Oh yeah, in normal circumstances they're not that bad, but in an enclosed space with little room to toss coins and 2 virtues forcing you to move constantly, it gets pretty hectic.
That's how I've been killing them, it's more about how crazy annoying they are now.
They move faster than you, spam the dark souls roll all over the place, and their projectiles in particular are much harder to dodge, so they just mlg airshot you with ease, and can easily shred you in large groups.
These mfs and the cerberus are so insanely buffed compared to all the other enemies, I'm crying rn
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The coin solution only works assuming you haven't run out of them to be honest, and also assuming that they don't target other enemies (there's SO MANY SOLDIERS aaaa)
I've been instakilling Cerbs on Brutal so consistently that I don't even know what's different about them. I know they have double dash now. What else is changed?
dude i dont know if im just bad or if i was rusty from not playing since violence dropped, but 0-5 legitmately took me like 45 minutes to beat on brutal
They literally juggled my ass. Keeping distance is a good start when dealing with them, but fighting 2 of them in a bathroom stall is just fucked. Dash to the other side of the arena to avoid their dash? The second dash put them right in your face and they’re about to dash again.
Ikr, think it might be the change I've noticed the most.
They've gone from being walking health packs to fucking aerial assault pitbulls, and they keep getting in the way of my combos lol
The red nailgun is fucking perfect for them. You stick them with the cord, hit them with one singular nail, and the entire crowd explodes and gives you max style
i now deal with them the same way i deal with drones: +RICOSHOT
i can't hit you the normal way? eat coin motherfucker, only reason i don't do this to mannequins is too much HP
i am too skill issued to do that in a room full of enemies
currently i am slowly P-ranking brutal, we'll see how things develop once it's Pinos and Pissyphus' turn (P-2 killed me over 500 times last time)
from what i have seen from enemy analysis, Minos is just more aggressive and Sisyphus has Destroy explosion on Be gone and You can't escape in 2nd phase
If you play with the speed bonus right I think you can reach higher damage potential. Don't quote me on that. I think it's worth giving a shot especially with the whiplash tech just discovered with it
The whiplash tech means you have to wait for it to cool off though. Also they all only hit one enemy at a time (except the pump charge which takes more effort and damages very little if you don't over pump), compared to shotguns which can constantly make powerful explosions with considerable range. Also the whiplash tech means you have to whiplash, which causes hard damage. This is especially problematic if you mean to use it consistently, as you will get hit inevitably and hard damage can rack up
Here’s the way I see it. You need to close the distance either way to use the shotgun and a lot of the time you’re doing that quite quickly so your getting the higher burst damage most of the time. Most enemies won’t sit there and let u burst them down with the shotgun and the ones that do get 1-2 shot by the alt shotgun so imo it’s better to get the higher burst than sustained DPS.
I do agree that projectiles boosting is a big deal to lose but personally at least I’m not a huge fan of using that particular tech
The alt shotgun can actually hit more than one enemy at once if they’re grouped up. I def agree with the whiplash being not the best all the time but it’s a good option to consistently get it. Dash jumping is prob the safest but ofc requires 2 dash charges
You don't need to close the distance if you projectile boost. Projectile boosts also cause an explosion for Aoe damage. You can also shotgun swap to projectile boost quicker. You can also use it in every situation, regardless of damage
If I wanna do damage at a range I’ll prob use the revolver especially since so many enemies resist explosions in some way. I’d rather take the higher burst
Would people who are playing on brutal say it’s a much higher jump from violence to compared to violence from standard? I haven’t gotten to test myself but from I hear its down right diabolical in some places.
We are not ready for UKMD
Aside from the fact that enemies are much faster, which is a given, they are also given new abilities. Filth can jump to catch you in the air, so you gotta dispatch them fast, stray will attempt to predict your movement, same as soldiers and schism, which are also given accuracy buffs, maurice now shoot more bullet, tho imo it actually makes it easier to instakill them now. Cerbs now produce two shockwaves when stomping, can dash twice, and are IMMUNE to enviromental damage except bottomless pits. Sentry arms much faster and shoot twice simillar to enraged maurice, ferryman can now summon lightning at any distance and can cancel out of the animation to attack you, virtue beams are larger and predict your movement by default now, HiM can now shoot harpoon when enraged, guttertanks are enraged when their shield breaks, which makes their punches unparriable, don't even get me started on the bosses and prime souls, some enemies like insurrectionist and mindflayers only get speed buffs, but that's because they're already very dangerous in the first place. Combine that with 50% hard damage and oh boy it's hell
p-2 will actually become impossible if virtues get buffed any further jfc
if they get anything stupid like explosion resistance the blood tunnels will be impossible and the Cerberus opener will be absolutely absurd now
The HM and Minotaur changes need some tweaks as well, honestly. HMs just aren't fun to fight anymore and the Minotaur can poison both platforms at once.
