I gave this guy a pretty solid attempt on my own and got him to like 50% health at best and decided to look up this vid. Even with this build and know his attacks better it still took me another 15-20 tries. Insane how difficult they have managed to make these bosses in this game
Terminal Armor allows you to survive the blade spin attack. So long you have one or two repairs remaining otherwise it will leave you at 1 hp which is very suboptimal
I was about to comment this, Terminal Armor is so damned good. Saves you from all 1 shot mechanics which is great, 1hp does suck though. I do wish they added some sort of OS tuning for number of med kits though because the repair rate upgrade is a joke when your med kits are capped.
I legit have been on this game all day today I’ve tried this boss for on and off for 8 hours. I looked up this guide and it was the extra boost I needed. I had one plasma rifle and a sword and got em almost 10 times. Thank you so much this felt so good beating this especially cause I was so close everytime.
I'm a vet of literally all the old games (at least the US releases) and I've been loving the flexibility of refitting between attempts. Going through a hard hitting gauntlet against a load of small, nimble craft before fighting a huge boss was always a pain bc there were no checkpoints. I already have like 8 variations and constantly swap parts, especially when the boss isn't as susceptible to the same damage types. Packing one weapon that's either nearly useless against initial enemies or has very limited ammo sucked in the old games. (Kinda wished the supply sherpa could let you use change weapons at least so I wouldn't have to die to change loadouts 😅)
Same goes for Balteus’s second phase. The majority of his damage is from all the fire shenanigans, which is completely irrelevant/dodgeable when you’re hovering.
Did this with some of the body parts as shown but used an all-missile build and only those that shoot front and not upwards. When I heard the charge move, no matter which one it was, I hit my jets into an adjacent direction and always upwards. For the second phase I stayed up in the sky as much as possible and just kept up the barrage. It worked so well I only had to use a single med kit but I could've done without it.
i struggled a lot until i tried a lightweight max speed build with reverse joint legs, just circle strafing without dodging, i avoided most of his attack, still have to dodge the charged laser attacks and melee (i dodge backward), the reverse joint high jump really help with the laser attack that sweep from one side to another (it does follow you if you don't ascend fast enough) and the spin attack
I also went lightweight max speed but with 4 missiles launchers which do massive posture damage without recoil so I can just spam it without paying too much attention
I swear people who played AC way before the internet and youtube guides was a thing are skilled AF. Been stuck on this guy for a couple of hours switching weapons to, shoulder grenade launchers, i think left hand grenade launcher, 10x missiles and the pistol for high impact for stagger.. I gotten use the the sea spider pattern to dodge ish, but when it flies I always die.
I wanna add: I believe he can mix up his cannon and fire it 2-3 times. It really helps to add vertical movement into the dodges, make sure you're ascending or descending because dodging it on the ground *sucks* And don't underestimate the small lasers either. They DESTROY your stagger meter. If like me a big focus of your build was melee, the pile driver weapon does a good chunk and huge impact when charged. Once he's in the orange (maybe a little below) a charged pile-driver melee staggers him. (the raw stagger is about half his bar). Pretty easy to land after he melees and you can usually get a 2nd off during stun. Also super easy to hit when he first goes into the air.
Balteus was a bit challenging for me but I figured it out within 15 or so tries. THIS fight tho. I have died about 40 times and have never even gotten the boss to half health. This will be the first mission of the game that I quit and start over again once I have the right parts. It’s a fun game but holy cow is this boss the worst!
Balteus is still the hardest boss I've fought in the whole game. The only way I beat that thing was going to a tank build and picking the largest hitting weapon loadout. I was trying to destroy it initially with my reliable lightweight reverse joint build, but I was getting owned over and over! Those shields it uses are annoying. My lightweight build wrecked this spider drone thing in 3 tries.
@@DeathMetalThrasher just goes to show how different everyone plays. One of my favorite aspects of fromsoftware games is their adaptability to different play styles. I’m the worst at tank builds. I need speed, range, and agility, all of which tanks are terrible at usually. If I don’t get hit, I don’t need the extra tankiness. May make the combat last longer, but it gets the job done all the same.
Bosses in this game have this uncanny ability to beat me before I can even learn anything. Unlike From Software's Souls games, I don't really get that feeling that I'm getting better when I fight them. I just feel like I don't have the right build, ever. You'd think a game without i-frames would have better telegraphy for its attacks. I'll be honest, I love the game but the combat in this game feels like it was made with i-frames at some point in development and they changed their minds without altering the fundamental design. *EDIT: That said, once I've gotten better at the game, I have gotten good enough to beat this boss with almost any setup from learning how to slide under him to avoid attacks, so I'm not entirely right here. There is room for growth it just happens as you play the game, not just on the fight itself.*
The problem is really just the limited healing combined with damage output of bosses being way higher. When you can be forced to use all your heals within the first 15 seconds of the fight it takes a lot longer to learn. Builds too. In souls you can do everything with whatever you want really and it doesn't add that much difficulty but in AC if you have the wrong build for that fight its something else entirely.
@@EmpyreanDreamer You don't need healing if you don't get hit, but this game feels like it's impossible to dodge everything. It's probably possible, but it's just way too hard and random. You have no s and the attacks come from multiple sides at once with AoE explosions.
@@chihuahua.abyssgard I'm sure it's possible if you literally reload to every checkpoint whenever you get hit. Someone crazy will do it until the stars align and they make it through unscathed. That said in general for even above average players getting hit is just a fact of the game.
Thank you SO much, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to dodge his melee attacks. Once I wasn't losing 50% every time it went for a melee attack he was a cakewalk.
nice vid, thanks for the tips&tricks! Also quick little note: your AC auto deploys weapons on your back that have no ammo left to lose weight and make the AC less heavy!
The only source of information I could find anywhere about the 100% death beyblade attack, thank you. This boss seems to stop using it vs players that have killed it previously. Still convinced the PCA satellite cannons before the boss are harder than acorn spider. damn things are impossible to dodge
@@themocaw but why would I use that route when I can just dodge...half of the damage and save time. Still amazed how the beyblade attack just doesnt happen after first clear.
pro tip: stay underneath him in phase 1 and strafe around him in a circle, then you never get layered or smashed or hit by missile drops. took me 1.5 hours. same build as the video and I somehow ended with 1 heal left and half life bar still.
and it took me that long because i didn't realize there was an auto lock on. i kept canceling it by moving the right analog so i thought there was no lock on 🤦♂️ now i beat him first or second try. just like every other boss. lol
First boss fight tutorial I’ve ever watched lol. I was just curious on how others did this. I think my issue is dodging the laser attacks. And I was not sure if my build was good for this boss.
