how to beat proving grounds 8 (for blockheads)

here is how to beat proving grounds 8 because it is very frustrating and stressful

Map

Here is what the map looks like.

Summary and Notes

All you have to do is beat 4 waves of enemies while under the effects of 3 drugs in the 10 million yen drug test substory. those drugs are...

1. Fatigue-Free Hexene: Lowers your health rather quickly.
2. Concentarion : Causes you to switch battle styles at random. (Battle styles won't switch during an attack)
3. Vision Improvaxin: Causes a black cloud to manifest, obscuring your vision.

Important things to note are...
1. HEAT ACTIONS ARE YOUR FRIEND!!! Use standard heat actions to stop your health from draining and slugger heat actions to gain extra health!
2. Use your environment and the weapons lying around to your advantage (Thug style)
3. Limit your use of Slugger's Bat Nunchaku technique.

There really isn't a proper formula to follow due to the forced style switch so you have to constantly improvise. Keep in mind that this battle is partly based on RNG so don't beat yourself up if you lose.

(Something that I found out after beating this minigame was that if you set your FOV bar to the middle, the black cloud will stay as if your FOV is on the standard setting, possibly making in easier to see.)

Video (for visual learners)

Strategy

Wave 1: Thugs

These guys are pretty easy just grab the marlin cannon and shoot them once and finish them off using the curb stomp or a weapon butt

Wave 2: The Geisha Boys

These guys are also pretty simple you can blow them to bits using the marlin cannon or use either Breaker's Windmill or Slugger's Bat Butterfly (Sqaure x5 Triangle)

Wave 3: Street Punks

The guy on the right who wears the yellow sweater with white arm stripes has a lot of health so try to run up to him and use the spinning triple takedown heat action when in Breaker style, Essence of the Slugger in Slugger style, or Wall Smash in Thug style. Afterwards, finish them off with either the marlin cannon or basic combos from each style such as Square (x3) Triangle in Breaker, Square (x2, x4, x5) Triangle in Slugger, or Square (x1, x3, x4) Triangle in Thug.

Wave 4: Masked Men

The guy in the middle has a Katana so its best to establish distance and use the marlin cannon to blow them up. Once that's done, Just repeat the final steps of wave 3 and you should be done.

fin

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[Arthur]

If only all guides on Steam were like this.

[Milloni]

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[vdjima420]

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[665]

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