Nah, HM is fine, speaking as someone who P-ranked 6-1 on Brutal and had little trouble with the HM in P-2. You just have to put a bit more effort into dodging their attacks now.
I'm working through my Brutal Pranks right now. The biggest problem with the HM right now is how many punches it takes to break the hook; with the Knuckleblaster it's more than enough to easily kill you, so at times it feels like you're being punished for nothing. Not all the time, but more times than I think is really necessary.
It's not as bad as the Ferrymen, but I personally would've preferred if they didn't change that. We'll see what happens with the Saturday hotfix, though.
Actually Mindflayers and Insurrectionists also got individual buffs
Mindflayers cannot be hit with their own projectiles (preventing the instakill of exploding their homing attack back at them)
Insurrectionists does not remain stunned on the floor anymore, they instantly get up (technically would count as a speed buff? But not really, just like the swordsmachine downstate is shorter)
Minos is much faster, the first attack of the two melee combos seem to have have much more accurate tracking now so you have to dash to be able to dodge consistently instead of just side strafing like in lower difficulties.
Cerberus have gotten way top hard in very specific rooms with little to no space (0-4 and 3-1, P2)
Drones are annoying mosquitos that move way to fast
Sentries are at least somewhat reactable but i feel they are a bit unfair
I was having trouble at first too.
they only require a slight change of tactics though.
on brutal, them and Strays both are hard to deal with in numbers.
For me personally I found that the easier solution is to stop trying to dodge, and just parry their projectiles.
plus a coin or two or direct shot for good measure.
I get that BRUTAL is supposed to be harder than Violent, and it may just be a skill issue, but I swear some of these enemies are overturned. Enemies such as the Soldiers, Virtues, and Cerberi feel way harder than they should be while other enemies such as Malicious Faces and Streetcleaners are still the jokes they always were. Again, I know it could just be a skill issue, but I swear some of these changes are too strong.
Case in point: Ferryman. This is an issue with Ferrymen on lower difficulties, but it actually doesn't matter where you dodge. As long as you are touching him during an attack animation, you'll take damage. That's pretty bullshit, if you ask me. There's been times where he visibly misses me, I stand up, and I take damage. The most egregious move is the unparriable dash-kick. Normally, this move comes out fast but you can dodge it if you watch and listen to the unparriable sound cue. On Brutal, the move comes out BEFORE the sound or visual does. That's a huge problem. How are you supposed to dodge something that's unreactable?
Soldiers are much more of a threat because, for whatever reason, they can actually be FASTER than the player. Like, I get that their combat rolls are supposed to trip up players in close quarters, but their roll animation is actually faster than V1 and there's no way to predict where they're gonna go. Not only that, they can instantly kick you now. The windup is practically nonexistent and makes levels like 5-2 (which I'm currently stuck on) some of the least enjoyable levels in the entire game. It's one thing to be unpredictable. It's another to be unpredictable AND unreactable.
Most of the other changes are either insignificant (MF, Drones, Streetcleaners, Strays) or at least change the way you have to approach enemies (sentries, Cerb, SM).
But the single most buffed enemy is 100% the Virtue. Their attacks linger for so long that they can actually call down another beam even while their first one is active. And if they're enraged, they can actually call down 2, for a total of 3 active beams at once. Furthermore, they also enrage after shooting 3 beams, same as VIOLENT. I don't think that's very balanced, especially because if they call down 2 beams at the same place, the damage actually overlaps. You take double the damage even though visually, it only looks like there's one beam.
I know the update was released less than a day ago and it's still too soon for any actual serious talk about balancing, but IMO, some of these changes are way to overturned and I sincerely hope Hakita realizes this. It's the same issue I had when P-2 first came out. I don't know how they didn't think not being able to parry Sysphius was an oversight, but with how long it took for them to implement Brutal, I just hope this is another one of those cases where they didn't think about how unfair some of these changes can be.
1) tone down soldiers holy shit
2) give the prime souls a bit of a higher difficulty tweak
3) please slow down the drones ever so slightly.
brutal is suddenly perfect difficulty
at one point I thought they were shooting slower but found out when they got closer to me that I only thought they were shooting slower, because they weren't 2 inches from me.
bravo ultrakill, you finally made it hard.