@@jesusleyva4386 yeah I got him a bit after commenting thankfully. I think the most annoying thing for me was "you just can't beat the institute..." had to turn off voice volume for that fight
The double lasers is legitimately cheap because, contrary to what the rest of the game has taught you until that point, there’s no audio cue that tells you when it’s done charging.
If you're bad at timing (or just tilted like me) you can also just Assault Boost perpendicular to the enemy until you hear two shots go off (and even get a melee hit off at the end if maneuver to the flank of the boss in the process). Attempts became much more consistent once I did that. You just have to stay grounded more often to conserve fuel.
I wish from software would give us a little easier difficulty level haha after watching this guide and seeing the phase 2 I’m just gonna hang it up I think 😭
"It sucks to have to learn that way" sums up the biggest problem with this game. I shouldn't have to attempt a boss 20 times to finally get lucky and beat it. There should be more than one way to beat these bosses, like targeting parts to break them off, anything to make the combat more interesting than just spamming dps with every boss.
The fireballs are easy to dodge whenever something shoots a big single shot a red square pops up at their gun and if you dodge when you see that you dodge the shot aswell
I used the rocket gun, songbirds and the beginning sword to beat him. Songbirds+rocket gun is a guaranteed stagger per volley, then follow up with blade, rinse and repeat. Also an easy way to evade his 2 time laser cannon is to jump then just fall down, it will miss you, but you want to be in the air for the first shot so it misses going up and you don’t get hit by the explosion on the ground.
If you’re still struggling, here’s what i used to melt him (build is at the bottom) First stage: stay on him, like “touching him” close and stagger him with the songbirds, the closer you are the easier it is to stagger Keep firing your gatling at all times, if you circle around his abdomen (below his legs) he’ll almost never land a hit on you, just learn to dodge the pounce attacks thats it Second stage: hover next to him, again really close and use the songbirds to stagger and keep firing your gatling, its really that simple Pro tip: during the 2nd phase, when you stagger him, go down to the ground, recharge your EN, use your gatling guns to do damage, then go back up to stagger him with the songbirds Weapons - Right Hand: DF-GA-08 HU-BEN - Left Hand: DF-GA-08 HU-BEN - Right Shoulder: Songbirds - Left Shoulder: Songbirds Frame - Head: HD-011 MELANDER - Core: CC-2000 ORBITER - Arms: EL-TA-10 FIRMEZA - Legs: VP-424 Booster - Booster: Buerzel/21D - FCS: FCS-G2/P05 - Generator: VP-20D
For anyone struggling with this boss. Be careful charging under it when it fires of the “fireball”. You’ll escape that damage but if you don’t back out quick enough it’ll stamp on you then hit you with another “fireball” as you try and dash away from the stagger. Got me almost every time until I build a slightly faster AC that could care both missile launchers and 2 shot grenade launchers. This build works well though since the beams recharge faster. Good luck
You can stagger him if you lead him as hes dropping from the roof. 4x all hand weapons and shoulder cannons will stun him. Ended up beating this mostly in the air. Shoulder cannons keep you in the air for a while you can regen your boost once before landing.
I restarted AC6 recently and used this build to wipe floor with the Spider. I was melting through its HP so quickly that it was around 15% HP when it finally hit phase two. Great stuff. Thanks so much.
Dude this build was key for me beating the sea spider thanks for the guide something that helped me beat the boss is stay above it during both phases. you will dodge a ton of attacks this way.
Careful about the transition, theres a period where SEA spider is immune to damage. I beat him with the armory upgrade + tetrapod legs + antienergy parts + sword + piledriver+shotgun+ 8 vertical missiles. The key to the build is that a charged piledriver will CHUNK the spider for like 1/6th of his health when staggered. It is the king of the DPS race. If you kick often, keep at close+mid range, you can stagger him pretty reliably. Don't be afraid to pildrive him early, as it does a lot of stagger damage and will probably be off cooldown by the time you've staggered him with your other weapons. Also, the spider seems to have a weakness at the very top of his armor, so my best runs where ones where I stayed close+above him. It also easier to dodge his lasers if you can just fly over him.
For those that are still struggling, switch your weapons to gattling gun and songbirds and see if that works better for u. The build in this video may be great for certain players, but i was struggling with it. Charge weapons are awkward for me to use im just bad with them
second phase was super easy. Thank you for the build and strategy. I was at this for like 45 min before coming here. basically just stay close and keep veering to one side and dash under him when he claws at you. if you stay super close he wont be able to lazer you. The claw animation is easier to dodge imo. Cheers
The timing window for the fireball is so telegraphed, you will see the cannon flash a red square and in a split second you need to dodge. The horizontal laser you will see his cannon look sideways, fly as high as you can once you see that because he'll never shoot that up too high. It also tells you the height the laser will be and you just need to stay away on that height but sometimes his laser goes diagonal so be careful. The vertical laser is the easiest to dodge, just strafe. It's also the one that deals most damage so be careful.
I went the twin gats twin songbirds route. Completely melted his HP bar. They key for me was staying as close as I can while rolling under his stomp attack. Also the tetrapod legs for his second phase so I can stay airborne with him and continue to melt him.
This!! 💯🔥🔥 Bro, I’ve tried every other build but only this one really worked, if you really stay on him then youll, just like you said, melt his hp Thanks dawg!
I might have stumbled upon a good and easy-to-follow strategy (lots of hopping and a bit of ring-around-the-rosie): Here's my build- R-Arm: Vvc-760PR L-Arm: Vvc-760 PR R-Back: Vvc-70VPM L-Back: Vvc-70VPM Head: HD-012-Melander C3 Core: CC-2000 Orbiter Arms: Nachtreiher/46E Legs: Kasuar/42Z Booster: Aluva/21E FCS: FCS-G2/P10SLT Generator: VP-20S Expansion: Assault Armor And here's what happened on my 2nd try with this build: ruclips.net/video/rDyefi0hcKI/видео.html Skip to the 1:18:11 mark
I have a similar set up, just keep pace around his legs and when it relocates just dash towards and maintain around the legs. It will keep jumping. Phase two just keep distance and finish off with homings
I was somehow able to speed past most of his attacks with heavy tank treads. The melee attacks are really easy to dodge, but the laser blasts are almost impossible to avoid. If you speed around him fast enough and boost at the right moment, you can avoid one of them, sometimes both. But he might shoot 3 times, in which case you are screwed.
This is the problem I’m having. I can bring the boss down to less than 10% but I run out of ammo. I was enjoying this game until I realized that the bosses take very specific builds to beat. Unfortunate.
