Can I cheese Mr X by allowing the timer to run down prior to the fight?

[KiLL ScreeN]

Ok, I am on MR X on Leon A HC. I only have a handgun and 40 bullets going into the fight. From experience that isn't enough. I heard online that Ada drops the rocket launcher at 1:30 regardless of damage taken. Does anyone know If I can cheese him by waiting the time down and starting the boss fight with say 2min on the clock.

I honestly don't fancy trying to kite him for 6-7 minutes. Especially considering Birkin took multiple attemtps to pull of due to this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ difficulty adjusting. Dying now would mean having to do the entire lab section again

[talgaby]

Good question, try it if you have a save before him.
That fight is on an internal invisible 3:30 timer, so I am interested as well.

[KiLL ScreeN]

Originally posted by talgaby:

Good question, try it if you have a save before him.
That fight is on an internal invisible 3:30 timer, so I am interested as well.

I died to his wind up insta death move. I didn't risk it and started the fight at around the 7 min mark. I will give it another go and see what happens.

What do you reckon, start the fight at the 2 min mark?

[talgaby]

Well, I will likely test it this weekend, but that is far away. We'd need to put in the double fuse into the elevator at the 1:50-2:00 mark to see if Ada drops the weapon at 1:30, then another one at 1:29 or as close below 1:30 as possible to see what happens then.

[KiLL ScreeN]

Well I'm just before Birkin in the lab having used my last save. This adaptive difficulty is killing me. I have 24 shotgun, a magnum clip and over 70 handgun and struggle to beat him. I heard the trick is not to shoot when his chest eyes are exposed early on as he has 50% health for his final form regardless. Not sure it exactly true but the only way I've managed to beat him without infinite ammo was shoot his 3 eyes. Ignore his chest eyes and then shoot the 3 eyes again before finally unloading on his chest. I also heard he has a few I frames as well.

Anyway, I will save it before MR X and update results shortly. I can go back and get the rocket launcher later

[Elensar]

The rocket launcher will always be dropped eventually, you just need to survive long enough. He's easy enough to evade but it would help alot of you had a flash or grenade or two so that when you see him charge his one shot kill you can interupt it. If you haven't delt much damage you'll need to use two rockets to kill him. Use a third to clear the zombies at the bottom.

it's not cheesing the fight, it's a valid strategy.

You cannot kill him with regular weapons, you just need to last weapons can help stun him and keep him controlled a little but whether you have loads of ammo or no ammo everyone kills him with the rocket launcher.

[Si-Fi]

I recall even at the beginning of the fight in the original, i took the opportunity at an early stage and kept going around in circles and dodging his attacks until the RL triggered.

[KiLL ScreeN]

Yeah, I have s ranked all scenarios on normal and both the A scenarios on Hardcore. This was the first time I have tried hardcore whilst going for the S+.

My issue was that I saved it before Birkin so have 2 consecutive boss fights and very little ammunition. I was hoping I could wait the timer down before I enter the fight so I don't have to dodge him for 3 minutes, lol.

I'm on the lift waiting for the 2 min mark so I can install the battery. Fingers crossed

[KiLL ScreeN]

One thing I have noticed just now. When you are in the inventory screen the self destruct timer doesn't count down but your game time does. I just waited by the inventory screen for 5 minutes and when I closed it the timer was still on 7 minute

[KiLL ScreeN]

THE TIMER RAN OUT AND I DIED.

I waited until 1:55 then installed the fuse. I ran around the lift avoiding him until the timer ran down. I purposely didn't fire any shots other than a couple of shots to stop his insta. After about a minute the rocks started falling from the sky. I imagine if I had more time Ada would throw the rocket launcher.

I'm gonna try 3 minutes and no damage him to see if Ada drops the launcher

[Si-Fi]

I would say 3:30.

[(Frantic Dan)]

i've seen videos of people hugging his left hand and moving around him like that so his claw misses all the time, he never seems to use his instant kill move when i saw this. pretty sure after a few minutes the cut-scene played

[Elensar]

Originally posted by KiLL ScreeN:

THE TIMER RAN OUT AND I DIED.

I waited until 1:55 then installed the fuse. I ran around the lift avoiding him until the timer ran down. I purposely didn't fire any shots other than a couple of shots to stop his insta. After about a minute the rocks started falling from the sky. I imagine if I had more time Ada would throw the rocket launcher.

I'm gonna try 3 minutes and no damage him to see if Ada drops the launcher

Don't run down the timer like that, the fight is a set time just start fighting as soon as possible.

[Si-Fi]

Hugging would defeat the purpose of completing it legitimately.

We're supposed to be up for a challenge, not a hugging competition. lol

[gazmitchell]

you have to avoid him 1 way or another for the 3.30 so best bet is to watch and attempt the run around trick to stop the insta kill attack.

i normaly always save 2 flashbangs and a clip of magnum rounds for this fight as theres more than enough time on the speed run to get the magnum if you plan ahead. a few shots to the chest or a flashbang stops the instakill charge the rest is just a dodge and weave contest as its all scripted

[Si-Fi]

Maybe you don't necessarily have to play ring-a-rosie with him but attempt to dodge at will and search for the trigger to start the script.