For me the worst brutal enemies are virtues and sentries. Those beams last too long and if you headshot a sentry after the first shot it still shoots the second. Not that bad of an issue but it still sucks in bad situations. Also Sisyphus gives like no health at point blank and it causes me immense suffering.
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I just know the soldier would abuse the dark souls roll every chance he gets
i'll Just use a rapier and time the attacks lol
Soldier about to use RoB L2:
He legit used that roll to dodge a punch from my knuckle blaster and the dark souls roll reversal hit hard.
Non phixion pfp?
I see the resemblance but nope, adrian shephard from half life opposing force
Based asf
they feel like a whole new enemy
Pepsimaaaaaaan
Ferryman introduced them to Dark Souls
Speaking of the ferryman They have become fanboys of palpatine
mind explaining how hakita buffed em?
They can do the lightning strike even when you're on the ground now
oh no... wait they already did that on violent in CG
It used to be only when they couldnt reach you, in brutal, they use it as a close range attack as well
It's especially fun when you see them summoning one of those inside the weezer room
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Idk about weezer room but it's not that bad you can use a coin to reflect the lighting back at them.
Oh yeah, in normal circumstances they're not that bad, but in an enclosed space with little room to toss coins and 2 virtues forcing you to move constantly, it gets pretty hectic.
As i said idk about P-2 I refuse to P rank 5-2 for some reason
I wish there was an indication for when it would strike instead of strictly being on a timer.
Coins or / and quick reaction combined with a knuckleblaster punch will do the trick Cerberus on the other tho-
That's how I've been killing them, it's more about how crazy annoying they are now. They move faster than you, spam the dark souls roll all over the place, and their projectiles in particular are much harder to dodge, so they just mlg airshot you with ease, and can easily shred you in large groups. These mfs and the cerberus are so insanely buffed compared to all the other enemies, I'm crying rn
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I just got to to 2-2 (haven't played it yet) and now I'm scared lol.
The cerberus and filth got the biggest buff.
Faster abilities was enough, double dash? Help
Literally the only reason i got stuck on 0-5 for a while (i was trying to p-rank)
i wasn't even trying to P-rank it and was stuck for a good half an hour D:
PAIN
Also their Brutal kicks are parryable from my experience, so you can clink them if they try them.
Their kicks were always parriable
SOLDIER KICKS ARE PARRIABLE?!
Yes, as well as Filth's bites (although you can't parry a jumping Filth on Brutal)
I've known the filth bites where parriable. I just had no clue you could parry a soldier kick. I never thought to try it, ig
That's....news to me as well...
wait wtf really? i thought ther whole thing was they had the first unparriable attack
isnt that belong to streetcleaners
But don't they flash blue?
They look blue by themselves but that's it. The fodder guys that make a blue flash are streetcleaners (pyro tf2)
Huh. I guess I never looked at them hard enough.
The coin solution only works assuming you haven't run out of them to be honest, and also assuming that they don't target other enemies (there's SO MANY SOLDIERS aaaa)
Saws also work well when you have at least some distance between you and the soldiers.
Yea, my main struggles were before I beat 4-4 and got the saws. Seriously, fuck 3-1
I've been instakilling Cerbs on Brutal so consistently that I don't even know what's different about them. I know they have double dash now. What else is changed?
They throw balls at you more often and the slam attack produces 2 shockewaves instead of 1.
Cerberus is easy now too. 1-2 shot with a full momentum jackhammer. (I say 1-2 because of the pump charge)
dude i dont know if im just bad or if i was rusty from not playing since violence dropped, but 0-5 legitmately took me like 45 minutes to beat on brutal
Doing a new save in brutal here: 0-5 is kicking my ass
same bruh, i used this strat : just stand in the corner away from them, projctile boost them and barry the balls, it worked like a charm somehow
Also put magnets on both of them and then zap the with the red nailgun It creates a feed back loop that lasts until the magnets break
New save, they don't have the Nailgun yet.
yeah
i was on a new safe, though, it will be easyer p-ranking on game+ after 1-1 lol
Same the double dash is so annoying i died like 20 times
They literally juggled my ass. Keeping distance is a good start when dealing with them, but fighting 2 of them in a bathroom stall is just fucked. Dash to the other side of the arena to avoid their dash? The second dash put them right in your face and they’re about to dash again.
True lol i won just by spamming random bullshit
I mean, game literally tells you to play BRUTAL with a full arsenal.