That was extremely helpful. I was able to manage it in two tries without changing my build after your explanation. I actually found that staying somewhat close did it for me, any time it powered it's laser I boosted towards/under it which was fool proof. Before your explanation I never even got to stage 2. Also I actually let it hit me with the spin attack just so I could see it for myself, still survived and beat it that run. BTW I found the balteus fight to be very learnable with a pulse blade and pulse gun build. I just kept the pressure on him and the attacks with orbs of homing missiles are very dodgable if you keep boosting around him in a circle up close.
So I've noticed in stage one that its charged laser attacks have a tell. For the laser attack that sweeps from one side to the other, it will turn or keep its cannon to the wide while charging. For the down to up laser cannon shot, it will charge the cannon and keep it trained on you as you strafe. Hope this helps!
got an s rank going full Schnider reverse joint with duel shotguns, plasma missiles, pile bunker, and terminal armor, the speed and jumping lets you avoid his phase 1 melee and plasma blasts while the shotguns and missiles (along with the occasional kick) to stagger it, followed up with the charged pile bunker for damage. Phase 2, you will want to get in close with the shotguns to build up stagger but, make sure you have energy to fly for when he uses his big attacks. especially the spinning blades. Thankfully his second phase stays staggered/ vulnerable longer so it is possible to get two charged punches before his defense resets.
Tetra legs really avoid a lot of his attacks. I used tetra legs + shield + 2 bombs. 3 bombs put him into red, and use that time to go back down and regen EN. When he's not on red, you just fly a medium distance away from the ground, and you basically dodge all the hard hitters. For the laser, just use the shield, it literally gives u a fuck ton of leeway to mitigate a lot of the damage, like a full second. Big thing to do is to *WAIT* until he's not moving a lot to drop the bombs. Usually u just fly above him and u just shield the lazers, and he's ez game. For the 2nd phase, flying with the tetra legs basically dodges a lot of the ground attacks. Shield for the melee flying thing. Yea, that's that.
Using double plasma and missiles felt like I was just brute forcing it with how little damage I was doing but constantly staggering him. Only for me to find out that’s basically the intended solution.
Thanks for the guide, I was stuck on this for a few hours. First time I tried your loadout I got pretty close and lost to his arial attacks at teh end. But a couple more tries and bam. Also, a small suggestion. Because we know he is coming, it's possible to cheese him and charge shoulder guns while he opens from his egg. When he sets down, hit him, then continue.
As a player that runs a medium to light AC this guy was kind of a challenge. I didn’t really have the right kind of weapons for the fight so I relied on the melee attack quite a bit. It’s actually a pretty effective tactic if you’re good at evading since you do a little dash forward when the attack is initiated and it acts like a quick dodge. If you have lots of boost I suggest staying on top of him while he’s flying around in the second phase. Overall I probably died about 25 times before I developed the right strategy. This is one of those bosses that forces you to get better at the game.
That's the third hardest boss I have ever fought in ever fought in a fromsoftware game and there is still more coming oh my god This one killed me 18 times which is insane because at my first I thought it's gonna be easier than balteus because I got to 20% of his health on my first try but somehow it went to 18 deaths, man this game bosses are no joke
I had a strange experience with this boss. Finding myself unable to dodge much of his attacks (skill issue lol), I found myself having a much easier time up close to him, usually slightly in the air. Using the ten-cell forward missiles, the eight-cell vertical missiles, a big exploding bazooka in my right hand, and the Lazer blade, I bum rushed him constantly, firing off all my missiles (and bazooka) in waves as they locked on and became available, I got up close with him and nailed him with the charged Lazer blade, use assault armor, and did that to get myself through his earlier phase. Once he started to fly, I realized I had a problem with my somewhat heavy bipedal mech. I tried tetrapod legs, but eventually settled on the reverse joint set, lightening my ac frame parts to eek out enough load to keep my weapon setup. The fight was very rough, but I eventually pulled it off, somehow.
Bless you for these tutorials! I really want to love the game but with every boss I get stuck, then i play around with my build, nothing works so I gotta come here. It's very hard for me to distinguish between when I have the wrong build and need to change it up and when I have the correct build and just need better execution. Will be back once I've beaten the Sea Spider.
they really went, "Lets give the players a whole bunch of parts and then FORCE them to use specific builds for specific bosses!" AC6 is fun until they pull that shit then i want to delete the damn thing
I got the Vvc's, then a thunder bomb missile launcher I don't remember the name of, and the Pile Bunker weapon from the trailer. I was running a light frame, so I initiated the ambush while charging the Vvc's, took two dashes back, then unleashed the shots during the entrance animation. Hovered in the air until it decided on a move to use, then started zip zapping around trying to avoid the piercing strikes. The only moves that caught me on a regular basis were the horizontal sweep laser and the spinning top in phase 2. Both remedied by good energy management and staying in the air. By the way, any move in phase 2 was a oneshot, my build was NOT optimized for bad players(me)
Beat it on my second try with this build. I actually flew up on phase two, and somehow landed on top of him and just spammed my weapons into his back! LOL! Thanks for the guide!
Coming to see other ways to beat him; I used a Laser Rifle, 2 missile pods, and a Sword and beat him relatively quickly when I switched to Reverse Joint legs. It’s just like I thought, I dodged everything very well for going in blind and still had Repair Kits left; I need to experiment with more weapons because I cleaned out my ammo when I beat him lol.
Kibbles. THANK YOU. I tried to beat this boss like 60-70 times and failed with other guides. Tried with this build and finally beat the boss after a few tries. This is the most frustrating and bullshit boss I've ever fought in a video game. So rage inducing. Good riddance to bad rubbish
I've noticed something odd. That's actually been an interesting tactic used by developers. When I was fighting Balteus..I couldn't for the life of me get past him. So, I did some mission repeats, did arenas. Got logs, got good ranks on missions ( B and up) And then Balteus was easy to beat. I just encountered the same scenario with the sea spider. Like the game purposely will work against you till you fulfill what it wants. Seriously..next time you encounter a problem look at these following things. You can't quick boost when you need it to. Weapons take a bit longer to reload. Tracking takes longer to lock. Boss seeming has the perfect combo exactly at the right time.
So I finally beat this boss with a similar setup. I used Song Birds for my should weapons. They are easier to use, more damage, and stagger the boss faster than the laser canons. Also, if you just circle strafe point blank on the boss, the majority of his range attacks don't target you. You still have to pay attention to the wide beam attacks though and fly above them. Otherwise all you have to worry about is the pincer legs. After that, the remaining phases are easy peasy. Just fly in the air and shoot him as much as you can. He was significantly harder for me to kill compared to the previous bosses which took 1-10 times before I got them. Even Balteus only took about 10 times before I got it. This stupid sea spider took me about 20 times ugh.
