Being a ♥♥♥ – How to Beat BRAWLER on HARD Difficulty

This guide will explain the steps you'll need to take in order to win the Brawler mini game on the Hard mode setting.

About Brawler - Achievements

Brawler is a mini game available in Being a ♥♥♥ where you battle an opponent by pressing the arrow keys in a shown order to defeat them. You'll have a limited amount of time to press the correct keys to land a move or defend an attack. If you make a mistake, or fail to complete the sequence in time, your attacks will miss and your opponent's strikes will land. Play continues until someone is defeated.

You’ll play the Brawler mini game in two ways: on your phone in the Brawler app and during the main story line. There are three possible fights during the main game, one of which is optional. The remainder of the fights take place in the Brawler app that you can play during free roam. Each time you free roam, you can earn one $, unlock a special render, and gain a skill point (or later one $ when your skills are maxed) by playing the app.


There are Seven achievements associated with the Brawler mini game.

Hard Mode/ Story Achievements
• Roommate beatdown – Beat Troy on Hard difficulty setting
• Vice presidential beatdown – Beat Dawe on Hard difficulty setting
• Presidential beatdown – Beat Chad on Hard difficulty setting

Brawler App Achievements
• Nerd pummel – Beat the easy brawler opponent
• Prep pummel – Beat the normal brawler opponent
• Jock pummel – Beat the hard brawler opponent

Additionally, the special renders you unlock on the Brawler app contribute to the Magazine collector achievement.

How to win on Hard mode

The first time you can play the Brawler mini game is during the first free roam.


Access your phone by moving your cursor to the upper left corner of the screen and choose the BRAWLER app on the bottom left, the one with the GLOVE icon.

The first time you enter the app, the game will ask you which difficulty you wish to play.


The difference between the three modes is the length of time you have to input the moves. Easy gives you plenty of time while hard mode is pretty darn fast. Don't be discouraged, though! We want to get those achievements! Choose “Hard mode”.

Note, it is possible to LOWER the difficulty during the game, but not raise it. Choosing a difficulty here effects the difficulty of the Brawler mini game during story mode.

Once you've selected the difficulty, you are taken to the main menu.


Here you have several options:
• Opponent – Choose one of three fighters ranging in difficulty to defeat and win rewards
• Store – Buy upgrades like counter strikes and additional skill points
• Skills – Spend your skill points to make battles easier and increase your changes to win
• Fight – Battle the selected opponent
• Tutorial – How to play the Brawler mini game. Watch if it’s your first time!
• Quit – Return to Free Roam

First, you want to spend the free skill point you received. Choose "Skills".

You are taken to the skills screen which contains four skills:
• POW: How much damage you deal.
• HP: How much damage you can take.
• DEX: How much time you have to input your moves.
• MOV: How many attacks you can make in a row.

In Hard mode, the only stat that matters is DEX. Hard mode greatly reduces the timer available to input moves. By increasing the DEX stat, you'll be given more time and thus have a better chance to win. The more points in DEX, the easier this mode becomes until Maxing out the stat gives you about the same amount of time as Normal mode.


Next, you’re going to want to buy a skill point in the store.

Depending on how you've played to this point, you probably have at least one $. Even if you don't, the scramble puzzle on your phone (the app next to Brawler) gives you one $ each time you beat it in free roam. It's time to spend it in the store to buy an additional skill point.


This will allow you to raise your DEX by one more point. You should now have THREE points in the DEX stat in the Skills tab. The time should be slowed down enough for you to beat the hardest opponent in Brawler and earn one more skill point. Choose the "Opponent" option from the main menu and select the HARD opponent. You'll see under his picture the reward for beating him.


All that's left to do now is FIGHT!

When you beat the hard opponent (practice on the EASY opponent if this is your first time playing Brawler and watch the tutorial) you'll earn the last skill point you need to raise your DEX to four, maxing the stat. Now you should be able to breeze through Brawler for the rest of the game.

I recommend putting your points in POW next, to increase the damage of your attacks, and then MOV to give you more attacks in a row. Later, when you have the money to do so, buy Counter Strike in the store. It's a way to punch your opponent for free after they punch you and it makes battles go quicker.

Don't forget to fight the other opponents, you'll earn an achievement if it's the first time you beat them and you'll need the Normal opponents render if you want to unlock them all during the game.

You're ready to beat Brawler on the Hardest difficulty!

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Leveled dex up 2 times and then focused on power and hard became quite easy. Cheers for heads up. The normal speed of pressing on hard was ridiculous.

[Dethlane]

2 dex is enough on hard if you're focused (it also punishes sloppiness, keeping things interesting). 1 dex - only if you're pro at reaction stuff. Regarding counter attack, the way I saw it, there are 2 ways of not getting hit - dodge and block (picked at random?) - and counter only triggers on block (same with opponents, I guess).
And yeah, you get rewards for every opponent per free roam (maybe except prep, since the number of brawler renders per episode is limited), so don't forget to always do it (unless you aren't into it).

[EUfemboy]

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[Aluminum Elite Master]

An alternative approach is buy the Healing Skill, and never pay for skill points. You get a skill point for beating each Hard brawler option in each chapter (maybe was even each free-roam? I think it's chapter though). You could easily get two skill points in DEX, and maybe spend a single dollar for one more, and have it at 3 or so for those tougher story opponents later on.

The healing skill feels more powerful to me than anything else. Only if you really need tons of time to input arrow combos would I worry so much about maxing DEX immediately.

[LK]

hmm maybe since Im a hardcore gamer I play alot of competitive games like counter strike, League etc, my reflex is fairly good. I found it easy even on hardcore without upgrading anything lol, I upgrade POW first just so I kill them faster lmao

[mchoufleur]

Darn, I chose Easy and was hoping there'd be a way to turn it up to Hard later Welp, I guess I'll save that for my second Massive DIK playthrough

The Counter attack perk is pretty cool, but I haven't fully figured it out yet... On some attacks (maybe standard punches?) I can press Right or Left and counter, but on the high and low attacks I can't ever seem to get a hit in Am I supposed to press Up or Down when those attacks proc? Any more info on countering would be greatly appreciated Thanks for the guide!

[cst1992]

Thanks for this guide. I usually spend my early skill points in MOV or POW. This gives me a reason to put more of them in DEX.

[cst1992]

@CritHappens Have you tried playing Brawler in Hard mode? I also played Brawler quite easily before but believe me, Hard mode just doesn't give you enough time to pick moves. When you have to choose between the correct out of the four choices, you need time to read them all, and that's what the Hard mode takes away. Pressing the arrows in sequence is not the issue - that's manageable.

[Game Master]

I beat Jog on hard without paying for skills. Truly hard, but managable if you fully focused.

[JRSPipBoy2008]

@loulou Use the arrow keys on your keyboard.