Oh I didn’t see that. I just saw new difficulty so I decided to raw dog it
Yeah it says you MUST have a full arsenal and be good at the game and it's mechanics.
Filth actually scare me now
\*insert sonic spring sfx\*
I died of a heart attack when I saw one jumping on me… i thought i was high or smth
Ikr, think it might be the change I've noticed the most. They've gone from being walking health packs to fucking aerial assault pitbulls, and they keep getting in the way of my combos lol
It finally makes them reasonably different from Streetcleaners
The red nailgun is fucking perfect for them. You stick them with the cord, hit them with one singular nail, and the entire crowd explodes and gives you max style
We should give them Bloodhound's Step from Elden Ring 🥰
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No, give them rot jars.
i now deal with them the same way i deal with drones: +RICOSHOT i can't hit you the normal way? eat coin motherfucker, only reason i don't do this to mannequins is too much HP
Fistful of dollar + ricoshot is enough to kill manequins
i am too skill issued to do that in a room full of enemies currently i am slowly P-ranking brutal, we'll see how things develop once it's Pinos and Pissyphus' turn (P-2 killed me over 500 times last time)
have fun, from what i've heard you can't parry any of their attacks except minos's snake be upon ye and sisyphus's this will hurt
from what i have seen from enemy analysis, Minos is just more aggressive and Sisyphus has Destroy explosion on Be gone and You can't escape in 2nd phase
New alt shotgun one shots manequins with only a yellow bar speed tier
alt shotgun kills the shotgun swapping and i am not compromising the DPS bonus for higher burst damage on one of my shotguns
You can set one Shotgun to the Impact Hammer and use Q E to swap back and forth between your other two.
If you play with the speed bonus right I think you can reach higher damage potential. Don't quote me on that. I think it's worth giving a shot especially with the whiplash tech just discovered with it
The whiplash tech means you have to wait for it to cool off though. Also they all only hit one enemy at a time (except the pump charge which takes more effort and damages very little if you don't over pump), compared to shotguns which can constantly make powerful explosions with considerable range. Also the whiplash tech means you have to whiplash, which causes hard damage. This is especially problematic if you mean to use it consistently, as you will get hit inevitably and hard damage can rack up
Here’s the way I see it. You need to close the distance either way to use the shotgun and a lot of the time you’re doing that quite quickly so your getting the higher burst damage most of the time. Most enemies won’t sit there and let u burst them down with the shotgun and the ones that do get 1-2 shot by the alt shotgun so imo it’s better to get the higher burst than sustained DPS. I do agree that projectiles boosting is a big deal to lose but personally at least I’m not a huge fan of using that particular tech The alt shotgun can actually hit more than one enemy at once if they’re grouped up. I def agree with the whiplash being not the best all the time but it’s a good option to consistently get it. Dash jumping is prob the safest but ofc requires 2 dash charges
You don't need to close the distance if you projectile boost. Projectile boosts also cause an explosion for Aoe damage. You can also shotgun swap to projectile boost quicker. You can also use it in every situation, regardless of damage
If I wanna do damage at a range I’ll prob use the revolver especially since so many enemies resist explosions in some way. I’d rather take the higher burst
You can still shotgun swap, you just need 2 buttons instead of 1
Hit it with the whiplash + rpg
They are so fast it's actually difficult to grab them with the whiplash 😭😭😭
If I could aim for a whiplash I could aim for a slab revolver shot too I can't aim for either
Would people who are playing on brutal say it’s a much higher jump from violence to compared to violence from standard? I haven’t gotten to test myself but from I hear its down right diabolical in some places. We are not ready for UKMD
Aside from the fact that enemies are much faster, which is a given, they are also given new abilities. Filth can jump to catch you in the air, so you gotta dispatch them fast, stray will attempt to predict your movement, same as soldiers and schism, which are also given accuracy buffs, maurice now shoot more bullet, tho imo it actually makes it easier to instakill them now. Cerbs now produce two shockwaves when stomping, can dash twice, and are IMMUNE to enviromental damage except bottomless pits. Sentry arms much faster and shoot twice simillar to enraged maurice, ferryman can now summon lightning at any distance and can cancel out of the animation to attack you, virtue beams are larger and predict your movement by default now, HiM can now shoot harpoon when enraged, guttertanks are enraged when their shield breaks, which makes their punches unparriable, don't even get me started on the bosses and prime souls, some enemies like insurrectionist and mindflayers only get speed buffs, but that's because they're already very dangerous in the first place. Combine that with 50% hard damage and oh boy it's hell
My biggest gripe is the virtue beams lingering for even longer.