My "Strategy" was just quad hover legs, full rocket launcher setup, not the vertical ones but the horizontal ones at the back. The big arse core from the Chinese company. Everything else was the same like his build. I didn't even realise the was an actual boss it felt more like a mini boss until I realised how much people struggle with that. I was just constantly in the middle of the area hovering over him. First try, if you struggle with this thing try it. Important: Missile Guidance System
You dropped your shoulder weapon because you ran out of ammo and have auto-purge on. It's a mechanic that lets you drop weight and increase movement if you run out of ammo.
I don't know how to explain it but the sea spider in this video seems kind of.... Tame... there is a LOT more time between its attacks than there is when I fight it. it will literally do the fireball laser and then while I am recoiling immediately pounce on me giving me no opening to dodge. It could all be in my head I admit but none of the fights have been as telegraphed as this one seems to be.
thank you, it just kind of sucks that I have to watch a guide for every boss in this game :(. I have played souls games like Lies of P and I got better over time but with this I have to know certain loadouts to equip, do you think I will find a game like Sekiro better for my liking ?
Well....for a note....you can do a light build and spin around his legs with machin gun to build poise. This way nothing really hits u. And than hammer him with dual gattling guns.
imo, C-Spider wasnt all too difficult, i only stuggled with Balteus for an hour. C-Spider was done in first try. What i used were the same Plasma Guns and i loaded my self up on plasma missles. i went more for an easy stagger build, this is the same build ive been using since chapter one. i also put my OS upgrades towards energy weapons boost, assault armor and damage mitigation. it definitely helps
Thanks for the spinning one shot tip, that help a lot So far I learned one thing, if the boss BS me imma find a way to bug the hella of them After a few attempts, I found out that this 8 legs tin can doesn't like when we stay too close, so here I went At first phase, just stay right under the belly, bring your hottest irons, it can't do shit when you stay too close, it keep jumping you just keep diving straight under it, WHO PANIC ROLL NOW SPIDEEEE The last phase is just typical DPS check, God bless you buddy
This was my first true roadblock. Took hours of memorizing his moves to not take absurd damage early. The assault boost kick does really decent stagger damage and when his poise is broken the kick does decent actual damage too! Really helped with breaking his posture almost immediately. I used a songbird, 10-cell missle, grenade launcher and gatling gun. Honestly the gatling gun shouldve gotten swapped out but i was committed to my build lol
Setup worked for but I would recommend staying fairly close if not underneath that way the big laser won't hit you. Second phase hover above him with quad legs.
Thanks for this guide, as a new player to armored core i wanted to ask everyone was this series based on always changing gear and not be able to keep the same for the entire playthrough? My AC is double handgun and grenade launcher and I always run out of ammo at the end with this boss. Is it possible to actually beat it with handguns or like i think, the game forces you too pick other builds? Thanks
here's a tip for folk: if you want to spam the heavier weapons rather than wait for an opening, use tank legs for this fight they're as mobile as you need to be, so you can spam more and stancr break much faster (which for this fight you need to stance break as much as possible) having an extra 6000+ AP more than other legs doesn't hurt, either
It’s kinda funny how certain people struggle with certain bosses in this game. I spent hours on balteus before looking up a guide and I literally 2 shot this boss without ever changing up my load out.
Thanks for the guide-- was struggling with quite a few different builds before trying this one. Still took quite a few tries, but I eventually got there!
Stay directly under it, I got through it's entire first phase with all three repair kits doing this. The only time it's able to get you with a laser cannon is the couple times it launches away from you. Second phase. I just stayed above it. I used the build that is in this video.
I personally found the pilebunker to be very effective against this boss, i ran a biped with dual laser on shoulders, when the spider is doing its melee attack, dodge under then imeediately do a charged pilebunker, very good damage and relatively safe. During phase 2 assault boost into charged PB. I was struggling with this boss until i realised how much dmg and stagger PB did with every hit.
I gave this guy a pretty solid attempt on my own and got him to like 50% health at best and decided to look up this vid. Even with this build and know his attacks better it still took me another 15-20 tries. Insane how difficult they have managed to make these bosses in this game
Terminal Armor allows you to survive the blade spin attack. So long you have one or two repairs remaining otherwise it will leave you at 1 hp which is very suboptimal
I was about to comment this, Terminal Armor is so damned good. Saves you from all 1 shot mechanics which is great, 1hp does suck though. I do wish they added some sort of OS tuning for number of med kits though because the repair rate upgrade is a joke when your med kits are capped.
That's exactly how I was able to beat him.
You can jump over the blade spin move entirely. Trying to dodge it is a death sentence
This is exactly how I use the terminal armor in boss fights. Leave 1-2 repair kits before it gets activated.
ah yes being dead is very suboptimal
I legit have been on this game all day today I’ve tried this boss for on and off for 8 hours. I looked up this guide and it was the extra boost I needed. I had one plasma rifle and a sword and got em almost 10 times. Thank you so much this felt so good beating this especially cause I was so close everytime.
I've been trying all day today and have had no luck
tomorrow i'm gonna try this build from this guide
wish me luck
I'm a vet of literally all the old games (at least the US releases) and I've been loving the flexibility of refitting between attempts. Going through a hard hitting gauntlet against a load of small, nimble craft before fighting a huge boss was always a pain bc there were no checkpoints. I already have like 8 variations and constantly swap parts, especially when the boss isn't as susceptible to the same damage types. Packing one weapon that's either nearly useless against initial enemies or has very limited ammo sucked in the old games. (Kinda wished the supply sherpa could let you use change weapons at least so I wouldn't have to die to change loadouts 😅)
Second phase with tetrapod legs is pretty lenient. You basically just hover near it and avoid the absurd ground damage it pumps out.
that's what I did, I just used the tetrapod legs with some heavy weapons and that did the trick
The boss seems to be designed to force you to use the tetrapod, otherwise the 2nd phase is incredibly awkward just trying to track him around
I was also able to land on top of his head to regain boost as well lmao
Same goes for Balteus’s second phase. The majority of his damage is from all the fire shenanigans, which is completely irrelevant/dodgeable when you’re hovering.
So here is a funny build, 2 bazookas, 2 grenade cannons, tetrapod, stagger city, stay airborne as much as possible, trivializes stage 2
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This is good but I have one edit that worked for me the handled missile launchers for speed but bravo this helped me alot
THERES A PHASE 2?
