell. On top of that in the beginning of the actual fight it's difficult not to take damage because the frieght container is in the way before you move it.

Something seriously should be done about this because I am almost pulling my hair out over this

[Canti]

git gud. You are literally part of the community that does a time save that may save about .6 seconds but takes 10 hours to practice.
Dont Complain, BREAK THE GAME. ;D

[Jim]

Originally posted by Serious Cow:

On hardcore I was stuck on this fight for about 2 hours. Definitely the hardest boss in the game.

Hardest boss lol? You can kill him with a knife?!

[FruitBat Man]

I struggle with G1 Birkin not G2.

It's not the G1 Birkin kills me is that it takes so damn long to kill him my speedruns are almost killed themselves.

[bulldog0890]

all the bosses are fine except G1. its not hard or anything, just really uninteresting. just run in a circle and shoot him over and over

[Shiroi Ren]

G2 has to main attacks. Dash and Jump (?). Dash is easier to avoid since it give you 1 second out of his way. Another attack has less delay between ready and attack animation. Lure him to dash attack.

[them4pples]

shoot his eye on his right arm until he's stunned. he stays down for a decent amount of time, which is enough to get the cargo container to hit him. it's really no that hard. i thought it was easier than the first birkin fight since you have to use way less ammo

[Serious Cow]

Originally posted by UYU | Star Platinum:

Originally posted by Serious Cow:

On hardcore I was stuck on this fight for about 2 hours. Definitely the hardest boss in the game.

Hardest boss lol? You can kill him with a knife?!

I didn't find any other of the bosses to be anywhere near as difficult.

G1 was just a time-consuming run around, but not hard.
G3 has a large arena so dodging his attacks are fairly simple.
You have the gatling gun for G4 and his attacks are very easy to dodge.
By the time I faced X at the end, I had so much ammo stockpiled that he was a breeze.

I don't know how many knives it took for you to beat G2 but I wasn't prepared to waste them all on him. I may have found it more difficult because I was being extremely conservative with ammo. I only used 1 bullet on him and had to use the crane 3 times.

[Shiroi Ren]

Originally posted by Serious Cow:

I don't know how many knives it took for you to beat G2 but I wasn't prepared to waste them all on him.

1 knife usualy on normal. He can be stunlocked with proper position to slash him. G1 can be killed with a knife as well.

[Explodium]

Yeah I found him to be pretty BS too.

Not necessarily from the size of the arena, but the fact that if one of his attacks connect, the next one's probably going to be coming out fast enough to hit you again right as you stand back up, stunlocking you to death.

I've had several cheap deaths on HC this way.

[BionicMeatloaf]

Originally posted by Explodium:

Yeah I found him to be pretty BS too.

Not necessarily from the size of the arena, but the fact that if one of his attacks connect, the next one's probably going to be coming out fast enough to hit you again right as you stand back up, stunlocking you to death.

I've had several cheap deaths on HC this way.

I feel like Capcom really needs to tweak this fight by either making the arena bigger or slowing Birkin down a little.

A lot of my deaths to him were just me running away trying to get him to trigger an attack animation only for him to ride my ass for 20 seconds. The fact that he is just as fast as the player really pisses me off especially when you consider how slow the player characters actually are

[Bullett00th]

Originally posted by Wyrtt:

Originally posted by Bullett00th:

you're a master of exaggeration you know)

to each their own. I had no issues with other fights against him. It's just a tiny platform which I find ridiculous

I am? In 20 years I never encountered boss easie than that.
Tiny? Are you trolling? It is twice the bozz size. Not only you can just run past him but he has jusr 2 predictable moves.
1. Jump aka run slightly to the left and unload 2-3 pistol bullets while he just stands afk.
2. 3 hit combo when he is near you. Bait hin to start it. Back off for a bit and than run to the left between 2rd and 3nd strike.

HE JUST CANT HIT YOU.

If thats not enough arena has flash, mangum bullets and crane aka boss dead without single bullet shot mode.

As you can see in this thread people are having issues with him.
I mean he's simple conceptually, but he's also BS.

I guess it's different for everyone. Like I said it's alien to me how people are having so much trouble wth Mr.X.

The whole 'This boss is easy, git gud' thing is redundant, I've read my fair share of that on Dark Souls discussions.

[Banana]

Originally posted by Catpuppy:

With Leon, flamethrower puts him down on his knees real quick.

I tried, to use flamethrowe, no use, spender 300 oil also not get him down, i use fully upgraded mutilada even more faster.
Which I wonder... flamethrower maybe just like knife, more frame rate more damage???