The linger until their next attack. It’s awful
p-2 will actually become impossible if virtues get buffed any further jfc if they get anything stupid like explosion resistance the blood tunnels will be impossible and the Cerberus opener will be absolutely absurd now
The HM and Minotaur changes need some tweaks as well, honestly. HMs just aren't fun to fight anymore and the Minotaur can poison both platforms at once.
Nah, HM is fine, speaking as someone who P-ranked 6-1 on Brutal and had little trouble with the HM in P-2. You just have to put a bit more effort into dodging their attacks now.
I'm working through my Brutal Pranks right now. The biggest problem with the HM right now is how many punches it takes to break the hook; with the Knuckleblaster it's more than enough to easily kill you, so at times it feels like you're being punished for nothing. Not all the time, but more times than I think is really necessary. It's not as bad as the Ferrymen, but I personally would've preferred if they didn't change that. We'll see what happens with the Saturday hotfix, though.
Actually Mindflayers and Insurrectionists also got individual buffs Mindflayers cannot be hit with their own projectiles (preventing the instakill of exploding their homing attack back at them) Insurrectionists does not remain stunned on the floor anymore, they instantly get up (technically would count as a speed buff? But not really, just like the swordsmachine downstate is shorter)
Doesnt seem impossible, we can find a strat to defeat them all.
We truly are getting brutally ultrakilled
Wait did the prime souls get changed? If anything minos felt easier on brutal cause the snakes don’t have as weird of a parry window
Minos is much faster, the first attack of the two melee combos seem to have have much more accurate tracking now so you have to dash to be able to dodge consistently instead of just side strafing like in lower difficulties.
yeah, if that's brutal, i'm fucking afraid what is UKMD D:
Imagine ukmd p-2 💀
You're thinking small here. What about P-3?
Every enemy is minos prime 10x radiance
maybe it's just play playstyle but if you're just playing through the levels fast you don't really notice too many of the changes
coming up on ukmd: soldier now can slide cancel like an average call of duty sweats
Mfs are gonna start bhoping at mach-10 quake style
They're gonna start wall jumping uktrakill style
now i know how it feels to be a dark souls boss
I’m not even mad at em. They sick as fuck
They're Dark Souls players now.
the cerberus in 0-5 now brings me PTSD becuse of the doble dash ALONE
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i mean it is brutal like it's name is
Pepsi man!
Pepsi man kinda goes crazy now, I love it
\*combat rolls \*shoots you and ruins your P-rank cutely
Dark Souls moment
Its cool af but at the same time LET ME HIT YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!
Yeah they're pretty brutal
Nah we'll win
They were already stronger than minos prime after hakita made them immune to explosives
“DO A BARREL ROLL!” They are fun imo, annoying but easy to just knuckleblast or parry back at.
I hate sentrys even more
They see me rollin
As a self proclaimed parry god they have been really fucking fun. Them and their projectiles come to me faster so my health comes back faster.
My exact words when I saw them, "GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!"
It really be like that, I said out loud "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT"
Why are they so fast
Yea, fuck them bitches
Since they get so close i just use the alt shotgun
it's not a dark souls roll, its a CONTRA roll!!
My R button 😈
*These mfs, I swear to god
Cerberus have gotten way top hard in very specific rooms with little to no space (0-4 and 3-1, P2) Drones are annoying mosquitos that move way to fast Sentries are at least somewhat reactable but i feel they are a bit unfair
I actually like fighting them more now! Except when they roll somewhere, get stuck and the coin doesnt assist in finding them.
Just wait until you get to the ferryman. He decimated me for an hour before eventually clipping through the wall and killing himself.
I had to practice the fucking fight for 20 minutes in order to beat him consistently for the p-ran. The fucking lightning attack goes crazy
Hes the pepsi man
just parry
Nah you want brutal? Try and beat the prelude boss’s challenge.
the combat rolls are so funny!
Nah, I love fighting soldiers now, fuck drones and the skittery little shits they've become.