@@Docotuero Phase 2 is when it flies
@@Docotuerooh God yai found out two minutes ago I n3ed h3lp 😅😅😅😅😢😢😢😢
Did this with some of the body parts as shown but used an all-missile build and only those that shoot front and not upwards. When I heard the charge move, no matter which one it was, I hit my jets into an adjacent direction and always upwards. For the second phase I stayed up in the sky as much as possible and just kept up the barrage. It worked so well I only had to use a single med kit but I could've done without it.
i struggled a lot until i tried a lightweight max speed build with reverse joint legs, just circle strafing without dodging, i avoided most of his attack, still have to dodge the charged laser attacks and melee (i dodge backward), the reverse joint high jump really help with the laser attack that sweep from one side to another (it does follow you if you don't ascend fast enough) and the spin attack
I used a speed build as well. Ran two plasma rifles, a plasma launcher and the homing missile that shoots out sub missiles.
I also went lightweight max speed but with 4 missiles launchers which do massive posture damage without recoil so I can just spam it without paying too much attention
@@koktszfung this is the way - i did this too, quite early and took me 5 attempts to beat him
This guide was great, it didn’t use a build that felt op, but gave you a fair bit of damage along with still having to learn him. Great job!!!👍👍👍
I swear people who played AC way before the internet and youtube guides was a thing are skilled AF. Been stuck on this guy for a couple of hours switching weapons to, shoulder grenade launchers, i think left hand grenade launcher, 10x missiles and the pistol for high impact for stagger.. I gotten use the the sea spider pattern to dodge ish, but when it flies I always die.
Great guide. I like how you broke down the stages of the fight in detail.
I wanna add: I believe he can mix up his cannon and fire it 2-3 times. It really helps to add vertical movement into the dodges, make sure you're ascending or descending because dodging it on the ground *sucks*
And don't underestimate the small lasers either. They DESTROY your stagger meter.
If like me a big focus of your build was melee, the pile driver weapon does a good chunk and huge impact when charged. Once he's in the orange (maybe a little below) a charged pile-driver melee staggers him. (the raw stagger is about half his bar). Pretty easy to land after he melees and you can usually get a 2nd off during stun. Also super easy to hit when he first goes into the air.
Balteus was a bit challenging for me but I figured it out within 15 or so tries. THIS fight tho. I have died about 40 times and have never even gotten the boss to half health. This will be the first mission of the game that I quit and start over again once I have the right parts. It’s a fun game but holy cow is this boss the worst!
Okay after 5 more attempts, I finally got it using this guide. Thank you!!!
Bro balteus was simple.. i been on this fight all day...
@@grifinorange It really takes some component switch ups to clear. Most people seem to just go tank treads with double minis
Balteus is still the hardest boss I've fought in the whole game. The only way I beat that thing was going to a tank build and picking the largest hitting weapon loadout. I was trying to destroy it initially with my reliable lightweight reverse joint build, but I was getting owned over and over! Those shields it uses are annoying. My lightweight build wrecked this spider drone thing in 3 tries.
@@DeathMetalThrasher just goes to show how different everyone plays. One of my favorite aspects of fromsoftware games is their adaptability to different play styles. I’m the worst at tank builds. I need speed, range, and agility, all of which tanks are terrible at usually. If I don’t get hit, I don’t need the extra tankiness. May make the combat last longer, but it gets the job done all the same.
Bosses in this game have this uncanny ability to beat me before I can even learn anything. Unlike From Software's Souls games, I don't really get that feeling that I'm getting better when I fight them. I just feel like I don't have the right build, ever. You'd think a game without i-frames would have better telegraphy for its attacks. I'll be honest, I love the game but the combat in this game feels like it was made with i-frames at some point in development and they changed their minds without altering the fundamental design. *EDIT: That said, once I've gotten better at the game, I have gotten good enough to beat this boss with almost any setup from learning how to slide under him to avoid attacks, so I'm not entirely right here. There is room for growth it just happens as you play the game, not just on the fight itself.*
or having more consistent and precise hitboxes, i cant tell you the amount of bs hits ive taken from attacks i was nowhere near
The problem is really just the limited healing combined with damage output of bosses being way higher. When you can be forced to use all your heals within the first 15 seconds of the fight it takes a lot longer to learn. Builds too. In souls you can do everything with whatever you want really and it doesn't add that much difficulty but in AC if you have the wrong build for that fight its something else entirely.
@@EmpyreanDreamer You don't need healing if you don't get hit, but this game feels like it's impossible to dodge everything. It's probably possible, but it's just way too hard and random. You have no s and the attacks come from multiple sides at once with AoE explosions.
@@brockbabcock3086 BS
@@chihuahua.abyssgard I'm sure it's possible if you literally reload to every checkpoint whenever you get hit. Someone crazy will do it until the stars align and they make it through unscathed. That said in general for even above average players getting hit is just a fact of the game.
Thank you SO much, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to dodge his melee attacks. Once I wasn't losing 50% every time it went for a melee attack he was a cakewalk.
nice vid, thanks for the tips&tricks!
Also quick little note: your AC auto deploys weapons on your back that have no ammo left to lose weight and make the AC less heavy!
The only source of information I could find anywhere about the 100% death beyblade attack, thank you. This boss seems to stop using it vs players that have killed it previously.
Still convinced the PCA satellite cannons before the boss are harder than acorn spider. damn things are impossible to dodge
There's an alternate route through the level that avoids most of the orbital lasers.
@@themocaw but why would I use that route when I can just dodge...half of the damage and save time.
Still amazed how the beyblade attack just doesnt happen after first clear.
pro tip: stay underneath him in phase 1 and strafe around him in a circle, then you never get layered or smashed or hit by missile drops. took me 1.5 hours. same build as the video and I somehow ended with 1 heal left and half life bar still.
and it took me that long because i didn't realize there was an auto lock on. i kept canceling it by moving the right analog so i thought there was no lock on 🤦♂️ now i beat him first or second try. just like every other boss. lol
This Boss literally took me three hours to beat. I wish I saw this video earlier to learn the mechanics properly.
First boss fight tutorial I’ve ever watched lol. I was just curious on how others did this. I think my issue is dodging the laser attacks. And I was not sure if my build was good for this boss.
That move has a big delay on it. I practiced it alot to get a feel, then dodge twice
@@jesusleyva4386 yeah I got him a bit after commenting thankfully. I think the most annoying thing for me was "you just can't beat the institute..." had to turn off voice volume for that fight
I had success avoiding those double laser shots by staying under the legs and dashing in circles the whole time
The double lasers is legitimately cheap because, contrary to what the rest of the game has taught you until that point, there’s no audio cue that tells you when it’s done charging.
If you're bad at timing (or just tilted like me) you can also just Assault Boost perpendicular to the enemy until you hear two shots go off (and even get a melee hit off at the end if maneuver to the flank of the boss in the process).
Attempts became much more consistent once I did that. You just have to stay grounded more often to conserve fuel.
The more I play this game, the more I'm starting to realize that no matter how much I love Mecha, I just don't think it's for me.
I wish from software would give us a little easier difficulty level haha after watching this guide and seeing the phase 2 I’m just gonna hang it up I think 😭
Have you guys gone back to it?
"It sucks to have to learn that way" sums up the biggest problem with this game. I shouldn't have to attempt a boss 20 times to finally get lucky and beat it.
There should be more than one way to beat these bosses, like targeting parts to break them off, anything to make the combat more interesting than just spamming dps with every boss.
The fireballs are easy to dodge whenever something shoots a big single shot a red square pops up at their gun and if you dodge when you see that you dodge the shot aswell
Hover legs and all explosives is the way to go for me. I staggered him every 10 seconds with just the small sidearm 4x missile launchers
I used the rocket gun, songbirds and the beginning sword to beat him. Songbirds+rocket gun is a guaranteed stagger per volley, then follow up with blade, rinse and repeat. Also an easy way to evade his 2 time laser cannon is to jump then just fall down, it will miss you, but you want to be in the air for the first shot so it misses going up and you don’t get hit by the explosion on the ground.
If you’re still struggling, here’s what i used to melt him (build is at the bottom)
First stage: stay on him, like “touching him” close and stagger him with the songbirds, the closer you are the easier it is to stagger
Keep firing your gatling at all times, if you circle around his abdomen (below his legs) he’ll almost never land a hit on you, just learn to dodge the pounce attacks thats it
Second stage: hover next to him, again really close and use the songbirds to stagger and keep firing your gatling, its really that simple
Pro tip: during the 2nd phase, when you stagger him, go down to the ground, recharge your EN, use your gatling guns to do damage, then go back up to stagger him with the songbirds
Weapons
- Right Hand: DF-GA-08 HU-BEN
- Left Hand: DF-GA-08 HU-BEN
- Right Shoulder: Songbirds
- Left Shoulder: Songbirds
Frame
- Head: HD-011 MELANDER
- Core: CC-2000 ORBITER
- Arms: EL-TA-10 FIRMEZA
- Legs: VP-424
Booster
- Booster: Buerzel/21D
- FCS: FCS-G2/P05
- Generator: VP-20D
Ps, you can dodge through his legs during that spinny beyblade attack, but only if you’re already very close to him
I like how the blade move is so scary that when you see him do anything funny in stage 2, you just assault boost for your life
I had a very quick and nimble build.
Low health, but the speed allowed me to reliably dodge most of the attacks.
For anyone struggling with this boss. Be careful charging under it when it fires of the “fireball”. You’ll escape that damage but if you don’t back out quick enough it’ll stamp on you then hit you with another “fireball” as you try and dash away from the stagger. Got me almost every time until I build a slightly faster AC that could care both missile launchers and 2 shot grenade launchers. This build works well though since the beams recharge faster. Good luck
Dude, this is the best "how to" when it comes to beating these bosses I've seen. Very useful!
You can stagger him if you lead him as hes dropping from the roof. 4x all hand weapons and shoulder cannons will stun him. Ended up beating this mostly in the air. Shoulder cannons keep you in the air for a while you can regen your boost once before landing.
I restarted AC6 recently and used this build to wipe floor with the Spider. I was melting through its HP so quickly that it was around 15% HP when it finally hit phase two. Great stuff. Thanks so much.
Dude this build was key for me beating the sea spider thanks for the guide
something that helped me beat the boss is stay above it during both phases. you will dodge a ton of attacks this way.
Careful about the transition, theres a period where SEA spider is immune to damage. I beat him with the armory upgrade + tetrapod legs + antienergy parts + sword + piledriver+shotgun+ 8 vertical missiles.
The key to the build is that a charged piledriver will CHUNK the spider for like 1/6th of his health when staggered. It is the king of the DPS race. If you kick often, keep at close+mid range, you can stagger him pretty reliably. Don't be afraid to pildrive him early, as it does a lot of stagger damage and will probably be off cooldown by the time you've staggered him with your other weapons.
Also, the spider seems to have a weakness at the very top of his armor, so my best runs where ones where I stayed close+above him. It also easier to dodge his lasers if you can just fly over him.
Would the tetra pod legs be good for this build since they have decent weight capacity, and prolonged hover capability?
For those that are still struggling, switch your weapons to gattling gun and songbirds and see if that works better for u. The build in this video may be great for certain players, but i was struggling with it. Charge weapons are awkward for me to use im just bad with them
second phase was super easy. Thank you for the build and strategy. I was at this for like 45 min before coming here.
basically just stay close and keep veering to one side and dash under him when he claws at you.
if you stay super close he wont be able to lazer you.
The claw animation is easier to dodge imo.
Cheers
After 4 attempts I decided to look up this boss and with this build it took 1 attempt
The timing window for the fireball is so telegraphed, you will see the cannon flash a red square and in a split second you need to dodge.
The horizontal laser you will see his cannon look sideways, fly as high as you can once you see that because he'll never shoot that up too high. It also tells you the height the laser will be and you just need to stay away on that height but sometimes his laser goes diagonal so be careful.
The vertical laser is the easiest to dodge, just strafe. It's also the one that deals most damage so be careful.
bro you saved me i've been stucked with this boss for a day, i did it first try with your build
I went the twin gats twin songbirds route. Completely melted his HP bar. They key for me was staying as close as I can while rolling under his stomp attack. Also the tetrapod legs for his second phase so I can stay airborne with him and continue to melt him.
This!! 💯🔥🔥
Bro, I’ve tried every other build but only this one really worked, if you really stay on him then youll, just like you said, melt his hp
Thanks dawg!
I might have stumbled upon a good and easy-to-follow strategy (lots of hopping and a bit of ring-around-the-rosie):
Here's my build-
R-Arm: Vvc-760PR
L-Arm: Vvc-760 PR
R-Back: Vvc-70VPM
L-Back: Vvc-70VPM
Head: HD-012-Melander C3
Core: CC-2000 Orbiter
Arms: Nachtreiher/46E
Legs: Kasuar/42Z
Booster: Aluva/21E
FCS: FCS-G2/P10SLT
Generator: VP-20S
Expansion: Assault Armor
And here's what happened on my 2nd try with this build: ruclips.net/video/rDyefi0hcKI/видео.html
Skip to the 1:18:11 mark
I have a similar set up, just keep pace around his legs and when it relocates just dash towards and maintain around the legs. It will keep jumping.
Phase two just keep distance and finish off with homings
I was somehow able to speed past most of his attacks with heavy tank treads. The melee attacks are really easy to dodge, but the laser blasts are almost impossible to avoid. If you speed around him fast enough and boost at the right moment, you can avoid one of them, sometimes both. But he might shoot 3 times, in which case you are screwed.
i’ve had him shoot me 4 times. dodged 1, then i got stun locked and died
I just stayed close to him in case of that laser blasts 🤔
Being shown how to dodge his jump attacks alone made a difference with me in this fight. Thanks for the heads up
A speed build with two submachine guns makes this fight so easy. The only problem is you run out of ammo before you can beat the boss
This is the problem I’m having. I can bring the boss down to less than 10% but I run out of ammo.