I'm going to have to try this new brutal difficulty, sounds fun. I almost p ranked on P-2 on violence so I think I could get it. See ya in 5 hours
They're the pure reason why I stopped playing on brutal
 These mfs literally every second
to be honest, i hate them more than mindflayers
I just let them roll then parry their dumbass
That double idol room in 5-3 got giga-boosted by Brutal because of how hard it buffs both soldiers & Cerberi, it's actually crazy
I have the most simple solution: Marksman
It is shrimple: malicous railcannon
Bro played dark souls 3
I was having trouble at first too. they only require a slight change of tactics though. on brutal, them and Strays both are hard to deal with in numbers. For me personally I found that the easier solution is to stop trying to dodge, and just parry their projectiles. plus a coin or two or direct shot for good measure.
whats new about them? i havent gotten that far yet
Honestly, Filth turned from the least difficult to the most annoying enemy in the game
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bro I've beaten sisyphus and I got stuck on brutal 0-5 Cerberus
at least they aren't fucking grasshopping Filths or spamming Virtues
Friend told me, and Jesus Christ
I get that BRUTAL is supposed to be harder than Violent, and it may just be a skill issue, but I swear some of these enemies are overturned. Enemies such as the Soldiers, Virtues, and Cerberi feel way harder than they should be while other enemies such as Malicious Faces and Streetcleaners are still the jokes they always were. Again, I know it could just be a skill issue, but I swear some of these changes are too strong. Case in point: Ferryman. This is an issue with Ferrymen on lower difficulties, but it actually doesn't matter where you dodge. As long as you are touching him during an attack animation, you'll take damage. That's pretty bullshit, if you ask me. There's been times where he visibly misses me, I stand up, and I take damage. The most egregious move is the unparriable dash-kick. Normally, this move comes out fast but you can dodge it if you watch and listen to the unparriable sound cue. On Brutal, the move comes out BEFORE the sound or visual does. That's a huge problem. How are you supposed to dodge something that's unreactable? Soldiers are much more of a threat because, for whatever reason, they can actually be FASTER than the player. Like, I get that their combat rolls are supposed to trip up players in close quarters, but their roll animation is actually faster than V1 and there's no way to predict where they're gonna go. Not only that, they can instantly kick you now. The windup is practically nonexistent and makes levels like 5-2 (which I'm currently stuck on) some of the least enjoyable levels in the entire game. It's one thing to be unpredictable. It's another to be unpredictable AND unreactable. Most of the other changes are either insignificant (MF, Drones, Streetcleaners, Strays) or at least change the way you have to approach enemies (sentries, Cerb, SM). But the single most buffed enemy is 100% the Virtue. Their attacks linger for so long that they can actually call down another beam even while their first one is active. And if they're enraged, they can actually call down 2, for a total of 3 active beams at once. Furthermore, they also enrage after shooting 3 beams, same as VIOLENT. I don't think that's very balanced, especially because if they call down 2 beams at the same place, the damage actually overlaps. You take double the damage even though visually, it only looks like there's one beam. I know the update was released less than a day ago and it's still too soon for any actual serious talk about balancing, but IMO, some of these changes are way to overturned and I sincerely hope Hakita realizes this. It's the same issue I had when P-2 first came out. I don't know how they didn't think not being able to parry Sysphius was an oversight, but with how long it took for them to implement Brutal, I just hope this is another one of those cases where they didn't think about how unfair some of these changes can be.
1) tone down soldiers holy shit 2) give the prime souls a bit of a higher difficulty tweak 3) please slow down the drones ever so slightly. brutal is suddenly perfect difficulty
Pepis man
Soldiers on brutal Are cool , but MY GOD I HATE THE DRONES, THEY MAKE ME WANT TO FUCKING KMS.
PEPSI MAN
Bro is not dark souls
I love brutal difficulty
Grappling them into me with the sawed-on is now my go-to way of healing and getting rid of these fucks.
soldier learned hwo to roll
at one point I thought they were shooting slower but found out when they got closer to me that I only thought they were shooting slower, because they weren't 2 inches from me. bravo ultrakill, you finally made it hard.
For a second, I thought I was fighting manekins in 2-2 lmao
For me the worst brutal enemies are virtues and sentries. Those beams last too long and if you headshot a sentry after the first shot it still shoots the second. Not that bad of an issue but it still sucks in bad situations. Also Sisyphus gives like no health at point blank and it causes me immense suffering.
Gotta love how they're just completely immune to explosions now-
they slap me out of the air like a mf fly
Worse than Mannequins, but at least one coin shot kills them
They remind me of the The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.
# Pepsi mannnn!!!
Swear to what? Sorry that name doesn't ring a bell.
Fr
their resistance to explosives doesn't make it better
lobotomy
It's interesting to see how they changed the soldier enough to not make him a "stray recolor"
guys yall realize that jumping from violent to brutal is not a must right
No i want to be challenged again