I was enjoying this game until I realized that the bosses take very specific builds to beat. Unfortunate.
@@teutoncross3817 Found a solution, get an OS upgrade called weapon Bay. Allows you to bring in extra SMGs in place of your shoulder weapons!
Same @@teutoncross3817
That was extremely helpful. I was able to manage it in two tries without changing my build after your explanation. I actually found that staying somewhat close did it for me, any time it powered it's laser I boosted towards/under it which was fool proof. Before your explanation I never even got to stage 2. Also I actually let it hit me with the spin attack just so I could see it for myself, still survived and beat it that run. BTW I found the balteus fight to be very learnable with a pulse blade and pulse gun build. I just kept the pressure on him and the attacks with orbs of homing missiles are very dodgable if you keep boosting around him in a circle up close.
Thanks for the guide. FINALLY beat that boss!
Thanks for the guide I went with songbirds as that did massive impact damage and kept the boss staggered a lot more.
So I've noticed in stage one that its charged laser attacks have a tell. For the laser attack that sweeps from one side to the other, it will turn or keep its cannon to the wide while charging. For the down to up laser cannon shot, it will charge the cannon and keep it trained on you as you strafe. Hope this helps!
got an s rank going full Schnider reverse joint with duel shotguns, plasma missiles, pile bunker, and terminal armor, the speed and jumping lets you avoid his phase 1 melee and plasma blasts while the shotguns and missiles (along with the occasional kick) to stagger it, followed up with the charged pile bunker for damage. Phase 2, you will want to get in close with the shotguns to build up stagger but, make sure you have energy to fly for when he uses his big attacks. especially the spinning blades. Thankfully his second phase stays staggered/ vulnerable longer so it is possible to get two charged punches before his defense resets.
Tetra legs really avoid a lot of his attacks.
I used tetra legs + shield + 2 bombs.
3 bombs put him into red, and use that time to go back down and regen EN.
When he's not on red, you just fly a medium distance away from the ground, and you basically dodge all the hard hitters.
For the laser, just use the shield, it literally gives u a fuck ton of leeway to mitigate a lot of the damage, like a full second.
Big thing to do is to *WAIT* until he's not moving a lot to drop the bombs.
Usually u just fly above him and u just shield the lazers, and he's ez game.
For the 2nd phase, flying with the tetra legs basically dodges a lot of the ground attacks.
Shield for the melee flying thing.
Yea, that's that.
Good stuff Brother 🔥🔥🔥 Helped a ton!!✌️Lethalronin
Using double plasma and missiles felt like I was just brute forcing it with how little damage I was doing but constantly staggering him.
Only for me to find out that’s basically the intended solution.
Thanks for the guide, I was stuck on this for a few hours. First time I tried your loadout I got pretty close and lost to his arial attacks at teh end. But a couple more tries and bam.
Also, a small suggestion. Because we know he is coming, it's possible to cheese him and charge shoulder guns while he opens from his egg. When he sets down, hit him, then continue.
As a player that runs a medium to light AC this guy was kind of a challenge. I didn’t really have the right kind of weapons for the fight so I relied on the melee attack quite a bit.
It’s actually a pretty effective tactic if you’re good at evading since you do a little dash forward when the attack is initiated and it acts like a quick dodge.
If you have lots of boost I suggest staying on top of him while he’s flying around in the second phase.
Overall I probably died about 25 times before I developed the right strategy. This is one of those bosses that forces you to get better at the game.
That's the third hardest boss I have ever fought in ever fought in a fromsoftware game and there is still more coming oh my god
This one killed me 18 times which is insane because at my first I thought it's gonna be easier than balteus because I got to 20% of his health on my first try but somehow it went to 18 deaths, man this game bosses are no joke
I had a strange experience with this boss. Finding myself unable to dodge much of his attacks (skill issue lol), I found myself having a much easier time up close to him, usually slightly in the air. Using the ten-cell forward missiles, the eight-cell vertical missiles, a big exploding bazooka in my right hand, and the Lazer blade, I bum rushed him constantly, firing off all my missiles (and bazooka) in waves as they locked on and became available, I got up close with him and nailed him with the charged Lazer blade, use assault armor, and did that to get myself through his earlier phase. Once he started to fly, I realized I had a problem with my somewhat heavy bipedal mech. I tried tetrapod legs, but eventually settled on the reverse joint set, lightening my ac frame parts to eek out enough load to keep my weapon setup. The fight was very rough, but I eventually pulled it off, somehow.
Bless you for these tutorials! I really want to love the game but with every boss I get stuck, then i play around with my build, nothing works so I gotta come here. It's very hard for me to distinguish between when I have the wrong build and need to change it up and when I have the correct build and just need better execution. Will be back once I've beaten the Sea Spider.
Ok I did it one LITERALLY THE FIRST TRY with your build, wow
@@Lifelover992011
I used the same back parts but dual Gatling guns.
they really went, "Lets give the players a whole bunch of parts and then FORCE them to use specific builds for specific bosses!" AC6 is fun until they pull that shit then i want to delete the damn thing
I was liking this game. But every time I die to this boss I’m liking it less and less
I got the Vvc's, then a thunder bomb missile launcher I don't remember the name of, and the Pile Bunker weapon from the trailer. I was running a light frame, so I initiated the ambush while charging the Vvc's, took two dashes back, then unleashed the shots during the entrance animation. Hovered in the air until it decided on a move to use, then started zip zapping around trying to avoid the piercing strikes.
The only moves that caught me on a regular basis were the horizontal sweep laser and the spinning top in phase 2. Both remedied by good energy management and staying in the air.
By the way, any move in phase 2 was a oneshot, my build was NOT optimized for bad players(me)
Beat it on my second try with this build. I actually flew up on phase two, and somehow landed on top of him and just spammed my weapons into his back! LOL! Thanks for the guide!
Coming to see other ways to beat him; I used a Laser Rifle, 2 missile pods, and a Sword and beat him relatively quickly when I switched to Reverse Joint legs. It’s just like I thought, I dodged everything very well for going in blind and still had Repair Kits left; I need to experiment with more weapons because I cleaned out my ammo when I beat him lol.
Thank you I have been stuck on this boss for hours and when I found your guide I did it first try using this build your a god send
Kibbles. THANK YOU. I tried to beat this boss like 60-70 times and failed with other guides. Tried with this build and finally beat the boss after a few tries. This is the most frustrating and bullshit boss I've ever fought in a video game. So rage inducing. Good riddance to bad rubbish
You can actually land on top of the boss while he’s flying to regain your boost. You can do phase 2 without ever touching the ground.
Thanks very much for the boss mechanics and tips, really helpful
Thanks for the video! The strategy worked perfect. I picked grenade launchers on shoulders on mine but damn! That pile driver is nuts. Thanks again
I've noticed something odd.
That's actually been an interesting tactic used by developers.
When I was fighting Balteus..I couldn't for the life of me get past him. So, I did some mission repeats, did arenas. Got logs, got good ranks on missions ( B and up)
And then Balteus was easy to beat.
I just encountered the same scenario with the sea spider.
Like the game purposely will work against you till you fulfill what it wants.
Seriously..next time you encounter a problem look at these following things.
You can't quick boost when you need it to.
Weapons take a bit longer to reload.
Tracking takes longer to lock.
Boss seeming has the perfect combo exactly at the right time.
If you dodge opposite directions on the spaced Lazer attack he'll generally miss, the second Lazer is always leads a little bit.
So I finally beat this boss with a similar setup. I used Song Birds for my should weapons. They are easier to use, more damage, and stagger the boss faster than the laser canons. Also, if you just circle strafe point blank on the boss, the majority of his range attacks don't target you. You still have to pay attention to the wide beam attacks though and fly above them. Otherwise all you have to worry about is the pincer legs. After that, the remaining phases are easy peasy. Just fly in the air and shoot him as much as you can. He was significantly harder for me to kill compared to the previous bosses which took 1-10 times before I got them. Even Balteus only took about 10 times before I got it. This stupid sea spider took me about 20 times ugh.
Dude you’re awesome, took one try to beat him after watching your guide - thank you!
My "Strategy" was just quad hover legs, full rocket launcher setup, not the vertical ones but the horizontal ones at the back. The big arse core from the Chinese company. Everything else was the same like his build. I didn't even realise the was an actual boss it felt more like a mini boss until I realised how much people struggle with that. I was just constantly in the middle of the area hovering over him. First try, if you struggle with this thing try it. Important: Missile Guidance System
You dropped your shoulder weapon because you ran out of ammo and have auto-purge on. It's a mechanic that lets you drop weight and increase movement if you run out of ammo.
Thanks bro
If you time it right you can dodge through the blades. If you have a lot of AP it won't one shot you if you miss time that either.
Damn twice you've gotten me out of a bind. Thanks for putting out videos like this
I don't know how to explain it but the sea spider in this video seems kind of.... Tame... there is a LOT more time between its attacks than there is when I fight it. it will literally do the fireball laser and then while I am recoiling immediately pounce on me giving me no opening to dodge. It could all be in my head I admit but none of the fights have been as telegraphed as this one seems to be.
thank you, it just kind of sucks that I have to watch a guide for every boss in this game :(. I have played souls games like Lies of P and I got better over time but with this I have to know certain loadouts to equip, do you think I will find a game like Sekiro better for my liking ?
Well....for a note....you can do a light build and spin around his legs with machin gun to build poise. This way nothing really hits u. And than hammer him with dual gattling guns.
imo, C-Spider wasnt all too difficult, i only stuggled with Balteus for an hour. C-Spider was done in first try. What i used were the same Plasma Guns and i loaded my self up on plasma missles. i went more for an easy stagger build, this is the same build ive been using since chapter one. i also put my OS upgrades towards energy weapons boost, assault armor and damage mitigation. it definitely helps
Loved the detailed breakdown with video footage, Thank you 🙏
Thanks for the spinning one shot tip, that help a lot
So far I learned one thing, if the boss BS me imma find a way to bug the hella of them
After a few attempts, I found out that this 8 legs tin can doesn't like when we stay too close, so here I went
At first phase, just stay right under the belly, bring your hottest irons, it can't do shit when you stay too close, it keep jumping you just keep diving straight under it, WHO PANIC ROLL NOW SPIDEEEE
The last phase is just typical DPS check, God bless you buddy
This was my first true roadblock. Took hours of memorizing his moves to not take absurd damage early. The assault boost kick does really decent stagger damage and when his poise is broken the kick does decent actual damage too! Really helped with breaking his posture almost immediately. I used a songbird, 10-cell missle, grenade launcher and gatling gun. Honestly the gatling gun shouldve gotten swapped out but i was committed to my build lol
balteus took me 4 hours. this guy took me 1.5 lol
Setup worked for but I would recommend staying fairly close if not underneath that way the big laser won't hit you. Second phase hover above him with quad legs.
Quad leg makes most of this fight a breeze since you can stay above his melee and even the flying mode easily while you hammer away.
Hey man than you so much for the tips! Used pretty much everything you said and it worked after a few tries.
Thanks for this guide, as a new player to armored core i wanted to ask everyone was this series based on always changing gear and not be able to keep the same for the entire playthrough? My AC is double handgun and grenade launcher and I always run out of ammo at the end with this boss. Is it possible to actually beat it with handguns or like i think, the game forces you too pick other builds? Thanks
Good guide! I switched to the weapons and the fight went much smoother.
here's a tip for folk: if you want to spam the heavier weapons rather than wait for an opening, use tank legs
for this fight they're as mobile as you need to be, so you can spam more and stancr break much faster (which for this fight you need to stance break as much as possible)
having an extra 6000+ AP more than other legs doesn't hurt, either
Quad legs are arguably better since they provide the same recoil compensation and allow you to hover for 2nd phase
It’s kinda funny how certain people struggle with certain bosses in this game. I spent hours on balteus before looking up a guide and I literally 2 shot this boss without ever changing up my load out.
Thanks for the guide-- was struggling with quite a few different builds before trying this one. Still took quite a few tries, but I eventually got there!
For me running out of ammo all the damn time is the real challenge which is not fun
Stay directly under it, I got through it's entire first phase with all three repair kits doing this. The only time it's able to get you with a laser cannon is the couple times it launches away from you. Second phase. I just stayed above it. I used the build that is in this video.
Man just the tip about dodging into is attacks helped so much
Just tried the Build and strategy and after many attempts previously... I got my Win! Great video 😄
I personally found the pilebunker to be very effective against this boss, i ran a biped with dual laser on shoulders, when the spider is doing its melee attack, dodge under then imeediately do a charged pilebunker, very good damage and relatively safe. During phase 2 assault boost into charged PB. I was struggling with this boss until i realised how much dmg and stagger PB did with every hit.
Omg thank you so much i was stick on this boss for hrs
I changed from tank to those legs of yours and beat him on first try lol! Before with tank legs he killed me like 12 times. Thank you!
Thanks man, this boss is kicking my ass with my current build and have trouble destroying the boss.